The doctor from the Imperial Medical Bureau believed that there was no problem in keeping a baby that only showed slight signs of miscarriage. He quickly wrote out a prescription and Emperor Qin Huan ordered someone to cook it right under his nose.
At this time, Bai Yuzhi had been well taken care of. She was lying on the bed and felt that the bleeding symptoms caused by the props had disappeared. She raised her hand and looked in the direction of Qin Huandi.
"His Majesty……"
She cried pitifully, and her weak voice was very relatable. Emperor Qin Huan sat down beside her and raised his hand to touch Bai Yuzhi's slightly pale face. The hands that were about to kill in anger just now were now tightly tied to Bai Yuzhi, a weak woman, and the unborn child in her belly.
"How is it? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Emperor Qin Huan stared at Bai Yuzhi. His beautiful woman was beautiful in her life. Even now, lying on the bed with a pale face, she still had the beauty of a willow swaying in the wind. But she was pregnant with his child now. How could he bear to let her be so weak?
Bai Yuzhi shook her head, took the big hand that Qin Huandi had placed on her cheek and moved it to her lower abdomen.
"Your Majesty, my deep affection for you is genuine. This child is a gift from Heaven to me."
The palm of Emperor Qin Huan's hand covering the white jade belly was hot yet stiff. The child had not yet formed, but he could truly feel the emotion of blood connection. In a trance, Emperor Qin Huan even thought he could feel the child's heartbeat, but in fact, his own heart was beating like a drum with excitement.
"It was also given to me."
His voice was hoarse, and he felt as if he had escaped from a desperate situation.
God knows how angry and desperate he was when Concubine Jiang was bleeding profusely. It felt like even he, a dignified emperor, could not escape the manipulation of fate. He could not own his own bloodline for the rest of his life and could only watch his bloodline peel off and flow away bit by bit.
That feeling made Emperor Qin Huan want everyone in the world to be buried with his descendants.
But just as painful as that time was, Emperor Qin Huan was just as excited when he learned that Bai Yuzhi was pregnant. The excitement of regaining what he had lost wiped out his murderous intent. Now, when he placed his palm on Bai Yuzhi's belly, he felt even more satisfied than when he first ruled the world.
It was this slender and weak woman who gave birth to his child. They would raise the child together in the future. This child would inherit everything he had and then continue everything.
This feeling was something he had not had when Concubine Jiang was diagnosed with pregnancy. Emperor Qin Huan could not say that he did not look forward to the child born by Concubine Jiang, but he had never thought about what would happen after Concubine Jiang's child was born. He just felt that he finally had an heir who was related to him by blood.
But the quality of white jade is different. Before the child was born, Emperor Qin Huan had even thought about how to pave the way for his offspring in the future and let his children get the best things in the world.
Emperor Qin Huan truly understood the feeling of a father when Bai Yuzhi was diagnosed with pregnancy.
Just when the two were in love, there was a sudden noise outside the palace. The sharp shouts of a woman and the warnings from the imperial guards guarding the door of the Zichen Palace intersected, instantly diluting the rare tenderness of Emperor Qin Huan. His eyes, which were originally red with emotion, were filled with murderous intent again.
His beauty had just recovered when someone suddenly started making noise at the entrance of Zichen Palace.
Damn it.
Emperor Qin Huan touched the white jade belly soothingly and coaxed softly, "I'll go out and take a look. You just need to rest assured. I'll take care of everything."
Then he turned to the imperial physician and said, "Take good care of her."
The imperial physician kowtowed in response, and Emperor Qin Huan strode out until he reached the palace door. The person who was making the noise was the crazy Concubine Jiang. She had actually forced her way into the inner hall of the Zichen Palace with a bloody body. If she had not been stopped by the imperial guards, she would have probably reached the inner room.
Emperor Qin Huan looked down at this woman, his first true son having been lost to her incompetence, and now she was even trying to harm Bai Yuzhi. Thinking of how Concubine Jiang had attempted to strangle Bai Yuzhi at the birthday banquet, even lunging at her and nearly causing her to miscarry, Emperor Qin Huan felt that a death by slicing was too easy for her.
"What do you want to say?"
Concubine Jiang cried even harder when she saw Emperor Qin Huan, constantly saying that Bai Yuzhi had killed her child: "Your Majesty! How could that bitch be so lucky as to conceive a dragon heir! It must have been her! What kind of magic did this evil woman use to make the child in my belly run away to her!"
"Jiang, if you don't want to die, get out of here now."
Emperor Qin Huan listened to her ramblings and saw the bloodstains covering her body, which was truly glaring. He couldn't help but think of his child who died in the womb. He didn't believe a single word of Lady Jiang's words, let alone the stories of gods and ghosts. Now Emperor Qin Huan's trust in Bai Yuzhi was unshakable.
But the investigation still needs to be done. Emperor Qin Huan must know why the child was miscarried.
Lady Jiang looked at Emperor Qin Huan in disbelief: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, why don't you believe me? What I said is true. Last night, after I ate a bowl of blood swallows, I started bleeding profusely. We lost our child. Wuwuwuwuwuwuwu——"
Her sharp voice reached the inner hall. Bai Yuzhi frowned when she heard it and asked the imperial physician who was preparing medicine for her, "Doctor Xu, I have a question for you. If this pregnant woman has a miscarriage and the bleeding does not stop until the next day, is it possible?"
Doctor Xu thought without hesitation: "This is absolutely impossible. If this is true, I'm afraid the pregnant woman's life will be in danger."
Bai Yuzhi curled his lips and smiled. As expected, a plan cannot let a fool be the key. Otherwise, the flaw would be exposed.
"Doctor Xu, I'm fine. Please go check on Lady Jiang outside the palace. If His Majesty blames me, I will take full responsibility."
Doctor Xu did not dare to disobey the pregnant and extremely favored concubine, so he could only take his leave and go outside the palace to report to Emperor Qin Huan and then go to Concubine Jiang. Concubine Jiang recognized the doctor, so she stretched out her wrist and asked Doctor Xu to diagnose the reason for her miscarriage, saying that she had just eaten a bowl of bird's nest in the middle of the night.
Doctor Xu was an expert in medicine and had a quick mind. When he heard what Lady Jiang said, he felt something was very wrong. He looked under Lady Jiang's bloodstained skirt and felt her pulse. It turned out that something was fishy!
He was over sixty years old, and was suddenly involved in palace secrets.
But facing the majesty of Emperor Qin Huan, Doctor Xu couldn't help but say, "This humble servant deserves death! This humble servant's medical skills are not good enough, but he noticed that Lady Jiang's pulse was different from that of an ordinary miscarriage. This sign of continuous bleeding seems to be caused by the drug!"
"What did you say?!"
The Queen Mother and others who had hurried over were so shocked when they heard this that they couldn't help but ask back.
Doctor Xu is under the dual pressure from the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. It is now a matter of life and death. If he speaks out and finds out the truth, maybe he can make up for his mistakes!
"Reporting to Your Majesty and the Queen Mother, I deserve death. A month ago, I misdiagnosed Lady Jiang's pulse. Today, I took her pulse and found that she was menstruating, not having a miscarriage. She was not pregnant!"
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