After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

The Emperor is not the Queen Mother's biological son, but Prince Shou is...

That Yaoer...

Ji Lan's eyes went dark and she almost fainted. Fear and chillness spread throughout her body. She opened her mouth, unable to speak.

The surroundings were extremely quiet, with only the sharp and unpleasant sound of Zhao Ying scratching the table with a sharp knife.

Ji Lan screamed, "Is it you?"

"Is this all a trap set by you?"

"Why do you do this?"

"No, no, you are lying to me. How do you know this?"

"Huaian is the dragon seed! You are the one born by Hyomin and a wild man!!"

"Why on earth would you do that?"

"What deep hatred do you have between Huai'an and you that you want to hurt her like this!!"

Ji Lan looked up to the sky and shouted, "My son, you have such a miserable life..."

From beginning to end, Zhao Ying did not say a word until she heard Ji Lan mention "deep hatred"...

The shrill sound stopped.

The knife was thrust hard into the table.

Ji Lan was so frightened that she fell silent.

"No deep hatred?"

"She was planning a rebellion with Shangguan Shu, massacring my entire clan and killing my children... Doesn't that count?"

Ji Lan was surprised that Zhao Ying actually knew their plan. Could today's disaster be Zhao Ying's plan?

"Zhao Quan is your man?"

Zhao Ying curled her lips into a smile and nodded slightly.

On the day of the dragon robe incident, she came out of the Yangxin Palace, feeling cold all over.

Shangguan Shu is so scary.

He underestimated the enemy.

A powerful official who has been immersed in officialdom for so many years is really difficult to deal with.

But she is Zhao Ying.

Failure only fuels her fighting spirit.

She just wanted to fight against this group of rebels. She was the daughter of the champion in the fight for the throne and the champion in palace fighting, so she was fearless.

She can fail countless times, but if Zhao Yao and Shangguan Shu fail once, it will be the end.

She wants to stand at the pinnacle of power and crush them into mud!

Why should she become a prisoner of a fallen country?

Why should her sincerity and respect lead to a tragic death on the battlefield?

Why should her Wan'er be tortured to death?

Why should her Bai Lin be beheaded in public?

Why should her Qi You be stepped on by Zhao Ziyan?

Why is it that her Yue'er... doesn't even have the right to grow up!

Hate... She had never experienced such deep and deep hatred, as if the past life that Yue'er had described was vivid in her mind.

She often woke up in pain from her dreams in the middle of the night, and then sat there in despair until dawn.

The dawn breaks later and later.

And the big web in her mind was woven.

She began to intentionally or unintentionally show weakness to Shangguan Shu and beg for mercy. She wanted him to believe that she had no fighting spirit after her failure, and she had to rely on him to survive. In their eyes, she, Zhao Ying, was just a simple, stupid and easy-to-control woman...

As a result, Shangguan Shu actually resigned from his military command. He was also paralyzing her!

She would go to the study from time to time to keep an eye on him, and secretly arranged for Nanny Li to find the old man who was present in Kunning Palace fourteen years ago.

She wanted to set a trap and let Zhao Yao fall into it.

When Nanny Li went to look for her, it didn't arouse anyone's suspicion because she was an old friend of her mother, and she just treated it as a reminisce?

However, while searching, she unexpectedly discovered a big secret!

An old eunuch, who had retired and lived in the eunuchs' residence, said that Empress Xiaomin had secretly asked him to find a copy of "History of Chu", which was at the bottom of the farthest corner of the History Museum of the Hanlin Academy. He finally found it and gave it to Empress Xiaomin, who read it for half a night, and then when she read a certain page, she suddenly said: So that's how it is...

The old eunuch said again that he didn't understand what had happened, and Queen Hyomin didn't say anything, but he roughly guessed that it was about Prince Shou, the Queen Mother, Concubine Shu (not yet a Concubine at the time), and His Majesty.

Because Queen Hyomin summoned Princess Shou and asked her a lot of questions, all about what happened before Concubine Shu entered the palace.

