My Destined Consort Episode 16 Recap
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Since becoming pregnant, Shen Qilan began dining at the same table as everyone else. Before, she had never been qualified to sit with Wang Danling. Seeing Lu Jingshu continuously serving food to Shen Qilan and even his mother treating her kindly, Wang Danling felt frustrated. When she saw Yuzhu bringing in the pregnancy-stabilizing medicine, she felt slightly better.
She thought to herself that as long as she could endure until Shen Qilan gave birth, she could then become the child's mother, and there would be plenty of ways to humiliate Shen Qilan in the future. In front of everyone, Shen Qilan obediently took the pregnancy-stabilizing medicine and drank it. Not long after, she began experiencing intense abdominal pain, and bleeding from below started uncontrollably. Panic broke out among everyone.
Shen Qilan immediately pointed at Wang Danling and questioned why she would try to harm her. Lu Jingshu’s mother suddenly realized—Shen Qilan had just taken the medicine delivered by Wang Danling. To confirm the situation, she quickly summoned the most trusted physician. After all, Wang Danling had indeed tampered with the pregnancy medicine. The physician carefully examined the medicine residue and found that the ingredients had been altered. Prolonged consumption would inevitably cause a miscarriage.
Upon hearing the physician’s words, both Lu Jingshu and his mother were shocked—it truly was the act of a wicked woman! Terrified, Wang Danling knelt on the ground and argued that she had only slightly increased the dosage, which shouldn’t have caused such harm to the child. However, in admitting this, she only confirmed the physician’s statement. Lu Jingshu was furious and glared at Wang Danling with eyes full of rage, as if he wanted to devour her.
Wang Danling begged Lu Jingshu for forgiveness, saying they were still husband and wife. But when Shen Qilan saw Lu Jingshu begin to soften, she immediately cried and said she had dreamed of the son in her womb—how he could have been born safely, called her “mother,” and trained in martial arts with Lu Jingshu. Such a good child, destroyed by Wang Danling’s own hands. Wang Danling’s pitiful act failed to deceive Lu Jingshu this time.
He immediately ordered that Wang Danling be stripped of her position and sent to guard the ancestral tomb from then on. When Wang Danling’s father heard about this, he immediately went to see the prefect of the Lu household. As the governor of East Prefecture, he detested inner-court drama. Now that his eldest son finally had an heir, Wang Danling had made such a move. The prefect was furious and gave no face to Wang Danling’s father.
Wang Danling sat in her boudoir, lost in regret. Just then, Lu Jingshu arrived. He was still angry about her actions. He had once tolerated many things she had done, but this child was his first and held great significance. He had already hinted at this to her before, but she had still gone too far. Hearing his words, Wang Danling was filled with remorse and knelt, begging Lu Jingshu to give her another chance.
Lu Jingshu shook his sleeves and left. When Shen Jiangli heard that her younger sister had miscarried, she brought some nourishing supplements to visit her, following local customs. Just as she entered Shen Qilan’s courtyard, she saw Shen Qilan’s maid sneaking out with a basin of clothes, looking panicked upon seeing her. Shen Jiangli glanced at the clothes in the basin and saw they were stained with blood.
After the maid hurried off, Shen Jiangli found some discarded medicine dregs in a nearby flowerbed. One sniff told her what was going on. Entering Shen Qilan’s room, Shen Jiangli kindly offered to check her pulse, but Shen Qilan hesitated and refused to extend her arm. Shen Jiangli immediately understood. Later, when she saw Wang Danling, Shen Jiangli caught a whiff of a scent from her—one known to contain ingredients that induce infertility.
Poor and pitiful Wang Danling had actually been tricked all along. Shen Jiangli told Wang Danling that Shen Qilan had never been pregnant in the first place. She had used herbs to fake pregnancy, timed it with her menstrual cycle, and pretended to miscarry during those days. Only then did Wang Danling realize how foolish she had been. Used to being domineering, she had let her guard down too easily.
As Shen Jiangli left Lu Jingshu’s residence, Lu Jingming was already waiting for her at the gate. Thinking about everything that had happened, Shen Jiangli sighed—Wang Danling still didn’t know why she had ended up like this. In the end, it was her own desires and obsessions that ruined her. Lu Jingming comforted her, saying that no matter the outcome for Wang Danling or Shen Qilan, the path was one they had chosen themselves.
Shen Qilan had finally succeeded in driving Wang Danling away and was in an excellent mood. That day, her mother came to visit and revealed a secret: rumors were spreading outside that Shen Jiangli was determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death all those years ago. In fact, Shen Qilan’s mother had once used some underhanded tactics against Shen Jiangli’s mother, both to protect herself and to gain favor.
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