Chapter 350 - Let's See Who Wins (Part 2)

“Bastard!” Baili Qingcang shouted coldly. “Do you want to abandon your mother?”

“If she really is my mother, I will give her my life, but she is not!” Shen Ninghua hissed in a cold tone. “Father Emperor, touch Baby Girl over my dead body!”

“What the…” Baili Qingcang’s face gloomed indignantly. “Okay, I try to reason with you, but you refuse to listen. You force me to do this! If you don’t hand over Baby Girl today, I’ll have my guards snatch her over!”

Shen Ninghua tightened her arms around Baby Girl. The last bit of hope in her eyes disappeared. “Father Emperor, what kind of drug did Xia Jingxin give you to make you not care about your own flesh and blood?”

Baili Qingcang narrowed his eyes and ordered coldly, “Ninghua, hand over Baby Girl!”

Shen Ninghua took two steps back and shook her head firmly. “No!”

Baili Qingcang took a deep breath and closed his eyes to suppress the emotions in his heart. “Guards, take Prefectural Princess Luoyao from Princess Zhaohua.”

Shen Ninghua stared at Baili Qingcang, feeling the stagnant emotion inside her. Six soldiers from the Dragon Scale Army came in from the door and surrounded her.

The commander of the Dragon Scale Army directly went forward to grab Baby Girl in Shen Ninghua’s arms. The moment he touched Baby Girl, Shen Ninghua suddenly pulled out a hairpin from her hair and directly jabbed his arm.

“Ah!” The commander felt a sharp pain in his arm, and then he fell to the ground with a thud. The back of his hand that was exposed outside was faintly black.

Baili Qingcang was furious. “Shen Ninghua, did you smear poison on your hairpin?!”

“You left me no choice. You had no choice but to sacrifice Anning’s baby too, right?”

“Impudent! You… you…”

Baili Qingcang pointed at Shen Ninghua, his fingers trembling slightly. After knowing that Baili Anning’s baby had died, he felt guilty and regretful, but there was nothing else he could do but to keep his pain in his heart since he couldn’t turn back time and undo the baby’s death. Now that Shen Ninghua exposed the matter so blatantly, he felt humiliated and outraged.

Shen Ninghua clenched the hairpin in her hand. “I’ve smeared this hairpin with lethal poison, and it can kill people in seconds! Come if you dare!”

“Take her hairpin!”

A soldier stepped forward and chopped at Shen Ninghua’s wrist. The hairpin fell with a clatter, and a few Dragon Scale soldiers surrounding Shen Ninghua also collapsed.

Baili Qingcang took two steps back in shock and stared at Shen Ninghua in surprise and bewilderment. “You… Ninghua, did you poison them?”

Shen Ninghua’s eyes were firm, but her heart was beating fast. No matter how good she was at using poison, the poison she carried with her was limited. Her current actions were nothing more than to intimidate Baili Qingcang and the Dragon Scale Army.

“Father Emperor, I know medicine and poison. I know how to save people with medicine, and I also know how to kill people with poison!”

“Good to know. I want to see if the poison you have can poison all of the Dragon Scale Army!”

“Father Emperor, do you want to bet with me on the Dragon Scale Army?” Shen Ninghua suddenly raised her clear voice that was as cold as ice. “Dragon Scale Army is your most trusted army. If I kill them all, who will guard your safety? Those Shadow Guards? No matter how strong the Shadow Guards are, it is difficult to fight against four hands with two fists. Do you want to bet with me?”

Baili Qingcang gritted his teeth, tightly pursed his lips, and glared at Shen Ninghua. “As expected of the Xia Family’s descendant!” At that time, one member of the Xia Family could defeat a magnificent army of thousands of soldiers. They were like the gods of war on the battlefield. In the imperial court, they were all strategists who had excellent plans. They were the fearsome existence.

Shen Ninghua sneered, “I am not only a descendant of the Xia Family, but also Xia Jingyan’s daughter! My mother is honest, upright, daring, and intelligent. She is definitely not the femme fatale and the damsel in distress who sleeps on the bed and begs for your mercy and favor to achieve her goal!”

Baili Qingcang was shocked and angry, and he was suddenly speechless.

A hoarse and low voice suddenly came from the door. “Well said!”

Shen Ninghua paused and slowly turned to look at the door. A slender figure walked in step by step as the light shone from his back, making people feel like he was stepping on the sun.

“Junyi…” After calling out this name, Shen Ninghua could feel her heart trembling. He had finally woken up.

Baili Junyi was dressed in a black robe with gold embroidery. Cold, solemn, and resolute aura exhumed from his entire body. He held a sword in his hand. The blood on the tip of the sword was dripping down.

Hearing Shen Ninghua’s voice, he turned his head and looked over. His eyes were filled with worry, guilt, happiness… All sorts of emotions were contained in a single gaze. With just a glance, it almost made Shen Ninghua cry. She understood. She understood all of his emotions.

Baili Qingcang furrowed his brows tightly, producing lines of wrinkles on his forehead. “Junyi, aren’t you in a coma?”

“How can I continue to sleep when such a serious thing has happened at home?” Baili Junyi’s voice was very hoarse. Every sound he made was particularly difficult. The smoke of the fire at Zhou City’s posthouse had burned his throat. Now, every word he said was like a knife cutting through his throat.

“You… Guards! Guards!” Baili Qingcang repeatedly shouted, but no one came in from outside.

