Chapter 175 Ending
Chen He was neither humble nor arrogant. He slowly raised his eyes and met the scrutinizing gaze.
"How about... announcing to the public that Your Majesty is kindhearted and grateful for Captain Xue's contributions to defending the nation, and taking pity on his lonely and miserable life, has adopted him as his adopted son."
"As for that girl, she can also be brought into the palace and adopted as your daughter, demonstrating your majesty's benevolent heart that treats all the people of the world as your own flesh and blood."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the hall was shocked!
A huge royal scandal was turned into a timeless story that demonstrates the king's benevolence!
What a thought! What a method!
The emperor stared at Shen He intently.
In his eyes, this seemingly weak woman was more unfathomable than any demon or monster.
Adopted as a son or daughter...
This does more than just resolve the immediate dilemma.
It also coincided with her previous view in the court that people from humble backgrounds should enter officialdom and break the monopoly of aristocratic families!
In the name of "adopted sons and daughters", the boundaries between bloodline and origin are blurred.
Every step she takes and every word she says is not for the present, but for a deeper and more distant future!
This woman...
For the first time, a chill ran through the emperor's heart.
This woman is a little scary.
"good!"
At this moment, the Queen Mother slapped the armrest suddenly, and her eyes lit up again!
“That’s a good idea!”
"It not only preserves the royal family's reputation, but also gives the children a legitimate identity!"
"Emperor, do it!"
The Queen Mother made the final decision.
The emperor's bottomless eyes lingered on Shen He's face for three full breaths.
There was scrutiny, surprise, and even a hint of fear in his eyes that he himself had not noticed.
"ah--"
A wailing sound that did not sound like a human voice suddenly tore apart the moment of tranquility!
Yun Wan.
The woman who had been rescued from the underground palace and had been as dazed as a puppet, felt as if all the bones in her body had been pulled out the moment she heard this decree.
She fell straight back, and if the palace maid behind her had not caught her quickly, she would have fallen on the cold gold bricks.
But even though she was supported, she completely collapsed and slid to the ground like a puddle of mud.
“Woo… woo…”
She bit the back of her hand hard to stop herself from crying out loud, but how could she bear the pain and despair that had been suppressed for more than ten years?
Tears, like beads with broken strings, flowed madly from her empty eye sockets.
Those were tears of relief, tears of seeing the light of day again, tears of... finally coming back to life.
More than ten years in the underground palace, more than ten years of torture, more than ten years of being neither human nor ghost.
At this moment, it’s finally over.
Unlike Yun Wan's collapse, Xue Minglan still knelt straight.
He did not thank the emperor, nor did he look up at the emperor who was high above him, even though that man was his biological father.
His head was slightly tilted, and his paranoid and fiery eyes pierced through the crowd of people and fell firmly on Chen He.
It seemed as if the succession of imperial power, life and death, honor and disgrace in the hall were not as important as the few light-hearted words she had just spoken.
"Good boy, get up quickly."
The Queen Mother had already stepped down from the throne, and her old hand, with a slight trembling, gently grabbed Xue Minglan's arm.
"Get up and let me take a good look."
Her voice was filled with the love and guilt of having lost and regained something.
"You've suffered a lot over the years."
Tears welled up in the empress dowager's cloudy eyes. She looked at Xue Minglan's face carefully, suddenly remembered something, and asked anxiously.
"By the way, has the poison in your body...the poison that the Queen, that vicious woman, put in you, really been removed?"
Xue Minglan then withdrew his gaze from Chen He and lowered his head slightly. His voice was still cold, but with a hint of respect.
"To the Queen Mother, thanks to the superb medical skills of the Chu doctor, most of the poison in my body has been removed. My life is no longer in danger."
"Good! Good! Good!"
The Queen Mother said three good words in a row, her joy was beyond words. She held his hand tightly, unwilling to let go.
But at this moment.
A faint groan, filled with infinite confusion and pain, came from the soft couch in the corner.
"Um……"
Everyone was shocked, and suddenly remembered that there was another "protagonist" in the hall.
Shen Jiao.
Chen Jiao, who had just given birth to a deformed baby and had been in a coma, had woken up at some point.
She struggled, using her arms to barely support her weak body. Her face was as pale as paper, and she looked at everything in front of her blankly.
Emperor…Father…Mother…Third Prince…Chen He…
what happened?
Me...where is my child?
The tenderness on the Queen Mother's face disappeared completely the moment she saw Chen Jiao's face.
She glanced at Chen Jiao with disgust, and then glanced coldly at the third prince Xiao Jingren, who was standing next to her and looked equally as pale as death. Her eyes were as if she were looking at two pieces of dirty trash.
Sitting on the dragon throne, the emperor's patience was obviously exhausted.
His cold gaze shot straight at Shen Qingyuan who was standing there, passing through everyone.
"Shen Qingyuan."
His voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable pressure.
"I hope you can handle Mr. Shen's family affairs yourself."
Every word the emperor said was like a piece of ice, hitting Shen Qingyuan's heart.
"As long as..."
He paused, his tone grim.
"...If a rumor gets out, it will damage the reputation of the royal family..."
“Shen Qing, you should know the consequences.”
The words were not fully explained.
But who among those present did not understand the meaning of this?
This is to let Shen Qingyuan put an end to Shen Jiao!
Shen Qingyuan's body suddenly stiffened!
He raised his head and looked at the "daughter" he had loved for more than ten years lying on the couch.
ridiculous!
This is so ridiculous!
Shen Qingyuan, who had a great reputation throughout his life, was played around by a vicious woman. He raised someone else's daughter for more than ten years and almost harmed his own flesh and blood!
Now, this evil creature has not only caused the Shen family to lose face, but has also become the source of tarnishing the royal family's reputation!
The emperor asked him to deal with her.
He himself also wanted to end this shame with his own hands!
The last bit of warmth in Shen Qingyuan's eyes was completely extinguished.
He kowtowed deeply in the direction of the dragon throne, his voice as cold and hard as iron.
"I... obey your order."
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