Su Wanti pretended to be angry,
"Your Majesty, I heard that my sister has been in the Qinzheng Palace all morning today. I think Your Majesty is exhausted. You should go back to the Qinzheng Palace to rest well tonight, or ask my sister to serve Your Majesty again—"
Emperor Xiao Ping only thought that her jealous look was very cute. He took off Su Wanti's clothes and whispered:
"Since you knew she had come to see me, how could you not know that I had already imprisoned her in the palace?"
"Your Majesty, what did you say? Su Ruhua was imprisoned in the palace?"
Su Wanti pretended to be surprised, pushed Xiao Pingdi away, and straightened her clothes.
"Your Majesty, it's wrong for my sister to have such thoughts about you. But you can just kick her out. There's no need to lock her up in the palace, right?"
Su Wanti always remembered her personality in front of Emperor Xiao Ping. She was a simple, gentle, kind and somewhat weak woman, a dodder that could only survive by relying on him.
Therefore, she should express surprise and pity about what happened to Su Ruhua.
Emperor Xiao Ping gently stroked her shoulder and said:
"She gave me an aphrodisiac, a potent drug used in brothels, which is extremely harmful to the body. If it were anyone else, I would have ordered their death long ago. It is precisely because she is your sister that I only imprisoned her in the palace and spared her life."
Hearing this, Su Wanti's eyes were filled with heartache. She seemed to be in a panic and looked at Emperor Xiao Ping from top to bottom.
"Is your Majesty alright? If anything happens to your Majesty, I'll be terribly guilty tonight."
Emperor Xiao Ping pulled her and let her sit in his arms. "You also know that my martial arts are profound and my internal strength is amazing. That low-quality medicine has no effect on me. I am fine."
Su Wanti's almond eyes were filled with tears. She leaned on Emperor Xiao Ping's chest, trembling.
"Your Majesty, today the nanny beside the Queen Mother came to deliver something to the princess and told me that my sister went to the Qinzheng Palace and has not returned to the Cining Palace for a long time. I thought -"
Emperor Xiao Ping hugged the trembling little body in his arms and lowered his head to kiss her hair. "Do you think I will favor her? Don't you understand me? Apart from you, I have no interest in anyone else."
Su Wanti patted his chest gently, then put her arms around his neck.
"Your Majesty is the Majesty of all the people in the world. Your Majesty's health is related to the rise and fall of the Dongli Kingdom."
She raised her eyes, her eyes were gentle and firm.
"Although Su Ruohua is my sister, I still want to say that by harming the dragon's body, she is harming the lifeblood of our Dongli Kingdom. Your Majesty should punish her severely according to the law. You cannot let her go easily and condone her treachery just because she is my sister."
"Wan'er, if I punish you severely, will you really not blame me?"
Su Wanti shook her head.
"You are my husband, the father of my children, and the people's heaven. If you are healthy, we will be safe. If you are in poor health, the government will be in turmoil, the people will suffer, and neither I nor the princess will survive—"
"I cannot risk such a great risk to plead for a criminal, nor will I resent Your Majesty for punishing a criminal."
Emperor Xiao Ping was deeply moved. He hugged the person in his arms tightly and said solemnly: "I know what to do. Don't worry, Wan'er. I will ensure that you and the princess will live a safe and worry-free life."
After the two hugged each other for a moment, Emperor Xiao Ping lowered his head and kissed the tip of Su Wanti's ear.
Su Wanti shuddered and looked up at him, "Your Majesty, at this time, you are still——"
She acted out a play with tears in her eyes, and she herself was moved. How could Emperor Xiao Ping have such thoughts at this moment?
Emperor Xiao Ping now made no secret of his desires. Undercurrents surged in his eyes. He looked at Su Wanti's crystal clear and moist eyes and said in a low voice:
"Don't blame me, Wan'er. I have endured it for more than a year. I really can't help myself."
Emperor Xiao Ping cherished the child Su Wanti was carrying very much, so since she found out she was pregnant, he controlled himself and did not touch her.
After she gave birth, Emperor Xiao Ping learned from the imperial physician that pregnancy and childbirth would cause considerable damage to a woman's body, and she needed to rest well and avoid getting pregnant again, so he continued to endure it.
Until now——
Now, Su Wanti has been eight months postpartum. Emperor Xiao Ping asked the imperial physician, and the imperial physician said that her body has recovered well and is no different from before giving birth. He then became interested.
There seemed to be sparks in his eyes, and his body was getting hotter and hotter. "Don't you miss me, Wan'er?"
Su Wanti thought for a moment. After giving birth, she bought several kinds of pills to restore her body in the system mall. After taking them, her body has now fully recovered.
Moreover, she felt that now was the time to give birth to a prince.
After she made up her mind, she raised her head slightly, her soft cherry lips touched his earlobe, and said shyly, "Wan'er misses Your Majesty too."
Her tenderness and shyness were the best aphrodisiacs. Emperor Xiao Ping could no longer bear it and pressed the person in his arms onto the bed. Sparks burned from his eyes to the bed, a scene of ecstasy and heat.
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Cining Palace.
It was late at night, and outside the palace was a bleak winter scene. Although there was a heating stove inside the palace and the air was warm, the atmosphere was no different from that outside the palace, as cold as an ice cave.
"Empress Dowager, please drink some water," advised the nanny.
Today, the emperor sent the incense burner. Since then, the empress dowager has been sitting on the cushion with her eyes lowered, not drinking a drop of water and not saying a word.
"Queen Dowager, if this method doesn't work, forget it. Let's try another one. Your Highness is still young, and there will be opportunities in the future."
They still called the deposed prince "Your Highness".
The Queen Mother raised her drooping eyelids, her eyes filled with resentment and anger. She slammed the table and said angrily:
"I knew that that enchanting thing was useless! She even swore that her methods were amazing, and that she had tricked me into treating her to delicious food and drinks and giving her countless treasures to enjoy!"
"Her death is not a pity. I am angry because the emperor knows what happened before!"
The nanny looked hesitant. "No way, the emperor just ordered the incense burner to be sent over, he didn't say anything else."
The Queen Mother snorted coldly, and her usually kind face became tense, looking serious and scary.
"Your Majesty was poisoned by this aphrodisiac before. He knew it was me who sent the medicine, so he sent the incense burner to me."
Before, she had taken in dozens of concubines for the emperor. Seeing that the emperor had never favored them, she picked out a few beautiful concubines, gave them this aphrodisiac, and asked them to use some tricks to win the emperor's favor.
Unfortunately, none of them succeeded and they all disappeared inexplicably.
The Queen Mother did not think that there was any hidden secret behind their disappearance. She just thought that those concubines were decent women who did not know how to seduce others, which was why they failed.
Although she looked down on Su Ruhua, her son's secret letter said that this woman was very capable, so she placed high hopes on Su Ruhua, but she didn't expect that she was also useless.
The Queen Mother lowered her eyes for a moment, took a deep breath, and then slowly opened them with a fierce look, "If it really doesn't work, I will do it myself!"
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