Quick Wear: The Enchanting Concubine, Rules of Survival and Plunder

The Empress originally had a son who was named Crown Prince by the Emperor at birth. However, the Crown Prince died of smallpox when he was five years old, which was when Yang Guifei was pregnant with the Emperor's child.

Yang Guifei was very ambitious, or rather, the Yang family and the Empress Dowager were very ambitious, hoping that another Empress Dowager would emerge from the Yang family. Therefore, as soon as Yang Guifei became pregnant, she began to plot against the Crown Prince.

It took the Empress half a year to find out about Yang Guifei, because she simply did not believe that her son's death was just an accident. However, when she presented the evidence and asked the Emperor to punish Yang Guifei, the Emperor refused her with a troubled expression.

It turned out that the Emperor had already discovered that Consort Yang had poisoned the Crown Prince, but the Empress Dowager threatened him with her life, forcing the Emperor to spare Consort Yang this time. In addition, Consort Yang was pregnant, so the Emperor had no choice but to suppress the matter.

From then on, the Empress never gave the Emperor a kind look again, but the child in Yang Guifei's womb also did not survive.

Perhaps it was karma! Yang Guifei had a difficult childbirth, and the Empress Dowager decided to save the baby. As a result, Yang Guifei's child died immediately after birth, and she has never been able to conceive again since.

But so what? As long as Yang Guifei lived, the Empress could not find peace. Why should the wicked live well while her son had to die?

The Empress was a very upright person. Even though she hated Yang Guifei, she only wanted to bring her to justice and never thought of using any insidious means to kill Yang Guifei.

Of course, the main reason was that the harem was full of the Empress Dowager's spies. If she were to make a move against Yang Guifei, and the Empress Dowager found out, she would not only be deposed as Empress, but her own family would also be implicated.

Furthermore, the reason she holds such an extraordinary place in the Emperor's heart is entirely due to her open-mindedness and virtuous character. She is not the kind of scheming and ruthless woman who would resort to underhanded tactics. Therefore, she cannot ruin her image in the Emperor's heart just to seek revenge.

After all, she still had a family. An empress who held great weight in the emperor's heart meant something the empress knew all too well to her family.

The Empress couldn't abandon her own family just to avenge her son, but she also couldn't bring herself to face the Emperor with the same mindset as before. Her resentment towards the Emperor made it impossible for her to ever give him a smile again.

"I had no choice!" the Emperor said bitterly. "Back then, the Empress Dowager threatened me with her life to make me spare the Consort once. What could I do? Besides, the Consort also suffered retribution; didn't her child pay for Chen'er's life?"

"What kind of retribution is this?" the Empress said agitatedly. "The one who did evil is the Consort, and she should be the one to suffer retribution. Why should a fetus in her womb suffer retribution for her?"

"Your Majesty is truly cold-blooded! Whether it's Chen'er or the child Consort Gui gave birth to who was already dead, they were both your flesh and blood. Yet Your Majesty is so cold-blooded about the deaths of your two closest relatives. Neither Chen'er's death nor the death of the child Consort Gui gave birth to is as important as the life of Consort Gui, the murderer."

"If you had any compassion as a father, you wouldn't have said such cold words, and you wouldn't have favored Consort Yang anymore. I really want to ask you, whenever you favored Consort Yang, didn't you think of the tragic way Chen'er died?"