By using medicine, she regained the emperor's favor. The next day, Dong E Wan Ning even cried pitifully, trying to change Shunzhi's impression of her and regain his favor.
This wasn't the first time Dong E Wan Ning had used this tactic. Back then, when she was pregnant with Boguor's child, she used medicine to cover it up, making Shunzhi believe that it was his first time and that the child was his.
But the situation changed. At that time, Emperor Shunzhi was full of affection for her and had nothing but her in his heart. He would never doubt her no matter what she did.
Feeling deceived and her pure feelings tainted, Dong E Wan Ning's tolerance for Shunzhi would decrease if she did anything else.
Therefore, when Shunzhi discovered that he had unwittingly favored Dong E Wan Ning, he was not moved by the beauty's tears, but was furious.
After leaving Yongshou Palace, Shunzhi felt increasingly uneasy. His reaction last night was too strange, and the feeling was very familiar, as if he had seen it before.
When he returned to the Qianqing Palace, Shunzhi remembered that the feeling he had last night was the same as the first night he and Dong E Wan Ning had been together at the estate outside the city.
A seed of doubt was planted in his heart. It was fine before he didn't pay attention to it, but now that he had doubts, Shunzhi thought about it carefully and seemed to be able to think of many things that were not right.
Why was Dong'e Wan Ning so eager to take the medicine and climb into my bed? At that time, I already had a plan. Once news of Boguor's disappearance came, I could fake my death and enter the palace.
Why is she in such a hurry? There must be a secret she doesn't know about.
Thinking of this, Shunzhi ordered Wang Dehai, who knew the whole story, to investigate.
After everyone in the hall had left, Shunzhi was filled with complicated thoughts.
He originally thought that Dong E Wan Ning was a kind, intelligent, elegant and virtuous woman. She had the grace of a Han Chinese girl and was the wife he had in mind.
However, her actions of faking pregnancy and framing other concubines in the harem chilled Shunzhi's heart, and he truly saw through Dong E Wan Ning's true colors.
After that, Shunzhi no longer liked Dong E Wan Ning and began to seem heartbroken, frequently favoring other concubines in the harem.
This seemed to spur Dong'e Wan Ning into becoming vulgar and starting to emulate the concubines in the harem in their quest for favor.
Little did she know that the more she acted this way, the worse Shunzhi's impression of her became, and the more he disliked her.
Now that it has been discovered that Dong E Wan Ning had suspected problems before the false pregnancy incident, Emperor Shunzhi has mixed feelings.
He had previously attributed all of Dong E Wan Ning's changes to the palace, believing that Dong E Wan Ning's character had been altered after entering the palace.
Now, when Shunzhi was told that Dong E Wan Ning might not have changed, she had problems before.
This is a slap in the face to Emperor Shunzhi, blatantly accusing him of having poor eyesight and falling for Dong E Wan Ning, his true love.
As Shunzhi had feared, Wang Dehai's investigation was indeed very thorough. With Yunyi's help, he not only found out what medicine Dong Ewanning was using, but also what had happened between Dong Ewanning and Boguor.
It was as if a bolt from the blue struck Shunzhi's heart. He never imagined that Dong E Wan Ning's innocent appearance was all a lie. She had actually consummated her marriage with Boguor, and that night was just to deceive him.
The bombshell hadn't even died down when Wang Dehai dropped an even more shocking bombshell: Dong E Wan Ning was already pregnant before she entered the palace.
His body swayed uncontrollably, and Shunzhi slumped into a chair. He managed to maintain a calm expression, but unseen by anyone, his back teeth were practically grinding to powder.
Ignoring Wang Dehai's somewhat worried look, Shunzhi waved his hand and said, "It's alright, continue. I want to see what else that vile woman Dong'e is hiding from me."
Wang Dehai shared the information he had gathered and presented investigation materials to corroborate his findings.
After silently reading the documents and listening to Wang Dehai's report, Shunzhi's face had turned extremely dark, and he was on the verge of exploding with rage.
Her once perfect lover's image crumbled time and again, shattering the beautiful image she held in Shunzhi's heart and turning her into a liar.
None of that mattered; at this time, Emperor Shunzhi was somewhat concerned about the news of Consort Dong'e's pregnancy.
According to the investigation results, Dong Eshi was already pregnant, which is why she was in a hurry to climb into the bed to cover up the fact that she was not a virgin and to make herself believe that the child in her womb was her own.
Thinking of his beloved fourth prince, Shunzhi felt a surge of anger and lingering fear.
He once said that his son was the first son of the emperor, and he sincerely wanted to make his child with Lady Dong'e the crown prince so that the child could inherit the throne in the future.
If the Fourth Prince hadn't died young, wouldn't the throne have gone to Boguor's son?
He could have ignored these things, but the matter of confusing the bloodlines of his offspring made Shunzhi have to take it seriously.
That night, he changed into the clothes of an ordinary person, left the palace, and went to the doctor's house that Wang Dehai had found.
This doctor was the one who examined Dong E's pulse back then, and because of this, he got into trouble and was almost killed by Dong E. Fortunately, he was lucky and was saved by a kind person passing by.
Emperor Shunzhi wanted to personally consult a doctor to confirm that Lady Dong'e was indeed pregnant before entering the palace.
The doctor was naturally telling the truth, telling everything he knew, and he wouldn't lie.
Emperor Shunzhi was still somewhat skeptical, but when the doctor produced a jade tablet, he believed him.
This is a jade plaque that the doctor pulled off a servant when he was knocked unconscious. The plaque clearly says "Dong'e Mansion" on it, so it obviously belonged to a servant of the Dong'e family.
This doesn't really prove anything, but Emperor Shunzhi recognized the jade pendant. It belonged to a maidservant who served Consort Dong'e closely; it was a jade pendant of a bluish-green color.
Biqing and Dong Eshi were inseparable. The doctor said that he was sent away by Biqing to a side room to get medicine and then knocked unconscious. It is also plausible that he pulled off Biqing's jade pendant before he fainted.
This also proves that the doctor's words were indeed true, meaning that Lady Dong'e was indeed pregnant with Boguor's child before entering the palace.
The thought of how much he had loved Boguor's child as his own son filled Shunzhi with nausea and anger.
Returning to the palace in a fit of rage, Shunzhi was so angry that he couldn't sleep all night, and his complexion was very bad when he attended the morning court the next day.
After the court session, without even having breakfast, Shunzhi changed out of his court robes and rushed to Yongshou Palace.
Upon hearing the eunuch announce that the Emperor had arrived, Dong E Wan Ning was overjoyed, thinking that Fu Lin had finally come to his senses and come to see her.
She put down the soup in her hand, wiped her mouth, straightened her clothes, and then went outside to greet Shunzhi.
Inside the room, a palace maid in the corner bowed her head and respectfully stepped forward to clean the table, also taking away the half-eaten bowl of soup.
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