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Zheng Yu gritted her teeth and glared at Yun Jin. If her gaze could turn into knives, she would want to tear Yun Jin to pieces right now.

But Yun Jin didn't finish her sentence. She looked coldly at Zheng Yu and continued, "Doctor Zhao was just telling the truth, and you said he was bribed; Granny Liu confessed, and you said I forced her. So everyone in this room was either bribed or forced by me."

Consort Zheng has quite the silver tongue, managing to portray me as someone who can control everything. If I truly possessed such power, the first thing I would do is keep you far away from Sister Shen, so you wouldn't have to constantly crave her pregnancy-preserving medicine.

Zheng Yu's face flushed red and then turned pale as she was told this, and she could no longer hide the resentment and venom in her eyes.

She turned to the eldest prince and hurriedly explained, "Your Highness, please don't listen to the county princess's nonsense. I didn't do it. Yi'er is my own son. How could I bear to do anything to Yi'er? Your Highness..."

The eldest prince, however, sensed something was amiss and coldly interrupted her: "Shut up! Yi'er is my eldest son, the eldest grandson of the emperor. If I find out that you used his body as a pawn for your own selfish desires, I will never forgive you."

Zheng Yu was frightened by the Crown Prince's gaze and immediately fell silent, hoping that Yi'er would not say anything.

Before long, the wet nurse carried Xiao Zeyi in through the curtain.

The child was only three years old, with a beautiful face, but there was a timidity in his eyes that was not commensurate with his age.

He had clearly just been crying, with tear stains still on his face. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw that everyone in the room had gloomy faces, especially his father with a stern face, which frightened him so much that he shrank into his wet nurse's arms.

The eldest prince composed himself, stepped forward, took the child from the wet nurse, and said gently, "Yi'er, don't be afraid. Father has a few questions for you. You must answer honestly, okay?"

Xiao Zeyi looked at him, and after a long while, he nodded timidly.

The eldest prince carried him to the edge of the bed and sat him down. After everyone had moved back a bit, he lowered his voice and asked, "Yi'er, tell your father, when your stomach was upset, did your mother make you eat anything you didn't like, or make you do anything you didn't want to do?"

Xiao Zeyi glanced at his father, then at his mother kneeling on the ground, and hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Zheng Yu forced a smile and said, "Yi'er, tell your father that your mother loves you the most, that your mother is the best to you, isn't that right?"

The eldest prince turned to her, glared at her fiercely, and warned, "I'm asking about Yi'er, you'd better shut your mouth!"

Zheng Yu trembled with fear, instinctively feeling that she was doomed, and was anxiously wondering what to do.

After hesitating for a while, Xiao Zeyi said, "Father, Mother... Mother is the best to me. She never makes me eat things I don't like or do things I don't want to do."

Zheng Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, put on a smile, and said frankly, "Your Highness, how could I bear to let Yi'er suffer? He was born after I carried him for ten months, and I'm too busy caring for him to do so. Please don't listen to the instigation of others."

The eldest prince held Xiao Zeyi in his arms, his expression beginning to relax.

Seeing this, Yun Jin walked up to Xiao Zeyi and said softly, "Yi'er, children who lie will have their noses grow longer, okay? If you lie, your father will never like you again."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zeyi was so startled that he raised his hand to touch his nose and then looked at the eldest prince.

The eldest prince immediately chimed in, "Yi'er, Auntie is right. If you lie, Father will never like you again."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zeyi blurted out words that sent chills down Zheng Yu's spine.

He said, "Father, if I don't eat cold or spoiled food, and don't take cold baths, will you still like me and come to see Mother often?"

Zheng Yu knew she was doomed, and she cried out anxiously, "Yi'er, don't talk nonsense..."

"You poisonous woman!" Before she could finish speaking, the First Prince interrupted her. He looked at Zheng Yu kneeling on the ground, his gaze devoid of any warmth, filled only with bone-chilling coldness and disgust.

He gritted his teeth and forced out a sentence: "Zheng Yu, I thought you were just a little temperamental, but I never expected you to dare use Yi'er's body to compete for favor! How could you be so vicious?!"

Zheng Yu panicked and scrambled to the Crown Prince's feet, hugging his leg and pleading tearfully, "Your Highness! I was confused for a moment! I just wanted to see Your Highness more often, and wanted you to come to my courtyard more often... I didn't harm Yi'er. Yi'er is my own flesh and blood. How could I harm him?"

"Your Majesty, I only... I only wanted him to keep Your Highness by your side longer. I know I was wrong! I will never dare to do it again! Please, Your Highness, for Yi'er's sake, give me another chance!"

The eldest prince kicked her away, roaring furiously, "For Yi'er's sake? When you used Yi'er's body as a bargaining chip, did you never think that he was your own flesh and blood? How could Yi'er have a mother like you? Today, I will divorce you, you wicked woman!"

Zheng Yu cried, tears streaming down her face. She clung to the eldest prince's leg, still unwilling to give up, and then tugged at Xiao Zeyi's little hand, sobbing, "Yi'er, quick, quick, beg your father for your mother. If your mother is kicked out, you'll be a child without a mother's love."

Xiao Zeyi was so frightened by her appearance that he burst into tears. He instinctively grabbed the eldest prince's collar and sobbed, "Father... don't be mean to Mother... Yi'er is scared..."

The eldest prince looked at his son's red, tear-stained face, and then at Zheng Yu, who was kneeling on the ground in a disheveled state. In the end, he couldn't help but soften his heart.

He closed his eyes briefly, handed Xiao Zeyi to the wet nurse, and then slowly spoke: "For Yi'er's sake, I will give you one more chance. From this day forward, you are confined to the inner courtyard. Without my order, you are not to step out of the courtyard. If you dare to cause trouble again, I will not forgive you."

Upon hearing this, Yun Jin could no longer contain her anger: "Your Highness, she wants Sister Shen's life! And you're just going to let her go so easily? If you let her go, who will let Sister Shen go?"

Shen Qingyun lay on the couch, coughing violently a few times, and weakly said, "Never mind, sister, although... although those safflowers could have killed me and my unborn child, but... it didn't happen, did it? After all, there's still Yi'er, and Yi'er can't be without his mother. Cough cough~ sister, please don't make things difficult for His Highness."

Yun Jin said with exasperation, "Sister, you're too kind. She wants you dead, and you're still pleading for her..."

Zheng Yu suddenly turned to Yun Jin, gritting her teeth, and said, "Princess, don't go too far!"

Yun Jin looked at her coldly: "Consort Zheng, you say I'm going too far? But just now, Physician Zhao said that the packet of safflower could kill both the baby and the child!"

If I hadn't happened to witness this today, who knows what would have become of Sister Shen!

She turned to Physician Zhao and said in a deep voice, "Physician Zhao, please repeat that."

Physician Zhao wiped away a cold sweat and said with a forced smile, "Your Highness, the amount of safflower powder is extremely high. If it is all used in the medicine, not only will the fetus be in danger, but the mother may also... may not be able to be saved."

Yun Jin looked at the eldest prince: "Your Highness, now you see, she's aiming to kill Sister Shen."