Chapter 12 The Tyrant Was Cuckolded
[Tsk tsk, I didn't realize the Tyrant has a sister complex.]
Chu Liuzheng stole a glance at Xiao Jingfan's profile as he listened attentively to the ministers' discussion, and continued to turn to the next piece of gossip.
Xie Jieyu raised a Persian cat. The cat ran away and frightened the Queen, and was beaten to death by the palace servants of Changchun Palace. Xie Jieyu was so sad that her eyes were swollen from crying.
[Alas, poor cat, if you are a cat again in your next life, please don't enter the palace.]
[Shocking! Wang Cairen's image as a detached, fairy-like woman has collapsed. She actually likes to get up in the middle of the night to secretly eat stinky tofu, leaving the bed smelling like stinky socks.]
[Eh~ I can smell it just by reading this, okay? It's so fragrant I'm not even sleepy anymore. Next, next.]
[Fuck! Xinpin...]
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother sent someone to announce the good news." Zhou Yuande walked quickly into the hall with a happy look on his face and bowed to Xiao Jingfan.
"Today, the Imperial Hospital routinely checked the pulses of the concubines in the harem and discovered that Concubine Xin is already one month pregnant. Your Majesty is overjoyed!"
"Your Majesty, I congratulate you." All the ministers knelt down and congratulated in unison.
Xiao Jingfan's brows relaxed, the corners of his lips curled up as he listened to Chu Liuzheng's inner thoughts.
[…She was diagnosed with pregnancy, but the child wasn’t Emperor Shunguang’s!]
[Holy crap! Holy crap!! The tyrant is being cuckolded!!]
The smile that hadn't yet appeared froze at the corner of his mouth. Xiao Jingfan took a deep breath, and with a "click", he broke the brush in his hand.
Everyone looked up in surprise.
——Your Majesty, are you too happy?
——But why does this face look a little ferocious?
Xiao Jingfan's expression was more than just ferocious. If he went out on the street like this, eleven out of ten children would be scared to tears.
He turned and glared at Chu Liuzheng, who was so shocked by the big melon that he forgot to grind the ink.
Overwhelmed by the surging murderous intent, Chu Liuzheng shuddered and came back to his senses from the shocking melon.
Suddenly meeting Xiao Jingfan's gaze that seemed to want to tear her into pieces, Chu Liuzheng's heart skipped a beat and all the hairs on her body stood up.
[Damn! It's not like I cheated on the tyrant, why is he glaring at me?]
Xiao Jingfan suppressed the urge to strangle Chu Liuzheng immediately and turned his eyes away.
Seeing this, Chu Liuzheng breathed a sigh of relief.
The ancients valued having many children, and the imperial family was even more eager to expand. The tyrant now has only one child, a two-year-old princess, born to Consort Shu. The other concubines have no children. It's easy to imagine how much the tyrant longs for an heir.
[What a pity! The child in Xinpin's belly is the product of cuckoldry. I don't know if the tyrant will find out.]
[If the case is not discovered, will the tyrant have to raise the adulterer's child? ]
[Frog fun! Is this karma in this life?]
Chu Liuzheng had no intention of telling Xiao Jingfan the truth.
Not to mention that she didn't know how to explain how she knew the truth. Being the first to stand out in front of the emperor was not in line with her survival rules in the palace.
She has always been a perseverant person, concentrating on doing her own job, not trying to be the best, not sticking out, and not taking the blame. She just hopes to live safely until she is 25 years old and leave the palace to reunite with her family.
She wants to stay as far away from the conspiracies and plots in the palace as possible; she doesn't want to be involved in any of them!
Hearing the gloating in Chu Liuzheng's voice, Xiao Jingfan was really afraid that he would not be able to hold back and draw his sword to chop the woman in half.
"Shut me up..."
"Although I can't tell the tyrant the truth, I can find out who the adulterer is... Hmm? Is the tyrant talking to me?"
Chu Liuzheng blinked and looked at Xiao Jingfan, whose face did not show any joy at all.
