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Cesarean section to remove the fetus?

The imperial physician was so shocked that he almost died of fright on the spot.

Consort Li is only three months pregnant; the fetus hasn't even formed yet!

He knelt on the ground, forcing himself to speak, "Your Majesty, this method can indeed be verified, but..."

The imperial physicians dared not make a move, because if they opened the abdomen, both mother and child would perish. Even if it was later confirmed to be a prince, the child would be reduced to a pool of blood.

When the Empress Dowager asks him for the youngest grandson, how will he possibly give it to her?

Furthermore, if she were to be forcibly disemboweled, wouldn't Consort Li's life be in danger?

The live chat exploded with comments: "Holy crap, he's a living devil!"

[Satan needs connections to even get a lecture from the villain.]

Isn't this a bit too cruel? The female supporting character is also a victim.

[I told you long ago, if you don't court death, you won't die. If she hadn't drugged the emperor, things wouldn't have come to this. Look at the other women in the harem; as long as they behave themselves, some recuperate, and the gluttonous and playful ones get fat as balls, the emperor hasn't said a word. When the harem is disbanded in the future, they'll all be dealt with clearly. Isn't that comfortable?]

[Actually, this girl is quite pitiful. She was schemed against by both her father and the male protagonist, becoming a victim of the male-dominated power struggle.]

There was nothing she could do; she had always relied on having a father like Nian Gengyao to act arrogantly and domineeringly. Now that she had ended up like this, she could only accept it.

Not to mention the comments section, even the Empress Dowager, who had witnessed the methods used in the palace, changed her expression.

"Your Majesty, Yue'er is your cousin, even if... how could you—"

From the Empress Dowager's perspective, she certainly hoped to find out the truth as soon as possible to avoid confusing the royal bloodline.

From the perspective of the Qin family woman, however, the Empress Dowager wished it could have been a little later, much later.

The elder brother must have thought that this child was undoubtedly the heir to the throne, so he took the opportunity to use the war with the Northern Rong as a pretext to pave the way for Yue'er.

This wouldn't have been a problem in the first place. But what about now?

If Yue'er's child wasn't the emperor's at all, then Qi Yitang hadn't done anything wrong, and the conflict between her fourth brother and Xuan'er wasn't a big problem either.

On the contrary, it is the Qin family who disobey the emperor's orders and threaten the monarch; they can be punished with a few charges easily.

When that happens, the Qi family will rise to prominence, and the Qin family will be finished.

"Doesn't Your Majesty think this method is effective immediately?" Xie Ling asked with a half-smile. "Do we really want to wait until the child is born, letting the whole world laugh at me for being cuckolded and raising someone else's bastard?"

The emperor's tone was anything but a joke, and Qin Lianyue was completely terrified.

"No...cousin, no..."

Qi Yitang didn't really like this method either. Even if Qin Lianyue was wrong, it takes two to tango; Xie Jingyu was the real culprit.

Then there's Qin Zhenxiong, one ruthless and vicious, the other with wolfish ambition.

Qin Lianyue was merely one of the sacrifices in their struggle.

Qi Yitang tugged at Xie Ling's sleeve, "Your Majesty, this method is too bloody..."

Previously, the Empress Dowager disliked Xie Ling the most for valuing Qi Yitang the most. The emperor, a dignified man, was willing to be beaten and scolded, showing no ambition whatsoever.

At this moment, however, he was extremely grateful that Qi Yitang's words carried weight in the emperor's heart.

"Fear?"

"Yes, yes, I'm scared." Qi Yitang nodded.

Qi Yitang was genuinely scared; it wasn't an act.

Her second sister-in-law was also pregnant. During the later stages of her pregnancy, the whole family watched her like the plague, afraid that she might bump or fall. Even so, everyone was still terrified.

She and Qin Lianyue had some past grievances, but Qin Lianyue's stupidity and wickedness were still at a relatively low level; she often just put on a brave front.

She is far inferior to the vicious female supporting character in the original work who used all sorts of underhanded tricks, poisoning, and sabotage to cause the female lead to have an abortion.

Qi Yitang knew that her character was a vicious female supporting character, and that she should be as ruthless as possible, but Qin Lianyue was pregnant, and she felt that her occasional compassion was not wrong.

It just means she won't be disemboweled; it doesn't mean she won't be punished.

