I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 299 The Last False Feeling

Lu Mingyang subconsciously grabbed his hand, "Your Highness, don't be impulsive."

"Let go!" Chu Mingzheng didn't look back.

Lu Mingyang said anxiously, "The child is gone, what can you do?"

"I avenged my child."

"Your Highness, he's not even a human yet, just a cell."

"Lu Mingyang, what do you mean?"

Although he didn't understand what cells meant, the words "not human" deeply hurt him. Chu Mingzheng turned around and asked sternly, "Or, you didn't want him in the first place."

Lu Mingyang: “…”

Chu Mingzheng pried her hands apart and left angrily.

That look made it seem as if he was the murderer who killed his child. Lu Mingyang turned away feeling aggrieved.

I'm not doing this for him.

The capital had a curfew, so naturally the palace had one too. Chu Mingzheng stood outside Xihua Gate, waiting for the sun to rise and the palace gate to open. He rushed in directly.

Inside Shoukang Palace, Xu Pei saw Prince Ningyuan heading straight for the Queen Mother's bedroom and asked anxiously, "Your Highness, what are you so anxious about? The Queen Mother hasn't even gotten up yet."

Before Chu Mingzheng stopped, Xu Pei blocked the palace door and asked, "Your Highness, what happened?"

"Step aside."

"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Pei really didn't understand and reminded him, "You barging in like this is a crime of disrespect."

But before she could finish her words, Chu Mingzheng had already pushed her aside and walked in. Inside the bedroom, the maids serving the empress dowager knelt on the ground.

The Queen Mother had woken up with a start. She half sat up on the soft pillow and frowned, "Zheng'er, what are you doing?"

"Grandson wants to ask the Imperial Grandmother something. Why did you kill my child?"

The Queen Mother sighed, her eyes filled with heartache: "Zheng'er, you have been deceived by that woman. The child she is pregnant with is not yours at all. I didn't tell you because I was worried that you couldn't bear it."

His own grandson was cuckolded, but he still had to make that lewd woman his princess.

Chu Mingzheng stumbled back: "Who told you that? Why are you so confused?"

"I'm confused?" the Queen Mother said angrily. "The Duke of Song's wife saw with her own eyes that Lu Mingyang had an affair with the Duke of Song at her bastard sister's place. If she hadn't been pregnant, why would the Duke of Song have married her?"

Chu Mingzheng asked, "How did you meet her?"

"You bastard." The Queen Mother coughed angrily.

Xu Pei hurriedly served the Queen Mother tea and said distressedly, "Your Highness, if it weren't for you, how could the Queen Mother be so busy and sleepless day and night?"

Chu Mingzheng turned away.

The Queen Mother pounded the bed in regret: "It's all my fault. I blame myself for trusting that woman and seducing my grandson's soul away."

……

Ningyuan Palace, East Warm Pavilion

Qin Miao was sitting at the dressing table putting on her makeup when Chu Mingzheng pushed the door open and walked in. She turned her head and for a moment, she felt like she was going to die. But Brother Zheng was clearly smiling.

She suppressed her uneasy thoughts and called out softly, "Brother Zheng."

Chu Mingzheng walked over and casually picked up a hairpin and put it on Qin Miao's head, "Miao'er looks so beautiful today."

Qin Miao was flattered.

Seeing this, the servants in the room went out happily.

Chu Mingzheng hugged her from behind and lamented, "If the Empress hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that Lu Mingyang had the guts to deceive me with her child."

"Brother Zheng?" Qin Miao turned around and looked over.

Chu Mingzheng smiled slightly: "I was really confused before. I didn't know how to cherish such a good girl like Miao'er. I was actually bewitched by that fickle woman."

"Brother Zheng." Qin Miao shed tears.

Chu Mingzheng wiped away her tears and asked, "Miao'er, are you still willing to give me a chance and let Brother Zheng love you well?"

"I never blamed Brother Zheng. It was all that bad woman's fault."

is it?

