Professional Ethics of a Concubine

Upon hearing this, the old lady shook her head and looked at the emperor in surprise, "I don't know this, isn't she the empress's sister?"

"No, that was told to outsiders." The emperor explained to the old lady, "His biological mother is actually the empress, and this is only known to a few people."

"I understand, and I will keep it a secret." The old lady nodded and said with a smile,

"No wonder the prince is so talented. His parents are the emperor and empress. It's hard for him not to be outstanding."

After hearing this, the emperor couldn't help but smile, with a look of pride on his face.

However, thinking that the empress had no feelings for him and just used him as a tool for having children, his face darkened again.

Although the emperor was no longer as angry after comforting himself, whenever he thought about it, his emotions would still come back from time to time, making him feel depressed.

"What's wrong with the emperor? Is there anything I can help with?" The old lady looked at him with concern and asked in a gentle voice.

The emperor sighed deeply, and was silent for a moment before he spoke:

"I can only tell my aunt about this. It's too embarrassing to tell anyone else."

Tell Prince Su? Haha, this good brother probably can't say anything nice to comfort him, and instead he will inadvertently brag about how happy he is now.

Let’s not talk about that annoying brother!

As for the crown prince, that is even more unacceptable. Does he still have dignity and dignity? !

If the emperor knew that the prince had known about it for a long time, he would probably be furious again. He would be so angry and humiliated that he might not want to see the prince's face for several days.

After hearing what the emperor said, the old lady couldn't help but straighten her body, sit up straight, frowned, and waited for the emperor to speak.

In fact, it was just a matter of two sentences. The emperor was too lazy to express his emotions and simply said that he was deceived by the empress and there was no mutual love between them at all.

She had deliberately approached me in the first place, wanting to have a child, and had premeditatedly planned to kill the father and keep the son.

The happiest and most carefree days of his life and the company of a beautiful woman were all self-deception. Of course, the emperor laughed at himself in his heart and did not say it out loud.

Old lady,...

The old lady who had experienced many ups and downs in her life was also slightly surprised. In her heart, she couldn't help but praise that she was worthy of being the empress!

Only an intelligent woman like her who firmly knows what she wants and is not bound by etiquette and laws can become an empress.

I really want to meet her, but it's a pity that I will never have the chance to meet such a gorgeous woman in this lifetime, and can only admire her in my heart.

“Your Majesty, although the Empress confessed that she approached you and had been deceiving you all along, it was only for the sake of the child. It seemed ruthless, but in my opinion, it was not completely ruthless.

You men, as long as she is a pretty girl, you can have sex with her, and you won't be attracted to her afterwards, you are just venting your physical desires.

But as women, if we don't have the slightest affection for a man, we won't have an intimate relationship with him, or even give birth to his child.

Back then, the empress chose you as the father of her child because it must have been because of your excellent qualities that attracted her, caught her eye, and made her happy.

Otherwise she wouldn't have chosen you, so it's impossible to say that the empress has no affection for you at all.

It’s just that the empress knows very clearly what she wants. She admires you and likes you, but she doesn’t choose to fall in love with you, nor does she expect to have marriage and a future with you.

However, when she got pregnant, she chose to leave immediately, parting ways and never seeing each other again in this life. You can say that such a woman is cold-hearted and heartless, and it is indeed correct. "

The old lady's slow and sincere words completely extinguished the emperor's anger and made him feel much better.

What his aunt said really touched the heart of his heart. What’s more, that careless woman also said that he was a very nice person in his past. Haha, he was indeed excellent. She didn’t need to say that!

When the emperor found himself seeking the empress's approval, he immediately cut off this emotion.

"Hmph, no matter what she thinks, the prince is with me now, not with her!" said the emperor angrily.

"Yes, the child that I had painstakingly planned for and worked so hard to give birth to had to be sent away. For more than 30 years, the mother and child could not see each other.

For a woman, this is like losing half her life, and she has to worry about it all the time."

As the old lady spoke, she wiped the tears from her eyes and said to the emperor embarrassedly,

"When people get older, they tend to empathize. As a mother, I know the pain of losing a child very well. When I think of the children who have passed away, I can't help but cry."

The old lady was so old, she had lost her husband, her eldest son, and her little daughter at an early age.

She has experienced too many separations and deaths in the world.

"It's my fault for reminding Auntie of sad things." The Emperor quickly handed over the handkerchief and changed the subject.

