Jin Moli did not want to hurt her feelings. After all, she was his biological mother, and she had carefully helped him scheme all these years.
"Mother, that isn't what I mean. It's just that the situation now... The situation now makes me feel terribly aggrieved."
She was clearly his woman, yet another man had touched her, and now she had even left behind a bastard child.
And he still had to pretend to be overjoyed.
There was nothing in this world more aggrieving than this.
Yet he was still the dignified ruler of a country—the emperor.
How was he supposed to endure this?
"Alas, how did things come to this?"
The Empress Dowager was also stumped by the current situation, unable to advance or retreat.
"I'll have Chief Physician Yu come over."
Chief Physician Yu had prepared the medicine back then, so he was indeed the only one they could ask.
Chief Physician Yu arrived very quickly.
The Empress Dowager questioned him, and he answered truthfully.
"You mean that although Consort Ying's body makes it difficult for her to conceive, it isn't absolutely impossible for her to become pregnant?"
Chief Physician Yu nodded meaningfully. "Yes. Consort Ying's health is somewhat weak, but it is still possible for her to conceive."
The medicine administered back then had been contraceptive soup, but because they feared the Su Family would notice, the dosage had not been particularly strong.
Conceiving on her wedding night was entirely possible.
The Empress Dowager understood all this. She asked about something else. "What about Guard Liu?"
Chief Physician Yu thought for a moment and carefully considered his answer before speaking:
"Guard Liu was poisoned when he was young. In theory, he should no longer be capable of fathering children, but nothing in this world is absolute. After