Lan Linxue's face turned cold as she looked down at the woman in front of her, saying in a cold voice, "Back then, when my mother begged you to spare us, you didn't show any mercy! Now you're asking me to let your son go? Do you think that's possible?"
Before Xu Jinlan could speak, Lan Linxue shook her head. "Impossible! Anything is possible! I will absolutely not let you people go!"
After saying that, Lan Linxue seemed to not want to look at the person on the ground anymore, and turned to walk away.
Xu Jinlan immediately pounced like a mad lion, grabbing Lan Linxue's leg and crying, "Your Highness, Linxue! I beg you! Don't go to the Emperor for the blood test to prove kinship! Don't force my son like this! You'll kill him! You'll make sure he has no hope of living!"
"Then tell me what really happened back then? Is Lan Jiayuan really my father's biological son?"
Xu Jinlan clung to Lan Linxue's leg, looking up at him, wanting to beg for mercy, but only tears streamed down her face. She cried loudly, but refused to let go no matter what.
Lan Linxue stood there stiffly until he exhausted his last bit of patience before glancing at Ling Jiuhong.
Ling Jiuhong walked over with a cold face, and without saying a word, she stood in front of Xu Jinlan, grabbed her hair and pulled it back.
Xu Jinlan cried loudly, calling out Lan Linxue's name, trying to cling tightly to Lan Linxue's leg, but she couldn't overcome Ling Jiuhong's strength.
When she saw Lan Linxue turn around and resolutely walk away again, she couldn't help but scream with heart-wrenching pain, "No! He's not! Jia Yuan isn't the Emperor's child! He's someone else's! Ah—!"
These words made Lan Linxue stop in her tracks instantly, and she turned around to look at the already distraught Xu Jinlan with shining eyes.
Through her teary eyes, Xu Jinlan saw that Lan Linxue was not leaving, so she immediately crawled over on her knees, pleadingly grabbing Lan Linxue's robe and saying in a mournful voice, "Your Highness, I beg you, I have told you all the secrets, please let Jia Yuan go. As long as you can save Jia Yuan's life, I will tell him that he will never compete with Your Highness for the position of Crown Prince again."
Lan Linxue slowly squatted down, looked directly at Xu Jinlan incredulously, and said, "How can you people be so shameless! You secretly have affairs, yet you still want the Emperor to kill your own son. This is simply worse than that of beasts! You are all utterly heartless and insane!"
When Xu Jinlan revealed this secret, she seemed completely exhausted, as if all her hopes for the rest of her life had vanished.
Looking at Lan Linxue, Xu Jinlan shook her head frantically, "It's not what I wanted! It's not what I wanted! I was forced into it! It was all the Emperor's doing!"
"The Emperor is forcing you to cuckold him?"
Lan Linxue roared angrily, almost raising her hand to hit someone.
"Don't you know what kind of place this deep palace is?"
This time, Xu Jinlan didn't back down. Instead, she stared wide-eyed at Lan Linxue, her gaze flashing with a terrifying madness: "Don't you know who Hu Qianyu is? Back then, the Emperor only loved your mother. He didn't even glance at us concubines, let alone offer us the night! In the Emperor's eyes, we were nothing more than decorations in the Crown Prince's residence, superfluous items less important than a potted plant or a tree. Tell me, what can I do without a son at this time?"
At first, I vehemently opposed this. Although the Emperor was indifferent to us, I was still his concubine, and I had a place in the palace and the household. However, my father disapproved. He said that for the Xu family to become more prominent and secure its position permanently, I had to give the Emperor a son. So, with no other choice, I drugged the Emperor's wine during the Mid-Autumn Festival so that I could have a chance to be with him. But do you know what? Even then, the Emperor could tell from my scent that I wasn't the Empress, and he preferred to suffer terribly rather than touch me.
Hahahaha, do you know what that felt like? Do you know how I spent that night?
You think I've cuckolded the emperor, and the emperor is wronged, but who can I tell about my grievances?
When Xu Jinlan spoke of these things, her eyes were already quite frantic, even somewhat unfocused.
She seemed to no longer see Lan Linxue, nor anyone else; she was simply looking through everyone's figures at a void.
Lan Linxue looked at Xu Jinlan and remained silent. He knew that there was no need for him to say anything more at this point; Xu Jinlan would tell him everything that happened back then!
"My father was very thoughtful back then. He was afraid that the Emperor would never touch me, so he arranged for someone who looked somewhat like the Emperor to guard outside the door. And that's Jia Yuan's biological father! Although I wasn't with the Emperor that night, I still got pregnant! Hahaha, and it was a son!"
Xu Jinlan was laughing, but her face was already covered in tears.
Lan Linxue looked at Xu Jinlan for a long time before slowly saying, "Where did that person go afterward?"
Xu Jinlan shook her head and gave a bitter laugh: "I don't know! I don't know anything! Maybe he's dead. How could Father have kept someone like that alive? It would be better if he were dead!"
Lan Linxue looked at Xu Jinlan, then slowly stood up. He felt he had nothing more to ask, and Xu Jinlan would definitely not write this down as evidence in court. The Emperor himself might not be willing to reveal it either; it was simply too shameful.
Lan Linxue was in a bad mood. Although she really wanted to know the answer to this matter, she felt uneasy if she actually found out.
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