"Her Majesty is bleeding!" someone in the audience exclaimed in surprise!
The Empress Dowager also noticed the bloodstains beneath Consort Xian and panicked. "Quickly, summon the imperial physician! Emperor, hurry! Quickly carry Consort Xian into the side hall!"
Chu Xiao didn't move, his brows furrowed. He glanced at Yun Chaoxi standing to the side, and seeing that she was unharmed, he gave a signal to the eunuchs. Immediately, several eunuchs carried her to the side hall of the Taihe Hall.
The matter had blown up, and the emperor's offspring were in grave danger. Even though Yun Lang had witnessed his sister push the virtuous concubine down, he still stepped forward and shielded Yun Chaoxi behind him.
"If they ask you about it later, just say I pushed it down, understand?"
Yun Chaoxi was deeply moved. From childhood to adulthood, her second brother had always protected her unconditionally. The crime of plotting to harm the imperial heir was no small matter, yet her second brother stepped forward without hesitation to take the blame for her.
"Second brother, you don't need to take the blame. I'll show you a good show in a bit."
Yun Lang, "?"
The scene was chaotic. The Empress Dowager hurriedly followed Consort Xian to the side hall. The palace servants behind her were afraid that she would fall, so they stayed close by on both sides to protect her.
After the Empress Dowager left, Chu Xiao said in a deep voice, "Come here."
Yun Lang's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly spoke up before Yun Chaoxi could, "Your Majesty, please don't blame the Consort, it was my mistake..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yun Chaoxi pushed him away and threw herself into Chu Xiao's arms, looking aggrieved.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away from her?"
Yun Chaoxi said aggrievedly, "I didn't intend to pay any attention to her, but she deliberately provoked me!"
Chu Xiao sighed and gently patted her slender back. "Alright, I'll handle this. The Empress Dowager is emotionally unstable and might blame you. Don't take it seriously; I'll explain things to her."
Yun Lang, "???"
No, Your Majesty, are you serious? Your concubines lost their children and you're not angry at all, and you're even siding with my sister?
I never expected my sister to be so capable; she managed to completely win over the emperor as soon as she entered the palace!
Yun Lang breathed a sigh of relief. With such a lust-blinded... ah, bah, discerning emperor around, his sister should not be severely punished.
Afterwards, Chu Xiao led everyone to the side hall of the Taihe Hall. The Prime Minister and his wife also arrived at the side hall, and they were already sweating profusely just from hearing the palace servants explain the situation.
Consort Xian had already been placed on the bed, clutching her lower abdomen and sweating profusely, crying incessantly, "Your Majesty, our child, he's only four months along! You must save our child!"
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but wipe away her tears with her handkerchief.
The imperial physician rushed over, and the side hall door of the Hall of Supreme Harmony slammed shut. Everyone stood guard outside the hall, watching as palace maids carried out basins of bloody water, the bright red color of which was quite striking.
After a long while, the imperial physician opened the door and slowly walked out, sighing, "Consort Xian fell into the water and was frightened, and the cold entered her body. Now she shows signs of severe deficiency of qi and blood. The child... is gone!"
Upon hearing this, Consort Xian's sobs abruptly ceased, only to be followed by even more anguished cries: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, it is my fault! I failed to protect the child! I shouldn't have gone for a walk by the lake, and I shouldn't have argued with Consort Zhao! I shouldn't have gotten in her way..."
"It's all my fault!"
Consort Xian kept saying that she was wrong, but her words implied that Yun Chaoxi had harmed her child out of jealousy.
The Empress Dowager and others rushed in and saw Consort Xian lying on the bed, her face pale and filled with grief.
The Empress Dowager was also overwhelmed by the blow and lamented repeatedly, "What a tragedy! The imperial heir I've been waiting for is gone just like that. I've been hoping for so long, and I don't know when I'll be able to have a child again!"
"Your Highness, what else do you have to say! I had high hopes for you and always thought you were a person of great understanding. I never expected that you couldn't even tolerate an unborn child. You have truly disappointed me!"
Consort Xian joined in with sobs, adding fuel to the fire, "My child hasn't even had a chance to be born yet, I truly feel it's unfair for him!"
The Empress Dowager's anger, which was already at eight-tenths, escalated to ten-tenths because of these words. "Noble Consort, if you are not punished today, it will not be enough to quell the pain of Consort Xian who has lost her child! Do you admit to the crime of plotting to harm the imperial heir?"
Chu Xiao couldn't help but speak up in defense, "Mother, that's not how it is..."
Yun Chaoxi quietly tugged at his sleeve, stopping him from continuing. She stood there blankly, head down, looking terrified but still trying to defend herself.
"Your Majesty, I do not believe it. For some reason, Consort Xian deliberately fell in front of me. I was worried about the baby in her womb, so I helped her up. I clearly did not use any force, but Consort Xian still fell directly into the water."
Consort Xian suddenly spoke up, "Don't try to deny it, it was you who pushed me! It's true that I deliberately fell, but it's also true that you pushed me! If I didn't know how to swim, I would have drowned in the lake long ago!"
In her rage, Consort Xian didn't immediately realize what she had said and glared angrily at Yun Chaoxi.
Everyone present was stunned upon hearing this.
Did Consort Xian fall on purpose?
Yun Chaoxi lowered her head and curled her lips into a smile from an angle where no one could see her.
The mantra worked.
She raised her head, her eyes red with sadness, and stared straight at Consort Xian. "Since Consort Xian is pregnant, why did you deliberately fall in front of me? Are you trying to frame me with the life of your child?"
"If I don't frame you, how will you be able to miscarry this 'child' so easily!" Consort Xian blurted out again.
She froze after saying that, instinctively covering her mouth with her hand. "No, what I mean is... this child doesn't exist at all!"
Her stunned expression immediately turned to terror, and she covered her mouth tightly with both hands, refusing to utter another word.
Damn it! What is that damn mouth saying?! It's not what she wanted to say at all!
She wanted to defend herself, but she was afraid that every word she uttered would be fatal.
Everyone looked at him strangely, even Chu Xiao was shocked and couldn't help but look at Consort Xian's head.
Did he fall into the water and get water in his brain? How could someone reveal their own secrets?
The Empress Dowager was also extremely shocked, her mouth agape, bewildered by the contradictions in the woman's words. After a long pause, she finally asked, "Consort Xian, what do you mean by saying the child never existed?"
Yun Chaoxi also spoke up weakly, "Could it be that Consort Xian is so heartbroken that she's starting to talk nonsense? It's all my fault..."
Consort Xian covered her mouth tightly, but her mouth wouldn't obey her and involuntarily opened, "What's there to be sad about! I wasn't pregnant to begin with! If it weren't for wanting to stay in the palace, I wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure!"
"I had hoped to conceive during the Emperor's visit, but I never expected Your Majesty's heart to be colder and harder than stone! You didn't even step into Lexian Palace!"
"Yun Chaoxi, stop pretending. We're both women, we all know each other. You're just crocodile tears!"
"Your Majesty's heart is filled with thoughts of the imperial heir. If I were to lose the imperial heir, would you, an old woman, even give me a second glance?"
Once Consort Xian opened her mouth, she started attacking everyone present indiscriminately.
After saying that, her eyes widened, filled with despair. Oh no, she'd let everything slip!
Yun Chaoxi stared wide-eyed in disbelief, "These are all Consort Xian's true feelings?"
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