Chapter 112

“Chu Tiankuo was drugged?”

Tang Xia was quite shocked to hear this news from Zui Linglong. “Who drugged Chu Tiankuo?”

Tang Xia dared not believe the news and asked, “Who drugged Chu Tiankuo?”

Tang Xia thought, “Zui Linglong came to tell me the news, then she must know who did it.” So she looked at Zui Linglong, desperate to know the answer.

However, Zui Linglong just glanced at her, not intending to tell her the truth.

Tang Xia felt quite uncomfortable as she did not get the answer she wanted. She clenched her fists unwillingly. Later, after unclenching her fists, Tang Xia forced Zui Linglong to answer her question, “Are you going to tell me or not?”

Zui Linglong did not give her a direct answer. She gave Tang Xia’s flat stomach a mysterious look and said, “You cannot keep this baby, or you and Chu Tiankuo will die because of him.”

“Are you kidding?”

Tang Xia did not believe Zui Linglong’s words, “How could Chu Tiankuo and I die because of our baby?” Tang Xia stared at Zui Linglong suspiciously. The moment she noticed that Zui Linglong had a superior look on her face, as if she was enjoying a good show, Tang Xia became quite angry.

“Are you jealous of my good life? How could Chu Tiankuo and I die because of our baby? That is impossible!”

Tang Xia believed what Zui Linglong had just said was nonsense and would never happen. So she would not let herself get annoyed by Zui Linglong’s hocus pocus.

Tang Xia touched her stomach subconsciously, feeling the little life in her body.

As Tang Xia was waiting for Zui Linglong’s refutation, Zui Linglong gave her an obscure smile and left with these words, “I know you won’t believe me, just wait to see!”

Tang Xia did not take Zui Linglong’s words seriously, as she hated it most when people purposely made a mystery out of simple things.

Soon after, people from the Country of Nanmen heard of Tang Xia’s evildoings from unknown sources and wrote a joint letter to Chu Tiankuo to ask him to abolish Tang Xia’s title as the empress.

When Chu Tiankuo received this denouncement, he did not have a good attitude towards anyone during morning court.

“Your Majesty, please abolish Tang Xia’s title as the empress!”

One minister walked out of the queue and knelt on the ground in front of Chu Tiankuo. Then he held up a letter jointly written by the common people, “This represents the wish of the people from the Country of Nanmen. They think Tang Xia is not capable of being the empress!”

The minister said this with certainty as if he was truly doing this for the nation’s good. And he thought Tang Xia was a woman with no abilities or virtues and had poor skills in treating others and handling affairs.

After Chu Tiankuo’s personal eunuch took a look at Chu Tiankuo and found Chu Tiankuo did not object to seeing the letter, he trotted towards the minister and presented the joint letter to Chu Tiankuo.

“Is that right?” Chu Tiankuo unfolded the joint letter, and sneered at the minister who was kneeling on the ground, “Do you think so?”

“Of course I do!” The minister answered with certainty.

Chu Tiankuo had a smile on his face as he looked at the ministers who were standing, and asked the same question, “Do you think so, too?”

Most ministers dared not answer the question although some of them did regard Tang Xia as not being capable to be the empress. So they all knelt on the ground in fear, “Your Majesty, please curb your anger!!” Once the emperor got angry, many people would die. These ministers did not want to risk their lives.

Chu Tiankuo snorted and let them rise. Then he took a look at the joint letter and read what it said.

The more he read, the uglier Chu Tiankuo’s look became. The first part of the joint letter listed Tang Xia’s evildoings, while the latter part of the letter had the handprints of the common people.

Chu Tiankuo became quite vexed after reading the letter. So he closed his eyes and massaged them tiredly. When he opened his eyes again, he pointed at the minister who brought the joint letter to him.

“Why do you think that Tang Xia is not capable of being the empress? If she cannot be the empress, can you be the empress?”

“Your Majesty, I dare not.” The minister knelt on the ground in panic and explained, “It is not only I who think Tang Xia is not capable of being the empress, but the common people, together with the imperial concubines, also hold the same view.”

What the minister meant was that His Majesty should not blame him only, as there were so many people who were unsatisfied with Tang Xia. The minister thought that Chu Tiankuo would blame him solely, as Chu Tiankuo did not know exactly who to blame.

The law could not be enforced when everyone was the offender.

“Is that so? Even though you are able to gather so many pieces of information from my ministers and people…” As he said so, Chu Tiankuo’s tone became quite cold while the atmosphere around him cooled down immediately.

“Tell me, how did you get the information from my imperial concubines?”

