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

"Your Majesty, my mother doesn't love me at all."

The emperor looked at Bai Lu in confusion, "What did you say? Not loving you? How is that possible?"

"Your mother loves you the most. Did you listen to what Pei Huizhou said?"

The emperor was a little bit unbelievable. He didn't expect Bai Lu to not trust his mother.

He spoke to Bai Lu in a gentle tone, "It was so difficult for your mother to give birth to you. Your mother loved you very much."

"It's just that so many things happened afterwards that your mother couldn't express her love to you."

"hehe."

Bai Lu just thought it was an irony.

Bai Lu looked at the emperor and calmly explained the facts. There was nothing to hide from the emperor, so she told him everything.

"For the past two years, I've felt like someone was secretly watching me and my brothers. They had ill intentions... At that time, I wasn't around Bai Qi and the others yet, so they couldn't find out who this person was. Later, during the Turkic War, we finally figured out who this person was."

"This person turned out to be Shen Lanhua, who was by my mother's side..."

When the emperor heard this, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He then heard Bai Lu slowly say, "Since Shen Lanhua is someone close to my mother, she is my mother's maid, so she must obey my mother. The one with bad intentions must also be my mother."

The emperor quickly shook his head and said to Bai Lu anxiously, "How could you, child, doubt your mother so much? Your mother is not that kind of person!"

Bai Lu smiled and slowly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you can deceive others but you can't deceive me. Shen Lanhua wants to attack me and kill me..."

"Master Xi and Miss Xu Xian beside me are both people with supernatural powers. They can see what a person is thinking through their micro-expressions, just like Master Pei before."

"He also had this ability when he was trying a case at the Dali Temple. So they saw that Shen Lanhua was not lying. She really wanted to kill me, and the person behind it was my mother."

"If it wasn't my mother's instruction, how could she have done it?"

"..."

The emperor fell into a long silence. He was so shocked by the news that he couldn't react for a while.

Bai Lu then continued to explain: "Therefore, when the Queen Mother heard the news, she was very shocked and angry. She directly threw Shen Lanhua into the Heavenly Prison. She didn't want Shen Lanhua to pass this news to me. She wanted me to think that my mother loved me but was now missing..."

"But unexpectedly, she was discovered by Pei Huizhou in the Heavenly Prison... Your Majesty thought that Shen Lanhua was killed by Pei Huizhou? In fact, it was not the Empress Dowager who killed her."

"The Empress Dowager didn't want me to be sad, but Pei Huizhou took advantage of this to sow discord between me and the Empress Dowager."

Bai Lu's face was slightly bitter, but she smiled and said, "Fortunately, I trusted the Queen Mother enough to tell me about this matter. This is the whole story, your Majesty. Do you understand?"

She looked at the emperor calmly.

The emperor opened his mouth, but for a moment he couldn't say a word to Bai Lu.

Then I heard Bai Lu say: "Your Majesty, she doesn't love me at all..."

"Not only does my mother not love me, my father doesn't love me either."

"Don't mention my parents again."

"Your Majesty, if you want to go to the Western Regions to find my mother, then go ahead and find her, but I don't want to look for her anymore..."

Her voice was very soft: "If you find it, don't inform me then. After the New Year... after my two brothers get married, I will return to where I belong."

She wants to go back to Liangzhou, she wants to take her children back to Liangzhou.

She has no father, no mother, but she has a place where she was born and raised, a piece of land that belongs to her.

She was the Lady of Liangzhou, Marquis of Anguo, and the Master of Huai County.

She wanted to return to the place where the people loved her and where the air was warm.

After hearing what Bai Lu said, the emperor was filled with guilt. If he had known this would happen, he would not have asked these questions.

The emperor opened his mouth, still unable to believe it. How could there be such parents?

In this world...how can there be parents who don't love their own children?

He thought about it and said to Bai Lu, "How about I help you investigate this matter thoroughly? You shouldn't rush to make a conclusion, right?"

Bai Lu nodded and said calmly to the emperor, "Then your Majesty, please investigate."

"If there is nothing else, Your Majesty, I will leave first."

