Quick Transmigration: The Rise of a Favored Concubine

Chapter 354 Cold-blooded, childless emperor × Pregnant imperial concubine 12

"Take Consort Wang away and give her poisoned wine." The emperor's words sealed her fate.

"No, no, don't..." Consort Wang knelt and took a few steps forward: "It wasn't me who did it, it wasn't... Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, I have no reason to do this, it really wasn't me..."

The Empress Dowager was exhausted. Just a few people had caused such a huge uproar. As someone who had been through similar experiences, she knew all too well what these women were thinking. Now, they had even hurt her grandson. She could never forgive them.

“Consort Wang, it has been found that it was someone from your palace who did it. No one would believe it without your instruction.”

"No... not concubine, but..." Consort Wang looked nervously toward the Imperial Concubine.

The imperial concubine's eyes turned cold: "Consort Wang, you'd better think carefully before you speak. Why are you doing this?"

Consort Wang saw the threat in the Imperial Concubine's eyes. She turned around, choking back tears in fear, "No...no..."

Yesterday, the Imperial Concubine summoned them, asking who could help. Consort Li shrank back, not daring to answer, while Consort Wang had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

That very night, he ordered people to destroy the railings, and unexpectedly, he heard the news of Consort Shu's accident during the day.

They had already done it very discreetly; there was no one in the Imperial Garden at the time, and they went there during the change of palace servants.

"This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die." Lady Wang's personal maid, Lanxin, kowtowed repeatedly to beg for forgiveness: "This servant was lazy last night. When I passed by the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, I secretly went inside to rest for a while and accidentally broke the railing. This servant thought that there were not many people here usually, so I wanted to wait until daytime to report to Lady Wang."

"This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die..."

Wang Meiren closed her eyes, feeling both heartache and relief.

"This is utterly outrageous! Do you know that you have harmed Consort Shu and the prince?"

Before the Empress Dowager and the Emperor could speak, the Imperial Concubine was already denouncing Lanxin.

"This servant deserves to die... This servant didn't mean it..."

"Your Majesty, this girl didn't do it on purpose. How could she know that Consort Shu would go there? Consort Shu is pregnant, how could she go to such a dangerous place?" The Noble Consort explained considerately, but her words were actually implying that Consort Shu was not careful despite being pregnant.

"Your Majesty, Lanxin didn't mean it, she... ah..."

Consort Wang covered her mouth, her eyes wide. Lan Xin slowly collapsed in front of her, with the Emperor behind her holding a sword, staring at Lan Xin on the ground with a gloomy expression.

After everyone realized what was happening, they all shrank back a few steps in terror, suppressing their screams.

The Imperial Concubine's body went limp and she collapsed onto Dongxue's body. Consort Li was just one breath away from fainting.

Wang Meiren stared wide-eyed in horror, tears streaming down her face.

The emperor threw down his sword: "Drag her away and clean this place up."

Originally, I didn't want to soil Consort Shu's place, but the Emperor simply couldn't stand it anymore.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lan Xin was dragged away and dealt with. The palace was cleaned up spotlessly, without a trace of blood left, as if nothing had happened, if one ignored the trembling and horrified look on Consort Wang's face.

"Consort Wang was misbehaved; her rank is revoked, and she is imprisoned in the Cold Palace!" Once the emperor's violent temper flared up, it was not easy to calm him down: "The Imperial Concubine was even more derelict in her duty to restrain the concubines; her rank is revoked, and she is demoted to the rank of Concubine and sent to live in the side hall of Qionghua Palace."

"Your Majesty... I had no idea this would happen! Your Majesty," the Consort panicked completely, no longer the confident woman she had been moments before, "It has nothing to do with me."

Wang Meiren could no longer make a sound. She wanted to explain and plead for mercy, but no sound came out of her throat. She could only struggle as she was dragged away.

Throughout this process, the Empress Dowager remained silent. At the end, she looked exhausted and said, "I did not intend to be too harsh on you, but I did not expect that such a disaster would still occur. From now on, I will never allow such a thing to happen again. You should take care of yourselves."

Xiuhua helped the Empress Dowager leave.

Consort Gu collapsed to the ground, "Your Majesty... this has nothing to do with me."

"Get down!"

The emperor's cold and ruthless expression was chilling. The people in the hall quickly disappeared, and Consort Gu was helped away, staggering as she left.

Half an hour later, the emperor got up and went into the inner palace. He was still thinking about how to face Consort Shu. When he entered, he saw that Consort Shu had already woken up and was silently sobbing with tears in her eyes.

"My beloved consort," the emperor said, taking Chu Yue's hand in trembling hands and looking her up and down, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Chu Yue had a white cloth wrapped around her head, and the wound that had stopped bleeding was now faintly oozing bright red blood, making her face look even paler.

Her eyes were red and swollen, her gaze filled with pain, grievance, and accusation.

"My beloved consort..." The emperor couldn't find the words to comfort her. He was already devastated just by the way Consort Shu looked at him.

"The child..." Chu Yue's lips trembled, barely audible: "The child..."

"My beloved consort, our son..." The emperor's voice trembled, "We will have another one."

Chu Yue's pupils constricted, and she stopped crying. The emperor was shocked: "My beloved concubine!"

"My beloved concubine, wake up."

Chu Yue had slowly closed her eyes and lay there lifelessly.

"Imperial Physician! Come quickly!"

The Feng'an Palace was shrouded in gloom, with the emperor's furious voice and the imperial physicians' cautious pleas for mercy echoing from time to time.

Consort Gu returned to Qionghua Palace and moved from the main hall to a side hall. She collapsed and smashed things in the hall.

"How come she's not dead!"

"How come she's not dead!"

“Master…” Dongxue stepped forward to stop her.

"What did you call me!" Consort Gu glared at her menacingly. "I am a Noble Consort!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down. His Majesty is in a bad mood. Let's not provoke him any further."

Dongxue choked back tears as she tried to comfort him.

"She got off too easy. I didn't expect her to be so lucky. She only suffered a miscarriage." Consort Gu's eyes were filled with undisguised hatred.

"Your Majesty..." Dongxue realized that her mistress was becoming more and more insane.

"Go and shut Wang Meiren up, don't let her talk nonsense."

"Your Majesty, Consort Wang is in the Cold Palace; she has no chance to come out."

"We can't be careless. We need to ruin her voice so she can't have a chance to talk nonsense." Consort Gu said with exasperation, "You're really useless. You can't even handle this simple matter."

"Yes, Your Majesty..."

After returning to Chun Jin Pavilion, Li Meiren's legs were still weak. She could never forget the look in Lan Xin's eyes when she fell down; there was fear and resentment in it.

Consort Shu suffered a miscarriage, Lady Wang was sent to the Cold Palace, and Consort Gui was demoted to the rank of Concubine.

Li Meiren shakily picked up the teacup and sipped the tea, most of it spilling down her neck.

“My beauty…” Qiao’er took the teacup, held it steady, and fed her: “It has nothing to do with us, don’t be afraid.”

"Yes, yes, it's not my fault, it's not my fault." Consort Li murmured to herself, trying to comfort herself. But she was also a Noble Consort, no, Consort Gu's side. Would she really not be implicated?

"My lady, this was done by Consort Wang. No matter how we investigate, we can only find out that it was Consort Wang. Don't be afraid."

"Yes, she did it."

Li Meiren never expected her to be so useless, easily giving others leverage against her.

Now that you're in the cold palace, you'll never get out.