After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 929 - 924: Testing the Waters

The crystal-clear voice pierced the ear, and Nanny Zhou’s body trembled, a cold chill surged from her feet to the roots of her hair.

Especially the words Su Jin said almost buried her alive, making Nanny Zhou almost unable to sit still.

Sixteen years ago, she tried to bury the Princess Consort Zhenbei alive but failed; sixteen years later, yet she’s now in her grasp, how can she find a way out?

The Empress Dowager wants her dead, the Princess Consort Zhenbei wants her dead, and even the Empress cannot protect her.

Nanny Zhou had never felt so desolate within her heart.

"Since the Princess Consort wants my life, why save me?" Nanny Zhou asked.

Su Jin laughed, "Is Nanny Zhou saying that she would only speak honestly if I gave her a way out?"

Nanny Zhou didn’t speak, which was an implicit agreement.

Su Jin’s eyes flashed with coldness and said, "I want the truth, not your life."

"As for the Emperor..."

Su Jin had never seen someone so brazen.

But Nanny Zhou was indeed clever.

Su Jin looked into Nanny Zhou’s eyes and said, "If it wasn’t for me sending someone to save you, would you have the chance to sit here and talk to me?"

"I will let you leave the Capital City unharmed."

Nanny Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Jin said, "Now can you speak?"

Nanny Zhou glanced at Su Jin, lowered her head, and said, "The Princess Consort knows well, although the Empress holds the Phoenix Seal and is the mother of the nation, she is ultimately controlled by the Empress Dowager, merely a puppet."

"Otherwise, Princess Shouning would have married Prince NanAn long ago, how could it end up like this..."

Saying this, Nanny Zhou choked, after all, she watched her grow up, the murder of Princess Shouning, Nanny Zhou was also heartbroken.

She wiped away her tears and continued, "Consort Yun’s life was targeted by the Empress Dowager, ever since Consort Yun entered the palace, the Emperor’s heart has been with her."

"When Consort Yun became pregnant, it seemed like she was expecting a prince, the Empress Dowager feared that if Consort Yun truly bore a prince, it would jeopardize the Second Prince’s status, so she had oil spilled on the steps when the Emperor was away."

"Consort Yun slipped, leading to premature delivery just a few days later, causing chaos in the palace, the midwives and the Imperial Physician had long been bribed by the Empress Dowager, childbirth is inherently dangerous, a slight mistake could be two lives lost."

"The princess was fortunate, whereas Consort Yun wasn’t, she passed away, and seeing it was a princess, didn’t pose a threat to the Second Prince’s status, the Empress ordered me to take her out of the palace and find an ordinary family to adopt her, but the palace gates were tightly guarded, and the Empress Dowager disagreed, so... so..."

Nanny Zhou couldn’t bring herself to say the words ’bury alive’.

Su Jin looked at her with a smile, "Why? Can’t make up the story anymore?"

Nanny Zhou felt a tightness in her scalp, "Princess Consort, please discern, every word I said is true."

Xingxing spat at her.

Xingxing wanted to speak but was interrupted by Su Jin.

Su Jin looked at Nanny Zhou and said, "Sixteen years ago, which was the day I was born, the Empress and Princess Qi had a dispute in a corner of the Imperial Garden, coincidentally overheard by my mother, Consort Yun. Nanny Zhou and Princess Qi’s maid pursued relentlessly, my mother accidentally slipped down the steps, causing me to be born a few days early..."

Su Jin spoke sentence by sentence.

No, each word she uttered deepened the fear on Nanny Zhou’s face.

Because what Su Jin said matched perfectly with what happened that day.

Only a few people knew about it, so how could the Princess Consort know?

And she knew so clearly?!

Su Jin stopped halfway, leisurely looked at Nanny Zhou, "Looks like Nanny Zhou foresaw a day she’d fall into my hands, and prepared the story well in advance."

"Is Nanny Zhou planning to use such a fabricated story to put all the blame on the Empress Dowager, protect the Empress, and then deceive me into giving you a way out?"

"Does Nanny Zhou think I’m that easy to deceive?"

Far from easy to deceive, Nanny Zhou was practically looking as if she had seen a ghost.

Those who knew about this matter would never tell the Princess Consort the truth, because if it were exposed, the Emperor would never spare them.

No one told her, yet the Princess Consort knew every detail, it was impossible!

But if Su Jin was frightening her, the Princess Consort even knew about a maid being thrown into a well during the incident.

