Anyone would be unhappy in this situation.
Moreover, if the Emperor hadn't insisted on the performance, none of this would have happened today.
"Minister Xu, I have someone escort Miss Li and Qing Shi out of the palace. You shall wait for me in the Imperial Study for now!" Zhu Jingchen was displeased. Why was she in such a hurry to leave? Was she feeling guilty?
Xu Heming took a deep breath, wanting to refuse, but the person in front of him was the Emperor, his boss.
We can only endure it.
"Your Majesty, we are your humble servants!"
After Xu Heming finished speaking, he led Li Zhiwei and Xu Qingshi out of the Cold Palace.
After all, it wasn't appropriate for them to hear too much about Consort Jing's affairs.
It's best to avoid listening to too much gossip about the imperial palace.
The more you know, the faster you die.
“Your Highness…” Li Zhiwei looked at Xu Heming with some hesitation. She actually had some doubts about Liu Ruyan’s words.
She couldn't decide whether to ask him during this awkward moment.
However, some things, if not said clearly, will remain like a thorn stuck in one's heart.
I can't swallow it, I can't get it out.
After this incident, Li Zhiwei was even more unwilling to compromise herself.
"Zhiwei, feel free to ask me anything." Xu Heming quickly stood up straight, looked at Li Zhiwei earnestly, and said.
“Since Your Highness already has Consort Liu, there’s no need to marry me. Or are you going to cover for you all by yourself?” Li Zhiwei asked Xu Heming with a serious expression.
Li Zhiwei's words naturally reached the ears of the secret guards who were secretly following her.
At this moment, the guards also pricked up their ears, thinking that this was important intelligence and they couldn't miss it.
“Zhiwei, I really don’t know that Consort Liu, and I’ve never spoken a word to her before,” Xu Heming replied earnestly.
He didn't understand why Consort Liu had kidnapped Li Zhiwei and also kidnapped Xu Qingshi.
But at this moment, all he wanted was to get them out of the palace safely.
After this incident, Xu Heming worried that the Emperor would kill everyone who knew about it to silence them.
“Father, they say flies don’t land on eggs without cracks. If you haven’t done anything wrong, why would that wicked woman want to kidnap my stepmother and me? Father, let me make this clear to you: if you marry that woman, I will go and be my mother’s child from now on. It will have nothing to do with you.” Xu Qingshi said with great resistance at the thought of Liu Ruyan entering the family.
"You brat, what nonsense are you spouting?" Xu Heming felt a deep sense of helplessness.
This brat has already planned his escape route?
Why would an unmarried young woman want a son like Li Zhiwei?
"Mother, the Prince An's mansion has no place for me to stay. Will you take me in?" Xu Qingshi looked at Li Zhiwei with a wronged expression and asked.
“The Li family can afford to support you,” Li Zhiwei said earnestly after thinking for a moment.
The Li family could afford to support not just one Xu Qingshi, but ten of them.
"However, Prince An, I think you should give me an explanation for this matter. After all, I have suffered this undeserved calamity." Li Zhiwei still felt that she had a grudge that she had not been able to vent.
I just can't stand anything about Xu Heming.
Thinking of her own helplessness in the face of Liu Ruyan today, Li Zhiwei sighed again, thinking, "I'm still too weak!"
In the Cold Palace, Zhu Jingchen and the Empress sat quietly listening to Cai'er recount the events that had transpired.
She also mentioned that after Consort Jing was sent to the Cold Palace, she discovered she was pregnant, but Consort Liu would come to torment her from time to time, and in the end, she lost the child.
"Since Consort Jing is pregnant, why didn't you come to inform me?" Zhu Jingchen asked with dissatisfaction, thinking that he originally had a child, which was now lost because of Liu Ruyan's actions.
She thought to herself that if she were told, she would definitely protect the child.
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