Dethroned the Crown Princess? Then she became your mother

"It has spread throughout the mansion." Yuan whispered, with a hint of heaviness in her voice that was difficult to conceal.

She held her eldest son's hand tightly, never letting up. "How could this be? How is this possible?" Zhao's voice trembled, her fear evident in her words, as if a sudden storm had struck her deep within her soul, leaving her completely bewildered.

"This is the fact, absolutely true. I heard it with my own ears, and I sent people to investigate carefully. Everyone is talking about it, so how could it be false? Even my daughter heard about it, and she was also shocked. She thought what she knew before was the truth, and she never expected such a turn of events. Many people were shocked after hearing it." Yuan spoke slowly, and every word was like a heavy hammer, hitting Zhao's heart.

"Are you still trying to quibble? Are you still pretending that nothing happened? You are not saying anything, you..." Weiyuan Hou stared at the woman in front of him with his eyes wide open, furious, wishing he could eat her alive immediately.

How dare she hide such a big thing from him!

"Ci'er didn't do that, Lord Marquis, Mother, you have to believe me, really, we didn't make this up. She...she..." Zhao was still unwilling to admit it and tried to argue and prove Ci'er's innocence. Her eyes wandered between the Lord Marquis and her mother-in-law, craving their trust.

"At this moment, you still dare to deny it?" Yuan's tone was cold. She had already lost her patience with Zhao. She didn't know how to describe Zhao's behavior at the moment. Was she really a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water?

Weiyuan Hou was so angry that he was speechless. Just the word "you" contained endless anger and disappointment.

"Mother, Lord Marquis, I...I..." Zhao hesitated to speak. She wanted to explain, to say that she and Ci'er had never had such thoughts, and they had agreed on this from the beginning.

"Do you have to wait for the emperor and the crown prince to speak before you admit it? Do you think that if you don't admit it, the fact will no longer exist? Think about Ci'er in the palace!" Yuan's words were like a sharp blade, piercing Zhao's heart.

"Speak!" Weiyuan Hou shouted again, his voice full of unquestionable majesty.

"Mother, Marquis, my daughter-in-law doesn't want it either, and Ci'er doesn't want it either. My daughter-in-law knows, Ci'er..." Zhao knew very well that she could no longer hide it at this moment, but she was still hesitant in her words.

"What's going on?" Yuan looked at her with sympathy and annoyance in her eyes, and asked again in a deep voice.

Marquis Weiyuan also held her hand tightly: "If Ci'er is really... she shouldn't have been brought into this world! She shouldn't have been raised!" As he said that, he let go and was about to shake Zhao off.

But Zhao held on tightly: "My Lord, Mother, Ci'er had no choice. How could we have expected it to be discovered and known to others? We thought no one would know. At the beginning, she and I thought this was the best way, the best!"

"You thought it was the best? What was the result? It was still discovered!" Yuan scolded angrily, her eyes full of incompetence and anger towards Zhao.

Weiyuan Hou also said angrily: "Mother is right!"

Before she finished speaking, Zhao suddenly said, "But if mother and the marquis knew at the time, they would definitely do the same. I wonder how much mother and the marquis knew?" When Zhao said this, it was like an implicit admission of the matter. She ignored the pain from the place where she was grabbed.

"I know something." Yuan said lightly.

In comparison, Marquis Weiyuan knew even less.

Nanny Yu remained silent.

Zhao glanced at Nanny Yu, and Yuan said, "Nanny Yu also knows about this."

Zhao stopped talking and began to explain why Ci'er had acted like this, the circumstances at the time, and how they had been forced to do so, with no other choice. Ci'er was also in the same boat, and she didn't know what to do, so she sent someone to find Zhao. As a mother, Zhao naturally felt sorry for her daughter and wanted to do everything for her.

"Hearing you say that, you seem to be a good mother. I have nothing to say, but if you wanted to help your daughter, why weren't you more careful?" Yuan asked.

"At that time, you could have easily made people think that she was pregnant with a stillbirth. Besides, to what extent were you involved? Did anyone know? If someone found out..." Weiyuan Hou also thought of this and asked angrily.

Zhao shook her head. "I wasn't involved much. Mother, Lord, don't worry. Lord, you know that Ci'er is pregnant with a stillborn baby. How could you let people know that the Crown Princess is pregnant with a stillborn baby? What would everyone think if they knew? A Crown Princess can't even give birth to an imperial grandson, and my son used to..."

Yuan interrupted directly: "Don't mention Ai'er, this is Ci'er's business."

"I know, mother, I know. It's just a mention, but it's also the truth. I don't want anyone to say that the girls in Weiyuan Marquis' Mansion have difficulty giving birth, and that the babies they get pregnant end up having stillbirths. In the future, the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may no longer favor Ci'er, and may no longer allow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to get close to her, for fear that she will have another stillbirth. There's already a new person in the Eastern Palace, and if this goes on, what will happen to Ci'er?" Zhao's face was full of motherly love. She looked at her mother-in-law's defense of Zhang Tianai, her heart full of jealousy, and turned to look at the Marquis.

Marquis Weiyuan said directly: "Things have already come to this, just come to me. If you don't know how to do it, don't do it, look at the result!" If I took action, it would never be like this!

"My Lord, Mother." Zhao looked at her mother-in-law.

Although Yuan Shi did not approve of this method, she only wanted to know: "What should I do now?"

Weiyuan Hou was also at a loss. How could his own daughter be like this? His mind went blank.

Zhao asked nervously, "Mother, Lord Marquis, what should we do? How will the Emperor, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the Empress Dowager treat Ci'er when they find out? Does anyone know what we should do? We must save Ci'er and cannot abandon her!"

She pulled her mother-in-law and then the marquis, her eyes full of anxiety and pleading.

Weiyuan Hou also had no idea about this.

"Mom." Zhao called again.

"I was in a hurry to come back and hadn't thought about it carefully. The emperor and others had just returned to the palace, and the matter of Ci'er..." Yuan wanted to say something but stopped, as if there were thousands of words stuck in her throat, but she couldn't express them.