Kill all nine clans! These three words were like a bolt from the blue, completely destroying Madam Liu's psychological defenses. She could no longer care about anything else and could only kowtow and beg for mercy: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life! I will tell you everything!"
"It was...it was the Empress...it was the Empress who ordered me and Cuihua to put...a sterilizing drug into the Empress Chen's pregnancy-maintaining medicine..." Matron Liu's voice was trembling and intermittent, and every word sounded as if she had used up all her strength.
"A drug that makes one unable to have children?!" Xuanyuan Che frowned. He didn't expect the queen to be so vicious. He originally thought it was a simple safflower, but it turned out to be a drug that makes one unable to have children. She actually wanted to make Concubine Chen unable to get pregnant for the rest of her life.
"Why do you do this?" Xuanyuan Che asked. His voice was still cold, but there was a hint of doubt in his tone.
Nanny Liu raised her head, glanced at the ashen-faced Queen, then quickly glanced at Xuanyuan Che's gloomy face. Her voice trembled as she spoke, "Your Majesty...Your Majesty said that Concubine Chen is of humble origin and unworthy of bearing a prince. If she gave birth to a prince, it would threaten... threaten her position..."
Xuanyuan Che's eyes instantly became sharper. He turned around abruptly, walked to the Queen, grabbed her arm, and pulled her up from the ground. "You actually want to harm the child in Concubine Chen's belly just for your own position as Queen?"
The queen staggered as he pulled her and stumbled to her feet. She raised her head and met Xuanyuan Che's eyes filled with anger. Her whole body trembled even more violently, but she suddenly laughed, a shrill and desperate laugh.
The Queen, as if she had given up everything, shouted, "That bitch, Concubine Chen, what right does she have to compete with me? The bastard in her belly doesn't deserve to live in this world!"
"How outrageous!"
Xuanyuan Che roared, raised his hand, and slapped the queen hard.
"Snap"
There was a crisp sound, which was particularly harsh in the silent hall. The queen was hit and her head tilted to the side. A trace of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, but a strange smile appeared on her face.
"Your Majesty, strike me, strike me!"
The Queen screamed, her voice piercing and piercing. "Even if you beat me to death, I won't regret it! Everything I did was for the country of Daxia!"
Xuanyuan Che was so angry at her words that he trembled all over. He pointed at the queen and shouted angrily: "You...you are simply unreasonable!"
He turned around and shouted at Li Dequan, "Li Dequan, take the Queen to Fengyi Palace. No one is allowed to visit her without my permission!"
"His Majesty!"
When the queen heard this, her face changed drastically. She struggled to pounce on Xuanyuan Che, but was held down by two guards.
"Your Majesty, you can't treat me like this. I am the queen." The queen screamed at the top of her lungs, her eyes filled with fear and despair.
Xuanyuan Che didn't even look at her. He waved his hand and said coldly, "Take him away!"
The queen was dragged away by the guards. Her cries gradually faded away, and the hall returned to deathly silence.
Xuanyuan Che stood there with a terribly gloomy expression. He clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force, and veins bulged on the back of his hands, revealing the extreme anger and pain he felt at the moment.
He slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to calm the anger in his chest. Chen Xiaoru's weak face appeared in his mind again. He knew that now was not the time to punish the queen. The most important thing was Chen Xiaoru and the child in her belly.
He suddenly opened his eyes and said to Li Dequan, "Go, summon all the imperial doctors to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Make sure to protect the Concubine Chen and the heir!"
"Yes!" Li Dequan hurriedly took the order and left. He knew that a bigger storm might have just begun.
Xuanyuan Che turned around and strode towards the Qianqing Palace's sleeping quarters.
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