Long Live the Empress

"Your servant, the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter Yue Jinghao, pays homage to His Majesty!" Yue Jinghao followed the etiquette and rules extremely well, and even the eunuch beside the old emperor nodded after seeing it.

The old emperor then remembered that the woman in front of him was the prince's fiancée, "Raise your head."

Yue Jinghao lowered her eyes and looked up. The old emperor nodded. Although Yue Jinghao was not a beauty that could topple a country, she was still pretty. "How come you're here so soon?"

Yue Jinghao showed no fear at all and bowed openly, "Your Majesty, I heard that my brother was brought into the palace. I was really worried, so I thought of waiting for news outside the palace gate."

The old emperor stroked his beard and said, "These three people are now accusing you of framing me. Do you have anything to say?"

Yue Jinghao seemed stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, I have never done that!"

"You're talking nonsense. I clearly saw you lying on that couch that day. How dare you quibble?" Yue Tianhong jumped out to accuse Yue Jinghao as soon as he heard her denial.

"How dare you! How dare you be so rude in front of the emperor!" The chief eunuch pointed at the furious Yue Tianhong with his dustpan and scolded him.

Yue Tianhong then knelt down in panic, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I am in a desperate situation. Please forgive me!"

"Then Mr. Yue, tell me, how did you see Miss Yue lying there?" Yan Liyuan ignored all that and asked, picking up on Yue Tianhong's words.

"This... Xiaomin walked into the wrong room and saw the elder sister sleeping on the couch... so he left..."

"Oh? Normally, if a brother sees his sister sleeping in a strange room, he will wake her up to avoid ruining her reputation. But why did Master Yue leave alone?" Yan Liyuan stroked the jade ring and looked at Yue Jinghao evilly. Last time, I helped this little thing, but she didn't even come to thank me. I will punish her later!

Yue Hanwen saw that his son was speechless, so he rushed to speak, "That's because my eldest daughter is unruly and willful. She always relies on her status as the legitimate daughter to bully her younger brothers and sisters. How dare Tianhong wake her up?"

Yue Jinghao suddenly raised her head, her face full of disbelief, tears welling up in her eyes, "Father... why do you say that?"

Yue Hanwen snorted coldly and didn't look at Yue Jinghao. "What your father said is just the truth. Do you still dare to quibble?"

Yue Jinghao bit her lower lip, lowered her head and stopped talking.

With Yue Hanwen's support, Yue Tianhong also got excited, "Your Majesty, everything my father said is true. I have been bullied by my elder sister for a long time, so there are some things I dare not interfere in!"

"Prime Minister Zhaoyue said so. Was what I saw in the Prime Minister's Mansion all a lie? Your humble concubine and the concubine's daughter lived in the west courtyard, which was decorated magnificently, while the legitimate daughter lived in the remote east courtyard, where the house was shabby. And that humble concubine even dared to insult the legitimate daughter openly... Is this the unruly and headstrong Miss Yue that you two were talking about?" Yan Liyuan's eyes flashed coldly, which made Yue Hanwen's back feel cold.

As soon as Yan Liyuan finished speaking, the court officials' eyes changed when they looked at Yue Hanwen. One court official even mentioned that Yue Hanwen had snatched the place of Fengzhuo Academy for the legitimate daughter and gave it to the concubine's daughter.

The old emperor looked at the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch whispered in his ear: "The humble concubine that the Ninth Prince is talking about is Master Yue's biological mother, and the concubine is Master Yue's biological sister."

The old emperor understood immediately. He thought that there might be someone else who was unruly and willful. Miss Yue was the one who was bullied in the mansion. "Miss Yue, tell me what you did that day!"

Yue Jinghao wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I went to the flower boat with my aunt to drink tea that day. I felt a little dizzy for some reason, so the nanny beside me helped me back to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"You are lying. Your nanny has disappeared long ago. How could she help you?" Su Zhiwei couldn't listen any longer and said something anxiously.

Yue Jinghao looked at Su Zhiwei with red eyes, "How could Su Dusi know so much? Could it be that Su Dusi is monitoring my daughter?"

"How dare you!" Su Zhiwei was shocked, but he had nothing to refute, so he could only scold him.

"I think it is Lord Su who is being presumptuous!" Yan Liyuan said quietly, "Lord Su, tell me why you want to monitor Miss Yue? What is your intention?"

Su Zhiwei was speechless, thinking about how to respond.

"Come here, take off Young Master Yue's clothes!" Following Yan Liyuan's order, two eunuchs came forward to take off Yue Tianhong's clothes.

Yue Tianhong instinctively wanted to push them away, but one of them held his arm and he couldn't move. Another eunuch quickly took off Yue Tianhong's shirt.

After seeing the purple marks, everyone quickly turned their heads away.

Yue Hanwen was dumbfounded, unable to accept the fact that his son was submissively lying under another man. "My son is already an adult, maybe he went a little too far with a woman..."

"Someone, drag him away for a physical examination!" The old emperor was so angry that his face turned pale. Why didn't he realize that Yue Hanwen was so shameless before?

Two eunuchs covered Yue Tianhong's mouth and nose and dragged him to the back hall.

The eunuch who checked the case was very quick and soon came back to report, "Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with this matter."

Now that the truth was confirmed, Yue Hanwen collapsed to the ground and Su Zhiwei turned pale. The two of them could no longer argue.