As the imperial concubines were in imperial households, they could not go out of the imperial palace, let alone have contact with other men, without Chu Tiankuo’s permission. Chu Tiankuo wondered why the minister would involve his imperial concubines in this matter.

He had read the joint letter, but he would not obey the will of the people.

“Your Majesty, I got the information from the eunuchs. They all said that the imperial concubines thought that there was something wrong with Tang Xia, apart from her poor skills in treating people. It is shameful for her!” Then he paused for a while and continued,

“Someone even said that Tang Xia’s baby is not yours!”

The minister was quite lucky in his quick response of using the eunuchs as the shield. He even intended to say that he could not remember which eunuch had given him the information, as there were so many eunuchs in the imperial palace, if His Majesty asked him where he got the information from.

As the minister finished his sentence, Chu Tiankuo, together with other ministers, were quite shocked.

Chu Tiankuo knew that he did have sex with Tang Xia that day, so he was quite sure that the baby was his. Chu Tiankuo did not want to say anymore when he heard that Tang Xia’s baby might not be not his.

“Tang Xia’s baby is not mine? Who started this nonsense! I’ll put his whole family to death!”

At the same time, all the ministers were rather shocked that Tang Xia would betray His Majesty, and wondered who the father of Tang Xia’s baby was, if the baby was not His Majesty’s.

“You said that Tang Xia’s baby is not mine?” After a long silence, Chu Tiankuo asked this question suddenly.

“Yep.” The minister wore a look as if everyone was drunk whereas he was the only one sober. “Alas! You common people will never understand. Luckily I have the primary source, or you will never find out this secret.”

“So who is the baby’s father?” Chu Tiankuo asked with a smile that seemed as if he was quite looking forward to the answer.

“Rumor says…Nanmen Yi is the baby’s father…”

“Rumor?” Chu Tiankuo successfully captured the keyword from the minister’s words, “So you are not sure.”

“Well…” The minister stayed quiet, not knowing how to contradict Chu Tiankuo. He should not have said ‘rumor’. It was like lifting a rock, only to drop it on his own feet.

The minister opened his mouth and seemed about to say something, but Chu Tiankuo waved his hand impatiently and stood up from his dragon throne, “That’s enough! We will talk about it later!”

He would not abolish Tang Xia’s title as the empress, because she would never betray him, and it was nonsense that she was aggressive.

No one could conceal what happened during the morning court. So when Lyuyou told everything to Tang Xia, Tang Xia became quite angry, “What? How could they accuse me in front of Chu…His Majesty?”

“I’m so pissed off! How dare they accuse me in front of Chu Tiankuo? There are no conflicts between us. Why do they always like to create trouble for me?”

“Chu Tiankuo’s imperial concubines are always against me; how could his ministers do the same thing to me? What did I do wrong? Why are they so cruel to me?”

“They said that there is something wrong with me. How about them? Am I aggressive to everyone?”

Lyuyou just stood there reverently, without saying a word. When asked what Chu Tiankuo said, Lyuyou replied, “His Majesty said they would talk about it later.”

As she said so, Lyuyou said happily, “Your Grace, it seems that His Majesty trusts you!”

“It’d better be!” “He cannot be regarded as a man if he does not believe me!” “How could they say that Nanmen Yi is my baby’s father? Are they losing their minds?”

Tang Xia asked Lyuyou to wait outside the room and inform her if anyone should come by. After Lyuyou left, Tang Xia took out the telephone to begin her Live stream and told everything to her fans.

On hearing what had happened, fans started to take Tang Xia’s side against the injustice, comforted her and told her that she should not take it seriously. Tang Xia replied, “Ok, no problem.” So her fans were quite satisfied.

While looking at Fans’ comments, Tang Xia did not forget to interact with her fans.

After taking Zui Linglong’s words that Tang Xia and Chu Tiankuo would die for this baby into consideration, all the Fans thought that it was Zui Linglong who was creating trouble for Tang Xia and asked Tang Xia if she could solve this problem.

Of course Tang Xia did not have a solution. Before Tang Xia could answer Fans’ question, Lyuyou shouted, “Your Grace, Zui Linglong is here!”

Tang Xia put her telephone away immediately. As she took the cup up and was about to get herself a cup of water, Zui Linglong came in.

“What are you doing here?” After hearing her fans’ speculations about the matter, Tang Xia disliked Zui Linglong even more, so her voice was quite cold.

But Zui Linglong did not care about Tang Xia’s attitude at all. She took a look at the cup in Tang Xia’s hand and said slowly, “How have you been?”