Chapter 396: This is the child's choice

"Do you really want me to search your soul?"

The Crown Prince pursed his lips and didn't make a sound. Qiao Mai pressed on his brow, and after a while, she let go.

She slapped the Crown Prince on the face, immediately sending him flying.

"It hasn't been long, and you actually betrayed Ling'er?"

She raised her hand to kill the Crown Prince, but the Empress came up and hugged her arm. "In-law, don't be anxious, calm down, tell me what's going on first?"

Seeing Qiao Mai so angry, the Crown Prince knelt on the ground.

"Mother-in-law, this son-in-law really doesn't know what's going on."

The Emperor also stepped forward to stop the angry Qiao Mai. "In-law, tell me what's going on?"

At this time, Ling'er was helped out of the room. "Mother, speak well, don't be angry. Daughter believes the Crown Prince is innocent."

Qiao Mai glared at her. "Hurry back to the room and rest, don't leave any illness."

"Your Majesty, those two midwives didn't take long to recruit. They, they were ordered by the Crown Prince, wanting to be unfavorable to the Crown Princess, striving, striving to keep the child and leave the mother."

"You, you are really going to piss me off."

Ling'er lay on the bed, shedding bitter tears. She could feel the Crown Prince's changes during this period. Although he had been pretending, a woman's intuition was very accurate.

She collected the fee for the hand on the black-clothed woman's neck, and only heard a snap, and the neck broke.

"This son will definitely reform well."

Before finishing speaking, the Golden Dragon Guard came to report outside.

"She still has feelings for the Crown Prince. Let's take it one step at a time."

"Don't look at whether she is a real face. Crown Prince, I hope you give me an explanation?"

The flame let out a low roar. The Crown Prince, who hadn't left the palace, heard the roar and trembled all over.

In the courtyard, the flame guarded the window, and Ling'er shouted low.

Seeing this, the Crown Prince was angry, furious, and ashamed. "No, impossible, impossible."

Li Yuxian lowered his head in guilt. Qiao Mai looked at the black-clothed woman who was having difficulty breathing.

Hearing this, Qiao Mai slapped the table, and the whole table immediately turned into powder.

"Go, go."

"Damn thing, keep the child and leave the mother? Make room for her?"

Tianshui Town, Jixiang Yuan, main courtyard.

Qiao Mai glared at Ling'er, pulled Yuan Jiaqi's arm, and disappeared in place.

This time she pretended to be blind once, just as if he was controlled by Gu worms, giving him a chance. If there is a second time, don't say Mother won't forgive him, even she won't let him go.

The Emperor tried to defend the Crown Prince. "In-law, maybe it's that thing called Gu worm that made him lose his mind and do such things. I hope in-law can raise your hand high."

"You know that it is easy to hide from a spear, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark. His

"Mother, even if he is in the wrong, please, for the sake of the child being young and the fact that he was being manipulated, spare him this once. If something like this happens again, it won't be too late to kill him then."

"If you didn't like Ling'er back then, there were better men in this world waiting for her. We didn't have to tie her to your tree. Marriage is a matter of mutual consent; since you agreed, you should have treated her well. How much time has passed? You have already become fickle, betraying Ling'er for a pretty face. This is something I cannot allow."

"Mother, I beg you?"

"Wife, this is the child's choice, let her be."

The Golden Dragon Guard personally escorted the Crown Prince out of the palace. The Emperor sighed, "To say 'one life, one pair' is simple, but to do it is difficult."

When the Crown Prince saw this, his face immediately turned pale.

She closed her eyes and reached out into the air in one direction, grabbing a woman in black by the neck and lifting her up.

"Flame, thank you for staying with me. If he betrays me again like this, just take his life directly."

"I haven't studied this kind of insect. If it were something from the Upper Realm, even a few Crown Princes wouldn't be able to escape. Fortunately, it's just a bug native to this place; it's more than enough to deal with it."