She asked someone to bring the "History of Chu", the first chapter, the Chronicle of Emperor Zhaowen.

It tells the story of how Emperor Zhaowen defeated the Great Chu and fought against the gods, and how the two-headed monk turned against him and cursed generations to come.

When she saw the words "crescent-shaped birthmark", she suddenly understood everything.

She had of course seen the birthmark on Zhao Yao's body.

She also knew that the empress dowager's surname was Dou and that she was a descendant of the two-headed monk.

To confirm, she privately asked Imperial Physician Xing. Ever since Imperial Physician Xing returned from the Prince's Mansion regarding the incident with Li Liangdi last time, the Empress Dowager had to ask her something. Imperial Physician Xing did not answer truthfully because she had warned her, but she privately had someone leak some information to the Empress Dowager.

It was only said that Li Liangdi angered the prince and was accidentally injured by him, so he specially invited Imperial Physician Xing to see her. After all, beating a concubine was not a good thing to hear, and the prince was worried that his reputation would be damaged, so he did not let Imperial Physician Xing tell anyone.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother didn't care about the Crown Prince, but she completely lost faith in Imperial Physician Xing.

He dared to deceive the Queen Mother about such a small matter. What use is he?

Imperial Physician Xing had no choice but to find her.

After all, voting for her is equivalent to voting for the prince.

Imperial Physician Xing became her pair of eyes.

Imperial Physician Xing had been treating the Empress Dowager for many years and naturally knew her secrets.

The Empress Dowager indeed had a crescent-shaped birthmark on her waist. To show his loyalty, Imperial Physician Xing even drew it on the drawing so that it could be seen clearly.

In this case, what is recorded in history books is true.

Since the Queen Mother has it, what about Prince Shou and Princess Side?

Prince Shou loved to visit prostitutes, so she secretly found an oiran and found out the truth.

Prince Shou also has it.

Zhao Yao has it too.

Zhao Yao is the daughter of Prince Shou.

Ah……

Zhao Yao is suspicious by nature and not easy to deceive.

She could only start with others and boil Zhao Yao in warm water.

She first recalled her wet nurse Wang Po, the one who had a private relationship with Lin's mother... Wang Po had not had a good life in recent years, and she sent someone to treat her grandson. Her grandson did not have an incurable disease, but he needed good medicine and supplements to live to old age.

Coincidentally, these are what she has the most.

Wang Po was a smart girl and understood after just a few words.

After sending Wang Po away, she had Zhao Quan captured.

Through Yue'er, she already knew the truth of fourteen years ago. She just wanted to know who the guard who was beaten to death was. The old man in Kunning Palace told her that it was Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan has a younger brother named Zhao Quan, who is Shangguan Chaolu's husband.

She recognized it.

The Prince Duan's Mansion had long been in decline, but there was a man named Zhao Quan, who was a talented man with both literary and martial talents and had a promising future. That's why he married the daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo despite being a declining noble!

But after marriage, Zhao Quan became arrogant and dissolute and stopped striving for progress.

Over the years, she had often heard noble ladies talking about how Zhao Quan was like this because of Shangguan Chaolu. She had also spoken for Shangguan Chaolu, saying that a man's insignificance had no business being a hindrance to his wife. Shangguan Shu had won battles one after another and had a prosperous career, but no one said it was because of her, Zhao Yingwang.

But Shangguan Chaolu was too ungrateful.

In that case, don't blame her.

If her kindness cannot protect the ones she loves, then her kindness will turn into a sharp blade and stab whoever it catches.

Looking at Zhao Quan, she wondered how to use this incident to deal a heavy blow to Zhao Yao, and also let Shangguan Shu know the truth and feel guilty towards her.

Without solid evidence, Zhao Yao would not admit it.

If there was no evidence, she created it.

She used both kindness and force, and then asked Zhao Quan to pretend to be Zhao Yan, and made up a reason to lie that it was Zhao Quan who died that year, and the one who survived was Zhao Yan, the person involved. Since the person involved told the truth, what else did Zhao Yao have to say?