The pitiful way the mother and child played off each other cut the emperor's heart like a knife. He could not help aching for them!
"Mother, didn't you promise me you wouldn't do anything to them... how could you do this..."
With that, the emperor coughed up another mouthful of blood. Seeing Noble Lady Snow's miserable state, he suddenly began hurting all over.
"Your Majesty, you have been afflicted with gu. If I do not deal with her, the harem will descend into chaos!" The Empress Dowager's face was cold.
This was the first time the emperor had defied her!
He had never been like this before.
Thus, she was utterly certain that the gu afflicting him had something to do with Noble Lady Snow!
Hearing this, Noble Lady Snow hurriedly waved her hands, her face filled with horror, and shook her head at the emperor.
She was indicating that this had nothing to do with her.
Under the influence of the gu, the emperor naturally did not doubt her words. He asked the Empress Dowager,
"Imperial Consort, how can you slander Xue'er? Is all of this merely your speculation? Where is the evidence?"
Indeed, when Xia Siheng had spoken earlier, the Empress Dowager had sent Nanny Wei to investigate whether there was anything unusual about Noble Lady Snow.
The emperor had heard their entire exchange.
Now that they could produce no evidence, he would naturally cherish Noble Lady Snow even more.
"Your Majesty, think about it. Why did your pain stop the moment she appeared? Making your Gu Worm flare up was her means of getting to see you!"
The Empress Dowager spoke with absolute certainty.
With her decades of experience in palace intrigue, her instincts could not possibly be wrong!
The emperor had noticed this phenomenon too. He