Quick Wear: The Enchanting Concubine, Rules of Survival and Plunder

"How is that possible? If a man takes that kind of elixir, he will completely lose his fertility." The Empress said, her brows furrowed.

"Could it be that His Majesty already knew he had been drugged and had the antidote removed, thus restoring his fertility?" This was the voice of Shaoqing, another trusted palace maid of the Empress. "But didn't Prince Chen say that there was no antidote? It's impossible that the imperial physicians could have discovered it, otherwise Her Majesty wouldn't have had the audacity to drug His Majesty back then."

Prince Chen is the Emperor's younger brother, the sixth prince of the late Emperor, and the late Emperor's favorite prince. The Empress and Prince Chen were secretly in love, but fate played a trick on them. Unexpectedly, during the imperial concubine selection, she was betrothed by the late Emperor to the Emperor, who was then the Crown Prince, and became the Crown Princess.

To put it simply, the Empress is a hopeless romantic.

She was completely devoted to Prince Chen, and she was willing to disregard her family for the man she loved. Not only did she take a drug to prevent herself from having children before her wedding, but she also dared to give the Emperor the drug. She simply didn't care about the lives of her entire clan.

The reason she drugged the Emperor was, of course, to help Prince Chen seize the throne. No one else could be so obsessed with love as she was.

You should know that Prince Chen did not remain chaste for her. He married and took concubines as he pleased, and he had quite a few women in his harem.

Even so, the Empress still believed that Prince Chen loved her and only had eyes for her. She believed that the other women in his harem were simply because Prince Chen had no choice in the matter.

“Since Prince Chen said that the medicine is incurable, then there is no problem,” the Empress said thoughtfully. “And it is even less likely that the Emperor would discover that he has been drugged. Otherwise, I, the Empress, would not have been able to sit on the throne for so many years. So the only possibility is that the child in the woman’s belly in Jiangnan is not the Emperor’s.”

"Ah!" Peony exclaimed in surprise, "This... if Your Majesty's guess is correct, then that woman from Jiangnan is too audacious. But how exactly did that woman from Jiangnan manage to confuse the imperial heirs? After all, she was just a woman presented by an official from Jiangnan. How could she have such great ability to do such a big thing in the Jiangnan Imperial Palace?"

"This is also what I can't understand," the Empress suddenly felt a headache. "However, since the other party dared to do something that confused the imperial heirs, I naturally have plenty of ways to make her show her true colors. Let that slut be smug for a while, and I will deal with her after she enters the harem."

Meanwhile, on the Empress Dowager's side...

"Thank God, I am finally going to have a grandson!" the Empress Dowager said with tears of joy. "If I had known that the women of Jiangnan were so blessed, I should have advised the Emperor to make a southern tour sooner. Maybe I would have been able to hold my grandson long ago."

The fact that the Emperor had no son had long been a source of worry for the Empress Dowager. As a result, her health had been poor for many years, and she was constantly taking medicine. She could sense that she didn't have many years left to live.

But now the Empress Dowager felt her body straighten up, and she no longer had that heavy, listless feeling. It was as if her body had been cured instantly.

"Go and prepare Chengfu Palace for me immediately," the Empress Dowager said to her trusted nanny. "Select the treasures from my storeroom and make sure to decorate Chengfu Palace in a magnificent manner."

Chengfu Palace is the closest palace to the Empress Dowager's palace. She was finally going to have a grandson, and only by keeping Consort Fu under her watchful eye could the Empress Dowager feel at ease.

As for whether Consort Fu's child will be a princess.

The Empress Dowager rejected this possibility. In short, she was convinced that Consort Fu was carrying a prince, and it could never be a princess.

Meanwhile, at the Prince Lu's residence...

"Quickly, prepare pen and ink immediately. This princess wants to write a letter to the Emperor." Yan Jialuo's face was extremely pale at this moment, and she simply could not accept the fact that the Emperor had another child.

“Princess, there’s no need to panic. After all, the child in Consort Fu’s belly may not be a prince. Besides, even if she can get pregnant, it’s still uncertain whether she can give birth. In all the years since the Emperor ascended the throne, not a single concubine in the harem has conceived a royal heir. Doesn’t that prove anything?”

"In the harem, there are people who don't want the Emperor to have an heir, and that person's status is certainly not low. So, once Consort Fu arrives at the palace, it's hard to say whether the child in her womb can be saved. Therefore, I think the most important thing for you to do when you write to the Prince is to comfort him and tell him to calm down." These were the words of a nanny.

She was sent by Prince Lu to Yan Jialuo's side, essentially as a strategist sent by Prince Lu to accompany his daughter back to the capital so that she could offer advice at crucial moments.

“Hmm! Your analysis makes a lot of sense. I was too attached to appearances,” Yan Jialuo said, no longer flustered and now completely composed. “It’s just an embryo. Whether it’s a boy or a girl is still unknown. Besides, the waters in the harem are deep. We don’t need to do anything. There are plenty of people who will prevent the emperor from having an heir.”

"By the way, has there been any news from Jiangnan? Is Gu Yanjin's cousin still in Jiangnan, not yet ready to return to the capital?"

“There’s still no news from Jiangnan. I guess that girl surnamed Jiang hasn’t set off for the capital yet! Otherwise, if our people had succeeded, they would have sent the news back long ago. The fact that there’s still no news means that things haven’t been done yet,” said Granny Ma. “Princess, you really don’t need to put too much energy into that woman.”

"He's just an ant destined to be destroyed. Why should the princess pay too much attention to him? Just wait for news. What you need to do most right now is to win over Young Master Gu's heart."

"The prince said that Grand Commandant Gu is highly valued by the emperor. Once you marry into the Gu family, you must find a way to get the Gu family to side with the Prince Lu's mansion as soon as possible. So you need to firmly grasp the heart of Young Master Gu."

"After all, Grand Commandant Gu only has one son. If you can win over Young Master Gu's heart and make him your puppet, wouldn't that be the same as winning over Grand Commandant Gu and making him obediently follow the prince's orders?"

“Of course I know this principle,” Yan Jialuo said irritably. “But Gu Yanjin seems to be paying less and less attention to me lately. He is preoccupied with his cousin who went back to Jiangnan. That is why I am so eager to destroy that slut’s innocence.”

"Only by destroying that bitch can Gu Yanjin put his heart back on me, the princess."

Meanwhile, Gu Yanjin, whom Yan Jialuo and her servant were constantly talking about, was currently painting a portrait of Jiang Chunxi.

The more he can't see her, the more he misses her. Right now, Gu Yanjin misses Jiang Chunxi so much that he wishes he could just run to Jiangnan and bring her back.