"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Jinzhong rushed in, his face filled with unconcealed panic. "It's terrible, Your Highness! The Emperor has just ordered the Zhongcui Palace sealed off; we can't go in or out!"
"What?" Hongshi suddenly stood up, subconsciously feeling that his affair with Consort Hua had fallen apart, which was why his father had gone to cause trouble for his mother.
He swayed twice, almost fainting from the shock. Now, all he could think about was that one sentence: If only I had known this would happen!
"Really, Your Highness, you must think of something!" Jinzhong was genuinely concerned for Hongshi. "Consort Qi's miscarriage of the imperial fetus may not have been her intention. Perhaps she was framed? We should investigate thoroughly..."
"A royal heir?" Hongshi was taken aback. "I haven't heard of any concubines in the palace being pregnant recently."
Immediately, his unease grew, and he almost subconsciously walked out of the study, not knowing where he was going.
Jinzhong followed behind him, but before he could even speak, two young eunuchs happened to pass by nearby, and their casual conversation reached Hongshi's ears:
"...The Emperor will naturally be furious if Consort Hua suffers a miscarriage!"
"Could it really be Consort Qi who caused this?"
"Is there any need to ask? The Emperor locked the gates of Zhongcui Palace as soon as he left Chengqian Palace. If it wasn't because of the miscarriage of the imperial fetus, what else could it be?"
"Oh dear, if our birth mother commits a crime, what will happen to our brother?"
Hongshi, however, was instantly frozen in place, unable to move an inch.
Consort Hua...miscarried?
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