At this moment, Doctor Chen's face was a riot of expressions.
Chu Qing saw, for the first time, so many emotions converging on one person's face.
Fear, panic, joy, and excitement.
Contradictory yet... not unexpected.
Chu Qing slowly stood up and walked up to Doctor Chen. "Come on. I'll take you to see her."
Doctor Chen was so excited that he could hardly speak. Hearing that the Princess of Ning was going to take him to see his daughter, he nodded repeatedly.
When Doctor Chen was led to the room where Chen Nianrui was, he saw a figure by the window, seemingly reading a book.
He was absolutely certain that this was his daughter, Nianrui!
Tears welled up in Doctor Chen's eyes. His voice trembled as he softly called out her name.
Chen Nianrui stiffened, then slowly turned around.
When she saw her father standing behind her with tears in his eyes, she quickly stood up, covering her mouth, but the tears kept flowing.
Leaning against the door, Chu Qing watched the father - daughter pair embrace and cry. Something seemed to flash across her eyes.
Soon, Doctor Chen noticed that Chen Nianrui couldn't speak.
After hearing the whole story, Doctor Chen's face darkened completely.
"Going too far!" Doctor Chen trembled all over, his hands tightly clenched into fists. Then he bowed to Chu Qing and said, "I'll have to trouble Your Highness the Princess to take care of my daughter. I'm extremely grateful." With that, without even looking at Chen Nianrui, he turned around and was about to leave.
Just as he was about to reach the door, Chu Qing stretched out her arm horizontally and said coldly, "Where do you think you're going?"
Doctor Chen heaved a heavy sigh but remained silent.
Chu Qing showed no emotion on her face and continued, "What, are you going to seek revenge on Xiao He?"
Hearing Chu Qing voice his thoughts, Doctor Chen slowly looked up at her.
Hearing Chu Qing's words, Chen Nianrui beside them immediately panicked. She grabbed Doctor Chen's arm and shook her head desperately.
Chu Qing exerted some strength and pushed Doctor Chen back.
Seeing his confusion, Chu Qing said, "Do you know? Revenging someone doesn't mean killing them. It means taking away what they cherish most. Or... first lift them up high, and then pull them down. Making them want to die but not be able to. That's the best way to take revenge."
Chu Qing's words were cold, but they made Doctor Chen's heart race.
He wasn't a fool and naturally understood the deeper meaning behind Chu Qing's words.
Originally, he didn't want to do things this way, but Chen Nianrui was his sore spot.
He wasn't particularly kind - hearted, but he was a man of deep emotions.
His wife had died of difficult childbirth when giving birth to Nianrui, so he named his daughter Nianrui. There was a "rui" in his wife's name.
Someone had touched his sore spot, and he was willing to risk his life to make the other person pay the due price!
Thinking of this, he knelt on the ground with a thud.
Seeing this, Chen Nianrui was at a loss.
After learning that the person who had saved her was the legendary Princess of Ning, she had gradually understood what kind of person the princess was. Although the princess always seemed cold - faced, she knew that the princess was very kind to her.
So, seeing her father kneel in front of the Princess of Ning, she was still a bit confused.
After seeing Doctor Chen kneel, Chu Qing remained unmoved. She calmly waited for Doctor Chen to speak.
Sure enough, after a while, Doctor Chen spoke up. "I've done something wrong. Please punish me, Your Highness."
"What kind of wrong thing? Tell me."
Doctor Chen then told Chu Qing everything that had happened in detail.
About three months ago, he had gone to check the pulse of Concubine Xuan.
He had then discovered that she was pregnant and congratulated her.
However, Concubine Xuan had asked him to keep this a secret for the time being. Her reason was that there were too many intrigues in the palace, and she would tell the emperor after the fetus was more stable. Moreover, she had given him quite a bit of silver, so without much thought, he had helped her keep it a secret.
One month later, Concubine Xuan had told him that he could tell the emperor. From then on, he had often helped Concubine Xuan with her physical conditioning.
Until one time, when he went to feel Concubine Xuan's pulse as usual, he had stumbled upon a major event!
Xiao He, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager, was actually hugging Concubine Xuan!
Out of panic, he accidentally kicked something and made a noise.
Then... Xiao He had threatened him.
When he returned home, his daughter had disappeared.
After that, when he was checking Concubine Xuan's pulse, he had accidentally noticed that her pulse seemed to indicate a pregnancy of only about two months. Clearly... Concubine Xuan should have been pregnant for more than three months.
When he murmured this out without thinking, Concubine Xuan had heard him.
From then on, all the diagnosis results he gave were based on what Concubine Xuan had told him. He was just a tool.
However, some time ago, Concubine Xuan had suddenly asked him for medicine to induce a miscarriage. Doctor Chen had always been suspicious of who the father of Concubine Xuan's child was. Now, he was even more certain that the child wasn't the emperor's.
Chu Qing more or less knew what happened after that.
Concubine Xuan had secretly conceived a child with someone else and even tried to pass this child off as the emperor's? Finally, perhaps out of fear, she had eventually taken matters into her own hands and had a miscarriage.
Oh, when she had the miscarriage, she had even tried to shift the blame onto Chu Qing.
The truth of the matter was more or less what she had guessed.
At this moment, Chu Qing's eyes were as deep as the night.
"Your Highness the Princess of Ning, do you have any solutions?" Doctor Chen was startled by Chu Qing's expression. Then he took a deep breath and asked.
Chu Qing gently tapped the table a few times with her fingers, then blinked and said with a smile, "There are plenty of ways. It just depends on whether Doctor Chen can trust me enough to hand over everything he has."
Doctor Chen felt that although the Princess of Ning was smiling, her words were cold. He dared to say that the Princess of Ning would definitely take drastic measures against Xiao He and Concubine Xuan.
Moreover, he no longer had any intention of hiding things. The only evidence he had was the dregs of the miscarriage medicine that Concubine Xuan had taken.
But... it would be a bit difficult if she flat - out denied it. After all, several days had passed since her miscarriage!
Doctor Chen told Chu Qing what was on his mind. Hearing this, Chu Qing frowned slightly. But soon, she smiled, as if she had remembered something interesting.
Indeed, Chu Qing had almost forgotten that sometimes, one didn't necessarily have to rely on evidence.
If there was no evidence, then they could just make her admit it herself.
As for how, Chu Qing didn't tell Doctor Chen. Seeing that the Princess of Ning might still be wary of him, Doctor Chen felt uncomfortable, but he couldn't say anything.
After all, the Princess of Ning had saved Chen Nianrui, which was already enough for him to be grateful.
In fact, Chu Qing didn't distrust Doctor Chen. It was just that for some things, she had a better candidate.
Doctor Wu, who was... Wuya's grandfather.
It was time to meet an old friend. Although things had changed, starting anew might not be a bad thing.