Baili Junyi glanced at the blood-dripping sword in his hand. “I’ve already executed the guards who were being disrespectful to the Princess. Father Emperor, do you have any order?”

“You… you monster! How dare you go up against me?!”

“I don’t dare to.”

Baili Qingcang was furious. “You even dared to bring your weapon into the Palace and kill my Dragon Scale Army. What else do you not dare to do? What are you going to do now? Kill me so that you can ascend the throne?”

Baili Junyi walked over to Shen Ninghua and reached out to stroke the closed-eyed Baby Girl. “What’s wrong with her?”

“Nothing. I drugged her in case I would scare her. She’s just asleep now.”

“Alright.” Baili Junyi nodded and stood side by side with Shen Ninghua. “Father Emperor, I don’t dare to be disrespectful to you at all. The reason why I did what I did today was to protect my wife and daughter. Please forgive me, Father Emperor.”

“Where are the Shadow Guards?” Baili Qingcang directly asked, ignoring Baili Junyi completely.

As the voice fell, more than ten figures in black appeared in Chunxi Palace. Half of them stood in front of Baili Qingcang and the other half stood in front of Baili Junyi.

Baili Qingcang almost could not believe his eyes. “You… you actually bought over my Shadow Guards?”

Shen Ninghua raised her eyes. “Father Emperor, have you forgotten that one of the people who helped you nurture and teach the Shadow Guards was surnamed Xia?”

“I have already cleaned up the Shadow Guards. Did I leave someone loyal to the Xia Family behind?”

“Don’t worry. Even if they are loyal to the Xia Family, they will not hurt you. Moreover, these Shadow Guards are not only loyal to the Xia Family, but some of them are also loyal to Princess Yunqing.”

“Bu Yunqing?” It suddenly dawned upon Baili Qingcang. “Haha, no wonder! The two of you are really sly. You planted your informants around me, keeping an eye on my movements at all times. I bet that you’ll assassinate me at the critical moment, right? I’ve doted on you for nothing!”

Baili Qingcang was extremely outraged at this moment. Previously, he cherished the two of them very much and had high expectations of them. Unexpectedly, they betrayed him!

Shen Ninghua’s eyes were filled with desolation. “Father Emperor, we sincerely respect you as a father, but how can Junyi and I not resist when you aim for our child’s life?”

“I’ve told you that I only need a little blood!”

Baili Junyi waved behind him. A Shadow Guard threw Yan Bushou, who was tied up, in. “Father Emperor, why don’t you ask him yourself to see if it is as simple as taking ‘a little blood’?”

“You kidnapped Doctor Yan?”

Without answering his question, Baili Junyi stepped forward and stabbed Yan Bushou in the leg. “Hey, Doctor, hurry and tell us how amazing your medical skills are.”

Yan Bushou screamed, “Fifth Prince, please spare me. Someone told me to do this. That person gave me all the medicine too. He told me that he needed a medical catalyst, but actually, he didn’t use it at all. When we took Princess Anning’s child’s blood, we dumped the blood away. I didn’t know anything! I just obeyed his order!”

“Where did you dump the blood?”

“In the pool on the side of Chunxi Palace.”

Baili Qingcang suddenly took two steps back, and he swayed involuntarily. “Impossible!”

Shen Ninghua looked at the bedside. “Father Emperor, did you say that Xia Jingxin can only wake up when she takes the medicine?”

“…Yes, do you have a way?”

Shen Ninghua handed Baby Girl to Baili Junyi and went straight to the bed. She pulled out a golden hairpin from her hair and stabbed it into the acupoint on Xia Jingxin’s chest.

“Ninghua, what are you doing!”

Seeing this scene, Baili Qingcang shivered in fear. Thinking that Shen Ninghua wanted to kill Xia Jingxin, he hurriedly pushed Shen Ninghua away.

Shen Ninghua took the opportunity to retreat. Xia Jingxin, who was on the bed, screamed and almost jumped up from the bed. “It hurts, it hurts!”

A look of surprise flashed through Baili Qingcang’s eyes. “Xin’er, are you alright?”

Seeing the situation around her, Xia Jingxin widened her eyes, a trace of panic flashed through Xia Jingxin’s face. She wanted to show a pitiful and delicate expression, but her face twisted in a painful grimace due to the pain in her chest. “Your Majesty, what happened to me?”

“You just fell ill. Ninghua saved you.”

“Ninghua?” Xia Jingxin’s expression distorted even more. “H-How did she save me?”

Shen Ninghua looked at Xia Jingxin coldly. “A hairpin. Father Emperor, as you can see, she doesn’t need any child’s blood at all. I can wake her up with a stab.”

Baili Qingcang got up and looked at Yan Bushou who was struggling on the ground. “What exactly is going on? Tell me clearly!”

“Your Majesty, I was just obeying the order. I don’t know anything at all! Please spare my life. My name was Qian Tong. I’m just a lowly and unknown doctor. One day, someone came to me and said that he wanted to help me make a name. He used a few people to act as fake patients and I slowly gained a reputation as a famous doctor with the nickname Yan Bushou. After that, that person gave me a lot of silver taels and said that he could help me to succeed, so I entered the Palace.”

“You… you mean to say that you are a charlatan?”

“Your Majesty, please spare me! Please spare me!”

Baili Qingcang could hardly take the blow. “Yan Bushou is a fake. Xia Jingxin, who exactly are you?”