Quick Transmigration: Irresistible Beauty
Chapter 168 - 168: Loyal Maid Who Died Because of Beauty (38)

"I am afraid... I am afraid that time... time is..." The imperial physician stuttered, and his words trailed off because of extreme fear.

"What is it? Speak clearly!" Lu Heng roared. "Say it quickly!"

"I am afraid... I am afraid that... time is running out," the imperial physician finally said, exhausting his courage as his shoulders sagged down. He did not dare to raise his head to look up at the emperor at all. He already knew that the emperor would be in a very bad mood.

Lu Heng's legs felt weak, and he fell to the ground in disbelief. He crawled to the imperial physician, grabbed the old man's shoulder, and shook it vigorously.

"Impossible! This is impossible!" Lu Heng yelled. There was obvious desperation in his tone. "There must be a way, right? Yes, there must be a way. You can just tell me what it is. Tell me!"

Lu Heng refused to accept that what the imperial physician said was true. He did not want to believe it at all. He did not want to believe the imperial physician's words at all!

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty," the imperial physician said as he begged for mercy. "I am incompetent. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The harem concubines did not expect that things would go this way either. They only thought that it was just the child that was gone, but they did not know that the noble consort herself was losing her own life because of this.

Looking at the harem concubines kneeling in front of him, Lu Heng roared angrily, "It is you people! It was all your fault! It was you all who harmed my Ran Ran and my child! It is you; it must be all you poisonous women!"

"I, your servant, dare not, Your Majesty," a voice suddenly spoke out in this tense atmosphere.

As if he had found a target for attack, Lu Heng stood up to walk in front of Chu Ning and said, "Is it you? Are you worried that my Ran Ran and my child will block your son's way, so you intend to kill my Ran Ran and my child? Is it you?"

The more Lu Heng thought about it, the more he felt that what he said had made sense, as if he had clearly identified that the perpetrator was Chu Ning.

In the beginning, Chu Ning had fallen because of Lu Heng's push, and now she looked very unkempt and was in such a mess. How could she still have the demeanor of an empress?

"No, it was not me, Your Majesty," Chu Ning quickly explained. "It was really not me. How dare I, your servant, do this?"

"I see," Lu Heng said. "You still do not want to admit your mistake, or you do not dare to do so. If that was it, then I will help you admit it."

With a strong force, Lu Heng slapped Chu Ning directly in the face. A big slap mark was left on the empress's face, and there was blood at the corner of her mouth.

The harem concubines around did not expect that Lu Heng would go so crazy as to beat the empress directly in the face. And it was now that they really started to cower in genuine fear.

While listening to Yue Ran's sad cries coming from inside the bedroom and watching the harem concubines kneeling down below, Lu Heng's anger was still not at all relieved. Suddenly, he let out a strange smile and stared at the harem concubines with a ruthless look in his eyes.

Lu Heng spoke out, "My child is gone, so how can you people still kneel down here intact?"

Listening to the emperor talk and laugh at a time like this, the harem concubines only felt scared. Everything was so terrible that their bodies began to tremble. What did the emperor mean by his words? Could it be that the emperor wanted them all to be buried along with the unborn child's death?

"Your Majesty, please spare my life."

"Your Majesty, please spare my life."

Seeing such a scene, Wang Li timidly interfered and said, "Your Majesty, should we conduct a thorough investigation of the Six Palaces to find out who harmed the noble consort and the imperial child?"

"Yes, I want to see who is desperate enough to dare risk their lives to harm my Ran Ran and my child," Lu Heng said in an eerie tone in reply. "Come, search all through the Six Palaces, and do not leave a single hole or gap unchecked! Anyone who dares to stop me will be killed without mercy."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The kneeling harem concubines could only pray that the evidence would not be found on their heads; otherwise, from looking at the emperor's move, not to mention their own lives, their whole family would also suffer accordingly without mercy!

When such a huge thing happened, it was very difficult for the empress dowager to pretend that she did not know about it, no matter how much she wanted to pretend to be stupid at this time.

At the time that the empress dowager arrived, the investigation was still ongoing. Lu Heng saw her figure but did not get up to greet her as usual. He did not trust any woman in the imperial palace right now. To him, every woman alive was a suspect.

The empress dowager was a little angry, but there was nothing she could do about it. She could only hold her breath and say, "Your Majesty, the noble consort has lost her child, and Ai Jia is also very sad. But that was no reason to treat the empress so rudely like this."

Among the people present, it was only Chu Ning who looked the most disheveled and was in her most embarrassing state. If the empress dowager had not recognized the empress's face and was informed of this news beforehand, she would have thought that the empress was a servant who looked especially unkempt and did not follow the rules and regulations of the imperial palace.

"Oh, is the imperial mother really sad?" Lu Heng asked viciously as he ignored the latter sentence of the empress dowager's words, as if he did not hear anything related to the empress.

Unexpectedly, Lu Heng was also so disrespectful to the empress dowager that the expression on the empress dowager's face twisted a little, and her body posture was frozen stiff.

Lu Heng looked at the empress dowager and smiled. This smile was so frightening that everyone's hair was raised and they felt chills in their hearts. No one could ever feel comfortable or be comforted by a twisted smile like this.

It was so horrible! The harem concubines only felt that they would most definitely develop nightmares tonight.

"It is enough for the imperial mother to watch carefully from the side and not interfere in anything," Lu Heng said slowly and gently. But the more he acts like this, the more terrifying he is. "The child of Ran Ran and I is gone. None of these vicious and poisonous women can escape their crimes. I will settle things with everyone slowly."

These harem concubines had always wished that the emperor would look at them more. Even one glance was already great. But now, all of them really wish that they were only invisible. All of them only wished that they could blend in with the background so that the emperor could not look at or notice them at all.

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Everyone was now waiting for the news until the guards came back with the results of their investigation of the Six Palaces.

After hearing it, Lu Heng kicked Yi Lin, the female protagonist, down. But before Bai Fen could be happy that her plan was successful, she was also kicked by the emperor in the same way.

Little did Bai Fen know that Yue Ran had known about her plan long ago and had already hidden a bottle of poison in her room, just waiting for today.

As for Yi Lin, she had originally wanted to harm Yue Ran by poisoning her, just like in the original plot, but now she had happened to be harmed by Bai Fen as well.

Lu Heng pointed at both Yi Lin and Bai Fen and said, "You two poisonous women are the ones who harmed my Ran Ran and my child!"

"Your Majesty, please spare my life," Bai Fen said as she begged for mercy. "How could I, your servant, ever be so courageous as to harm the noble consort? Someone must be framing me!"

Bai Fen tugged on the emperor's trousers unwillingly but was immediately kicked to the ground again. The force was so strong that she vomited a mouthful of blood.

Yi Lin only thought that it was her own bottle of poison that allowed Yue Ran to be in such danger today, so she did not intend to refute that statement. She only laughed out loud. She laughed so crazily that tears came out of her eyes.

"I have long wanted that cheap maid, Yue Ran, to die," Yi Lin said with joy. "And as you can see, I have succeeded! God is helping me after all!"

Yi Lin laughed again after saying so.

Seeing that Yi Lin still looked so arrogant after speaking such evil words, Lu Heng was furious. Several curses were uttered out of his mouth before he ordered, "Come and drag this vicious woman down. Chop her up! Chop her into many pieces for the others to see!"