Chapter 240 Crown Prince Calls Consort Li Vicious

Chapter 240: The Crown Prince Scolds Consort Li for Being Vicious

She stared intently at Luo Jingshen, having envisioned their formal meeting countless times in her mind.

But Consort Li had never imagined that Luo Jingshen would completely ignore her and instead order his men to fish out that despicable prostitute.

The guards jumped into the water and searched for her, eventually finding Yuyan at the bottom of the lake.

But by then, she had already stopped breathing.

Luo Jingshen immediately called for a physician. After examining her and checking her pulse, the physician shook his head.

"Your Highness, this lady had already suffered a threatened miscarriage. Unexpectedly, she fell into the lake and hit her belly against a stone."

"She was in the water too long and wasn't rescued in time for medical help. Now both mother and child are lost."

Two lives lost at once!

Yuyan was gone, and the child was gone too!

Veins bulged on Luo Jingshen's forehead, his face flushed purple-red, and his gaze toward Consort Li seemed to spit fire.

"Cao Waner, how dare you kill Yuyan and my child?"

Consort Li started almost imperceptibly. She looked at Luo Jingshen in disbelief, her lips trembling.

"Y-you... what did you just call me?"

"Cao Waner, the daughter of Cao Tianshui, the Minister of War. Did I call you by the wrong name?" Luo Jingshen gritted his teeth, a hint of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

"A few days ago, I sent a female doctor into the palace to save your daughter's life. You came to see me under the pretense of thanking me. Is this how you repay me now?"

"Or did you simply not want my child to be born, so you pushed Yuyan into the water, intending to drown her?"

Consort Li's eyes reddened. She shook her head, an anxious look appearing in her eyes.

"I did not, Your Highness. It's not like that. They insulted me first, and I had no idea she was carrying your child. It was all unintentional."

But Luo Jingshen refused to listen to her explanation. He sneered viciously, "Everyone says you are gentle, generous, and kind-hearted. I never expected you to be so vicious behind the scenes."

"What wrong did Yuyan do? What wrong did my child do? He was so young, he hadn't even opened his eyes to see this world. Why did you have to kill them?"

"No wonder my third brother has been lying in bed for so many years without getting better, and Ji Yuntang has turned against you, refusing to acknowledge you as her mother-in-law. You are too vicious. I truly regret allowing you into the Eastern Palace!"

Luo Jingshen was so furious he could have killed someone. He had only asked Consort Li to wait for him in the front hall; he would arrive shortly.

Unexpectedly, while he was sending someone to buy a wheelchair, Consort Li had come to the rear garden on her own and killed the woman he loved and his child.

He now felt nothing but disgust for her; even a single glance at her was an insult.

Tears streamed down Consort Li's face. She felt as if her heart ached to the point of suffocation.

She didn't care what others thought of her, but she couldn't stand Luo Jingshen calling her vicious.

Who was all this for?

"Your Highness, anyone can call me vicious, but you have no right to insult me like this."

Luo Jingshen let out a cold laugh, grinding his teeth.

"I'll call you vicious, so what? Many people saw you hit Yuyan, scratch her face, and push her into the lake."

"You watched her die helplessly in the lake without allowing anyone to rescue her. Now that you've killed my first child, are you satisfied?"

Consort Li had never expected things to turn out this way. Seeing Luo Jingshen's heart completely devoted to that seductive woman, she felt even more that killing her by mistake was the right decision.

If that prostitute's child were born, wouldn't mother and son eventually walk all over her?

Having Ji Yuntang already causing her trouble and annoyance was enough; Consort Li didn't want to see another Ji Yuntang.

She took a deep breath, trying to appear calm, and said to Luo Jingshen:

"Your Highness, I did this for your own good. Have you thought about how it would look for your first-born son to be born from a lowly prostitute?"

"If word gets out, how would your father the Emperor see you? How could you hold your head high? You haven't yet married a legitimate wife; the firstborn son should never be born to a brothel woman."

Consort Li's unrepentant attitude instantly enraged Luo Jingshen. He hurled the crutch he was holding at Consort Li.

"It's my child, and I'll decide who gives birth to him. Who are you to lecture me?"

"Even if the child in Yuyan's womb couldn't be kept, it should be my mother, the Empress, who tells me that. Since when does an unfavored consort get to meddle in my affairs?"

Consort Li: "..."

Consort Li: "!!!"

These words were less harmful than they were insulting.

Would the Empress care about him as much as she did, considering everything for his sake?

Consort Li didn't know if the Empress would have allowed Yuyan to keep the child, but she certainly would never have let her.

The Crown Prince's legitimate son would one day inherit the throne; he must not have any blemishes.

And Yuyan, in Consort Li's eyes, was the biggest stain.

Consort Li clenched her hands under her sleeves, barely restraining the urge to reveal the truth. She gritted her teeth and said:

"Your Highness, I am your father's consort. At the very least, I am a mother figure to you. How can you speak to me like this?"

Luo Jingshen glanced at her with extreme disdain.

"Mother? Do you deserve that title?"

"My mother is the Empress, second only to the emperor, above ten thousand people, the most noble legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor's mansion. How dare you claim to be my mother?"

Consort Li: "..."

Consort Li: "!!!"

Luo Jingshen's words stabbed into her heart like knives.

Consort Li barely managed to suppress her anger to keep from fainting.

The Empress, Su Xiangwan, had been renowned as the foremost beauty and the most talented woman of the Dongchen Kingdom thirty years ago.

She was the youngest daughter of Grand Tutor Su. From birth, she had been raised by Lady Su with the etiquette and standards befitting an empress.

Everything from food and clothing to daily necessities was the best. Even in academic performance, she ranked among the top, leaving her peers far behind.

It could be said that Su Xiangwan, from birth to the present, had never known any hardship except the bitterness of love.

Even so, she still ascended to the position of empress, second only to the emperor and above all others.

Consort Li had been jealous of Su Xiangwan since childhood, because wherever Su Xiangwan was present, others could hardly see Consort Li at all.

Back then, if Consort Li hadn't used some tricks, Prince Nanxiao would never have fallen in love with her.

Now Luo Jingshen's comparing Su Xiangwan with her was undoubtedly cutting Consort Li to the heart.

Consort Li was dazed. Before she could regain her composure, she heard Luo Jingshen say again:

"You killed my woman and child—two living, breathing lives lost just like that. By rights, I should drag you to the authorities to report this."

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