After exchanging marriage with my elder sister, I won with a bad hand.

For a long time afterwards, Zhao Xun would come to accompany the queen for a while, but he would still stay overnight with other concubines in the harem as before.

But the strange thing is that after several months, none of the favored concubines became pregnant.

If Shen Yihuan had not given birth to two babies and was pregnant with another, the ministers would have doubted whether their emperor could have children.

The suspicion of whether the emperor could have children was ruled out, but the queen was the only one pregnant in the harem, which made the matter a bit ambiguous.

Gradually, no one knew who started the rumor in the harem. It was said that the queen would not tolerate women in the harem getting pregnant, so she secretly made arrangements to prevent those women from getting pregnant.

Everyone felt that there was no reason for the rumor. However, they could not find any evidence and could not question the queen. Both the former court and the harem began to have some opinions about the queen.

Zhao Xun saw all of this and began to suppress those who opposed the queen, and at the same time used his own forces.

There was a gust of wind in the court, causing panic. Ministers with concubines secretly went to the palace to see their own daughters, hoping to get the emperor's intentions from them.

However, in the harem, Zhao Xun did not have much contact with women except sleeping with them. He was always busy with government affairs and was a good emperor who worked hard and loved the people. There was really nothing wrong with him.

After several ministers returned empty-handed, they began to have doubts in their hearts, but soon the emperor promoted them in public and demoted them in secret, gradually weakening their power.

At first, they wanted to unite and resist together, but unfortunately, they were no match for Zhao Xun. The new emperor had already started planning three years ago, gradually disintegrating their power, and secretly collected a lot of evidence of their corruption and abuse of power.

If they hadn't reacted quickly and escaped in time, they would have been killed by now. Now, it was just a promotion in name but a demotion in reality, which was not bad.

And their wings had been almost clipped by Zhao Xun, and it was obvious that they would not be able to make any waves in the second half of their lives. It was the emperor's mercy that allowed them to retire now.

After the court was reorganized, Zhao Xun concentrated power in his own hands and gradually secured the throne of emperor.

At this time, Shen Yihuan was already five months pregnant, and her belly was still a circle bigger than that of ordinary pregnant women. Because she had the experience of giving birth to twins before, Shen Yihuan also felt that this time, if nothing unexpected happened, she would also be pregnant with twins.

But when Doctor Li came to diagnose the baby, he said that it was not twins but rare triplets.

After these words came out, Zhao Xun's face was not happy at all. Because compared with twins, triplets are more risky for mothers.

Zhao Xun thought about it for several nights, and finally went to Shen Yihuan to persuade her to abort the baby. But Shen Yihuan could already feel the baby's fetal movement, so how could she bear it? She was unwilling to abort the baby no matter what.

Zhao Xun had no choice but to find a few more imperial physicians to take care of the queen together with Imperial Physician Li.

Four months after Shen Yihuan's pregnancy, one day a piece of news came out from the harem that the most favored Concubine Li was pregnant.

This was also the second woman to become pregnant with a dragon seed after the queen became pregnant. Because of this incident, the previous bad rumors about the queen were immediately dispelled.

Many concubines who had served the emperor many times but never got pregnant began to look for problems in themselves. As a result, the Imperial Hospital became busy.

In a short time, it became a trend.

Later, after more than ten days, the baby in Concubine Li's belly disappeared for unknown reasons.

After this incident, Concubine Li never left her own courtyard again. She became very decadent and no longer had her former spirit.

So, rumors soon began to spread in the harem about why Concubine Li lost her child.

However, since the queen had never left the Luanfeng Palace since she became pregnant, her suspicion was quickly ruled out.

Everyone was talking about it, thinking that perhaps one of the concubines couldn't bear to see Concubine Li pregnant, since she wasn't, so she secretly took action.

When Shen Yihuan heard the news, she was already six months pregnant. She subconsciously felt that this matter was not that simple, so she ordered Jin Song to investigate.

The news from the investigation shocked Shen Yihuan greatly. Not only Li Meiren, but all the concubines in the harem were unable to have children because of Zhao Xun.

Shen Yihuan was secretly shocked. She never thought that Zhao Xun seemed to be talking and laughing with the concubines and had a gentle attitude. She never thought that he would do such a vicious thing behind their backs.

According to Jin Song's investigation, Concubine Li's child was aborted by Zhao Xun with a bowl of abortion medicine. At that time, he personally brought the bowl of medicine to Concubine Li, who drank the bowl of medicine in despair. It was also because of this that her temperament changed drastically and she never left the yard again.

"Hongye, Cuicui, tell me, why did His Majesty do that?" Shen Yihuan was a little dazed after hearing everything.

"It is obvious that His Majesty does not want the children they have."

"But why do I feel like he did this for me?"

“Perhaps, this may be the reason.”

After that, they did not continue the topic. However, Shen Yihuan had an idea in her mind. Zhao Xun was completely different now.

However, when he was in front of her, he was still the same as before. She suddenly felt a little lucky that she had entered his heart at the beginning and made him fall in love with her. Otherwise, she would also be a concubine in his harem, and her fate would be the same as those concubines today.

Zhao Xun came over during dinner. Almost every night, unless he really had something to deal with, he would come over to have dinner with Shen Yihuan.

Today is no exception.

While eating, Zhao Xun would still tell her some jokes from time to time to make her happy.

But today she seemed a little absent-minded. He had told several jokes, but the other party didn't seem to be listening at all.

So he stopped and stared at the dazed Shen Yihuan.

Shen Yihuan felt that there was no sound, then he came to his senses and looked at Zhao Xun.

"Husband, why are you looking at me like this?"

"What are you thinking?"

"That's right, I know some things."

She has a good habit of not being able to keep things to herself, but this is also because she feels that there should be no secrets between husband and wife.

So, she told Zhao Xun what she had done today.

When Zhao Xun heard about this, he felt a little helpless and embarrassed. He pretended to lower his head and eat the food for a while before he slowly looked up at Shen Yihuan.

"My lady, if you see the real me, will you be afraid of me?"