You cause trouble and I collect your body, the little emperor’s aunt abuses the scumbag again

“In this harem, countless people die every day. One more or one less makes no difference.”

"Your death saves me a lot of trouble. I will take good care of this child for you."

She deliberately emphasized the words "good" and "well," which made Meng Siya's scalp tingle.

"Use your strength, live or die, just get the child back to me!"

The Empress Dowager issued a stern order.

The old women, no longer hesitant, swarmed forward.

"Go away!"

Meng Siya frantically waved the silver hairpin in her hand, scratching the back of a nanny's hand.

But there were too many people on the other side, not to mention she had to protect the child in her arms.

Enraged, the injured old woman took advantage of Meng Siya's turn and kicked her hard in the back of the knee.

"Uh!"

Meng Siya felt a sharp pain and her legs went weak, causing her to fall forward uncontrollably.

"Wow--!"

The baby in my arms was jolted violently and finally couldn't help but burst into tears. The loud crying made my heart tremble.

"Bring the child to me!"

With quick eyes and hands, Granny Gui caught the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes the moment Meng Siya fell.

"No! Let go! Let go!"

Ignoring the excruciating pain in her knees, Meng Siya gripped the other corner of the swaddling clothes tightly.

Her fingernails dug deep into the fabric, and she refused to let go even when they broke and bled.

That was her fate!

"You little slut, you've got some strength!"

Granny Gui gritted her teeth and pinched Meng Siya's injured arm hard with her other hand, right on the wound from last night.

The excruciating pain caused Meng Siya's vision to go black, and her grip on her hand loosened for a moment.

In that instant, Granny Gui suddenly exerted force and snatched the swaddled baby from Meng Siya's arms.

"No—! Give Sui Sui back to me!"

Meng Siya screamed in despair, struggling to get up, but was held down on the ground by the other two nannies and couldn't move.

"Your Majesty, we've managed to snatch the child!"

Granny Gui, carrying the still-crying Sui Sui, ran to the Empress Dowager with a look of self-satisfaction on her face.

The Empress Dowager frowned in disgust, clearly annoyed by the child's crying.

"It's so noisy, tell him to shut up."

The Empress Dowager gave the order coldly and then extended her hand.

"Take off your hat and let me see what this bastard looks like."

Granny Gui quickly reached out to lift the tiger-head hat off Sui Sui's head.

At that moment, a series of hurried footsteps and the anxious cries of eunuchs came from outside the main hall.

"Your Highness! You cannot enter!"

"The Empress Dowager is worshipping Buddha... Your Highness!"

But the Empress Dowager seemed not to hear, her attention was entirely on the child who made her feel inexplicably uneasy.

With a flick of her finger, the little hat embroidered with a tiger slipped off.

A small face, red from crying and streaked with tears, appeared.

Perhaps because of the discomfort of having her hat removed, Sui Sui suddenly opened her eyes.

He stopped crying, his large, wet eyes staring in fear and confusion at the wrinkled old woman before him.

Those were very beautiful eyes.

His eyes are long and slightly upturned at the corners, giving him an innate air of nobility and arrogance.

Even with tears in her eyes, her charm was undeniable.

Phoenix eyes.

They have the exact same phoenix eyes.

The Empress Dowager's hand froze in mid-air, and her fingers, which had been trying to pinch the child's chin, began to tremble violently.

Her cloudy old eyes widened suddenly, her pupils contracted sharply, and her face was filled with disbelief.

She knew those eyes all too well.

These are characteristics unique to the direct descendants of the Ji family royal family, the appearance of the current emperor when he was young, and the features on the face of Crown Prince Ji Yongyan!

How can eyes look so alike?

This isn't some businessman's son, this is clearly...

"This...this..."

The Empress Dowager felt her throat go dry and couldn't utter a complete sentence.

A sense of fear, a feeling of bloodline suppression, emanated from this infant still in swaddling clothes, making her feel afraid.

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

Granny Gui also noticed the Empress Dowager's unusual behavior. She looked down at the child in her arms and was so startled that she almost dropped her grip.

Having served in the palace her entire life, how could she not recognize what those eyes represented?

"Your Majesty the... Empress Dowager..."

Granny Gui's voice was trembling.

Seeing this scene, Meng Siya, lying on the ground, closed her eyes in despair.

It’s over.

It can't be hidden anymore.

The Empress Dowager slowly stood up from the soft couch, her gaze fixed on that small face, unable to look away.

Shock, bewilderment, and confusion eventually transformed into immense anger and a barely perceptible hint of ecstasy.

She stretched out her withered finger, pointing tremblingly at those phoenix eyes, her voice shrill and terrifying.

"All of you, get out of my way! Close the door!"

The maids were so frightened that they immediately released Meng Siya and scrambled back to a corner of the main hall.

The Empress Dowager stared intently at Meng Siya, who was still lying on the ground, her chest heaving violently and her breathing becoming rapid.

"You...you raise your head!"

The Empress Dowager's voice echoed in the empty hall, carrying a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.

"Tell me, whose child is this bastard?!"

The Empress Dowager's shrill voice echoed in the hall, each word causing Meng Siya excruciating pain in her heart.

"Whose bastard child is this?!"

Meng Siya lay trembling on the cold ground, not from the cold but from despair. She could feel the Empress Dowager's fierce gaze and hear her own frantic heartbeat.

It's over, it's over.

She couldn't protect Sui Sui anymore.

When the Empress Dowager saw that she did not answer, her eyes hardened even more. She stepped off the soft couch, wearing sharp nail guards, and approached step by step.

"You're not going to tell me?"

The Empress Dowager walked up to Meng Siya and looked at her, her voice filled with excitement.

"I have plenty of ways to get you to talk, but before that, I'd like to see for myself whether this bastard is truly of the Ji family bloodline!"

With a wave of her hand, she sharply commanded, "Guards! Prepare water! Prepare needles! Today, I will have a blood test to determine kinship right here in Cining Palace!"

Blood test for kinship!

These four words filled Meng Siya with extreme fear.

"no, do not want!"

She struggled frantically to snatch the child back, but the two nannies held her shoulders down with great force.

Granny Gui, pleased with herself, turned around and shouted, "Quickly! Her Majesty the Empress Dowager has ordered that we prepare clean water and a bowl, and fetch the silver needles!"

Soon a eunuch ran in carrying a tray with a bowl of water and a roasted silver needle on it.

Granny Gui held the crying Sui Sui and grinned menacingly. With one hand holding Sui Sui's hand firmly, she picked up a silver needle with the other and aimed it at Sui Sui's fingertips.

"No! Please! Don't hurt him! He's just a child!"

Meng Siya's voice was hoarse from shouting, and tears blurred her vision. She could only watch as the needle approached her son's finger.