TFDC Chapter 37.2

Chapter 37.2 - Biting off the tongue to commit suicide

Only Feng Yege and Xiahou Rui’s faces were calm.

Feng Yege’s handsome face had been indifferent from the start, whereas Xiahou Rui had heard the meaning in Lou Qingwu’s words before squeezing the anxious empress’ shoulder, “Empress-mother, it’s fine now.”

“What … what does that mean? Why can’t this emperor understand?”

Lou Qingwu courteously stood there like green bamboo, calm and gentle natured.

Hearing the emperor’s words, she methodically spoke, “Reporting to the emperor, it’s like this. Subject-girl purposely asked when the servant when she was frightened and dazed. At that time, she didn’t have time to carefully think about her response, instead, only answering what first came to her mind. This is the truth. Then, according to her own words, if the voodoo doll was found underneath the bed, then what was she, a midwife, doing there?

At that crucial point when consort Ying’s about to give birth, she’s suffering difficulties and the little prince is dying inside her stomach, why did the midwife help save her? Instead, why was she looking underneath the bed to find some voodoo? These intentions … really are quite obvious.”

Following her cold analysis, everyone’s scalps were going numb.

When they thought about it carefully, they realised she wasn’t wrong.

At that time, everyone was as anxious as if they had ants in their pants.

They didn’t even have enough time to save consort Ying, so how did they have any time to worry about anything else?

Then, they had been shocked by the voodoo and completely ignored the midwife’s words.

Thinking back now, they had discovered there were a lot of loopholes in her story.

In that crucial and frightening point in time, the midwife not only lost track of time, but actually had time to look underneath the bed?

That’s not possible unless she already knew that there would be a voodoo doll underneath the bed!

The emperor’s eyes were about to pop out as he glared viciously at the midwife, he grit his teeth and only hated that he couldn’t eat her alive.

“Evil servant! You actually dared to commit such evil deeds under this emperor’s watch! Truly an unforgivable crime!”

The midwife had been frightened out of her wits, her whole body was shaking until suddenly, her head fell forward heavily and only then did she stop moving.

Lou Qingwu’s face suddenly changed, “Hold her down!”

But by the time the imperial guards stepped forward, the midwife had already bitten her tongue and committed suicide.

Looking at the midwife whose mouth was full of blood and had her eyes closed, the hall was smothered in a dead silence.

Everyone was in crisis mode as the emperor became even more furious.

He ferociously stood up, his chest heaving in anger as his eyes were vicious and bloodshot.

“Come! Drag this evil servant out and flay her corpse! This is the punishment for killing this emperor’s son! Where are the justice department’s officials? Hurry and call them over to see this emperor!”

“Yes!” The imperial guards quickly dragged the corpse out as the main eunuch Liu Jin immediately went to the front palace to call over the court officials.

Lou Qingwu expressionlessly stepped back a few steps and continued to stand silently.

She was silent as she lowered her presence to become invisible.

If it wasn’t for this affair, she hadn’t planned to expose herself so early.

But she had already come to this point so she could only continue to plot, step by step, carefully.

At this point, she definitely couldn’t take another wrong step.

It wasn’t long before the main eunuch Liu Jin brought a young looking man into the main hall.

The man wore a dark red court robe with a silver fish pouch hanging to his side.

He was young and handsome, with a gentle and humble looking face.

This was the fifth ranked justice department’s young official Mu Yunqing.

“Subject, Mu Yunqing greets his emperor, long live the emperor, long live." Mu Yunqing kowtowed as he greeted the emperor and only rose when he heard the emperor's reply.

He then respectfully stood to the side.

"Mu Yunqing, this emperor will give you three days to quickly investigate tonight's affairs. Otherwise, you'll see what will happen!"

"Yes, this subject will definitely not disappoint!"

"Then leave." The emperor's face showed traces of tiredness.

There had been too much happening in one night and he had already lost his interest in going back to the birthday banquet.

But when his eyes fell on the equally tired and haggard empress, he couldn't help but comfort her, "Empress has also suffered tonight, this emperor will definitely give you justice. Rui'er, Liuyun, send your empress-mother to Kunning palace."

"Yes, emperor-father."

The empress lowered her eyes as she courteously did a full greeting. 

With Xiahou Rui and Xiahou Liuyun supporting her, she left the palace. 

But as Xiahou Rui walked past Lou Qingwu, he couldn't help but look at her once more. 

His dark eyes brought a hint of comforting, he wanted to say something but in the end, just pursed his lips and nodded his head as he quickly left. 

Lou Qingwu watched his silhouette for a while before moving her eyes back to the man in the dark red gown. 

Mu Yun ... Qing. 

She silently mouthed his name as the bottom of her eyes flashed some indescribable emotion. 

To her side, she hadn't noticed Night Prince Feng Yege had also some time ago, lifted up his eyes and followed her line of sight to watch Mu Yunqing. 

His long monolid eyes slightly narrowed before his eyes flashed a light, but he hid it well because only a moment later, it disappeared without a trace. 

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TL note

Love rival??

Hint: I’m super lazy so I update the character list as I translate instead of as the chapters come out. So there are occasionally hints about characters that come up in later chapters there. Here’s the link to the TFDC character list as well as the Why not soar, your majesty character list.

I also translate the chapter titles in the contents page which hold hints for future arcs.

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