When Jie Ling saw Empress Dowager Shen's eyes dim, she instantly realized that she had given up on her.
Everyone has the instinct to survive. Not wanting to die, Xie Ling used her tongueless lips to repeat a few words to Empress Dowager Shen...
After a while, Empress Dowager Shen learned from Jie Ling that the words she said were: child.
That’s right, Empress Dowager Shen was not only bold enough to keep a male favorite in the palace, she even became pregnant. If this were to get out, it would definitely bring shame to the royal family.
However, after being reminded by Jie Ling, Empress Dowager Shen not only did not feel ashamed or afraid, but even felt confident.
He immediately shouted and pounced on the tortured Jie Ling:
"Stop, stop right there! I want to see the emperor! I want to see the emperor..."
The palace servants who came to carry out the execution dared to attack Jie Ling, but they did not dare to attack the Empress Dowager Cixi who pounced on them.
After all, this is the emperor's mother. If they hurt her in any way, I'm afraid that even the entire nine clans would be killed.
While he was struggling, a palace maid had already gone to call the emperor.
When Xuanyuan Yunche heard that his mother was actually protecting a male favorite, he immediately felt extremely ironic: once, when he was young, he was bullied by his royal brothers. Shen passed by and saw it, but pretended not to see it.
At that time, he comforted himself that Shen was a weak woman, timid and did not dare to come out to protect him.
However, now that I look at it carefully, it is not the case. That is because I am not worthy of Shen's protection.
Filled with sadness, Xuanyuan Yunche rushed towards the Cining Palace where the Empress Dowager Cixi lived.
When he arrived, he happened to see Jie Ling, dressed as a palace nanny, already arranged on the bed by the Empress Dowager Cixi. A palace maid was helping to clean her, and his mother was watching anxiously and worriedly.
Xuanyuan Yunche had never seen such a concerned and worried expression on his face before.
"Emperor, I have something to tell you..."
Sensing someone coming in, Empress Dowager Shen raised her head and called out to Xuanyuan Yunche.
When Xuanyuan Yunche heard this, he knew that the other party had something shameful to tell him, so he dismissed all the palace servants on the spot, leaving only the motionless Jie Ling present, and the mother and son began to talk.
After all the palace servants left, Xuanyuan Yunche did not speak a word, but looked back and forth coldly at Jie Ling and the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Under Xuanyuan Yunche's gaze, the Empress Dowager placed her hand on her lower abdomen, a gentle smile curled up at the corner of her mouth, and said to Xuanyuan Yunche:
"Che'er, mother is pregnant."
While saying this, Empress Dowager Shen had been paying attention to Xuanyuan Yunche's expression. Seeing that he was obviously stunned, she continued:
"Emperor, I'm pregnant. You finally have a brother or sister who is related by blood. From now on, you will have someone close to you in this world..."
"hehe!!"
Before the Empress Dowager could finish, Xuanyuan Yunche sneered, "Pregnant? Father's been dead for over a decade, and you're pregnant? With a ghost?"
“…”
The Empress Dowager Cixi spoke of this out of urgency, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt it wasn't a bad thing. She gently stroked her belly like a loving mother, looked at Jie Ling, who was staring at her on the bed, and said to the Emperor:
"Che'er, the child in my belly is your uncle Jie's..."
"Uncle? When did I have an uncle?"
Xuanyuan Yunche felt the blood rushing to his head, and he cursed at the Empress Dowager, "Are you dissatisfied with my throne being too secure, and want to harm me by confusing the royal bloodline?"
"No, no, Che'er..."
Empress Dowager Shen was also frightened when her son yelled at her.
However, for the sake of her child and Jie Ling, she could only desperately say, "Che'er, you are already thirty-five years old, and you still don't have a child of your own. You are destined to have no children of your own in this life.
Instead of adopting children from the clan, it is better to treat your younger brothers and sisters as your own children. This child needs to be raised from a young age to become close to you, not to mention that he is your younger brother from the same mother and will be closer to you.
Anyway, I've just been pregnant for a short time, you can take this opportunity to get a concubine and spread the news of the pregnancy in advance, then no one will suspect anything..."
Listening to the words of Empress Dowager Shen, Xuanyuan Yunche felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss: this was his biological mother, who had never given him any care or love, and after he took the throne, she even attempted to help the child of her adulterer ascend to the throne.
Ha ha! !
In this world, is there anything more ironic than this: your own biological mother stabbing your own wound with a knife.
In this world, everyone can scold Xuanyuan Yunche for being infertile, but only the Shen family cannot do so.
The Xuanyuan family has many descendants, and each family has many children. It is absolutely impossible for our ancestors to have difficulty in having children.
The fact that he was childless in his middle age was definitely not due to the Xuanyuan family's physical condition, but was definitely caused by his miserable childhood.
However, not only did his mother not protect him when he was young, she even stabbed him with a knife after he became an adult...
For a moment, Xuanyuan Yunche was filled with hatred, and he wished he could kill Jie Ling and Empress Dowager Shen immediately.
The way he looked at the two of them was as if he were looking at dead people. Jie Ling, who was beaten and unable to move on the bed, was so scared that she trembled in fear, and Empress Dowager Shen was also trembling all over.
But soon, Xuanyuan Yunche sneered and walked out with big strides...
Seeing that Xuanyuan Yunche did not refute, Empress Dowager Shen and Jie Ling on the bed smiled at each other: Success, they succeeded, their child will be the crown prince in the future.
Even if this pregnancy is not a son, the next one will always be a son.
Both of them thought that Xuanyuan Yunche's lack of immediate objection meant he had acquiesced, and were ecstatic. They even assumed that Xuanyuan Yunche's decision to seal off the Cining Palace was simply because he was worried about Empress Dowager Shen's unborn child and didn't want it to be harmed by outsiders...
After leaving the Cining Palace and walking on the stone pavement of the Forbidden City, there was cold moonlight above my head, and it felt cold on my body.
There had never been a moment like this that made Xuanyuan Yunche feel so cold, helpless, and alone. It was as if, in this vast sea of people, he was a lone boat in the raging storm, adrift and helpless, caught in the bitter wind and cold rain...
Does it mean that once I sit on the throne, I will really become a widower?
Eunuch Huang sensed Xuanyuan Yunche's distraught mood and said a few words. Seeing that the other party didn't listen to him, he changed his angle to persuade him:
"Your Majesty, Miss Liu just moved to the Goddess Palace today. She's a little girl living in such a huge place, she must be scared. Should we go and see her?"
When Eunuch Huang said this, he was really guilty: After all, there are so many maids and eunuchs in the Goddess Palace, why does he live alone?
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