Chapter 155 That Child

The scene immediately went out of control. The surrounding palace maids were all in a panic. They cried and shouted at the side. Not long after, Shen Zhongbai came over with a livid face. Several Imperial Doctors followed behind him. After the Imperial Doctors squatted down, they checked Shen Qiangwei’s condition.

Shen Qiangwei was like a withered flower. She withered in an instant. She reached out to wipe her tears and looked at Shen Zhongbai. Her breath was gossamer, “Your Highness, our child…”

Shen Zhongbai picked her up and placed his chin on her cheek as he comforted her, “I am here. Don’t worry. The child will be fine.”

The Empress’ eyes lit up at the side. The blood on the ground was about to solidify. The child had obviously turned into blood and would never come back. She wondered what Shen Qiangwei was feeling at this time. Would Shen Qiangwei feel as painful as when she was in the past? She would never forget the feeling of having her flesh and blood stripped from her body. She could even remember the slow, slight pain many years later.

Shen Qiangwei’s crying echoed like a broken gong in this small but exquisite courtyard. It was very heart-wrenching, but the Empress could not help but smile.

She did not even think about what the result of her doing this would be like. After Shen Qiangwei’s child disappeared, she would definitely take revenge on the Empress. However, the Empress did not care. Things would always turn around. It was just a matter of time.

That night, the entire imperial palace was shrouded in a strange atmosphere. Even if the imperial palace’s sky was so empty and wide, and there were so many buildings, the strange and eerie atmosphere was still surrounding the imperial palace like a fog.

The Empress sat in the pavilion in front of Weiyang Palace and drank tea. Every fifteen minutes, a maid would come to report what happened in the palace. She listened to these things with an upset heart as her eyes flashed. Then, she heard Gusu Liang come up from the side and softly say, “Shen Qiangwei had a miscarriage.”

The Empress smiled and twirled the teacup in her hand. “Of course. With Gu Zhihua’s personality, she would fight fiercely. I’ve expected that she would accidentally kill the child.”

Gusu Liang’s heart skipped a beat. She seemed to have grasped something. She leaned over and whispered, “Miss, you mean to say that you have already foreseen that Gu Zhihua would kill Shen Qiangwei’s child?”

No matter what position the Empress held, whether she was the Empress or the Princess, or even the Prefectural Princess or the Young Lady of the Gu Family’s first wife, Gusu Liang had never changed the way she addressed her. She only called her Miss.

For so many years, as soon as the Empress heard this title, her heart would become calm.

The Empress nodded. She understood Gu Zhihua’s personality too well. Gu Zhihua was a woman who could not keep herself cool. She was a typical villain who was intoxicated by success. As long as she was given a little boost of sunshine, she would be the most brilliant.

It was precisely because of this that Empress allowed Gu Zhihua to succeed, and she would naturally provoke Shen Qiangwei no matter what.

Shen Qiangwei once worked in a brothel. It was all because of her beautiful face that she had reached this status. However, it could not be said that she had no means. In short, what this kind of person feared the most was others looking down on her. Now that both sides were injured, it could be considered fitting with her personality.

Everything in the Empress’ mind was as clear as a line, but she did not say anything to Gusu Liang.

At this time, a eunuch hurried over and respectfully invited the Empress to go to Qiangwei Palace for a meeting.

The Empress was stunned. This must be Shen Zhongbai’s idea. At this point, Shen Zhongbai probably did not have much experience.

She had just come from Qiangwei Palace in the afternoon, and now she had to go over again.

She touched her stomach. It was very quiet. The life in it seemed to be sleeping. She got up with satisfaction, but when she thought of the blood flower on the ground in the afternoon that symbolized the loss of life, she felt a little disgusted.

In Qiangwei Palace, the palace maids and servants were in a state of mess. All of them were in a hurry, and their faces were full of sympathy. The situation was so serious that it made people scared.

In the side hall, there was a crying sound. When the Empress walked in, the sound stopped abruptly.

Shen Zhongbai turned his back to the door and sat beside Shen Qiangwei’s bed. His hand was tightly holding hers. The pale knuckles showed his displeasure.

With a pale face, Shen Qiangwei looked toward the door. The Empress was standing there, holding her head high and looking down at the two people condescendingly.

Shen Zhongbai seemed to know that the Empress had come. He stood up and rushed to her, raising his hand to hit her.

The Empress didn’t even blink as she met Shen Zhongbai’s eyes and just looked at him.

The hand stopped in the air and finally slammed heavily on the table next to him. A cloud of dust was blown off the table. The table held on, and there was no crack in the end.

