Chapter 1153 - 1147: Is She the Mother?
Your Majesty, Gu Youyou’s actions are deserving of death, you certainly cannot let her off lightly."
Gu Youyou greatly admires the Empress’s various logics; she has surpassed even Sherlock Holmes.
The way she talks about it, as if she saw it with her own eyes.
The Emperor looked at Gu Youyou and asked, "What do you have to say? Can you defend yourself?"
Gu Youyou bowed and said, "Father Emperor, I naturally need to defend myself. As you have seen, I indeed hid a pregnant woman at home, but she is not the person from whom I intended to have a child through surrogacy. She is a business friend of mine who, due to some difficulties, did not want others to know she was pregnant, so she asked for my help.
As for the cries last night, it was indeed her who suffered. To avoid suspicion, she always stayed in the room with little movement, so her labor was slow, taking an entire night. My child started being born after she finished, and I gave birth quickly, within less than half an hour. Both children were born on the same day, purely by coincidence."
The Empress scoffed and looked at the Emperor.
The Emperor said indifferently to Gu Youyou, "These are just your verbal statements, not enough to prove that you did not use a surrogate."