Shen Yu felt a chill in her heart and closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face. She had been adopted by Master Gu since birth and raised in Yang Xiaoniang's room. During her eight years in the Gu family, although Old Madam Gu and Master Gu treated her very well, she still suffered a lot of grievances. Not only did her sisters beat and scold her, but the servants also fawned over her and watched her with indifference.
She absolutely could not allow her child to be adopted, not even a legitimate son of the Jia family!
She took a deep breath, stared at Yang Hua with wide eyes, and shouted, "Listen! This is not an illegitimate child, it is my life, Mu Chenyu's life. I will raise him to adulthood, I will let him live an upright life."
"Fine! Since that's how it is, you have nothing more to do with the Mu family. And if anything happens in the future, don't ever set foot in the Mu family again!" Yang Hua said, then turned and left.
Upon seeing this outcome, Madam Jia hurriedly took Gu Xiaoliu and Gu Xiaosi to the yamen to withdraw the case, so as not to offend Princess Yanghua.
Unfortunately, Master Gu refused to allow the case to be dropped, saying that the Emperor wanted to personally try the case because someone had accused Mu Chenyu of deceiving the Emperor and giving birth to Liu Yu's child.
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The gates of the government office were tightly shut.
The emperor sat upright in the hall, his face solemn.
Mu Chenyu was seen kneeling in the hall, holding an infant. Immediately afterward, the Imperial Brother-in-law entered, stood beside Chenyu, and pointed to the infant in her arms, saying:
“Your Majesty, this is Liu Yu’s son. Princess Hong said that Liu Yu defiled Shen Yu back then. This child was born yesterday, and according to the calculation, he should be Liu Yu’s son. Moreover, he was born prematurely, so he could not possibly be Bai Yejing’s son. Furthermore, Liu Yu is a villain who raped Shen Yu. At the time, Shen Yu lied and claimed that the Empress had killed the villain’s son. Now it seems that Shen Yu has deceived Your Majesty!”
Bang! The Emperor slammed his gavel, pointed at Chen Yu, and shouted sternly, "Mu Chen Yu, I ask you, whose child is the infant in your arms?"
Shen Yu lowered her head and wept. Liu Yu was the man she had longed for day and night and could never forget. However, in order to protect her own life and that of her child, she had no choice but to betray Liu Yu. She said in a sorrowful voice, "Your Majesty, this child is Bai Yejing's son."
The emperor's brother-in-law was furious. He pointed at Chen Yu and scolded, "Nonsense! Your Majesty, why not perform a blood test to see if this child is Bai Yejing's son? We'll know immediately."
Blood test for kinship? To Shen Yu, who is well-versed in medicine, this is nothing short of a joke. The real can become fake, and the fake can become real.
However… the Imperial Uncle was confident, looking up. He had already found out that the woman who had shared a room with Liu Yu was none other than Mu Chenyu, and this child must be Liu Yu's son. As long as Chenyu was sentenced to death, this child would belong to the Liu family, and then they could get rid of him.
He knelt down with a thud, his voice choked with grief, “Your Majesty, although I have divorced Madam Jia, she and her son have lived in my Duke’s mansion for more than twenty years. I cannot bear to see Madam Jia die alone. If this child is Liu Yu’s son, he is also a member of my Liu family. This old minister will definitely assist Madam Jia in raising the child to adulthood and serving the country.”
"Hmph!" Shen Yu couldn't help but sneer. The Imperial Uncle was truly a beast in human form, using the guise of adoption to actually eliminate the only direct descendant of the Liu family.
When Liu Yu was exiled and fell to his death, where did Madam Jia and Liu Yanran go? Now, the Emperor's brother-in-law keeps mentioning Madam Jia. Could it be that Madam Jia has sought refuge with the Emperor's brother-in-law?
She looked around, only to hear the official order, "Summon Bai Yejing to come and perform a blood test to identify his kin."
Bai Yejing entered the hall, knelt beside Shen Yu, and kowtowed to the Emperor. "Bai Yejing greets Your Majesty." After speaking, he straightened up and looked at the Emperor, saying, "Your Majesty, my wife just gave birth yesterday. She is weak and has a persistent high fever. I beg Your Majesty to allow my wife to sit down. I am afraid that her body cannot bear it."
"Please take a seat."
Shen Yu sat down holding the child, and then a royal physician came forward with a small bowl to take the child's blood, and then took Bai Yejing's blood.