"Let's go." The emperor waved his hand.

Seeing Bai Lu leave so decisively, I didn't even want to say a harsh word to her.

It's hard to say. Bai Lu didn't have a father to love her, and now she doesn't have a mother to love her either...

Oh my God, if I were to go through this, I would be so angry that I would die.

Now that he is the emperor, he feels that nothing matters. But if he was not loved by his parents when he was Bai Lu's age, he really doesn't know what he would look like when he grew up.

Pei Huizhou has his own love... and he has grown up to be like that.

The emperor was extremely distressed and frowned. He immediately asked Li Zongguan to call the empress dowager.

Steward Li wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, nodded, and went to find the empress dowager.

As soon as Bai Lu came out of the imperial study, she saw that Manager Li was safe and sound.

She could probably guess at the time that this Li Zongguan was colluding with Pei Huizhou, but... was it really a collusion between them? Was it not the emperor deliberately giving up power?

Otherwise, Manager Li would surely be dead now.

Soon, the Queen Mother was personally invited to the Imperial Study.

In the imperial study, the empress dowager entered and kicked the emperor, shouting at him, "Now you are so bold and arrogant that you actually asked someone to invite me here instead of going there yourself to invite me!"

Hearing this, the emperor stepped forward and smiled flatteringly at the empress dowager, saying, "Oh, mother..."

"Mother, I want to ask..." The emperor hesitated to speak.

The Queen Mother saw his useless look and probably knew what he wanted to ask.

The Queen Mother frowned and said directly to the Emperor: "What Bai Lu told you is true."

With a loud "boom", the emperor felt his heart was broken.

He was so shocked that he couldn't help but cry out to the Queen Mother, "This... Bingyu doesn't even love her own daughter. How is this possible?"

"Yes, I didn't expect that either." The Queen Mother nodded and said to the Emperor, "Don't mention this matter to Bai Lu anymore. It hurts her heart if you mention it once."

The emperor sighed and said to the empress dowager with a grim expression, "Why is Bingyu so excessive?"

Hey, when the Queen Mother heard this, she couldn't help but laugh at the Emperor and said, "This is the first time I hear you say bad things about Bingyu."

"Before, you loved Bingyu but couldn't get her back. Since you loved her, you treated her sons very well."

The emperor blushed as he listened to the empress dowager's ramblings. He coughed twice and said, "That's true, but Bingyu is really going too far!"

"Bai Lu is Bing Yu's daughter after all. How could Bing Yu do this?!"

"Although I like Bingyu, I also like Bailu. Isn't it obvious which one of them is more extreme?"

"Ah, yes." The Queen Mother nodded, also puzzled. "You said...how come I didn't know there were such cruel people in this world who could actually kill their own daughter?!"

"And her daughter almost died in the battle against the Turks. Doesn't she know that? That war is not easy to win."

Even though the emperor was not Bai Lu's biological father, he couldn't help but say at this time: "That's right, when they went to war, I was so worried."

Ouch! He rubbed his head, feeling a bit of a headache. "What on earth is Bingyu thinking?"

"Who knows? She can think whatever she wants." The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "Anyway...from now on, I'll just pretend I don't know her."

"Bai Lu and I are good friends. I'm on Bai Lu's side."

"Yes, I also support Bailu." The emperor said firmly to the empress dowager, "I like Bailu the most. I hope that Bailu will be safe and healthy in the future and everything will go well."

The emperor already felt guilty towards her, and now he felt even more guilty towards her.

I felt a strange, inexplicable emotion rising in my heart. It was like a father complex, I guess.

I had originally thought that he was taking care of Bai Yueguang, an orphan, and was like a half-father. Half-father plus half-mother made up a family. But now, the mother was gone.

Now, he decided to be Bai Lu's biological father!

If there was someone in the world who loved her, if there was just one person like that... Bai Lu wouldn't be having such a hard time like today...

At this moment, the emperor suddenly had a terrifying thought, and he couldn't help but say to the empress dowager, "Mother, if that's the case, perhaps Bai Lu and the others have already been targeted by Bing Yu."

