"Your Majesty, are you alright?"
"It's alright, help me inside." Consort Li tried her best to appear calm, because she knew that the palace was full of Zishu Tang's spies. She couldn't let Zishu Tang find out that she knew their secret.
…
Upon entering Consort Lan's palace, Consort Li saw that the other woman was pale and walked directly towards her. Consort Lan leaned against her with red eyes, tears falling one by one. At the same time, she ordered all the palace maids and eunuchs to leave.
"Sister...didn't I tell you to take precautions? Why did you still lose the baby?"
"The baby is safe." There was no longer any sign of tears in Consort Lan's eyes.
Consort Li was stunned, her gaze falling on Consort Lan's stomach: "Then you..."
“If I don’t do this, my child will be lost. They say even tigers don’t eat their cubs, but do you know why he wants my child to die so badly?”
"Why?" Consort Li asked, puzzled.
Consort Lan replied, "Because what I suspect is not his child at all, so how could he allow a child with a confused royal bloodline to exist?"
"What! Sister, you..." Consort Li's first thought was that the other person was hiding someone in secret.
Lan Fei saw through her thoughts at a glance, her eyes filled with mockery: "I don't have another man, but the child isn't his. Guess why?"
"Why?" Li Fei felt a buzzing in her head.
"Because the 'His Majesty' who had relations with us is not him at all, but just his substitute. He has a pure heart and thinks we are all dirty. He would be disgusted if we touched him, so he found a substitute to have sex with him."
Upon hearing this, Consort Li could no longer hold back; a wave of nausea washed over her, and she nearly vomited.
"How could he! How dare he! What does he take us for?"
"What do they take us for? Nothing more than tools to consolidate their imperial power. You and I know that better than anyone."
For Zishu Tang, they were tools to solidify imperial power; for his family, they were objects to maintain their honor. Unloved by their husbands and families, and trapped in the deep palace for their entire lives, their lives were truly laughable.
When Consort Lan learned the truth, she was so angry that she almost lost her child. Fortunately, the female physician brought by the Imperial Concubine was experienced in preventing miscarriage and had superb medical skills, so she saved her child.
At the same time, it also made the whole drama of her miscarriage seem more real.
"Do you know why I'm telling you all this?" Consort Lan asked, looking at Consort Li.
Consort Li looked at her, also somewhat puzzled. Not only had the other party been honest with her, but even her elder sister, the Noble Consort… did not intend to hide certain things from her. So what exactly did they want to do?
Consort Lan continued, "We were once like sisters. I know what kind of person you are, and I know you are unwilling to accept this. So now is the time for us to unite. When Consort Gui told you those things, she already knew that you would be on our side."
Of course, the survival rules of the harem mean that if you don't want to, you might not live much longer anyway.
When Lanfei said this, she was agreeing with the other person, while also reminding and warning them.
If Consort Li still couldn't react, she'd be a fool: "So what's your plan? And you really trust the Imperial Concubine that much?"
Although she had realized what had happened, did she really believe her about the body double?
If there was no substitute, then her child might not be the one His Majesty wanted to harm; it might just be a tactic employed by the Imperial Concubine.
Lanfei knew the other party had concerns, and at first she didn't believe it either, but she only believed it when the naked truth was revealed.
"Your Majesty, who shares a room with you, has a mole on his back, a little below his left shoulder. You must have felt it before, right?"
Consort Li nodded. They had been married for so long, and the number of times they had slept together was not small, so she had touched him many times.
Consort Lan immediately replied, "But our Emperor doesn't have it; only that stand-in does. I saw it with my own eyes; there's no faking it."
"Also, the Imperial Concubine gave me an agate bracelet. But someone directly replaced it with an agate bracelet soaked in musk. And I saw with my own eyes who the person who switched the items was."
Who is it?
“Our Emperor’s carefully trained secret guards, besides him, there is only one other person who can command them: Yun Mei. So even if it wasn’t him, it was Yun Mei who did it. And he definitely knows.”
After all, he was his bodyguard, so how could he not know?
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