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

Qin Yan had only held the baby in her arms for a short while when the child started crying loudly.

Hearing the loud cry, the midwife thought to herself that this little prince was truly full of energy.

She smiled and stepped forward to the bewildered Qin Yan, saying, "Your Majesty, the little prince must be hungry. Let me take him down and have the wet nurse feed him."

"Very well, have the imperial physicians, wet nurses, palace maids, and eunuchs serve them carefully. If anyone dares to be negligent, write it down and report it to me. I will not let them off lightly!" Qin Yan's extremely majestic gaze swept across the faces of those he mentioned.

Unable to withstand the oppressive atmosphere, everyone knelt down, saying, "Your Majesty/Your servants will certainly take good care of the young prince!"

They had someone take the baby away, and Qin Yan and the other palace maids changed Su Yan into dry clothes, wrapped her in a quilt, and carried her to the East Warm Pavilion across the street to recuperate after childbirth.

This is a side hall of the rear hall of the Taiji Hall, not the emperor's sleeping quarters in the rear hall.

The main room is in the middle of this side hall, with the east and west side rooms on either side. Further inside are the east and west warm pavilions, which are places specifically for people to sleep, dress, and change clothes.

Because of the strong smell of blood left by Su Yan's childbirth, Qin Yan carried Su Yan to the opposite East Warm Pavilion so that Su Yan could get a better rest.

From the west warm pavilion to the east warm pavilion, they were all walking inside the house, so there was no wind blowing in. However, Qin Yan still wrapped Su Yan in a clean, thick cotton quilt before going to the east warm pavilion, afraid that she would catch a chill and develop postpartum illness.

After settling the unconscious Su Yan, Qin Yan returned to his inner palace to change clothes and attend court.

The court officials had been waiting for a long time in the main hall in front of the Taiji Hall.

The miracle that appeared in the sky that morning was probably seen not only by the people of Kunjing, but perhaps by the people of the entire Kunzhou, or even the entire Great Zhou.

Before Qin Yan arrived, the court officials were discussing among themselves in the main hall of the Taiji Hall, all speculating about what the miracle might be foreshadowing.

Only when the young eunuch came in and told them that His Majesty was about to arrive at the Taiji Hall did they return to their seats and quiet down.

After the ceremony, a courtier immediately brought up the matter of the miracle that had occurred that morning. "Your Majesty, I have a report to make. At the hour of Chen (7-9 AM) today, a miracle suddenly appeared in the sky. Golden clouds covered the sky, and golden light shone everywhere. This should be a very auspicious omen. However, we are ignorant and cannot understand the secrets of heaven. I wonder if Your Majesty could summon the Director of the Imperial Observatory to court to enlighten us?"

After hearing these words, Qin Yan burst into laughter several times before turning to the bewildered courtiers and saying, "There's no need to summon the Imperial Observatory; I know for myself why the miracle occurred!"

"May I ask Your Majesty, what exactly caused that miracle?" the courtiers asked in unison, their curiosity piqued.

Qin Yan could hardly suppress the smile on his face, and said with great pleasure, "That miracle was manifested because of the birth of my eldest son!"

The court officials were dumbfounded!

What was Your Majesty just saying?

How come they can understand each word individually, but when these words are put together, they can't understand what the sentence means?

Overjoyed, Qin Yan ignored the bewildered courtiers below and said to himself, "My beloved ministers, at the hour of Chen (7:15 AM) today, the Empress gave birth to a healthy eldest son for me."

I intend to make him the crown prince, but I have thought of many names and I feel they are not good enough. I am still struggling to find a good name for the little crown prince.

My esteemed ministers are all highly learned; do you have any good names to suggest to me?

Apart from Su Zhan, all the officials thought their emperor was talking nonsense.

At this moment, they heard Qin Yan agonizing over the name of the young prince and asking them for help in coming up with a name. Finally, one of the ministers couldn't stand it anymore.

"Your Majesty, nine years ago, didn't the imperial physician say that your body had been poisoned by a drug that would prevent you from having children? Then, is the child born to the Empress truly Your Majesty's bloodline?"

Su Zhan and the officials looked at the stubborn general with admiration.

You're truly brave to directly expose His Majesty's true colors!

Qin Yan, sitting at the head of the table, was not angry. Instead, he smiled and explained, "Perhaps Heaven felt that I had worked diligently for the country and the people day and night all these years, so it specially bestowed a blessing, turning my condition from one of infertility to one of difficulty in having children. It is because of this that the Empress was able to give birth to a prince for me."

"Your Majesty, is this true?" The courtiers were extremely excited.

What is their biggest complaint about His Majesty?

That must mean His Majesty is unable to have his own children and is unable to raise a blood-related heir.

This is a huge hidden danger for a country.

They had already privately discussed and agreed to begin advising His Majesty next month to adopt a member of the imperial clan into their own family as soon as possible, so that they could work with court officials and scholars to properly cultivate a successor.

Who would have thought that His Majesty would now have a legitimate eldest son?!

The court officials were actually quite hesitant to believe that Qin Yan and Su Yan had actually given birth to a healthy child.

He even suspected that Qin Yan had secretly chosen a newborn baby from among his brothers to pretend to be his own son, all for the sake of his dignity as a man.

But for them, this is a good thing, at least His Majesty has already planned to establish a crown prince and cultivate an heir.

So the court officials tacitly agreed and actively responded to Qin Yan's suggestion, offering him many good names.

However, Qin Yan didn't choose any of them in the end, because Su Yan named the child Qin Xu.

This corresponds to the child being born at sunrise.

Upon hearing Su Yan propose this name, Qin Yan immediately discarded all the names he had considered for the past six months, as well as those proposed by the court officials, and settled on the name Su Yan had chosen.

This deeply moved Su Yan.

In this era, the preference for sons over daughters is prevalent.

For such an important child as the eldest son, the name is usually chosen by the great-grandfather or grandfather, and it is rare for the father to choose the name, let alone the mother.

The retired emperor and Qin Yan's mentor are still alive. Qin Yan is an emperor, and even if things don't go well, there are still Empress Dowager Jiang and Empress Dowager Liu. Qin Yan didn't ask them to name him, but instead chose the name that the empress herself had chosen.

How could Su Yan not be moved?

After choosing a name, Qin Yan added the child's name to the family genealogy on the day of the child's third-day celebration, and even officially named the child the Crown Prince.

It's not very clear whether a three-day-old baby looks like Qin Yan.

This, in the eyes of the court officials who did not believe that Qin Yan could have an heir, further confirmed the fact that the child was not Qin Yan's biological son.

However, they wouldn't be foolish enough to say it in public; they would simply exchange knowing glances with their colleagues in private.

Regardless of their true feelings, these court officials and their families spared no praise, showering the young crown prince, who was sitting in a basin and crying with great vigor, with compliments.

With the crown prince in place, the court and even the entire capital were filled with joy.

Only Qin Yang, who was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice's prison, burst into laughter upon hearing that Su Yan had given birth to Qin Yan's eldest son, laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face.

He was supposed to be beheaded last autumn.

However, his mother and father threatened him with their lives, which allowed Qin Yan to postpone his execution.

Otherwise, he would never have known that Qin Yan had brought back a newborn to pose as his and Chang Le's eldest son in order to cover up the shame of his childlessness.

"Qin Yan, so what if I lost? Aren't you a loser too? You worked hard for more than ten years to build this empire, and then you governed it diligently for decades, only to hand it over to someone else's son in the end."

Hahaha, this is your retribution!

This is retribution for your cruel and heartless murder of your own flesh and blood!