Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 96

Chapter 96 Take the blame
No way!

She couldn’t let anything happen to imperial consort Zhao!

If anything befell imperial consort Zhao, what would happen to Prince Qing?

They would be done for!

Lots of images flashed through Wet Nurse Zhao’s head. They had done so many deeds all these years.

Wet Nurse Zhao swiftly took the talisman used to control the altar from imperial consort Zhao and pasted it on herself.

She hastily slapped herself twice hard before she knelt on the ground in front of imperial consort Zhao and implored loudly, “Forgive me! I deserve a thousand deaths!”

“What are you doing?”

Imperial consort Zhao wanted to pull Wet Nurse Zhao up after she slapped herself.

Just as her hands were about to reach Wet Nurse Zhao, Wet Nurse Zhao squeezed imperial consort Zhao’s hand hard. Imperial consort Zhao swiftly realized what Wet Nurse Zhao was trying to do.

“How dare you have the audacity to do something as terrible as this behind my back?” She suppressed the agony in her heart as she slapped Wet Nurse Zhao so hard that she slumped onto the ground.

Chu Hongzhen saw Wet Nurse Zhao lying prone on the ground pathetically as imperial consort Zhao stood with her clothes disheveled and eyes bloodshot.

“What’s going on?” Chu Hongzhen saw the altar and frowned as he suppressed his temper and didn’t blow up right away.

Imperial consort Zhao parted her lips and wanted to speak until she saw imperial consort Su walking in with Chu Hongzhen.

Imperial consort Su stood with her back facing Chu Hongzhen as she smiled with ridicule. Her voice was full of concern. “What are you doing? Hongyi is showing signs of recovery, so His Majesty and I are going to visit him. I smelled smoke when we passed by, so His Majesty wanted to check on you out of concern. Is everything okay?”

Imperial consort Zhao finally realized that she had fallen for imperial consort Su’s ploy when she saw how smug imperial consort Su seemed.

How dare Caidie betray her?

Fury filled her eyes as she looked dead straight at imperial consort Su and wanted to eat her flesh and drink her blood!

Chu Hongzhen felt pleased with what imperial consort Su said, so he patted her shoulder lovingly. “That was sweet of you. Weren’t you the one who was worried about Imperial Consort Zhao? Why are you letting me take the credit now?”

The moment Chu Hongzhen and imperial consort Su entered the quarters, Cheng Xiaoxiao and Chu Hongyi pricked their ears and boldly eavesdropped outside the window.

Cheng Xiaoxiao sighed in admiration as she witnessed the face-off.

From the looks of it, Chu Hongyi must have inherited his impeccable acting skills from imperial consort Su.

Imperial consort Su was certainly good at acting!

She craned her neck and continued watching the show playing out inside.

“What’s this?” Imperial consort Su walked up to the altar and pretended to be curious. She randomly took a jar and asked, “Are you praying? It’s so sweet of you to set up an altar and pray for His Majesty. It’s really…”

Imperial consort Su paused briefly and looked at the jar quizzically before her face turned ghastly pale as she turned to look at Chu Hongzhen. She knelt on the ground with a thud and shouted, “Your Majesty, you have to seek justice for me.”

Chu Hongzhen was about to help imperial consort Su up when she showed him the jar in her hand. She looked at him with tears in her eyes. “Your Majesty, you can’t let her get away with this! Hongyi’s birthday is written on the jar. Boohoo… My poor son. Is he sick because of this jar? My poor boy!”

“What do you mean? You said it yourself. It’s just a normal prayer altar.”

Imperial consort Zhao straightened her clothes unhurriedly as she pondered. She quickly pressed her lips gently and looked at imperial consort Su innocently. “Prince Xuan is sick, so I set up this altar to pray for his speedy recovery.”

Imperial consort Su gritted her teeth when imperial consort Zhao refused to admit her crimes. She wiped her tears with her sleeve and looked at imperial consort Zhao sincerely. “At first, that was what I thought too. Although my son’s birthday is written on the jar, the altar looks weird. There’s even a doll and talismans on it…”

She briefly hesitated before she choked and continued, “What are you doing? Did I offend you? If I did in any way, I’m happy to kowtow and apologize! All you have to do is say the word!”

She threw the jar aside as she knelt and crawled to imperial consort Zhao and held her hand. “Hongyi is just a kid. How could you be so ruthless? He’s innocent! You are a mother too. How could you be so cruel?”

The jar didn’t break when it landed on the ground, but its contents flowed out. It was filled with fine white powder and was clearly human bone ashes.

Chu Hongzhen gestured for Yuan Qing to pick up the jar. He had such a shock when he saw its contents that he almost stumbled if Yuan Qing didn’t help him.

He coldly looked at the chaos in front of him and said furiously, “Well done! When did you learn to perform dark magic?”

Chu Hongzhen couldn’t help feeling angry when he saw imperial consort Su kneeling on the ground and talking about imperial consort Zhao’s deeds.

He angrily pulled imperial consort Su into his arms and comforted her tenderly.

Imperial consort Su sobbed pretentiously after Chu Hongzhen pulled her far away from imperial Consort Zhao. Imperial consort Zhao found it sheer irony as she watched Chong Hongzhen call her “my love” as he comforted her. Those were the same words he called imperial consort Zhao in the past.

