“As long as the farmers collect their rent next year, the Jingguo Mansion’s predicament will be alleviated. It’s just a relief; how can you say it’s a burden, sister?”

Li Baoqin blushed and angrily said, "If you're so capable, then pay for it! All you do is talk nonsense!"

Li Anqi lowered his eyes, remaining expressionless.

Li Baoqin realized something and frowned deeply.

"Why should I tell you all this! You'd better stay away from me in the future, just looking at you annoys me!"

Li Anqi slowly squatted down and bowed.

"Sister, you are pregnant now, so you must take good care of yourself. Please don't get angry so easily. I'll take my leave now."

Li Anqi was preparing to leave.

Li Baoqin glanced at Li Anqi with disdain in her eyes: "Hypocrite! If you know that, why don't you get lost!"

"..."

Li Anqi remained calm and glanced at her sideways.

Li Baoqin was startled by that glance and her heart skipped a beat.

She initially thought...

Li Anqi is an ordinary, narrow-minded woman.

But it was later discovered that this was not the case.

Li Anqi is not to be trifled with, and is even more annoying!

now.

While Li Baoqin felt extreme disgust for Li Anqi, she also felt a strange sense of fear.

Li Anqi returned to Fuying Garden and called Zhilan to his bedroom alone.

"Please trouble you, Aunt, to go to Shan's Cloth Shop and get ten thousand taels of silver from Young Master Shan, and send it to my brother."

Zhilan hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Then... if the eldest young master asks where this silver came from..."

“Auntie, just say that I borrowed it from the Prince in a letter. If you ask me anything else, just say you don’t know anything. And please keep this a secret.”

Zhilan nodded slowly and went out the door.

Not long after Zhilan left, Liuyun returned from outside.

Liu Yun looked somewhat puzzled.

"Your Majesty, on my way back from the storeroom, I saw Imperial Physician Guo being surrounded by several eunuchs, hurrying towards Tianchang Garden. I wonder what happened there."

Li Anqi's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition arose.

Sure enough, an hour later.

Cuihong arrived at Fuying Garden, seemingly trying to suppress her unease.

"Your Highness, the Prince requests your presence at Tianchang Garden."

Li Anqi glanced at Cuihong's sweat-dampened temples.

"What happened?"

Cuihong buried her head and said haltingly, "Lady Qin, Lady Qin has miscarried."

"What?!" Liu Yun exclaimed in horror.

"Your Majesty." Qiu Yue looked worried and hugged Li Anqi.

Li Anqi paused, then frowned slightly and said, "I will go with you."

The entire Tianchang Garden was packed with servants.

As soon as Li Anqi stepped into the room, he saw the Prince of Xiao sitting in the chair directly above the outer room with a cold expression.

A familiar-looking eunuch was kneeling in the center of the outer room, weeping.

He kept slapping himself, repeatedly shouting, "This servant deserves to die."

The entire room was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Li Anqi looked towards the inner room.

Li Baoqin lay on the bed, pale and weak.

Upon seeing Li Anqi arrive, Li Baoqin's reddened eyes suddenly glared at him, her expression as if she wanted to devour him.

"Your Majesty."

Li Anqi bowed to Prince Xiao.

The chill emanating from the King of Valor was almost overwhelming.

He slowly raised his eyes, his sharp gaze piercing Li Anqi.

"Did you have these roses moved here to Qin'er's place?"

Li Anqi paused, looking at the rose bushes whose soil had been hollowed out.

She finally remembered.

The eunuch slapping himself in the face was the same one who had gone to the cellar to ask for flowers for Li Baoqin that day.

Li Anqi tried his best not to let his voice tremble as he thought of something.

"Yes."

"This flowerpot contains musk that can cause pregnant women to miscarry!"

The Prince of Xiao's eyes were red, and his voice was extremely restrained and controlled.

"It was you who killed Qin'er's child!"

"How can this be……"

Li Anqi frowned, looked up, and explained.

"Your Majesty, I had no idea that there was musk buried in this flowerpot!"

"If it wasn't you, then who else could it be?!"

Li Anqi was taken aback.

Upon seeing this, the young eunuch immediately cried out.

"That day, I was only following Lady Qi's orders to move those roses to Tianchang Garden. I really didn't know there was musk buried inside, Your Highness!"

The Prince of Xiao closed his eyes and said coldly, "Take him away and beat him to death."

Several eunuchs dragged the young eunuch out.

When the King of Xiao opened his eyes again, they were filled with murderous intent.

"The evidence is overwhelming, yet you still dare to deny it!"

Li Anqi trembled and immediately knelt down.

"Your Highness, it really wasn't me..."

Snapped!

Before she could finish speaking, Xiao Wang slapped her hard across the face.

He breathed heavily and long, looking at Li Anqi with a complicated expression.

"I thought you were gentle, quiet, and well-mannered, but I was wrong about you! If I don't punish you, how can I face Qin'er and the child in her womb!"

"..."

Li Anqi frowned and looked at Li Baoqin.

Seeing that Li Baoqin was extremely weak and unable to groan, she could only tilt her head back, sobbing and weeping, her eyes filled with nothing but hatred for herself.

I didn't put the musk in there myself.

Could it be that Li Baoqin felt threatened by her, so she used the child to compete for favor?

But Li Baoqin's previous behavior clearly showed that she valued this child very much, so how could she possibly kill her own child!

The person most likely to kill Li Baoqin's child is Princess Xiao, who has never shown her face.

But if the princess wanted to win the emperor's favor, why did she stay at home all the time?

Li Anqi couldn't understand it...

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