It's good to exchange marriages. My sister eats coarse food while I wear gold and silver.

"I only do my job. As for Lu Sui's achievements, that's his business."

On the surface, the Wolf King's words acknowledged himself, but he was not Lu Sui's father, so on what grounds could he acknowledge himself?

"Second brother, you'd better think it over carefully. If you go back this time, you may not know when you will return to Beijing next time." Others may not understand the Wolf King, but Princess Jinghe knows him very well. When he was young, he liked to act on impulse. For the sake of a promise, he really stayed in the border for so many years.

"I'm already this old, what else have I not thought of?" The Wolf King laughed at himself, "Queen Mother, if everything is ok, I will take Hui'er back first."

The Queen Mother said nothing, but just looked at the two of them with an unhappy expression.

After paying his respects, the Wolf King supported Jiang Xinhui and turned to walk out.

"Nangong Aocang, can you bear to watch this world being ruined by the emperor?"

The Wolf King was startled and turned to look at the Queen Mother in confusion: "I, I don't understand what the Queen Mother means."

Yuan Buwei glanced at Princess Jinghe, and there was confusion in her eyes.

The Queen Mother raised her head, looked out the window, and then sighed: "All this is my fault. It's all the bad fate that I caused."

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Princess Jinghe had never seen her mother look so sad and regretful.

"I thought that the emperor would be a wise ruler once he took the throne, but in fact, he has made countless mistakes during his years on the throne. If it weren't for the old officials in the court who looked up to the late emperor and me, Da Zhao wouldn't have the peaceful life it has now." The queen mother looked at the wolf king with eyes that were suddenly filled with apology, "It was also my greed that made you... made you stay in the border for so many years."

"Queen Mother, what you are saying is..." The Gray Wolf King was confused. "I am guarding the border voluntarily. It has nothing to do with you."

"Ao Cang, do you know why I treated you as my own son after your mother passed away?" The Queen Mother's eyes sparkled with tears. "Besides the fact that your mother and I are close friends, there is another point. Back then, your mother and I were the Queen and the favorite concubine, respectively. We both had a firm control over the harem. The women in the harem could fight with each other all day long, but they could not unite as one. This would make the late emperor feel a sense of crisis. And you and the Emperor were the best among the princes. Everyone knew that you were the best candidate for the Crown Prince in the late emperor's mind. But in the end, he chose the Emperor as the Crown Prince because he knew that I had a good relationship with your mother. The late emperor wanted to use this to turn me and your mother against each other."

"What did you say? Father, why...why did he...do this?"

"The harem at that time was under the control of Ai Jia and your mother. We knew everything about the civil and military officials in the court, big and small, from their wives and daughters. But since ancient times, the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics. The late emperor wanted to be a wise ruler and didn't want to be our enemy directly. After all, it would be bad for his reputation if it got out. So he came up with such a sinister trick. Your mother was smart enough to realize this, so she..."

"You mean, my mother didn't die of illness, but she did?" The Wolf King's eyes trembled.

"She died for me. I have been unable to get over this knot in my heart for all these years. I had already arranged everything to let her fake her death and leave the palace, but she didn't want to. Her last wish before she died was for me to protect you. But I never thought that the emperor I gave birth to was not only suspicious and sensitive by nature, but also wanted to frame you and Lu Sui. I really feel guilty. I don't believe that the person sitting on the throne was born by me after ten months of pregnancy."

When the Queen Mother said this, she was completely exhausted and could no longer stand.

"Mother."

Princess Jinghe's eyes turned red, it turned out that her mother knew everything.

"Jinghe, the second person I feel sorry for is you. I have always known that the emperor was wary of you. During the three years since you fell ill, I wanted to save you, but I knew that if I went looking for you, the emperor would kill you. Fortunately, Bu Wei came out, and I really appreciate her medical skills."

It turns out that the Queen Mother already knew about it, so when I disguised myself as a palace maid to meet the Queen Mother, it was like the Queen Mother was testing me?

When Yuan Buwei thought of this, cold sweat broke out on her back. If she had taken a wrong step at that moment, she might not have seen the sun tomorrow.

"Mother, I have never blamed you." Princess Jinghe's eyes turned red. "It's my own problem."

"Jinghe, you are fine. You should not feel inferior because you are a girl. There is heaven and earth, yin and yang, and men and women are the same. There is no distinction between high and low. It's just that this world restricts women." The queen mother sighed, "I am the queen mother, but I will be trapped in this deep palace for my whole life."

"Mother, please stop talking and take a rest."

"No, if I don't tell you now, I'm afraid I won't have the chance in the future."

"Mother, no, you will live a long life." Princess Jinghe shook her head, tears falling one by one. In fact, during the time she accompanied her mother, she had noticed that her mother seemed to eat and drink normally every day, but she was always unhappy and her expression became increasingly haggard, just like an oil lamp. When it burns out, its life will come to an end.

"Jinghe, Ao Cang, you two must unite, otherwise... I..."

"boom!"

The door of the hall was suddenly knocked open.

Everyone was startled and turned to look at the emperor who walked in angrily.

The Wolf King was the first to react and pulled Jiang Xinhui behind him.

"emperor……"

"Snapped."

The emperor slapped the wolf king in the face with his backhand: "Nangong Aocang, you are so brave."

"Emperor, what are you doing?" the Queen Mother was furious.

"Don't you know exactly what I'm doing, mother?" The emperor was so angry that his chest kept rising and falling. "I let you enjoy your old age, but you let Nangong Aocang and Jinghe join hands to deal with me? I am your biological son."

His tone was filled with grief and anger, and even a hint of grievance.

"It is precisely because you are my own son that I feel so grief-stricken."

"Mother, what did I do to make you hate me so much?"

"Every single one of them does not satisfy me."

"Well, since no matter what I do, I can't satisfy my mother, then I will be the bad guy." The emperor said, with a ruthless look in his eyes, "Come here, King Canglang and Princess Jinghe have formed a clique and are trying to rebel. Take them to the Dali Temple immediately for interrogation."

"Emperor, you can't do this!" The Queen Mother stepped forward and protected the group of people behind her.

"Ha." The emperor sneered and continued, "I am passing on my order. The Queen Mother has been unwell recently and needs to rest. No one is allowed to visit her without my permission!"