"The boss almost died in front of the throne room after taking poison. She might know about this! Bai Lu hasn't acknowledged this for so many years... maybe she knows about it too."

"That shouldn't be possible." The Queen Mother thought for a moment, then shook her head and said to the Emperor, "I just don't believe she's so cruel. Seeing Bai Lu suffering so much and nearly dying after being driven out by her mother-in-law, it was all Bingyu's arrangement!"

"Don't worry, a mother would never want to see her child suffer."

"If you have the intention to kill her, you should just kill her cleanly and decisively instead of talking nonsense."

The emperor nodded, thinking that he was overthinking it.

He said to the Queen Mother, "Forget it. Now, not only should you not mention this to Bai Lu, but you should also not mention it to the boys in the Bai family."

If they were to mention it... they'd probably collapse. After all, in their minds, their parents weren't on good terms. Even though there were many things going on, their mother still loved them.

"...If anyone knew about this, Boss Bai Chuyao would definitely be devastated."

"When his mother died, Bai Yansong wanted to make his concubine his legal wife, but Bai Chuyao threatened to die in the palace... If it weren't for Bai Lu's medical skills, he wouldn't have lived past forty."

"They've reached the end of their rope, and Bai Chuyao's risking everything... only to find out their mother knows everything and abandoned them on purpose. How will he feel about that?!"

At this moment, there was a noise outside the door, as if something fell down with a "thump".

The Empress Dowager and the Emperor were immediately shocked.

When I opened the door, I saw the three brothers of the Bai family standing at the door with gloomy faces.

Bai Qingze and Bai Liezhao were helping Bai Chuyao up.

The winter wind was howling coldly, and at that moment, the five of them felt the endless coldness.

The three Bai brothers' eyes were dazed.

The Empress Dowager and the Emperor were both greatly shocked and suddenly felt a sharp pain in their hearts.

The Queen Mother and the Emperor sighed and tentatively asked the three brothers outside, "Um...when did you stand here?"

"We've been standing here since the White Dew started." They said to the Queen Mother and the Emperor, "Can we know something about our mother?"

"..."

Half an incense stick later, Bai Chuyao sat back in the chair and listened to their story.

He was very calm, his expression unchanged, and he simply picked up a cup of tea and took a sip.

The Longjing tea before the rain burned his tongue and made it numb, but he was completely unaware of it.

He said to the Queen Mother and the Emperor: "We know about this matter. Thank you, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother..."

"Now that we all know, there's nothing to hide. We'll discuss this with my sister later."

"What do you want to discuss?" The Queen Mother and the Emperor looked at each other, a little confused.

Bai Chuyao glanced at Bai Liezhao and Bai Qingze: "What do you think?"

Bai Liezhao and Bai Qingze both lowered their heads and remained silent.

Bai Qingze is fine, he has always developed the good habit of not showing his emotions.

Bai Liezhao couldn't accept it at this point. He had a hot temper and was straightforward. His face flushed red as he angrily shouted at Bai Chuyao, "What did we have before?!"

"Brother, have all the suffering we endured been in vain?!"

"Brother, I won't give up! How badly did your body break down back then!!!"

"That's enough." Bai Chuyao interrupted Bai Liezhao and said with a smile, "Now I want to ask you what you really think."

"Since our mother is not dead, what should we do with her grave?"

Bai Liezhao was stunned.

Bai Qingze spoke at the right time, his voice so cold it could almost freeze anyone: "In that case, let's push this grave over!"

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, my eldest brother wanted to prevent the elders of the Bai family from humiliating my mother...after my mother died, he asked her to divorce Bai Yansong."

"Only the Bai family elders and we know about this matter; no one else knows. Therefore, her grave isn't in the Bai family's ancestral land... but in a Feng Shui-rich spot chosen outside Beijing. We paid a huge price for this!"

"Some of the land belonging to the Bai family's direct line... originally belonged to us, but we gave it to some elders as bribes... Now we don't have to worry about these trivial matters, and we don't have to worry about what our mother would think after her death..."

"From now on, our only responsibility is to fight for the Bai family's assets back."

They are about to take action.