The male lead went insane after the female supporting character gave birth to the main villain'

In the past three days, news that a prescription for a plague cure had been prepared reached Kunjing.

Many of those who wanted Qin Yan dead could no longer sit still.

They joined forces and sent their troops, using the identity of the Everlasting Victory King to disguise them as soldiers and falsely convey imperial edicts to the small town, intending to trap and kill all those infected with the plague within the town.

Five days later, all the people in the city recovered. The entire city was fumigated with vinegar and then sprinkled with lime for disinfection before the city gates were opened.

But just as the people were about to leave the city, they saw a volley of arrows flying towards them and hurriedly retreated back into the city.

Many people were hit by arrows and carried to the clinic.

This unexpected turn of events quickly reached Qin Yan's ears, and he sent people out of the city to inquire about it.

But those people started shooting arrows as soon as they saw someone leaving the city, giving them no chance to speak at all.

Qin Yan and Su Zhan quickly guessed that those people were assassins in disguise, not soldiers sent by Emperor Yongchang.

Unable to communicate with people outside, and with the city under lockdown for eight days, supplies such as food, medicine, firewood, and salt were running low. Qin Yan decided to lead his men to break out.

Those people were all after him.

Once he leaves, they will no longer continue to surround the city and prevent people from entering or leaving.

He Qianji didn't want to be mistakenly killed, so he didn't leave the city with them.

He also persuaded Su Yan to stay in the city and wait for the soldiers outside to leave before returning to the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons with him to become his closed-door disciple.

Su Yan naturally refused.

He Qianji was really reluctant to give up her medical talent, so he cursed and stuffed a bunch of poison into her hands, then turned around and went back to the courtyard, locking Su Yan out of the door.

Su Yan turned around and handed all the poison to Qin Yan. Qin Yan used the wind to burn the poisonous smoke, which drove out all the assassins hiding in the mountains outside the city.

With a total of over a thousand troops, taking advantage of the fact that those people were in poor condition due to poisoning, they directly broke through the encirclement of more than three thousand people, and then repeatedly turned the tables on more than seven thousand people in the following three days.

After traveling day and night, they finally arrived back in Kunjing three days later, in the early morning of Consort Shu's birthday.

Qin Yan and Su Zhan were to enter the palace to meet the emperor, so Su Yan returned to the Duke of Su's mansion alone. There were only the steward and a group of servants in the mansion, but no master.

"Host, Qin Yan is about to be given a drug that will prevent him from having children by his birth mother, Consort Shu, today. Do you want to stop it?"

"If he didn't take the infertility-inducing medicine, would he need us to have his children?" Su Yan retorted.

The system scratched its head and said, "I must be stupid."

"Speaking of which, if Qin Yan hadn't been given the infertility-inducing drug, would he have been able to have children with other women?" Su Yan asked curiously.

If it were possible, there wouldn't really be a need for a childbirth system, right? Just arrange for someone to be reborn, have precognitive dreams, or something to change the fact that they've been given a drug that prevents them from having children, wouldn't that be enough?

"Host, I checked and found that even if the villain didn't take the infertility drug, he was destined to be childless for life."

"why?"

"That's all the information we can find." The system doesn't know either.

The system didn't know, so Su Yan couldn't possibly know either. Anyway, it was an insignificant matter, so she didn't think about it anymore.

After having breakfast and taking a shower, Su Yan lay down and went to sleep.

She is currently in the three-year mourning period and is not allowed to go out to attend various banquets, so she does not need to attend the flower appreciation banquet held in the palace today for Consort Shu's birthday.

With an experienced steward in the household, there's no rush to manage household affairs.

She had been traveling for three days and three nights without getting a good night's sleep, but now she can finally get a good night's rest.

In the palace, Emperor Yongchang heard before he even went to court that Qin Yan and Su Zhan were waiting outside the Taiji Hall to be informed.

Emperor Yongchang had them brought in, and the three chatted for a quarter of an hour. Then Emperor Yongchang told them to wash up and change their clothes, then go to the side hall to take a nap, and then go to the back garden at the beginning of Si Shi (9:00 AM) to celebrate Consort Shu's birthday.

Su Zhan had always felt guilty for not being able to observe the mourning period for his father and grandmother. Now that the mourning period was not over, he naturally could not attend the banquet, so he told Emperor Yongchang the reason.