"That's right, she couldn't seduce you, so she came to seduce the Crown Prince. This beauty trap never goes out of style. You didn't fall for it, but the Crown Prince did, right? Crown Prince?"

She looked at the Crown Prince, "Your man has been infected with a Gu worm. Once someone plants this poisonous insect, at best he will be controlled, and at worst, he will lose his life."

A few people looked closely, and the Emperor immediately pointed at her, "Isn't this the woman who fainted on the road?"

"Take good care of your daughter-in-law, I am going to handle official business."

The faces of the few turned white, "Then what is the Crown Prince infected with?"

"For this period, just stay in the Crown Prince's residence and reflect on your mistakes. I will handle the palace, and your mother will take care of Ling'er during her postpartum recovery."

The two looked at the Crown Prince kneeling on the ground, "If your father guesses correctly, you were bewitched by her beauty, weren't you?"

She was willing to give him a chance, also for the sake of the child.

The Emperor and Empress looked at the Crown Prince simultaneously, "Are you going to speak?"

"I..."

Qiao Mai was truly frustrated, "Girl, how many lives do you have for him to squander? This time, it was lucky that Heizi smelled the difference on him; otherwise, wouldn't you, the child, and this Great Ming Empire have been handed over to someone else?"

"It's possible, but when I searched his soul, it didn't seem to be the case. Otherwise, why would I ask him?"

"Does that mean the Crown Prince was controlled?"

Yuan Jiaqi watched from the side, letting her vent her anger; anger shouldn't be bottled up, and letting it out wouldn't hurt her health.

"For the sake of that position, he should restrain himself a bit."

Fortunately, Ling'er's temper and personality did not follow the Tian family; she had been taught by Qiao Mai to be a perfect second version of herself.

Her fingernail scratched the woman's face, and a layer of skin peeled up. She ripped off the fake mask, revealing a very ordinary-looking face.

The Crown Prince gritted his teeth, "Your son really has nothing to say. What I said and did before felt like I was in a daze; it was only after vomiting that blood just now that I felt clear-headed."

"As a man who stands tall, you should keep your promises once you've made them. You have failed Ling'er."

Qiao Mai narrowed her eyes, "I see you won't give up until you hit the Yellow River."

"Once a man betrays, he may do it countless times; it's the same for a woman. Once unfaithful, never used again. How many times have I taught her such a simple truth?"

Qiao Mai was so angry that she smashed everything in the courtyard to pieces; she had never been this angry before.

Seeing that Qiao Mai was about to take the Crown Prince's life in her rage, Ling'er, ignoring that she had just given birth, rushed over and stood in front of Qiao Mai.

"Yes, Father."

It leaped past the window, and the bedroom immediately felt warm; its attribute warmed up the room.

"Mother, he is also still young, lacks experience, and hasn't encountered much. I beg you to spare him this once?"

The black-clad woman's veil was lifted by Qiao Mai's other hand, "Long time no see?"

Ling'er finally let out a long sigh of relief, "Father, Mother, let this matter end here. Your daughter will go rest first."

She threw the person away, "Crown Prince, I want to hear a complete explanation. Otherwise?"

"Your son was wrong." He glanced at the black-clad woman lying dead on the ground, his eyes revealing sorrow.

"Indeed, since ancient times, few emperors have had only one woman by their side. Whether it's a premeditated plot by outsiders or the emperor himself, heroes have a hard time passing the beauty trap. Sigh~"

Qiao Mai sat down, sighing in anger. Yuan Jiaqi hurriedly brewed her tea, "Wife, don't be angry anymore. Believe that with you watching, nothing will happen to Ling'er."

"I really didn't expect that even with a decent appearance and royal blood flowing in his veins, he would be just as fickle and heartless."

"Wife, I noticed that when that woman was being held by you, she kept covering her stomach. Is she...?"

"Otherwise, why would I be so angry? I could have forgiven the emotional involvement alone, but what I hate is that the two of them actually had physical intimacy."

(End of Chapter)