[Strange, the tyrant didn't know he was cuckolded and would have to raise a child for his adulterer, so why was he unhappy when he found out Xinpin was pregnant?]
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
Thanks to you, I know everything clearly!
[Could it be that the tyrant doesn't like Concubine Xin to bear him a child?]
[Tsk tsk, you bastard! If you didn't like me, you shouldn't have slept with me in the first place!]
Xiao Jingfan couldn't stand it any longer: "...Shut up!"
Chu Liuzheng: “?”
I didn't say anything.
[Could it be…]
Xiao Jingfan's eyelids twitched, thinking that Chu Liuzheng was about to guess the truth. He started thinking of backup plans in his mind, but saw Chu Liuzheng turned his head and looked back, nodding slightly.
[As expected! Everyone feels that something's off about the Tyrant's expression. Just a few words from Cricket, the Tyrant is so stingy!]
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
You've been cuckolded, why don't you try to be more generous? ! !
"Your Majesty?" Zhou Yuande called cautiously. Is this a reward or not?
The ministers also looked at Xiao Jingfan in confusion.
His Majesty has few children, so he should be happy that the concubine is pregnant. Why doesn't he look happy?
Xiao Jingfan was not willing to let the ministers laugh at him, so he said in a normal tone, "Let's stop here for today's affairs. Mr. Zhang, please organize what we have discussed today and we will discuss it again at court tomorrow."
Grand Secretary Zhang bowed and said, "I accept your command."
After the ministers left, Xiao Jingfan's relatively calm expression suddenly turned gloomy, which made Zhou Yuande shudder.
——Your Majesty, you want to kill someone!
——Who has offended this evil god again?
"Let's go to Yungui Garden." Xiao Jingfan walked out, and Zhou Yuande hurriedly shouted, "Let's go to Yungui Garden!"
After taking two steps, Xiao Jingfan found that Chu Liuzheng did not follow him. He turned around and glared at the woman who was standing there motionless.
Zhou Yuande was very good at reading people's expressions and immediately urged: "Why are you still standing there? Come with me."
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
She is just a tea server. Why bring her along to visit a pregnant woman?
The tyrant can't be so inhumane as to let her work overtime at Yunguiyuan, right?
Cuiyun was very active, but Emperor Shunguang looked down on her and gave her a cold look, freezing the little warrior in place.
Facing Cuiyun's resentful and envious gaze, Chu Liuzheng really wanted to say, how about we switch?
Who wants to accompany you when they can be lazy?!
Halfway through, Chu Liuzheng remembered the big melon he had only eaten half of, and reopened the system.
Come, let me see the name of this brave man who dares to cuckold a tyrant.
【Wow! The city knows how to have fun!】
The adulterer turned out to be Li Zhongxin, the eunuch in charge of Concubine Xin's palace. He was a fake eunuch who had used tricks to avoid castration and was assigned to Concubine Xin's Yungui Garden.
It turned out to be a forbidden love between a eunuch and a palace concubine!
Chu Liuzheng scrolled down excitedly, his eyes shining like 800-watt light bulbs.
[No wonder these two got together. It turns out Xinpin and Li Zhongxin knew each other before entering the palace and were a couple. If Xinpin hadn't been chosen to enter the palace, she would have married Li Zhongxin long ago.]
Li Zhongxin, deeply in love with Concubine Xin, pursued her into the palace. Xin was moved to tears, but due to her status, she refused to admit her feelings. The two spent their days together, and eventually, Li Zhongxin's love won over Xin. The two finally became a couple, brewing sauces in Yungui Garden, and were inseparable.
[Tsk, tsk, this is actually a melodramatic love story about someone giving up everything for love. These two people are so desperate for their own lives, don't they ever think about what will happen to their families if they are discovered?]
[A concubine in a world where imperial power reigns supreme is having an affair with a man outside her family. Haha, what sins did these two families commit in their past lives to deserve these two unfortunate individuals dragging their entire clans under the guillotine?]
Xiao Jingfan, who had listened to the whole thing, said: "..."
Very good, there is no need to even investigate the adulterer, just arrest him directly!
(End of this chapter)
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