Emperor Yongchang was not heartless. Knowing that he still had to observe mourning for his father and grandmother, he sent someone to escort him back to the Duke of Su's mansion and rewarded him with three cartloads of gold and silver jewelry.

After a simple meal, Qin Yan bathed, changed his clothes, and went to sleep in a side hall.

The inner palace, specifically the Phoenix Palace where the Empress resides.

Empress Jiang looked at the hesitant beautiful woman in the hall, her eyes growing colder and colder. "Consort Shu, it's just about making Qin Yan childless, not about poisoning him. What are you hesitating about?"

"Your Majesty, Yan'er is twenty-five years old but has never had a child. May he leave behind a child before drinking this infertility medicine?"

Empress Jiang's gaze darkened. What she wanted was for Qin Yan to have no heir. As long as Qin Yan could not produce a son, the officials would not support Qin Yan as the crown prince, and then His Majesty would not be able to pass the throne to him!

In this way, her son Qin Ding can secure the throne and forever trample Qin Yan underfoot!

So how could she possibly agree to Consort Shu's request to allow Qin Yan to have a child?!

"Consort Shu, as you know, Qin Yan has now recovered the south, and His Majesty is about to establish an heir. If Qin Yan gives birth to a child and has an heir, he will be able to compete with my son for the position of Crown Prince."

You want your son to sit on the throne, but you don't want your three younger brothers and your elderly parents to die? You'll have to see if I agree!

"Don't try to play tricks on me. Let me tell you, if you don't accept this bottle of wine today and personally make Qin Yan drink it at your birthday banquet, your elderly father and mother, your three younger brothers, and their children will not live!"

Consort Shu swayed a few times and fell to the ground, her expression one of great pain.

Empress Jiang felt extremely pleased, a victor's smile on her lips, and said leisurely, "Consort Shu, I am Qin Yan's legal mother after all, and I cannot bear to see him die without anyone to care for him."

When Qin Yan's younger brothers grow up, get married, and have sons, Qin Yan can choose any of them except for the eldest son. He can take whichever one he likes and register it under his name, which will be considered as having an heir.

They can't really leave him without anyone to mourn him or break his urn after he dies.

As for her own son, Ding'er and Yang'er, Qin Yan was not qualified to let her own grandson attend her funeral and break the basin.

Finally, Consort Shu led a palace maid carrying a white jade wine bottle back to her Yihe Palace.

Not long after, Qin Yan was woken up by a young eunuch, "Your Highness, it's early morning. It's time to go and celebrate Consort Shu's birthday."

"Put your things down and leave." Qin Yan had never liked palace maids helping him change his clothes. After surviving too many assassination attempts in the past two years, he had now developed the habit of changing his own clothes.

Half an hour later, Qin Yan dressed herself up again and walked towards the Imperial Garden.

At the Duke of Su's mansion, Su Yan's consciousness was pulled into the system space by the system to watch the live broadcast, leaving her body outside to sleep.

Seeing Consort Shu order her personal maid to bring the bottle of wine, Su Yan sighed. Her own mother had given her a drug that would prevent her from having children, and on top of that, her wife had cheated on her and wanted her to become a father. No wonder Qin Yan never allowed any woman to come within three meters of him again.

Inside the palace, the wife and daughter of a fifth-rank official from Kunjing entered the palace to celebrate the birthday of Consort Shu, the birth mother of the Champion King.

Except for His Majesty and the Empress, all the other concubines in the palace came.

Consort Shu entered last, wearing a crimson dress with gold-embroidered begonia flowers. All the female officials, relatives, and noblewomen performed the appropriate rituals according to their rank.

After exchanging greetings with Consorts Li, De, and Xian, who were also consorts, Consort Shu walked to the main seat and sat down gracefully. "You may all rise."

Today is my birthday, so please don't stand on ceremony or be too formal.

Those who wish to admire flowers may do so, those who wish to discuss poetry may do so, and those who wish to write, paint, or dance may simply have the palace maids and eunuchs prepare paper, brushes, paints, and dance costumes.

I invited you all here today just to have a good time and have some fun, so please don't be shy.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Everyone replied in unison.

Consort Shu smiled and spoke with some second-rank noblewomen. Gradually, the housekeepers and young ladies below became restless and got up one after another to chat and admire the flowers in twos and threes.

Musicians played music among the flowers nearby, creating a joyful and lively atmosphere throughout the banquet.

Seeing this scene, Consort Shu's pent-up frustration dissipated considerably.