And Chen Yan continued to speak.
"Father, why don't you think about this? I have a grudge against Princess An, and perhaps I hate her, but I drugged her and then sent her to the bed of her new husband. Isn't this too unreasonable?"
The emperor squinted his eyes and looked at her, his expression unclear.
"So what you mean is that all this was planned by the Second Prince."
"I didn't say that." Chen Yan lowered his head. "Perhaps, the Second Prince just borrowed my hand to do something inconvenient."
Chen Yan had just finished speaking when she heard a shrill shout: "How dare you! How dare you bring up my Chen'er!"
The emperor and Chen Yan were both startled by the sudden sound. Turning around, they saw the queen rushing in aggressively with disheveled hair and fierce eyes.
Even with Eunuch Li, Nanny Chang and several palace maids following behind, they were unable to hold back the furious queen.
Eunuch Li looked at the emperor with a pale face and humbly apologized, "I would rather die than stop the Empress."
The emperor glanced at him and said nothing more. This was really not the time to argue with a servant.
The queen ignored the emperor and didn't even bow. She rushed directly to Chen Yan and slapped her to the ground.
The moment she finally hit Chen Yan, she felt a sense of satisfaction she had never felt before.
Maybe she had been bullied by Chen Yan for too long.
Ever since the incident with Liu Shang's corpse, she always felt that Chen Yan was a knife hanging over her head, and she didn't know when it would really fall.
In order to tie the knife more securely, she even pushed her own son out.
But now, this woman Chen Yan is still greedy and wants to put all the blame on Jun Mochen, her only hope. Naturally, the queen can't tolerate her.
Therefore, she didn't even have time to wait for the imperial physician to treat her. After she recovered, she ignored the palace servants' obstruction and rushed to see Chen Yan without stopping, for fear that this woman would talk nonsense in front of the emperor again.
But she was still a step too late.
Chen Yan raised her head and looked calmly at the Queen who had suddenly appeared and was acting like a madman. There was no extra expression on her face. She just said in a calm voice: "Your Majesty, are you angry out of shame? Or are you anxious to execute your son so that he can die without any evidence?"
Chen Yan's indifference cast another shadow over the already suspicious emperor's heart.
The emperor looked at the queen, who was obviously desperate, and his dissatisfaction intensified. "Queen! What are you doing? I'm still standing here, and you don't take me seriously at all?"
Hearing the emperor's words that were obviously biased towards Chen Yan, the queen's eyes showed a hint of disbelief. She stood there for a long time before she realized that the emperor's words just now were actually blaming her.
The queen raised her eyes and looked at the emperor quietly. At this moment, she felt that the man in the dragon robe in front of her looked very strange, far from the gentle and considerate husband in her memory.
The queen only felt dizzy, and the breath she had been holding on to was almost gone.
She staggered back a step, but fortunately, Nanny Chang, who had been following behind her, quickly supported her, so she did not fall directly to the ground.
"Your Majesty, are you blaming me?"
Hearing the queen's sad question, the emperor frowned and did not answer her question directly. Instead, he turned his gaze away and said coldly: "You are the queen, how can you be so presumptuous."
This is blaming.
The Queen naturally realized this, and tears as big as beans instantly flowed from her eyes. She looked at the indifferent man in front of her with tears in her eyes, "Your Majesty, are you really going to believe this woman's crazy talk and doubt our son?"
"I didn't believe her!" The emperor turned around abruptly. "But you, you didn't trust me at all. You didn't even distinguish right from wrong and directly rushed up to question me. You're disobeying me."
Chen Yan was still sitting on the ground. She watched the scene in front of her suddenly turn into a quarrel between the emperor and the empress. For a moment, no one even cared about her. She just felt it was extremely funny.
It's really interesting that she was able to expose the disguise between this couple with just a few words.
She licked the broken corner of her mouth, then reached out to touch her hot cheek, thinking to herself, perhaps, it was time to drag the queen into this.
There was a trace of calculation in Chen Yan's eyes, and she did not hide it, deliberately letting the Queen see it.
At the moment, the Queen was upset because of the quarrel with the Emperor. She had accumulated a lot of anger and had no place to vent it. When she saw Chen Yan's expression, how could she bear it anymore?
So, all the anger erupted directly at Chen Yan.
"What's with that expression on your face? Do you think you can ridicule me?"
It would be fine if the emperor made her angry, but what right did this woman have to do that?
Little did she know that her questioning played exactly into Chen Yan's hands.
Chen Yan shrank back in feigned fear, and said in a low voice, "I dare not. I know that your majesty is afraid that I will reveal that matter. But since I have already promised your majesty to keep it a secret, I will naturally not reveal a single word to your father. So why is your majesty so aggressive?"
For a moment, the queen felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen.
Including Nanny Chang, who had been supporting her, she felt that every hair on her body stood up, and she seemed to hear no sound in her ears except the sound of her own heartbeat that was getting faster and faster.
The sound was deafening.
The emperor soon sensed something unusual in Chen Yan's words.
He turned his head to look at Chen Yan with a suspicious look on his face and asked, "What did you mean by that? What are you hiding from me?"
Before Chen Yan could speak, the Queen stopped her and said, "Your Majesty, this woman is full of lies and is trying to sow discord. Does Your Majesty really believe her nonsense?"
But in the eyes of the emperor, the queen's behavior was just an attempt to cover up her guilt, which made his doubts even greater.
"Whether it is nonsense or not, I can tell for myself, so there is no need for the Queen to worry."
In one sentence, he believed Chen Yan's words about 70%.
The queen's heart was beating like a drum, but she knew she couldn't say anything more. If she continued, it would be like she was trying to cover up her own faults.
The emperor glanced at her casually. He wanted to know what his queen had done behind his back that had become a handle for Chen Yan to use against her.
I thought this mother and son needed my protection, but it turns out that both of them are much smarter than me.
That's really interesting.
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