"I came here today because the Empress said that she wrote me a letter telling me the truth, but I didn't see that letter, so I thought Yong Yi might have dealt with it, so I wanted to ask my aunt if she had ever heard him mention this matter."

The courtesy name of the old Marquis of Jiangyang is Yongyi. The emperor calls him by his courtesy name as a sign of their close relationship.

"The boss has never mentioned this to me." The old lady shook her head and said,

"The eldest brother was with the emperor at that time, so he could see things clearly. He could see that the emperor cared about the empress, and he was afraid that you would be too angry and sad to know the truth, which would affect your emotions and judgment, and you would go back to Gulan to ask the other party for clarification.

After all, when the Emperor returned from Gulan, he was faced with the issue of succession, and he could not afford to be negligent in the slightest. Therefore, I guess that the eldest brother took this into consideration and boldly concealed the letter. "

"Aunt's analysis makes sense. It is indeed possible. If I knew the truth immediately, I would definitely ask her and see her true face!"

The emperor nodded and sighed again, "The situation back then did not allow me to be presumptuous."

The old lady suppressed the wonder and speculation in her heart, stood up and was about to kneel down to apologize to the emperor on behalf of her dead eldest son.

Regardless of his purpose, his behavior was deceiving the emperor.

The emperor quickly helped the old lady up, not letting her kneel down, and said tolerantly,

"Aunt, it's all in the past. Yongyi is gone, so there's nothing to blame.

I just want to know the general truth. Of course, the truth is not that important. I just want to make up for the past."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for being so magnanimous." The old lady said gratefully with red eyes.

The two exchanged a few more words, and seeing that the old lady was not in good spirits, the emperor took his leave, feeling much more relaxed than when he came.

This trip and this conversation made the emperor very satisfied.

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After the emperor left, the old lady, supported by her nanny, lay tiredly on the bed. She closed her eyes but could not fall asleep. She was thinking about the conversation with the emperor just now and many things about her eldest son.

After a while, the old lady regained some strength. She asked the nanny to arrange a sedan chair and carried her to her eldest son's study.

Although the old Marquis Jiangyang has passed away, this study has been preserved. This was also the old Marquis Jiangyang's order that his study should not be demolished.

He also said that if they wanted to demolish it, they should wait until Xie Jin gets old.

This study naturally stayed.

The old lady arrived at the study. Because there was someone who cleaned the room regularly, the books inside were neatly arranged and free of dust.

The nanny supported the old lady and slowly walked into the study. The old lady walked to the east wall of the study and knocked a few times, then opened a secret door of the study.

Inside was a small dark room, very small, long and narrow, only about two square meters in total.

The old lady knew this place and knew that it was her eldest son who tinkered with it.

More than twenty years ago, nothing in the Xie Mansion, big or small, could be hidden from her. Later, she just lacked the energy and didn't want to get involved in the matter, not that she was stupid and forgetful.

The old lady walked in. The furnishings inside were simple: a table, a chair, three wooden boxes, and four paintings hanging on the wall.

The old lady looked at the stunning woman in the painting who looked both familiar and unfamiliar, and sighed slightly. A question that had remained in her mind was finally answered.

It turns out that the empress is the woman that the eldest son has always been thinking about.

It turned out that he loved Xie Jin very much, raised him carefully, and passed the title to him, not because he was the emperor's son, but because he was the empress's son.

Because hidden within this is his unspeakable love for the empress.

The old lady didn't have the energy to open the boxes to see what was inside, to see if there was the letter from that year.

She didn't want to see it either. It didn't matter whether it existed or not. It was all in the past.

Some secrets should be kept as secrets and covered up forever.

"Burn everything inside." The old lady said to the nanny.

"Get it out and burn it now. If anyone asks, just say you miss your boss and burn some paper money for him."

"Yes." The nanny agreed and told the maid outside to prepare a brazier and paper money, which would be burned outside the study in a while.

The old lady sat in the yard, looking at the blue sky, wondering how many years she could live and how many years she could protect the Xie family.

Finally, the old lady sighed softly.

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings.

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The Kingdom of Quran.

Thanks to the help of the Dragon Shadow Guard, the Emperor's letter of revenge appeared on the Empress' desk seven days later.

The empress frowned before she even opened the letter, wondering if she had not written clearly in the previous letter.

Why is this ghost still lingering around? Is it coming back again?

The empress opened the letter and frowned again when she saw the thick sheet of paper inside.

Is he so idle???

After reading the contents of the letter, it was the empress who remained silent this time.