淫欲的代价

In the end, Xian Taiwen selected twenty noble ladies and directly ranked them, he really didn\'t have time to focus on gradually raising their ranks. All he wanted at this point was a child.

There were; two honourable consorts, four consorts, a couple of consorts-in-ordinary and the rest he just made honourable ladies. Whoever bore him a child first would be ranked the imperial noble consort. He didn\'t take away Wei Yun\'er\'s rank just yet. He needed his hypothesis thoroughly confirmed before he made any other moves.

The imperial palace was full of celebration as these noble daughters married in one after the other. The inner courtyard become lively with all these noble butterflies around and everyone looked on with eyes full of expectations.

As was expected, Xian Taiwen started his mission of mindless breeding. He slept with a woman every two days but after four months the expressions of the people, the consorts in general and even the court ministers began to change.

What was wrong? If it was just one or two women then the situation could still be blamed on them but now... The court ministers were especially skeptical. Could it be that the son of heaven was impotent?

The people were beginning to speak in hushed whispers and even Xian Taiwen was beginning to feel uneasy. Recently, he\'d been taking loads upon loads of kidney improving tonic and even fertility enhancers but nothing seemed to work.

He\'d had the imperial physicians and even a couple of wandering masters diagnose him but they all came up with the same thing. He was healthy and very capable of bearing children, so what really was wrong?

Xian Taiwen tried for a couple more months and by now the hush whispers of the people were beginning to become much louder. It was unheard of for an impotent man to remain on the throne. Who was going to take over to the throne?

Or was the son of heaven going to adopt? How laughable, it was practically impossible. At this point, the eyes of the ministers were facing south, the direction of the vassal state the third prince was overlooking.

Xian Taiwen, at this point, was feeling very pressured and he became more haggard by each passing day. He was clearly a young vibrant man in his prime, very healthy too. So why couldn\'t he produce children.

By now he clearly knew it was no longer the fault of the women. How can so many women be barren at the same time? There must be a problem with him somewhere, but when did the problem develop? Even when him and Wei Yun\'er tried they couldn\'t make chil-

Xian Taiwen suddenly paused. Yes. Wei Yun\'er, how could he forget? She was a peerless medicine genius, his condition must be her doing! She put him in this state in order to get revenge against him for deciding to take in more women.

Even if Xian Taiwen hadn\'t set eyes on Wei Yun\'er for months, he still conveniently put the blame on her. Who else could he blame? He fabricated tons of scenarios about the different opportunities she must have had to make him infertile before she was sent to the cold palace.

After all, he used to spend six out of seven days in her courtyard. He stood up quickly and rushed over to the cold palace.

Wei Yun\'er had her head lowered as she fiddled with her nails. Her once imposing aura was nowhere to be found and she looked incredibly skinny. For months, she tried to escape but was caught every time before she got very far. Xian Taiwen. She\'d really been played by that scum man.

She, a peerless genius, had fallen to this point because she had trusted that ungrateful piece of living fossil. There were hurried footsteps outside her door but she paid no mind. What was the use?

Immediately Xian Taiwen walked into the room, he rushed over to Wei Yun\'er and grabbed her neck with both hands. "You vicious woman! What did you do to me?!" The veins in his forehead were popping and he looked like he was on the brink of madness. How could he not? His throne was on the line!

Wei Yun\'er was dumbfounded, even as she clawed at his hands. It was so hard to breathe and she was slowly suffocating to death. Normally this bit of strength wouldn\'t have been able to inflict the slightest damage but her body was a little compromised.

She\'d been deliberately weakened as the months went by. Her meals were laced with dantian weakening poison and if she refused to eat it, what could she do? Survive on air? Her martial arts was nothing like it once was. She barely even had the energy to walk about sometimes.

When Xian Taiwen noticed she was slowly turning blue, he released her and pushed her to the ground. "Haven\'t I done enough for you?! Haven\'t I be merciful enough to you?! Even when you betrayed me, I let you live and yet you do this to me!"

Wei Yun\'er, who was coughing as she took in large gulps of air, stood up and pointed at Xian Taiwen. "What mercy?! What betrayal?! You were so quick to discard me after milking me of my worth and here you are laying false accusations against me. Xian Taiwen you are truly vicious. I\'ve been rotting here for months, tell me, what could I have possibly done to you?!"

"Don\'t play dumb with me. You frolicked around with different men and after you had your fill, you jumped into my arms and pretended to be pure so I would marry you!

-As if that wasn\'t enough, you had the guts to cuckold me, the great son of heaven, repeatedly even after marriage, you shameless woman!"

Wei Yun\'er was truly boiling with anger now. This shameless man. When did he see her frolicking with other men? He was just looking for an excuse to justify his betrayal!

She was about to scream injustice at him when she suddenly decided against it. What was the use? He was here to condemn her so whatever she said would not change anything. They both knew he was lying anyways. She\' just watch him act his one man show.

"What? Can\'t speak again because of your shame? I can\'t believe I trusted you! For years, you kept lying to me that you were only taking trips to meet your master whereas there was no such master, you were only using that as an excuse to sneak out to meet up with different men!"

Wei Yun\'er sat on the hard floor and looked at the stupid screaming clown with disgust. It was true that there was no master but she was only going on those trips to play and sightsee.

She was a woman from the modern world so how could she get used to sitting all day in some man\'s inner courtyard, doing nothing? What was worse was that she never really had her freedom in her past life and since she was given a second chance, she wanted to live her life to the fullest.