In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"So, I think...if you want to confer a title of princess, even though my family can spend 500,000 taels of silver, you still have to take advantage of Bai Lu...she fought for the country and brought glory to the country, so it is reasonable for you to confer a title after her."

Lord Bai touched his chin and said, "If you were to get the fame of Bai Lu and be crowned a princess after her, you would be famous all over the world."

Bai Zhiyi took a deep breath, forced a smile, and said to Lord Bai: "Father, that's enough, don't say any more."

She turned her head and said to Lord Bai, "Let's go back to the mansion!"

Lord Bai nodded, and returned to the Bai family with Bai Zhiyi.

......

Eunuch Zhang entered the emperor's bedroom and informed the emperor that Bai Zhiyi and Mr. Bai had been beaten.

The emperor listened and fell into a long silence.

The emperor sighed, looked at the empty bedroom, and then looked at a box he had placed on his bed.

Inside the box was the letter that Zhao Bingyu had entrusted to him.

He sighed and said, "If I hadn't seen the letter at the time, if I hadn't been so cruel, how could this child have been lost for so many years!"

"After all...it's my fault that Bai Zhiyi has been raised to be what he is now!"

"Bingyu, is your soul in heaven unable to rest in peace?!"

"Bai Zhiyi doesn't even have a proper husband now, and she's been beaten like this by her mother... Oh, I feel really bad for her when I think about it."

Eunuch Zhang, who was standing nearby, heard these words and immediately knelt on the ground and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, how can you be blamed for this? Miss Zhiyi... this is fate. She has a hard life, so she has no mother. She was lost when she was born, and she doesn't even have a father to take care of her."

"Ah, speaking of it, Princess Ruyu is much better than Miss Zhiyi. She is lucky! Although Princess Ruyu is a concubine's daughter, she is now well-known in Kyoto. She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a good appearance."

"A Princess Ruyu like this... is much better than a legitimate daughter born to Lady Zhao."

"Speaking of which...it's fate that a legitimate daughter is inferior to a concubine's daughter."

"If Madam Zhao Bing hadn't died, she would have been able to educate her child well by now. But Madam Zhao died. There's nothing we can do about it."

"Speaking of which...it was God's fault that our Lady Zhao passed away so early...If Lady Zhao hadn't died young, Miss Zhiyi wouldn't have ended up like this. It's all God's fault."

"..."

What he said made the emperor feel even more guilty.

He couldn't help but sigh and said, "Aren't you slapping me in the face with what you said?! When I think about the child born by Bingyu, it's not as good as the concubine's daughter born by Xie. In every way, it's not as good as Xie's concubine's daughter! And I also named that Princess Ruyu as a princess, and I feel uncomfortable."

"...Alas, if I had known this earlier, I would not have named Xie's concubine's daughter Princess Ruyu."

"Now, a third party who interfered with the relationship between Bai Yansong and Bingyu is living a better life than Bingyu's own child!!"

"Bingyu's biological child, isn't that equivalent to my biological child? I get angry just thinking about it!!"

"!!!"

When Eunuch Zhang heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground, not daring to even breathe.

Now, the emperor has dismissed the empress and others, and dares to speak out whatever he thinks. If people all over the world knew that the emperor actually had such thoughts about his uncle's former wife, his uncle's deceased wife... they would definitely criticize the emperor to death.

Eunuch Zhang was the emperor's confidant, so the emperor could talk to Eunuch Zhang about whatever he thought.

The emperor then asked Eunuch Zhang: "Speaking of which...were the injuries caused by the beating by the Queen Mother serious?"

“Oh my god!!!”

Eunuch Zhang thought of the scene he had just secretly peeped at, and couldn't help but twitching his mouth and said, "You don't know, Your Majesty! The old man who was beaten was miserable..."

He described it to the emperor: "... Miss Zhiyi was beaten to a bloody pulp. Oh my God, if the Zhao family's wife were still alive, she would be heartbroken."

Yes, Madam Zhao is no longer alive. She entrusted this child to me. So I did not protect this child well in the past years. Now... I have to protect this child well.

The emperor sighed, looked at the letter paper in the box, and muttered to himself.

But after thinking about it, I still couldn't be completely confused.

He sighed and said to Eunuch Zhang, "Go and call Pei Huizhou to me. I have something to say to him."

"Yes."

"..."

After a while, Pei Huizhou was called by Eunuch Zhang to the emperor's bedroom.

Pei Huizhou saluted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, why did you ask me to come here?"

"..."

The emperor looked at the handsome Pei Huizhou, his eyes showing satisfaction. He nodded and said, "Huizhou, I asked you to come here... because I want to ask you something."

Pei Huizhou said: "What's the matter?"

The emperor pondered for a while, and said awkwardly: "I want to confer the title of Princess Mingzhu on Bai Zhiyi. I wonder if you think it's okay..."

"???"

Pei Huizhou was surprised to hear this, but he was not too surprised. He just analyzed it with the emperor and said, "If Your Majesty conferred the title of Princess Mingzhu on Bai Zhiyi, I think it is inappropriate, because Bai Zhiyi's character is not worthy of being a princess, and how many troubles did she cause in Kyoto when she was a princess? I remember them all!"

"Your Majesty, you have already indulged her because she is Zhao Bingyu's only daughter. Now she is rejected by the royal family and demoted from a princess to a commoner. This is already ridiculous! If you confer the title of princess on her, how will you do it? What is the reason? After the title is conferred, will you be criticized by people all over the world? Will you be refuted by the royal family?!"

Hearing these words, the emperor nodded, "...You are right, but I always feel guilty towards Bingyu. After all, she is Bingyu's only child. Look at this letter. It was written by Bingyu herself when she wanted to entrust the child to me!"

"I have only just seen this letter, 20 years late... 20 years late!!"

"If I had known about this letter 20 years ago, I would have definitely brought this child into the palace, made her a princess, and raised her personally! But now... this child has no luck and is left stranded outside. This is my fault."

"It's me! I failed Bingyu! I didn't take good care of this child."

"You said... I regretted it very much at the beginning. If I had taken good care of Bai Yansong and Xie family, would Bingyu have survived? Bingyu would not have died so young..."

As he spoke, he actually broke down and cried.

Pei Huizhou just watched the emperor cry quietly. He smiled and said, "If your majesty thinks so, why don't you avenge the lady of the Zhao family?"

"The reason why the Zhao family's wife died was simply because she had a disease when she gave birth to Bai Zhiyi. Also, because Xie and Bai Yansong were angry and suffocated, she became depressed and died of illness."

"Since this is the cause of death, you might as well kill both of them."