"Is it because I don't want to get pregnant?" Consort Yang said with a wronged look. "But isn't it because the Emperor's favor towards me is very weak? Every time the Emperor comes to my palace, I have to use all my tricks to get him to reluctantly favor me."

"That's not the worst part. The worst part is that even if I use all my tricks, the Emperor won't always favor me. If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have attacked the Crown Prince in the first place."

Speaking of this matter, Consort Yang was filled with regret. If she had known earlier that she would have a difficult childbirth, and if she had known that the Emperor would find out about her plot to harm the Crown Prince, which would have caused the Emperor to dislike her, then she would never have laid a hand on the Crown Prince.

You know, if it weren't for his aunt, the emperor probably wouldn't even want to step into her Qicheng Palace all these years.

Yes, over the years, the Emperor had forced himself to favor Yang Guifei, all because the Empress Dowager used filial piety as leverage to coerce him. But after the Emperor learned that the Empress Dowager had poisoned the Empress, the Empress Dowager clearly realized that she could no longer use filial piety as leverage to coerce the Emperor.

A fleeting darkness crossed the Empress Dowager's eyes.

It seems it's time for the family to send another girl into the palace; we can't count on the Imperial Concubine anymore.

In the original owner's previous life, the Imperial Concubine was lucky to get pregnant in time; otherwise, she would definitely have been abandoned by the Empress Dowager and her family.

"I'm tired." Since she had already decided to give up on the Consort, the Empress Dowager was too lazy to pay any more attention to her and just wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.

Consort Yang felt a vague unease, but she didn't dare to displease the Empress Dowager, so she got up, bowed, and left.

"Your Majesty, regarding Consort Shu, do you really not want to do anything?" the Empress Dowager's trusted nanny asked. "After all, this servant feels that what the Imperial Consort said just now wasn't entirely unreasonable. It's not a big deal that the Imperial Consort was bullied by Consort Shu, but I'm afraid the Yang family will have influence in the court..."

The Empress Dowager gestured to her trusted nanny to shut up: "The Emperor is so furious about the Empress being drugged by me. The bond between us is already in jeopardy. Under these circumstances, how can I stand up for the Consort?"

"You should know that Grand Tutor Jiang holds an extraordinary position in the Emperor's heart, so naturally the Emperor also treats Grand Tutor Jiang's granddaughter very differently. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so fond of Consort Shu during this period."

"Heh!" The Empress Dowager then gave a cold laugh. "But Consort Shu is really something, daring to bully the Noble Consort. This clearly shows she doesn't respect me, the Empress Dowager. Just you wait! One day, I will make Consort Shu know the consequences of offending me."

Consort Yu's letter was delivered to the Ningxin Marquis's residence that very night.

"Lord, what do you think of this matter?" After reading her daughter's letter and learning about her experiences in the palace, Madam Li was heartbroken. "That damned Jiang Chunxi, how could that bitch be so cruel? She made the imperial kitchen send our daughter spoiled food every day. She's deliberately trying to drive our daughter to her death."

“Lord, we can’t just stand by and watch our daughter be driven to her death by that bitch Jiang Chunxi! Given the current situation of our Ningxin Marquis’s mansion, the only hope we can have is for our daughter to give birth to a prince. Otherwise, our Ningxin Marquis’s mansion will be completely hopeless.”

"So we must keep our daughter alive. We can't let her be tortured to death by that bitch Jiang Chunxi."

Of course, Li's mother knew what it meant for her son to marry his niece. But even though mother and daughter were of one mind, her daughter was indeed the only one the family could rely on. Therefore, for the sake of her daughter's life, even knowing that it would anger the emperor again, she had to let her son marry his niece.

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