Forensic Imperial Concubine by Erika Black

Mavis once again lurched forward and hit Sue with her walking stick. Seeing this, Harper got up and

caught hold of Mavis.

"Grandma, calm down. Getting angry is bad for your health," Harper said while sobbing uncontrollably.

Mavis turned her gaze at

Harper and noticed Sue's handprint on Harper's fair face. She was already furious but this intensified

her anger.

Just when this was happening, Charles returned home. He was informed by a servant that Sue was

creating a scene in Peony

House. Realizing the matter must be serious, he quickly rushed over there. "What happened, Mother?

Why do you look so

angry? If there's something wrong, I can deal with it."

In this agitated state, Mavis couldn't even say anything. She continued staring at Sue. At that moment,

Sue became the villain

who had come with an unreasonable complaint. "Charles, you must seek justice for me. Harper was so

vicious as she had given

poisoned wedding gifts to Yvonne and Felicia. Right now, they are lying in bed, unconscious. I am

particularly worried about

Yvonne since she is pregnant. And let's not forget she is carrying His Highness's child. If something

happens to her, what will we

do?"

After listening to this, Charles merely made his way towards Sue and placed a tight slap in her face.

This took her completely off-

guard. For a moment, Sue was dizzy and found it hard to see anything clearly.

Once she had regained her composure, she wondered if this was all just a dream. They had been

married for over ten years yet

this was the first time he had beaten her.

She slowly began to mumble, "Charles, I... Did I make a mistake? Why did you hit me?" As she spoke,

she was trembling,

soaked in pain and humiliation.

By now, Mavis had regained her ability to speak. Bitterly, she pointed her finger at Sue and said, "I was

the one who had

prepared the wedding gifts. Since you said the gifts were poisoned, aren't you trying to say that I

poisoned my granddaughters?" Utter shock and disbelief crossed Sue's face. She turned to Harper and

wondered, 'Didn't Harper say that she prepared them herself? Then how is it possible?' Harper began

to sob harder. "Mother, Grandma is speaking the truth. I was ashamed since I didn't have anything

presentable to gift my sisters. I voiced my sorrow to Grandma who prepared them for me." Sue knelt

down on the ground, shocked. She felt like a heavy blow had been thrown on her. Thinking about it for

a while, she quickly responded, "Oh wait! You must have poisoned them before you brought them to

me. You planned to frame your grandmother. Harper, you are so vicious. Your grandmother has always

been nice to you, yet you showed her no mercy!"

Sue hoped this explanation would help her come out of this dilemma. If she succeeded in putting the

blame on Harper, Harper would undoubtedly be punished. She had planned everything well. Moreover,

she had specially sent someone to ask Kate, Prince Kevin's wife, to come here. Before Kate reached,

she wanted everyone to believe Harper was the culprit. "Charles, this woman is hell-bent on making

Harper a criminal. Why can't she just accept Harper?" Mavis thumped her chest. "Harper is just a child

who has lost her mother. But Sue is after her, trying to throw her out! If Harper were a boy, Sue must

have long killed him."

"Mother, don't say that! I want to accept her with my whole heart. But it is Harper who is making that

impossible. She is after

Yvonne and Felicia," Sue argued.

Harper wiped the tears on her face and said, "Mother, Grandma prepared the wedding gifts. And her

maid Flora was the one

who brought them to you. Along the way, Nanny Annie joined us. Under the circumstance, I never had

the opportunity to even

touch them! So tell me, how can I poison them?"

"What?" Sue was at a loss of words. She had never anticipated such a reply from Harper. It suddenly

occurred to her that this

morning when Harper came with the presents, she had deliberately come without Nina, Anabel, Enya

or Elsie. Smartly, she had opted for a new maid. Now when Sue thought about it, she realized that

Harper had already been alert. "My Lord, Princess Kate is here!" On seeing this, Charles was a bit

stunned. He wanted the Chu Clan's domestic matter to be solved by themselves. But Kate was a great

deal worried about her grandchild. "Where is Yvonne?" she asked, looking frustrated. "Your Highness,

Yvonne is in Excellence House. She is... Now she is..." Charles was anxious.

Seeing an imperial physician with Kate, Harper said, "Your Highness, Yvonne was poisoned. Please

save her."

Before Kate could make sense of the situation, Harper rushed to her and knelt down. "Your Highness,

Yvonne is carrying His

Highness's child. It's your grandchild. Please save her and her unborn baby. I beg you."

Harper's pleas left Kate shocked. 'Didn't they say that Harper poisoned Yvonne? What is going on

here?' she began to wonder.

Quickly, she dismissed these thoughts and started to think about Yvonne and her unborn baby. At

once, she guided the imperial

physician to Yvonne's residence.

Mavis and Charles went along with Kate. Sue felt uneasy knowing things weren't going as per her plan.

She never thought

Harper would have an alibi to prove she hadn't touched the presents from beginning to end.

In Excellence House, Yvonne gave a heartrending cry. Kate rushed in and asked the imperial

physician, "Physician Wade, come

here and check on this girl. Is she alright? How is the baby?"

Wade Wang immediately diagnosed Yvonne and then told her to take the prescribed antidote for the

poison. "Your Highness,

don't worry. Although Lady Yvonne was poisoned and her child was also affected, she happens to have

a good physical health.

Fortunately, both mother and baby are safe."

"Physician Wade, are my sister and her child really fine?" Harper asked concernedly. Her concern for

her sister moved everyone

who witnessed it.

"Lady Harper, don't worry. Lady Yvonne is all right now." Even the physician's words didn't relieve

Harper of her worries. Instead,

she moved closer to them and checked Yvonne's pulse. Suddenly, her expression changed. "Physician

Wade, Felicia was also

poisoned. Please check her without any delay. Yvonne is in so much pain. I guess Felicia is the same.

Please save

her."