She knelt on the ground sadly and sobbed. “Your Majesty, do you think I’m capable of such cruelty? Just like Imperial Consort Su said, I am a mother too. In my heart, Hongyi is no different from Jinshuo. Every time I prepare anything for Jinshuo, I would do the same for Hongyi, but she keeps turning my gifts down.”

Imperial consort Zhao glanced at imperial consort Su as she cried. She pursed her lips and smiled sadly. “Perhaps she doesn’t like my gifts because I wasn’t thoughtful enough.”

Before imperial consort Su could retort, imperial consort Zhao looked at the emperor. Imperial consort Su was so mad that she clenched her handkerchief tightly as she cursed that bitch.

The moment imperial consort Zhao saw hesitance in Chu Hongzhen’s eyes, she inhaled and said gently with nostalgia, “Your Majesty, do you remember the tiger-headed shoes I made Hongyi when he was a baby? Hongyi was so adorable back then in those tiger-headed shoes. He looked just like you.”

Imperial consort Zhao gave birth to Chu Jinshuo and took great pains to raise him. Chu Hongzhen wasn’t entirely blind to her contributions.

Chu Hongzhen had mixed emotions when she brought up Chu Hongyi.

Chu Hongyi was the spitting image of Chu Hongzhen. Also, Chu Hongzhen could remember the tiger-headed shoes that imperial consort Zhao made Chu Hongyi.

The plump little Chu Hongyi had come running over to Chu Hongzhen with those tiger-headed shoes on as he called for his father in a child-like voice.

“I don’t care what other people think about me since they are just outsiders. I just want to be myself. But how could you not know what kind of person I am?’

Tears welled in imperial consort Zhao’s eyes, making her look absolutely pitiful.

She looked at Chu Hongzhen affectionately and wanted to see how much Chu Hongzhen loved her.

‘Your Majesty, I have always been so kind that I wouldn’t even say a harsh word to a cat or dog or the maids and servants. Ever since Prince Xuan fell sick, I have been losing sleep. I have abstained from meat and prayed to Buddha for his recovery all this time. How could I perform dark magic on him?

Chu Hongzhen recalled how sweet imperial Consort Zhao was to him when he saw imperial consort Zhao kneeling before him, so he couldn’t help feeling guilty.

Wet Nurse Zhao waited for the perfect opportunity to kneel and climb towards Chu Hongzhen.

“Your Majesty, please spare Imperial Consort Zhao. I did it! It has nothing to do with her! I was behind it all. She is innocent and doesn’t know a thing!”

Wet Nurse Zhao sobbed as she kowtowed so hard that the floor was covered with blood.

Imperial consort Su could tell that Wet Nurse Zhao wanted to shoulder all responsibility. How could she let this perfect opportunity slip by?

She walked over and slapped Wet Nurse Zhao and left her cheek swelling badly.

“How dare you! You are just a wet nurse. How could you touch a prince? Who told you to do it?”

She bent over and persuaded Wet Nurse Zhao, “Stop trying to protect the culprit. Harming a prince is a serious crime, and your entire extended family is punishable. His Majesty is a just man, so if you didn’t mastermind this, he would punish you accordingly.”

“I genuinely committed the crime on my own! Imperial Consort Su, thank you for speaking up for me!” Wet Nurse Zhao faced death unflinchingly, so imperial consort Su wasn’t capable of changing her mind so easily.

Imperial consort Su paused before she raised her hand and pointed at Wet Nurse Zhao. “You…”

“Imperial Consort Zhao, stop trying to cover up for me.” Wet Nurse Zhao turned to look at imperial consort Zhao and cried instantly. “I appreciate your help. You were worried about Prince Xuan, so I suggested that you set up an altar and pray for him…”

Wet Nurse Zhao quickly found an explanation for her actions. She suddenly pointed at imperial consort Su and scolded, “It’s all your fault, you evil woman! Do you remember Little Quan? He used to work for you. Last winter, he simply accidentally bumped into you while he was sending you some chicken soup from the kitchen, but Nanny Liu ordered for him to be beaten to death. Did you know that he was my godson?”

Wet Nurse Zhao looked at imperial consort Su angrily as she raised her head and laughed maniacally. “I have no family, but Little Quan agreed to be my godson so he could take care of me in old age and bury me after I died. He was a really sweet kid…”

“So you wanted to kill Prince Xuan for it?” said Yuan Qing uncontrollably. Wet Nurse Zhao was always a sensible woman. How could she end up so foolish?

However, he never heard about Wet Nurse Zhao making Little Quan her godson.

“Yes! I wanted this petty ruthless woman to have a taste of losing her son.” Wet Nurse Zhao glared angrily like a demon straight from hell. Her swollen cheek made her look even more repulsive.

“Imperial Consort Zhao trusts me since I brought her up, so I deliberately told her that we could aid Prince Xuan’s recovery by setting up an altar to pray. Since Imperial Consort Zhao was terribly worried about him, I convinced her into doing it before long.”

A strange expression appeared on Wet Nurse Zhao’s face as she smiled sinisterly and seemed smug with her actions.