Consort Xi now only wants to survive.
"Can you really let me go?"
Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "Noble Lady Xi, this servant thinks you can trust me this once. I imagine Noble Lady Xi also deeply despises those who insult her!"
Consort Xi knew that she could no longer keep this a secret, so she simply told the truth.
"I don't know who it was. Two months ago, the Emperor and Empress were both out, so the palace was inevitably a bit lax. There wasn't enough ice in the room, and it was very hot at night. I thought I'd open the window to let in some fresh air and cool it down. But as soon as I opened the window, I saw a person in black outside. I was about to shout when my mouth was covered, and then..."
Liang Jiugong: "Could Consort Xi please specify the exact date?"
...
After Liang Jiugong finished asking his question, Consort Xi was on the verge of collapse. It was truly painful to talk about such a thing.
Yinzhen and Yunrong soon found out as well. Yinzhen ordered someone to investigate, since no one knew whether what Consort Xi said was true or not.
After some investigation, it was confirmed that on the night Consort Xi described, someone did indeed feel that someone had sneaked into the palace, but the person was not found. The guards on night duty did not dare to search the inner palace, so the matter was treated as if it had never happened.
Now that it's been discovered, it's easier to handle.
Yinzhen summoned Consort Xi over. To be honest, Yinzhen didn't really recognize any of the women in the harem anymore.
Consort Xi knelt on the ground, her eyes red, looking extremely pitiful.
Consort Xi felt she had no way out. At first, she held onto hope, but later she realized that the royal family would never tolerate a woman who had lost her virginity.
Consort Xi: "I know I have made a mistake. I hope Your Majesty will consider my years of obedience and spare my family's life. As a daughter, I am unfilial and have failed to bring honor to my father and mother, but I do not want them to be burdened by me."
Yinzhen looked at her and thought to himself, "She's a sensible person, but he didn't say he wanted her dead!" The child in her womb couldn't be kept without knowing its origin, and for the sake of his father's reputation, he really couldn't let these women who had slept with his father marry in secret.
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