Seeing her getting excited, Chu Mingzheng smiled and said, "Later, my husband and I will host a banquet to thank the wife of Duke Song."

"Okay!" Qin Miao excitedly said, "Miao'er, let Mudan invite her."

Chu Mingzheng's smile froze, and then he slapped Qin Miao in the face.

Qin Miao fell to the ground, and the powder and jewelry on the dressing table fell to the ground. She looked up in surprise, and gradually her surprise turned into fear.

She grabbed the corner of Chu Mingzheng's clothes in fear, "Brother Zheng, it was the Empress Dowager who told me."

"Say it again." Chu Mingzheng squatted down.

Qin Miao crawled back in fear, "It was the wife of the Duke of Song who came to see me. I was worried that Brother Zheng would be deceived, so I brought her to see my aunt."

"If you're worried that I might be cheated, why don't you bring her to see me, huh?"

"I, I..." Qin Miao was speechless and burst into tears. Mudan ran in and hugged Qin Miao. Chu Mingzheng stood up, dusted himself off, and said loudly, "Come here, Concubine Qin is plotting to murder the heir to the throne. This is an unforgivable crime. Please ask the clan officials to come and investigate immediately."

Qin Miao crawled towards Chu Mingzheng in fear: "Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng, you can't do this to me."

"is it?"

Chu Mingzheng shook it off coldly and turned away.

Qin Miao roared out of control: "It was the Empress Dowager who wanted to kill me. You have no evidence, so you can't wrongly accuse me."

Chu Mingzheng paused and sneered, "This king does not need any evidence for this matter."

Zheng Hao walked into the East Warm Pavilion and reported, "Your Highness, Ningxiang's miscarriage was caused by the wet nurse of Concubine Qin. There is irrefutable evidence."

At this moment, Chu Mingzheng was standing in front of the door, and the wet nurse was standing at the bottom of the steps. She raised her head slightly to look over, then knelt down with a thud.

"Your Highness, this old slave, this old slave, is wronged."

Chu Mingzheng turned around and looked at Qin Miao, "Since you want to know, just look at how you died."

Zheng Hao hurriedly brought a chair.

Chu Mingzheng leaned back in his chair, expressionless, watching witnesses come into the yard one after another.

Not only was there a witness to the murder of Ningxiang's unborn child, but there was also her "adulterer". The adulterer looked very much like the adulterer she had found for Mrs. Xu that day.

Even when he knelt on the ground and confessed his affair with Qin Miao, his words were exactly the same as those of that day.

Chu Mingzheng said calmly, "Take off her clothes."

As she was stunned, two eunuchs came forward and dragged her into the yard. They stripped off her peony dress embroidered with gold thread. Qin Miao was kneeling beside her "adulterer" in only a thin inner garment.

"Brother Zheng, I am a lady from a noble family after all. How could you humiliate me like this?"

"You know it's humiliating!"

Qin Miao sneered coldly, trembling with fear, "Brother Zheng, I am your woman. You don't care about me, don't you even care about your own face?"

But no matter how she begged for mercy, the person on the stairs didn't react at all, and didn't even look at her.

Qin Miao yelled, "The Queen Mother is my aunt, she won't let you do this."

Chu Mingzheng finally glanced over, but it was even more frightening.

He laughed, "I want to see, you committed adultery first, and then murdered the heir to the throne, how can the Queen Mother protect you?"

"I do not have."

"No?" Chu Mingzheng looked at everyone.

Everyone shouted in unison: "Your Highness is wise."

Everyone can call a deer a horse.

Qin Miao was so scared that she crawled forward, "Brother Zheng, Miao'er was wrong. Miao'er doesn't dare to ask for your forgiveness. Please let my parents go."

Two eunuchs stepped forward and held her down, preventing her from crawling.

Chu Mingzheng smiled and consoled: "Don't worry, you said it, the Queen Mother is your great aunt, she won't let the Qin family... be executed."

"What about my mother? What about my mother?" Qin Miao burst into tears.