Bai Yejing felt flustered and secretly glanced at Chen Yu.
Shen Yu remained calm and composed. She knew that Bai Yejing's blood and the child's blood would not mix, and she didn't know if the Imperial Uncle had played any tricks. She could only act according to the situation.
The imperial physician presented a small bowl to the emperor, who frowned and examined it. After a long while, the emperor grabbed the gavel and slammed it down angrily, shouting, "How dare you, Mu Chenyu! You have deceived me time and time again. It wouldn't be too much for me to cut off your head ten times over!"
The emperor's brother-in-law cried out in anguish, "Ah! Heaven has eyes! My Liu family's bloodline!"
Before the words were even out of her mouth, Madam Jia rushed in and went straight to Chen Yu to snatch the child. "Give me Yu'er's child! This is the only bloodline of the Liu family..."
Knowing the outcome, Chen Yu quickly stood up, raised the child high, and retorted, "Let go! This isn't your Liu family's child. Someone tampered with the bowl; even if your blood and Yanran's blood were dripped in, they wouldn't mix. Your Majesty, the Imperial Uncle has tampered with it..."
"Mu Chenyu, stop talking nonsense. I have no medical knowledge, how could I possibly lie?"
"If there was no fraud, why are my child's and husband's blood incompatible? You must have bribed the imperial physician..."
Upon hearing this, the imperial physician trembled and cried out to the emperor, "Your Majesty, I dare not! Miss Chenyu was once an imperial physician; why not let her verify it herself?"
"Fine, I'll definitely prove my innocence."
While arguing with others and shoving Madam Jia, Chen Yu held the child in her arms without crying or making a fuss.
Worried that the child would fall, Bai Yejing had no choice but to get up and go forward to hold the child in his arms.
Seeing this, the emperor's brother-in-law stood up and tried to snatch the child from Bai Yehua, with Madam Jia following behind...
Chaos erupted in the courtroom.
Bang! The emperor slammed his gavel and roared, "Silence!"
The four knelt down in fear, with Madam Jia staring intently at the child in Bai Yejing's arms. Liu Yu was dead; if this child truly belonged to Liu Yu, then it would be a direct descendant of the Liu family, and she could at least have done right by the deceased Liu Deng. But what she didn't know was that all of this was a conspiracy by the Imperial Uncle to eliminate the direct line.
The emperor's brother-in-law pleaded in a sorrowful voice, "Your Majesty, Mu Chenyu has repeatedly deceived you and even falsely accused me of forgery. Please, Your Majesty, grant Mu Chenyu the death penalty. I will certainly raise Liu Yu's orphan."
"Ha!" Shen Yu couldn't help but sneer, glancing sideways at the hypocritical face of the Imperial Uncle, and retorted, "This boy is not of Liu family blood, so how can I, Shen Yu, be guilty of deceiving the emperor? Since the Imperial Uncle cares so much about the Liu family bloodline, why did you drive Liu Yu out of the Duke's mansion in the first place? And now you are pursuing Liu Yu's bloodline, what exactly are your intentions?"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Under the reprimand of the Imperial Uncle, Chen Yu shut her mouth. Even though she knew that the Imperial Uncle and the Empress had assassinated Liu Yu, she dared not reveal the truth. After all, the letter was in the hands of Hong Yu and Prince Yan; how could Prince Yan reveal his birth mother?
By exposing the emperor's brother-in-law without any evidence, she was alerting him and inviting disaster upon herself.
Seeing that Chen Yu had stopped arguing with the Imperial Uncle, the Emperor secretly pondered that there must be more to the story. He had always suspected that the Empress and the Imperial Uncle were secretly colluding to support the Crown Prince in secretly training troops in Xiliang, attempting to eliminate the Sixth Prince, but he could not find any evidence of their crimes and could not bring them to justice.
Now, the emperor's brother-in-law is doing his best to prove that the son of Chen Yu is Liu Yu's son, and his purpose is obviously to help the empress get out of the cold palace.
The government was naturally unwilling to witness the rise of the Liu family.
However, the Emperor was unwilling to show favoritism towards Chen Yu, because Chen Yu had been harmed and lost her virginity by the Prince Hong's mansion, and the Emperor had always worried that Chen Yu would take revenge on the Prince Hong's wife and her two sons.
The officials were in a dilemma; whether or not to let Chen Yu off the hook remained to be seen.
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