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236 - 240

"No! Please, Your Majesty! Please have mercy on the child!"

"Servants, give me the medicine."

"Your Majesty, why don't you try letting this servant persuade the noble lady?"

Bai Xiangxiu was listening in on the conversation. "Who's that person?"

"It's a woman. She's wearing a veil over her face," Huo'er explained.

Wearing a veil? Could it be Su Yun?

"Go ahead," the emperor responded. The ruler of the nation is listening to the advice of a palace maid? Something is definitely amiss here. While Bai Xiangxiu was caught up in her thoughts, Huo'er began to convey the two women's conversation.

"Noble Lady. Why are you so afraid of lacking children when His Majesty dotes on you so? You should view things from his point of view as well. This is an enemy's bastard after all."

"But..."

"There'll always be wood to burn as long as the hills remain green. There will always be new opportunities. Have you perhaps forgotten how you've suffered in the past?"

"I remember. Fine! I'll take the medicine."

"Very good, then I will personally feed it to you."

The last sentence was spoken by the emperor. Bai Xiangxiu had to analyze and guess who was the one speaking as Huo'er was the one talking to her. Fortunately, the voices all had different tonalities, which made differentiating them much easier. Chaos soon followed. Complaints about stomach aches, about the doctors, and then something about killing every single one of the doctors. In the end however, there was only one clear sentence, filled with resentment and despair. "Long Heng, I will never forgive the two of you. It hurts... my child..."

Go to hell! Why are you blaming us when they were the ones who forced you to miscarry your child? Anyway, I don't think there's much more to learn tonight, but I'll try to scout a little in my sleep. Long Heng is definitely being held in a place without cacti. It'll be near impossible to scout out where he's being held captive. Nothing I can do about it I guess. This world simply has too few cacti!

It didn't take long for her to fall asleep since she and Huo'er were both exhausted. The next day, Bai Xiangxiu tried to listen in on Lin Qianzi to glean clues on Long Heng's whereabouts. However, Lin Qianzi was currently recuperating and wallowing in grief. She didn't really talk to anyone except her maid and the woman who was quite possibly Su Yun. She didn't have many topics to talk about either, other than how much she hated Long Heng and Bai Xiangxiu.

However, Bai Xiangxiu could tell that Su Yun was almost constantly instigating Lin Qianzi's hate towards Long Heng. She fanned the flames of hate until Lin Qianzi hated him to her very bones. What an awful woman. Song Jiaoyue also found out from the Lin family that Lin Qianzi had been sent by Minister Lin to a temple for meditation. After a while, she came back with a woman who masked her face with a veil. Apparently, that veiled woman had been rescued from around the area. Her body was riddled with wounds and her face had been disfigured.

"It's Su Yun after all! It really is the will of the heavens for these two to meet!" Bai Xiangxiu knew that out of the two of them, one would never forgive Long Heng, while the other would never forgive herself. The amount of hatred harbored by these two women had driven them crazy, which was why they were using every conceivable method to seduce the emperor, the ultimate boss of this world. After that, they would come up with a plan to deal with Long Heng!

I can't believe that the emperor actually listens to them. Is he really in love with Lin Qianzi? If this was true love, why did he force her to miscarry the child? Is he the type that shows his love with abuse? Bai Xiangxiu was depressed. There was always one rule that she'd adhered to when choosing novels. She'd rather have her teeth fall off from reading a super sweet plot than read something with plenty of drama and abuse, especially those with stories that abused both the heart and the body. The kind of story that she hated the most was currently being aired in the palace. She couldn't help but pity Lin Qianzi, even though the cause for all her suffering was no one but herself. Instead of falling of every lie told to her, she could've been enjoying her status as a noble young lady of the capital.