Episode 30
Zhen Huan knelt down for a long time to give birth. After hearing the news, the emperor and the empress rode back to the palace.Zhen Huan lost her son, the emperor blamed himself, and the queen pretended to comfort her.Concubine Hua learned that Zhen Huan had had a miscarriage. Although she thought she was not responsible, she had no choice but to take off her hairpin and plead guilty after being persuaded by Cao Guiren.The emperor was furious, deposed her as a concubine, stripped her of her title, demoted her to the rank of concubine, and punished her to kneel outside the gate of Yikun Palace for two hours every day at noon to think about her faults.
The emperor, taking into account the government and Nian Gengyao's power, could not kill Nian Concubine as Zhen Huan wished, and Zhen Huan was disheartened.The young concubine knelt down under the scorching sun and thought about her faults. She felt aggrieved and fainted from exhaustion.After learning that his sister had fallen out of favor, Nian Gengyao wrote a letter of remonstrance, telling the emperor that neglecting his sister would chill the Nian family and make their status unstable.
The emperor was in a dilemma, so he asked Prince Guo to find out what he was talking about. Prince Guo shied away on the grounds that he was not in his position and had no intention of pursuing his own affairs, which dispelled the emperor's suspicion.Zhen Huan was immersed in the pain of losing her son and couldn't extricate herself. Jin Xi comforted her, but Zhen Huan's words complaining about the emperor were heard by the visiting emperor and she stopped moving forward.The emperor was depressed, so he came to the queen mother and told him that the Huanyixiang he had given to the concubine Nian had caused Zhen Huan's miscarriage. He blamed himself endlessly, and the queen mother comforted the emperor.
