As Shang Xiye carried Ji Fengyao ashore, Wuhen tossed a large black robe over from a distance.
By the time Shang Xiye was seated in the wheelchair, Ji Fengyao's soaked body was already wrapped up tightly.
Blood dripped down her skirt and onto the side of her wheelchair. Although it was diluted with water and not very bright, it still shocked the concubines and noble ladies who lived in the deep courtyards of the Gao family mansion.
Do they remember that this bandit is pregnant? With this bleeding, the child might not survive.
"Cough cough!" Ji Fengyao woke up slowly, just as the onlookers had hoped.
She opened her eyes, first looking at Shang Xiye, then glancing at everyone around her, before finally settling on Princess Zhaoping, who was also wrapped in a cloak and shivering as she waited for the results.
Then, with extreme grievance, she pouted and cried softly and guiltily, "Your Highness, it's my fault, I failed to protect our child..."
Princess Zhaoping's move was a terrible gamble; now both of them are in the water.
One is doing well, while the other has lost her child; naturally, the one who lost her child is in a worse situation.
Sure enough, the child died.
The surrounding group of "experienced people" wore smug expressions, as if they had guessed the outcome. They were enjoying the gossip, and in their good mood, they were naturally more willing to sympathize with the weak, even if that weak person was a bandit they utterly despised.
Princess Zhaoping collapsed to the ground, dumbfounded.
She had everything arranged. One of her maids was a swimmer; she would suffer some hardships but wouldn't drown.
But she never expected that the bandit would jump down to save her, and lose his child in the process!
"What's going on!" Shang Xiye's face was as cold as ice, and his sudden roar startled everyone present.
The Ninth Prince was always one to keep his emotions hidden, and no one had ever seen him so furious!
Never!
Even the usually cheerful Magpie was stunned by the Ninth Prince's appearance, which was as if a glacier was about to collapse. If she hadn't seen her young lady wink at her secretly in his arms, she would have thought that her young lady was about to die.
Princess Zhaoping was completely terrified and paralyzed in the hands of the maids, trembling and not daring to cry out, let alone utter a word.
Having received Ji Fengyao's hint, Xique steadied herself, mustered all her acting skills, and began to wail dramatically: "It's her, it's definitely her! It's all because of this inexplicably crazy, damned princess!"
Ji Fengyao silently rubbed her forehead: Tsk... This girl's acting skills are really... terrible.
It's as if a classic children's song from Earth is playing in my ears: It's him, it's him, it's him, our friend Nezha!
It takes you out of the story in a second!
"You shameless scoundrel! You were the ones who pushed my princess into the lake to mock her, and now you're blaming her? How can a thief cry 'stop thief' like this?" Princess Zhaoping's maid, Siqi, immediately retorted angrily.
Ji Fengyao glanced at Siqi in surprise; this girl certainly had guts.
The other maids were already trembling and unable to stand properly when they faced her and Xique, yet she still dared to talk back to Xique.
The next second, Ji Fengyao understood.
"The Empress Dowager has arrived!" A eunuch's announcement suddenly came from behind the group.
The crowd of onlookers immediately turned around respectfully to make way, forming a path and standing respectfully on both sides: "Greetings, Empress Dowager!"
The Empress Dowager, trembling, stroked Aunt Sun's hand and walked over with a gloomy face. Her cold gaze swept over Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao, lingered on the blood beside their wheelchairs, and then landed on Princess Zhaoping, who was lying on the ground, soaked and disheveled.
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