The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Listening to Qian Xianhui's somewhat cruel description, Xie Yuzhen just frowned slightly.

When she was pregnant with her first child, the wife of Marquis Wuwei changed her previous pretentious demeanor and started to show concern for Xie Yuzhen. She also advised her to take supplements on the grounds that she had a weak physical condition. Unfortunately, Xie's mother was afraid that her daughter would have problems giving birth in the future, so she disregarded the rules and specially found a female doctor and a midwife to teach Xie Yuzhen this knowledge long before she got married.

The plan of the wife of Marquis Wuwei did not succeed. Even though Xie Yuzhen had been tortured by her for many years, she still gave birth to a healthy boy safely. She herself was also full of energy and showed no signs of physical weakness or mental breakdown.

Thinking of this, Xie Yu was really grateful to the wife of Marquis Wuwei. If it weren't for their years of training, perhaps he wouldn't be so bold. However, now the wife of Marquis Wuwei is confined to the Marquis Wuwei family for not educating their children properly. When she comes out, he will have to thank her again.

Pulling back her wandering thoughts, Xie Yuzhen suddenly had an idea in her mind. She deliberately sighed, "It's such a tragic thing, it's hard for you to remember it for so long."

Qian Xianhui, however, looked indifferent and nonchalant: "There are always people dying like this in every backyard. I just... couldn't find any other way, so I suddenly thought of this."

"Did you remember it on your own?" Xie Yuzhen suddenly interrupted her.

"Of course..." Qian Xianhui answered subconsciously, and then froze. Her eyes widened. She must have remembered something. She turned her head and looked at Xie Yuzhen. "Someone brought it up on purpose! It wasn't me... Go tell His Majesty, it wasn't me!!!"

She looked like she wanted to pounce on them, and the palace maids quickly protected Xie Yuzhen behind them. Seeing this, Qian Xianhui no longer cared about her dignity, and grabbed the skirt of a palace maid: "It was Bai Shuang! It was this damned slave who deliberately said that excessive tonic for the fetus would cause a woman to have a difficult delivery! Go tell His Majesty! Tell His Majesty that I was plotted against!"

Qian Xianhui now looked a bit like the "crazy woman" that she had criticized several times in her heart, but now she had completely collapsed and just kept asking the person opposite her to tell the emperor about her grievances.

Is she wronged?

Xie Yu really didn't think so. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Qian, I still say that. People are just talking. You don't have the intention to harm others. How can you just listen to what others say and decide to harm me according to that?"

"She was the one who set me up! She seduced me, and aren't you okay?" Qian Xianhui shouted in despair. After she said this, she looked at Xie Yuzhen's cold expression and finally gradually understood.

What can she do if she feels she is wronged?

She was no longer a concubine of high rank, but a sinner despised by the emperor and her family.

Regardless of whether Xie Yuzhen was hurt or not, his act of harming her had already made the two of them enemies.

"Attempted murder is not considered a crime?" Xie Yuzhen snorted coldly, "How ridiculous! I escaped with my life because I'm smart, but you are too stupid!"

"Just stay here. By the way, His Majesty only abandoned you and did not want to take your life. However, your Qian family is indeed a century-old family. Apart from that useless face, you don't care about anything else. You brought poison into the palace without permission and forced the abandoned concubine to commit suicide. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you are really as stupid as you. We are indeed a family, exactly the same..."

Xie Yuzhen finally commented: "Cold-blooded and arrogant."

After saying this, she turned around and left with the palace maids.

When Qian's incident happened, all the palace maids who served her were taken away by the Shanggong Bureau for interrogation. Xie Yuzhen had no power in the palace, so he didn't know whether they had discovered anything abnormal about Bai Shuang. But after a whole night, Bai Shuang might have been properly dealt with.

Thinking of this, Xie Yuzhen couldn't help but have a headache. She only had three save slots left. The last time she saved was when she was testing Xu Xiaoyi in various ways. She didn't think that the Qian family was worth going back so long, but she was worried that she would miss the clue of Bai Shuang who could lead to the person behind the scenes.

The most important thing is the emperor's attitude...

Would he be happy to see himself following the clues to find out the real murderer who murdered the fourth prince?

Xie Yuzhen still couldn't figure out what the emperor meant. Did he not want to pursue the matter for the time being, or did he not want to pursue it for the rest of his life?

If it's the latter, then...

Her eyes darkened.

She also thought that the emperor would have a true love in the future. Although this true love gave birth to three sons for the emperor, she lived a very, very inconspicuous life. She had no prominent family background, no obvious favor from the emperor, and not even a decent position.

At present, there is no concubine in the palace who fits the description. Concubine Song Shu barely meets the requirements of having no family background and many sons, but she is extremely favored and is the fourth lady, which does not qualify her as a "little transparent" at all.

Among those concubines who entered the palace early, some seemed to be out of favor and had poor families, and some did not even have children. Therefore, Xie Yuzhen judged that the emperor's true love either had not yet emerged among the new concubines, or had not yet entered the palace.

But now, after seeing the emperor's attitude towards the death of the fourth prince, Xie Yu was really uncertain.

Maybe that true love had already entered the palace, but it was only after many years that she was loved by the emperor, and then gave birth to three sons in one breath. However, due to the power of this "evil queen" who knew where it came from (at least so far, Xie Yuzhen was penniless and could only cling to the emperor desperately), the emperor could not favor her and could only let her be bullied by him.

After thinking about it this way, Xie Yuzhen still didn't quite understand - she looked left and right, up and down, and the current emperor didn't look like a coward at all?

He didn't even dare to favor one person, and was not as good as Emperor Kang before him. He was strangled by a powerful official and forced to marry the official's daughter. He said he would not marry her, but he insisted on making his original wife the queen. Later, the official's daughter waited until the queen died suddenly and finally entered the palace to be made queen. Emperor Kang also resisted the pressure and made his original wife's son the crown prince.

Although he was no match for the powerful minister and had to wait until the minister died before he dared to depose the new queen and purge his family, he was also tough when it came to who he favored and loved. The tragedy was that he was unable to defeat the powerful minister's tactics and ended up costing his wife's life.

What's more, the current emperor's situation is far inferior to that of Emperor Kang. Even if I really share the emperor's power in the future, he doesn't even dare to favor a concubine!

Isn’t this her sister, niece, or something like that? She’s a legitimate concubine!

Could the emperor really become so useless?

For the first time, Xie Ruizhen doubted the future described by the system.

She stepped out of the room, and at that moment, Qian Xianhui suddenly stood up: "Wait! I have something else to tell you!"

[System, didn’t you say that you need energy to move? If you can still move now, it means that your energy has not been used up, right? Then I ask you to use your last energy to make Xie have nightmares about her difficult childbirth for three consecutive days! ]

System: […I really can’t do this. I’m sorry, help me. Why are you so stupid even to take revenge on you!? ]

【What did you say? 】

[Nothing, just uninstalled, no fun. ]