Xie Ling seemed somewhat regretful, "Since Tangtang is afraid, then let it go."

The Empress Dowager finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the imperial physician tremblingly wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although he had served in the palace for decades, he had never seen anything like this before.

His Majesty's methods are truly...

The imperial physician dared not think about it, nor dared he speak of it.

At this moment, Li Degui, who had been interrogating the eunuchs and palace maids, returned. "Your Majesty, I have obtained the information."

"What was the result?"

The outcome was already pretty clear, but the Empress Dowager's heart was still in her throat.

Li Degui glanced at Qin Lianyue and said, "That night, there were indeed several palace servants on duty outside Changchun Pavilion, whose accounts basically matched those of this palace maid. His Majesty was drunk at the time and was helped away by Consort Qi. Later, Consort Li and Prince Gong entered Changchun Pavilion one after the other, making obscene and decadent noises..."

"It was indeed Prince Gong who had an affair with Consort Li."

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes wearily, feeling both disappointed and heartbroken. Even if she couldn't enjoy the Emperor's favor for a while, what did it matter?

How foolish, truly foolish!

The hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; for a moment, no one dared to speak.

Just then, a eunuch came in to announce, "Your Majesty, Prince Gong has arrived."

Xie Jingyu walked in with a slight limp. "Greetings, Your Majesty." After more than a month of recuperation, his leg was barely able to support him.

Who knows what kind of life Xie Jingyu has been living lately?

When he was summoned to the palace, he actually breathed a sigh of relief—ever since that crazy woman Liu Ruyan entered his residence, he hadn't had a good night's sleep.

Xie Jingyu had long regretted it; he shouldn't have looked down on women, especially crazy women.

He knew that Xie Ling had arranged the marriage to annoy him, and he originally thought he would just take her into the household and ignore her. Who would have thought... Qi Yitang was just spoiled before, and she was fine as long as someone coaxed her. But Liu Ruyan was a complete pervert.

She entered the mansion on the same day as two concubines, and even though the other two had never been favored by the emperor, she treated them with extreme caution.

She completely treated Xie Jingyu as her personal possession.

No maids were allowed to be by his side, and even the handsome young servants were sent far away.

Among them, her confidant Zhao Yan was the one she was most wary of, because Liu Ruyan felt that they were together day and night and their relationship must be ambiguous.

When she was around, she wouldn't allow Zhao Yan to get close; if she saw him, she'd send him off to clean the chamber pot.

So much so that Zhao Yan could only report news when Liu Ruyan was not around. This trusted confidant acted like someone cheating on his wife.

Xie Jingyu was extremely annoyed. He had important things to do and couldn't afford to waste his time with a crazy woman.

At first, he tried to coax her with kind words, but later he completely broke off relations and had Liu Ruyan locked up.

This has stirred up a hornet's nest.

One night, Xie Jingyu had to relieve himself and was about to get up when he opened his eyes to find a pair of bright, loving yet melancholic eyes beside him.

"Brother Yu, why are you turning off the cigarette?"

"Do you feel that Yan'er has done something wrong, or that she doesn't love you enough? Yan'er will change all of these..." As she spoke, she started to climb onto the bed.

It's no exaggeration to say that she's scarier than a female ghost in the middle of the night.

What's even more terrifying is that no matter what he does, as long as he doesn't sleep with her at night, she will definitely refresh his bedside in the middle of the night.

Xie Jingyu had also tried to find a way, but that woman was harder to kill than a ghost.

Poisoned?

She never uses serving chopsticks when eating, and when she feels like it, she will feed him a piece of her favorite food, saying, "Isn't what Yan'er feeds you even tastier?"

If you're not careful, you could poison yourself to death.

Furthermore, her father, the Marquis of Anyang, came from a family of salt merchants and still controls a small portion of the salt industry in Daqian, which is still useful to Xie Jingyu.

They couldn't lock him up, and they couldn't kill him; instead, they were torturing themselves terribly.

So when the emperor's edict reached the palace, Xie Jingyu was finally able to get rid of that crazy woman.

He walked into the hall in a cheerful mood, glanced at the palace servants kneeling on the ground and Qin Lianyue lying on the ground with a pale face, his brows furrowed almost imperceptibly, but his face remained expressionless.

"I wonder what Your Majesty has summoned me for?"