As if she had witnessed it herself.

Nanny Zhou felt waves of chills across her back as she fearfully asked, "Since the Princess Consort knows everything, why ask me?"

This was the crux of the matter.

Even though Su Jin knew, the witness Nanny Wei had been killed.

Without Nanny Wei’s testimony, she needed Nanny Zhou’s to fill in.

Su Jin looked at her and said, "How would I know that when you fall into my hands, you still dare to play tricks on me if I don’t test you with what I know?"

Nanny Zhou choked, her face pale as paper.

Su Jin said, "What were the Empress and Princess Qi fighting over that day?"

Nanny Zhou refused to say.

Su Jin spoke for her, "Was it related to the Second Prince, the Empress Dowager indeed has great tactics, the Empress indeed paid a heavy price, her six-month old fetus died, yet she insisted on not letting it come out, waited for Princess Qi to give birth and then swapped the children to secure her position in the Central Palace."

Nanny Zhou suddenly looked up at Su Jin, "You, you..."

She even knew the Empress had a stillborn, what else doesn’t she know?!

Nanny Zhou had originally planned that if she indeed fell into the Princess Consort Zhenbei’s hands, she would use her to get rid of the Empress Dowager, saving the Empress’s life.

But she never expected Su Jin knew everything already.

Not only couldn’t she protect the Empress, but she also lost her own credibility.

Nanny Zhou’s body shivered in fear.

She had seen many intrigues in the harem but had never found anyone so terrifying.

Su Jin looked at Nanny Zhou, "Still unwilling to speak?"

"I give you a way out, if you seek death, I’ll grant it."

"Xingxing, bring the poison and feed it to her."

Xingxing grinned.

She swiftly went to the shelf and grabbed a bottle from among the jars, saying, "Miss, use this."

"Hmm."

With Su Jin’s approval, Xingxing approached Nanny Zhou.

Nanny Zhou’s hand lashed out, directly knocking the bottle from Xingxing’s hand to the ground.

The liquid inside spilled out, corroding the floor, making a sizzling sound.

Nanny Zhou was even more terrified.

The Princess Consort is ruthless, and whatever she says, she means!

"I’ll speak, I’ll speak..."

Su Jin looked at her, Nanny Zhou anxiously said, "Prin-, Princess Consort, you already know everything, I have nothing left to say..."

"Then talk about how the Empress and Princess Qi quarreled," Su Jin said.

This matter, Nanny Zhou understood quite well.

Because she was beside the Empress at the time.

Back then, Consort Yun was heavily pregnant, about to give birth, the Empress was also four or five months pregnant, maidservants attended to her, she felt uneasy.

Nanny Zhou fell into reminiscing, saying "Ever since the Second Prince was given to the Empress, the relationship between Princess Qi and the Empress worsened."

"The Empress was pregnant, the Second Prince fell ill, Princess Qi blamed the Empress for inadequate care, even saying the Empress was pregnant with a Little Princess, it was already a hard-earned pregnancy, if anything happened to the Second Prince, her position as Empress would be unstable."

The Second Prince was adopted to the Empress, to swap the children, the Empress lay in bed for three months before giving birth to a stillborn.

Exhausted, she wanted her own prince, raising someone else’s child is never as good as one’s own.

Since becoming pregnant, the Empress worried it was a princess, she had harmed her vitality to preserve the stillborn, took two years to recuperate before conceiving, and might only have this one child in her lifetime.

Princess Qi’s words hit the Empress’s sore spot, leading to the argument, who could have thought Consort Yun overheard.

The subsequent events, Su Jin knew well.

Consort Yun overheard, losing her life in the process, but also frightened the Empress Dowager and Empress, leading the Empress Dowager to believe that Princess Qi would cause trouble if she stayed in the Capital City.

After ministers suggested sending Prince Qi to his fief, the Empress Dowager pretended to protect him a few times before agreeing.

Princess Qi then followed Prince Qi to the fief, only returning once or twice a year, with the Empress Dowager restraining her, warning repeatedly that if Princess Qi caused trouble again, she wouldn’t be allowed back to the Capital.

Afraid that the Empress Dowager meant what she said, Princess Qi truly didn’t stir up any more disputes with the Empress.

On the other hand, the Empress, despite the shock, found blessing in disguise, eliminating Consort Yun, removing a heart knot, and especially since it’s a princess, she became even more devoted to the Second Prince.