“Gu Qiang, aren’t you going too far? The child in Qiangwei’s belly is my child! I accepted that the child in your belly is not mine. Can’t you accept that I have my own child?” Shen Zhongbai asked painfully.

It seemed that Shen Qiangwei finally realized that it was the Empress who was interfering and accidentally killed the child in her belly. Sure enough, pillow talk was very useful, and the Empress had now experienced it.

“What do you mean, Your Highness? What does the child in the Noble Consort’s belly have to do with me?” The Empress looked at Shen Zhongbai indifferently. Her eyes were calm. When their eyes met, he did not dare to look straight at hers.

Was he sad or guilty?

“If you hadn’t urged Gu Zhihua to hit me, how could my child have been gone?” Shen Qiangwei said with the last of her strength.

Her face was pale, and her eyes were scarlet. If she had the strength now, she would definitely rush up and tear the Empress apart, but if…

“Wasn’t it Gu Zhihua who hit you? Why is it me? Since you know that you have a child in your belly, and it is the Emperor’s child, you should not force yourself. You have been sisters with Gu Zhihua for six years. Don’t you know what kind of person she is? That kind of people are competitive and jealous. Seeing that you were pregnant, she could get so jealous as to strangle you. Yet you were still arguing with her about small matters. Now that the child is gone, tell me, should you blame others or yourself?” Empress said slowly.

Shen Zhongbai turned to look at her in surprise. She was the one who was present at that time and had seen everything clearly. She had never been a muddle-headed person. As expected, Shen Qiangwei had held it in for a long time and did not say anything.

“Why didn’t you stop me when you were there? Or stop Gu Zhihua. As long as you did it, my child would not be lost!” Shen Qiangwei still wanted to blame this matter on the Empress.

Why! Why was it her that lost the child and not the Empress? Why did such an unlucky thing happen to her?

“Why didn’t I stop you? That’s a very good question. Because I am pregnant too. So your child was a life, and mine is not? If I lost my child in order to save you, wouldn’t it be too miserable?” Empress continued.

She stood at the door from beginning to end, not moving at all. Even her tone was slow, but it made the two people in the room have no chance to refute.

“Your child is not mine. Even if you don’t like me, you should at least know that I was the one who took you into the palace and made you the Empress. Why couldn’t you be grateful and save my child at such a time?” Shen Zhongbai was unhappy. Indeed, his child was dead, but Shen Qianshan’s child was still alive and well.

The Empress frowned. Recently, Shen Zhongbai had been deliberately pretending to be very caring and gentle to her. However, she was no longer an innocent girl. Did he think that a man acting like this meant that he loved her?

He was just putting on an act, and now he finally couldn’t hold on anymore.

“Do you mean I should be grateful and protect your child, and thank you for giving me the position of the Empress? Shen Zhongbai, does your brain go nuts after you become the Emperor? Who is the one forcing me to be in this position? Who is the one forcing me to live a life that I don’t want to live? Who has been pestering me all this time? You have done so many disgusting things, and now you want me to be grateful? Do you still have any shame?” The Empress suddenly had a ferocious look in her eyes, and when she spoke, every word was like a sharp sword that stabbed into Shen Zhongbai’s heart.

Gusu Liang stood behind the Empress. When she heard the Empress say this, she felt frightened. No matter how much this man liked her, he was still the Emperor. How could she call him shameless? This was a bit too much. The Empress should at least save some face for the Emperor.

At this time, Shen Qiangwei, who was lying in bed, was also shocked. Sure enough, some people would run amok and casually hurt others just because they were liked. It was really not worth it to like such a person.

Shen Qiangwei looked at the fuming Shen Zhongbai and the similarly red-eyed Empress. She suddenly felt a little envious of this woman. Sure enough, it was perfect that she didn’t like him.

Shen Zhongbai paused for a long time and finally said slowly, “Is this the reason why you hurt my child? You are actually so ruthless. You are just relying on the fact that I like you.”

“You are just relying on the fact that you are the Emperor!” The Empress did not care at all. She knew that there would be a day when they would fall out after she entered the palace, but she did not know that the day would come so early.

He was just relying on the fact that he was the Emperor. He thought that his power could get him everything, but he did not know that all of this was just his wishful thinking.

Did he really love the Empress, or did he just want to prove his power?

Shen Zhongbai slowly sat down, motionless. No one spoke. Finally, after a long time, Shen Zhongbai raised his eyes and sneered. He said to the Empress, “You got rid of my child. One life for one life, Gu Qiang. Pay with your own life.”

Was he going to kill her?