Chapter 784 - 785 Promise (3)_1
Indeed, Jin Guifei was on the verge of madness. She had just received news that the culprit who tried to assassinate the prince had not been apprehended. Plus, unbeknownst to her, the Emperor found out about the prince’s secret departure from the palace. The Emperor, already shattered by the prince’s attack, was deeply disappointed upon finding out that it occurred while the prince was out frolicking and living with opera performers. In addition, the prince’s violent madness had caused the termination of the child in the prince’s wife’s womb, which made the Emperor more displeased with his cherished son.
This news came from Jin Guifei’s spies placed around the Emperor. Upon receiving this news, Jin Guifei’s already ill health worsened significantly, her emotions rocketing.
Originally, she had hoped for the prince’s wife to give birth to a son. She planned to leverage the Emperor’s fondness and pity for the prince, to persuade the Emperor to name the child as his heir. However, the prince’s wife lost her child. A six-to-seven-month-old male fetus, her long-awaited grandson in whom she had placed all her hopes, was now gone. Furthermore, the Emperor’s pity for the prince had also disappeared. What should she do now? Who can she rely on?
"Good for nothing, utterly worthless. He couldn’t even protect his own child!"
Jin Guifei, laying on the intricately carved, gem-inlaid purple sandalwood couch, gasped for breath. She hammered the edge of the bed and cursed in pain. However, she directed her curses not at the prince who caused her grandchild’s demise, but at the prince’s wife who miscarried.
At this moment, Jin Guifei loathed her daughter-in-law, He Lan Xue, to the core. If it hadn’t been for her jealousy, lamenting about the prince providing for the opera performer, asking Jin to intervene, she wouldn’t have forced her son to kill the performer. This wouldn’t have provoked her son to secretly leave the palace at night and fall into a sinister trap. Furthermore, the princess, clinging onto her noble status, insisted that she would give birth to the legitimate eldest son before the other concubines in the mansion were allowed to have children. As a result, although there were many concubines in the mansion, none were pregnant.
If there were another male in the mansion at this point, perhaps she could still seize the opportunity to establish the prince’s heir while the Emperor still had a shred of pity for the prince. But now there were none. When the prince’s future son is born, the new prince would probably already have been determined. What role would they play then?