Hua Fei's sudden questioning made Jiang Cheng's heart skip a beat. Cold sweat broke out on his back and his breathing became heavier.

Should he say it?

When Jiang Cheng was hesitating, Concubine Hua had already seen Jiang Cheng's guilty conscience. She, Nian Shilan, didn't like to use her brain, but that didn't mean she was a complete fool.

I didn't think about it too much before because I didn't want to doubt the emperor.

Now that she thinks about it, it is because doubts have surfaced and she can no longer play dumb!

Concubine Hua said word by word, "Jiang Cheng, you were sent here by my brother. I have always regarded you as my confidant. Could it be that even you are lying to me?"

Seeing that Jiang Cheng was still hesitant, Concubine Hua had nothing to understand. The world was so big, who could be greater than the emperor? But she refused to accept it. Jiang Cheng was first a member of her Nian family, and only then a servant loyal to the emperor.

Everyone says that Nian Gengyao is arrogant. As his sister, Concubine Hua is naturally arrogant as well, but she has the capital to be arrogant. Jiang Cheng is her man, so he must listen to her.

Jiang Cheng's back was completely soaked with cold sweat. Under Hua Fei's oppressive gaze, he kept wiping his forehead. He knew that with Hua Fei's temper, her patience was almost exhausted.

Jiang Cheng said with trembling lips:

"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I don't dare. Your Majesty, no matter how painful it is for me to say this, please don't be impulsive."

He knelt deeply and bowed his head.

Upon seeing this, Concubine Hua's aura faltered, and a sinister premonition grew in her heart. She subconsciously covered her stomach lightly, an instinctive protective action, and said:

"you say!"

"There's musk in Huan Yi Xiang! Women who smell it will become infertile, and pregnant women will have miscarriages!"

Jiang Cheng finally revealed the secret that had been buried in the hearts of all the imperial doctors for more than ten years. He didn't know whether he felt relieved or terrified that a disaster was about to happen. After he finished speaking, he buried his head even deeper, not daring to look directly at Concubine Hua's face.

Nian Shilan's face turned pale instantly, and she angrily shouted, "You're talking nonsense! Huanyixiang is a special honor bestowed upon me by the Emperor. How can there be musk? How can there be musk!?"

However, with every word she spoke, Nian Shilan felt more sad.

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but say, "It was the Emperor's personal gift. I and others have not dared to tell you for so many years, Your Majesty."

Nian Shilan's sky fell.

No wonder she has never been pregnant since her miscarriage. No wonder the emperor favors her the most, but she is the one with the most difficulty in getting pregnant. So that's it. The truth is so cruel!

"Your Majesty, you have caused Shilan so much pain..." Nian Shilan covered her stomach and shed tears, her face full of sadness, her eyes full of despair and desolation. That was the bitterness of being plotted against by her beloved for half her life, all coming up.

"Your Majesty, don't get excited. Be careful of the baby in your belly." Songzhi was also shocked. Looking at Concubine Hua crying in pain, Songzhi couldn't help but shed tears. She went over and choked up to persuade Concubine Hua.

"Yes, I have a child," Nian Shilan recovered, looked at her belly, and smiled sarcastically, "The emperor planned so hard, but he still let me have a child. He must be very disappointed..."

She was thinking about the details of yesterday, and now she was thinking about the emperor's expression and actions, and everything was questionable.

She was the one who had been with the emperor the longest. She was very familiar with every word and every action of the emperor, and could always guess most of what he meant.

Now thinking back with a clear mind, the emperor's unnatural and surprised expression seems very glaring.

She did notice something was wrong, but she was so happy at the time that she thought the emperor was surprised because she hadn't been pregnant for a long time.

Now that I think about it, the emperor was obviously surprised that she could get pregnant after smelling the Huanyi incense!

Jiang Cheng: "My Lady, what do you want to do now?"

Jiang Cheng felt very sad as well. He told the truth under the coercion of Concubine Hua. If the emperor questioned him, his life and property might be in danger. Jiang Cheng carefully observed Concubine Hua's expression, fearing that she would rush to the Yangxin Palace to confront the emperor the next moment.

"Come here and take my pulse first. I want this child to be born safely. Can you do it?" Nian Shilan wiped her tears upwards and regained her proud look.

The current Nian Shilan is not the Nian Shilan who had nothing in the later period. She has her brother, the general, and all the people in the Nian family behind her. She is still the extremely noble Concubine Hua. Without the emperor's oral order for her to commit suicide, she will naturally not be devastated by the truth about Huan Yixiang.

On the contrary, now that she has a child and has to protect the Nian family members behind her, Nian Shilan now turns her grief and anger into hatred, directly pointing it at the emperor.

Jiang Cheng said with great fear: "I will do my best, and please don't blame me, Your Majesty..."

Concubine Hua sneered, "I understand your difficulties, but if you dare to deceive me again in the future, I will never forgive you."

It is not easy to cultivate a trusted imperial physician. Apart from this matter, Concubine Hua believes that Jiang Cheng would not dare to deceive her in any other way. Therefore, she uses both kindness and force to directly win over Jiang Cheng's heart to run to the emperor.

Jiang Cheng heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this and said gratefully, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

He carefully felt Nian Shilan's pulse, and after a moment, he said, "Your Majesty, your pulse is stable. As long as you stay away from Huan Yi Xiang and take the pregnancy-maintaining medicine I prescribed yesterday every day, your dragon fetus will be safe."

Nian Shilan said with some uneasiness, "I've been smelling Huan Yi Xiang for so many years. Will this cause my child to be born weak?"

"This...I will do my best to help you give birth to a healthy child." Jiang Cheng didn't dare to say too much.

Seeing this, Nian Shilan asked, "Is my fetus safe now?"

Jiang Cheng was very confident: "Yes."

Seeing this, Nian Shilan felt relieved. She asked Zhou Ninghai to send Doctor Jiang away. After Doctor Jiang left, Nian Shilan stood up and swept away everything that could be swept away in the side hall. Porcelain decorations and other things fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

But Nian Shilan did not feel relieved at all. Instead, her hatred grew stronger and stronger. She felt that the emperor had let her down.

"For so many years, I have been blind and will never give my true heart to anyone again."

Nian Shilan muttered to herself hatefully.

Songzhi, who was standing by, did not dare to stop the Empress from venting her anger. She just waited until Nian Shilan calmed down, and then signaled with her eyes to the little palace maid to clean up the mess on the floor and not to accidentally hurt the Empress.

Nian Shilan did not return to the main hall for the time being. The main hall had been smoked with Huanyi incense for so many years, and it must have been marinated by now.

Nian Shilan asked the palace servants to clean the palace thoroughly on the pretext that rats had invaded it, and only returned to live there the next day.

After the Huanyixiang incident, Nian Shilan became extremely wary of the emperor, fearing that the emperor would know that she knew the secret of Huanyixiang.

So they use darker means to deal with her.

Therefore, Nian Shilan was very careful. That night, she secretly sent someone out of the palace to ask her family to secretly make Huanyi incense for her, intending to use it to replace the

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