The Queen sealed her heart and locked up her love, and the Emperor was trapped in the crematorium

Xie Yaoqing really couldn't understand it.

She had never really seen Xiao Chengxu clearly before, even though she thought she had seen him clearly. It was like looking at flowers through a thick fog, impossible to see clearly.

Now, she couldn't see through him anymore.

Xie Yaoqing frowned slightly, and couldn't help but recall how she had fallen in love with Xiao Chengxu in the first place.

Could it be that she was deceived?

Those so-called gentleness, elegance, grace, and thoughtfulness...maybe they were all just a disguise by Xiao Chengxu.

Just as he could pretend to love her deeply, like her, and be deeply devoted to her.

Perhaps after a long time, the mask may be temporarily difficult to remove, but it is not the true nature after all, and one day it will be exposed.

Xie Yaoqing looked Xiao Chengxu up and down several times with a scrutinizing gaze, and there was an unconcealable disdain in her eyes.

Of course, it's not that they dislike Xiao Chengxu's shortcomings in that aspect. In fact, as a man, Xiao Chengxu is still fine in some aspects, and he is not in as terrible a condition as rumored by the outside world.

However, if one were to have sex while injured, the scene would surely become chaotic and bloody.

Just imagining that scene makes people feel extremely sick.

It's bloody, how can it not be disgusting?

"no need."

Xie Yaoqing waved his hand, his tone as calm as water.

She doesn't have any special hobbies.

Xiao Chengxu's body suddenly stiffened, and he stood there in a daze, with the corners of his mouth drooping weakly.

Dislike it.

He clearly saw the undisguised disdain in the eyes of the person in front of him, as if he was an unclean person.

"I have never been with other women, never. Qingqing, please don't despise me..." Xiao Chengxu held Xie Yaoqing's hand tightly and said in a hoarse voice.

Xie Yaoqing raised her eyebrows slightly, pulled out her hand slowly, and said leisurely: "If it's not a girl, then it must be a male favorite. There are quite a few young eunuchs with beautiful eyebrows and fair skin in the palace. I just don't know which one the emperor likes? In fact, it's okay to have a male favorite, but you can't make a big fuss and let everyone know, otherwise it will damage your own reputation."

Xiao Chengxu was almost going crazy. He quickly denied it, "There is no such thing. Why would I need a male favorite? I will not do anything that goes against my ancestors' teachings."

Xie Yaoqing said this purely to disgust Xiao Chengxu. If Xiao Chengxu really had a male lover, then the censors in the Censorate would have to submit memorials to advise him every day, and some might even risk their lives to advise him.

After all, since the founding of Daying, the country has always been disgusted with such obscene things as keeping male favorites.

The reason why the previous dynasty was destroyed was because the foolish emperor at that time only knew how to indulge in pleasure and was accompanied by male favorites all day long... He even plundered young and beautiful men from the common people's homes to enter the palace, and made them suffer all kinds of torture for his amusement, which led to the boiling resentment among the people. People of insight stood up and raised the banner of uprising to resist the tyranny. Frequent uprisings broke out in various places. Eventually the dynasty was overthrown, and Emperor Taizu took its place and established the Xiao Dynasty.

Xiao Chengxu spoke with absolute certainty and confidence, but Xie Yaoqing just squinted at him, with a tone of mockery in her voice, "Your Majesty has done enough absurd things. What difference would one more or one less make? Has your Majesty fulfilled the ancestral precepts of spreading branches and leaves and continuing the lineage of descendants? Does the ancestral precepts mention disbanding the harem?"

"Your Majesty, please don't put all the blame on me. Say you did it for me. I didn't hold a knife to your neck and force you to do anything."

Xiao Chengxu remained silent, unable to refute.

The man with drooping eyebrows and a sad and desolate expression actually looked somewhat fragile and pitiful. Xie Yaoqing snorted and felt that he was extremely hateful. The anger deep in her heart was still difficult to swallow, so she sneered.

"Your Majesty, if you had any sincerity towards me, you wouldn't have been so cruel over the past five years. You replaced the pregnancy-maintaining medicine with the sterilizing medicine, destroying my hope of having an heir. I lost a child for your sake, but why can't you give me a child in return?"

"It is said that the royal family is the most heartless and ungrateful. It is true. For the sake of power, they can even abandon their own flesh and blood. Does the emperor really think that just because he is the Son of Heaven and is shouted "Long live the emperor" every day, he can really live to be ten thousand years old, rule the world forever, live as long as the heaven and earth, and shine with the sun and the moon?"

Xiao Chengxu slowly raised his head, staring straight at Xie Yaoqing, and said in a hoarse voice: "If I say that I didn't know about the pregnancy medicine, I sincerely hope that Qingqing can give birth to a child of ours, so that we can hand over this vast country to others in the future. Do you believe me?"

Hearing this, Xie Yaoqing was slightly startled, and then a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Not aware?"

"What a 'not knowing'! Has Your Majesty forgotten? You said in person that Doctor Zhu was trustworthy and a gynecologist. His medical skills were so superb that no one in the world could compare to him. Doctor Zhu was found by Your Majesty from the people and you granted him special permission to work in the Imperial Hospital. But now, Your Majesty is trying to shirk responsibility and send me away with a 'not knowing' sentence. This is ridiculous."

"My biggest mistake was to trust the emperor too much. I mistakenly thought that as long as I gave my sincerity to the emperor, I would get the same sincerity in return. But I never thought that it was just like the moon shining on the ditch."

Precisely because Doctor Zhu was Xiao Chengxu's confidant, Xie Yaoqing trusted him so much and entrusted her body to him for care without any suspicion.

"Your Majesty, don't you think you are innocent? If Doctor Zhu is not your man, then who else could he serve? The Queen Mother? To be frank, if that is the case, then your Majesty is too incompetent. He can't even find out the details of a mere doctor, let alone recruit him for his own use. If not incompetence, then what is it? Being in a high position, incompetence is the biggest mistake. Your Majesty is not innocent."

Xie Yaoqing would not be fooled by Xiao Chengxu's light-hearted "not knowing". If Xiao Chengxu had paid a little more attention, he might have been able to find out what was wrong with Doctor Zhu. However, he put a person who was not loyal and reliable by his side, which showed that he had no good intentions and was definitely not completely innocent.

Xiao Chengxu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and a deep pain was revealed in his black and white eyes.

Even though Doctor Zhu did not secretly change the pregnancy-maintaining medicine according to his orders, which resulted in Xie Yaoqing being unable to get pregnant for many years, it was ultimately related to him and he could not escape the blame.

However, for a full ten years in his previous life, he had never had the slightest suspicion of Doctor Zhu. If the Queen Mother had not revealed this shocking secret triumphantly when she was dying, he would probably never have realized that his most trusted doctor was actually the Queen Mother's man, and that Qingqing had already been the victim of conspiracy, but he was completely unaware of all this.

If the Queen Mother had not revealed the secret herself, perhaps he would have been kept in the dark forever, and his beloved would have had to drink the sterilizing potion for a full ten years.

His negligence, carelessness, frivolity and arrogance... all of them were encouraging the murderer's arrogance, providing convenience for him, and handing the knife to the enemy, and the blade was aimed at his wife. It was he who personally pushed his beloved into the abyss of danger and despair.