The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 977

Chapter 977: 456 Queen’s Fury (First update)

To make the plan succeed, she had distracted Long Yi, and she had to put out the massive fire herself. She also sustained injuries, and afterwards, she carried the unconscious Xiao Hen out of the Guozijian.

She thought everything would end there, but to her surprise, news spread from the Guozijian the next day that Xiao Hen had died in the fire.

Yet Xiao Hen was clearly lying right in front of her...

She distinctly remembered extinguishing the fire—so who had set it again afterward?

She couldn’t help but recall the moment Xiao Hen, affected by the Paralysis Medicine, lay on the ground, watching as the fire spread inward from the window. When she revealed his identity, he had already been in despair, yet in that instant, his eyes were filled with struggle and pleading.

As if he was begging her to spare him.

It was only much later that she realized he might not have been pleading for his own life, but for the life of the innocent young man.

He knew there was a young man hidden inside the Guozijian.

Clearly, someone had visited after she left.

She couldn’t remember Xiao Hen having a friend about her age, so she couldn’t figure out the identity of the young man for the moment.

The Prince of Ning had only gone once. The first batch of kerosene and candles was prepared by the Prince of Ning, but the fire that ended up killing the young man was the doing of those people.

Those people must not have trusted the Prince of Ning, so they visited personally, mistaking the young man who lingered in the Guozijian for Xiao Hen and burned him alive inside.

The movements of those people were highly secretive, and they knew to avoid Long Yi.

Looking at Xiao Hen on the bedchamber, she suddenly had an idea.

"Young... Young Master?"

Suddenly, a shocked cry from a little maid came from outside the door.

Turing her head towards the door, Yujin saw Xiao Liulang entering the courtyard and standing less than ten steps away from the windowsill.

Yujin looked at Xiao Liulang in surprise, then at Princess Xinyang, who was lying unconscious on the table from drunkenness, unsure of what to say at the moment.

She didn’t know if Princess Xinyang had let Xiao Liulang hear her words earlier, and just as she was about to inquire with Xiao Liulang, a little eunuch suddenly arrived outside the door, hurriedly saying, "This is terrible, something terrible has happened!"

Long Yi had caused a disaster.

He had slapped the Crown Princess’s unborn child away with a single palm. Empress Xiao, in the Kunning Palace, received two earth-shattering pieces of news in a row. The first was that the Crown Princess was pregnant, which delighted Empress Xiao beyond expectation.

Although the Crown Princess had an unclear relationship with the Prince of Ning, Empress Xiao had carefully checked Wo Linlang’s whereabouts—the child was the Crown Prince’s.

The Crown Prince was twenty-three at last, and he was finally going to be a father! She was finally going to be a grandmother!

But before she could revel in her joy, the devastating news of the Crown Princess’s miscarriage arrived.

Empress Xiao nearly collapsed on the spot!

And it was Long Yi’s doing.

Truth be told, Gu Jiao hadn’t anticipated this action of Long Yi’s. Strictly speaking, it wasn’t entirely Long Yi’s fault. The Crown Princess kept emphasizing that her belly was a stay of execution, so Long Yi really thought there was a medallion inside.

Long Yi had merely broken a medallion.

Nor did Long Yi understand why everyone wanted to capture him.

Long Yi took out a small golden medallion from his bosom and handed it to the Crown Princess.

As if to say.

Here, this is for compensation.

The Crown Princess was so angered she nearly fainted on the spot!

Gu Jiao couldn’t avoid implying that Long Yi had been acting under her orders.

Even the Crown Princess was convinced of it.

She would never believe that Gu Jiao didn’t hold a grudge against her, especially since every time Long Yi treated her rudely, Gu Jiao was there. This couldn’t help but make her suspect that it had been Gu Jiao directing Long Yi all along.

She sounded righteous in public, but secretly she let Long Yi do the dirty work for her. How cunning and malicious!

When Empress Xiao hurried to the Imperial Garden, the Imperial Physician also arrived.

The Imperial Physician took the Crown Princess’s pulse, his expression grave.

Empress Xiao asked anxiously, "Imperial Physician, how is it?"

The Imperial Physician bowed his hands in resignation, and said regretfully, "To respond to the Empress, the child is gone."

"Impossible! Imperial Physician Luo! Didn’t you just say my pulse was very good? That this pregnancy was very stable!" Otherwise, where would she have the courage to get out of bed and look for Empress Xiao?

The Imperial Physician thought to himself, but that’s not enough to resist courting disaster, right? Why did you have to come out? Even if you were carrying Nezha, it would be gone after a hit from a secret guard!

But of course, Imperial Physician Luo didn’t dare to voice that thought.

Empress Xiao, overwhelmed by anger, looked at Wo Linlang coldly: "You can’t even protect a child!"

This wasn’t a situation like the weak-bodied Princess of Ning, who clearly had a very good pregnancy! The loss of this child was suffocatingly disappointing for her!