Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

"No... no, this is impossible..."

The emperor staggered twice in dismay, as if he had been hit on the head with a blow.

He tried to get rid of the terrifying answer in his heart, but found that he was so timid that he was almost suffocating.

Finally, Huanpei whispered, "He is the third prince, Mu Nanqi."

"No!"

The emperor could not accept this fact.

"It must not be, it must not be! If Mu Nanqi was born to the late queen, how could there be a difference of several months in age?"

Huan Pei said, "The Third Prince wasn't well cared for after being sent out of the palace. He's frail, and even though he's several months old, he looks like a strong newborn. When the noble learned that her entry into the palace hastened her eldest sister's death, she was filled with sorrow and worry. If things had continued like this for a long time, the fetus in her womb wouldn't have developed enough, and the baby she gave birth to would have been stillborn."

Huanpei sighed, "'The Imperial Concubine, after all, remembered the Empress' kindness and didn't kill the Third Prince. She felt guilty towards the late Empress, so she asked me to go outside the palace and bring the Third Prince back, claiming he was the Imperial Concubine's child.'"

"We are from the same family, so it's natural that the Third Prince looks like his own aunt, so no one would be suspicious."

"Your Majesty, you disdained the noble lady and her son at that time, and never paid any attention to them. Not only did you order the noble lady's death not long after, but you also threw the Third Prince directly to the care of a nanny. Now, everything is settled."

"The Imperial Concubine had already accomplished all her plans. The servant who knew the truth and the former head of the Imperial Hospital became useless children that she had to get rid of. So, after she offered a bowl of sterilizing soup as a token of loyalty and secured the opportunity to care for her own child, she attacked us."

Huanpei was already weeping uncontrollably, "I am guilty. The late queen treated me with great kindness. I shouldn't have aided the tyrant. I have been a vegetarian and chanted Buddhist scriptures my whole life, but it hasn't been able to alleviate the guilt in my heart. This time, Lord Song has found me. Perhaps it's God's will that I can set things right."

Huanpei kowtowed several times, and blood soon dyed his forehead red.

The emperor turned a blind eye, his face frozen with an expression of disbelief. His mind went blank as he listened to the devastating result.

The things I once believed in were completely overturned in an instant, and the shock in my heart was like a surging wave that could not be calmed.

After a while, just when Huanpei was about to die, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Did you accept Song Yang's favor and say this on purpose to irritate me?!"

Mu Nanqi is his and the late queen's child. What kind of nonsense is this?

He has ignored Mu Nanqi for so many years, targeted Mu Nanqi for so many years, and suppressed Mu Nanqi for so many years. If he is his and the late queen's child, then what has he done all these years means nothing!

He personally pushed him further and further away, and even removed him from the royal jade plate.

Now she came to tell him tearfully that Mu Nanqi was the one he should love!

The emperor couldn't accept it.

He simply couldn't accept that he had been so mindless and harsh towards Mu Nanqi for so many years.

Thinking of what he had done, he didn't even have the face to see Mu Nanqi again.

"Your Majesty, I did this because the Concubine threatened my family's lives. Even though it's too late to regret, I'm willing to go to hell and forgive my sins. I only ask Your Majesty to spare my family. They are innocent."

After saying this, Huanpei suddenly crashed into the pillar beside him.

After a loud bang, Huanpei died on the spot.

The emperor stumbled back into his chair, "Your family is innocent, but isn't my Nan Qi innocent too? He should have enjoyed my most unwavering favor, but you guys messed everything up."

The emperor's eyes were filled with anger, and he wished he could eat her alive.

He gnashed his teeth and said, "You lowly slave, do you think your death can atone for all you have done? Come, I will kill all her clan!"

"emperor!"

Song Yang hurried forward to stop her. "Don't let the family be harmed. It's all her fault. Her death alone is enough to atone for her sins. Besides, the main culprit, the deposed queen, has already received the punishment she deserves. Your most important priority right now is how to save the Third Prince, not continuing to kill innocent people."

"Recover..."

The emperor covered his face and cried in pain, "He will never forgive me. Everything I did was driving him to death!"

He always knew that he was biased. He used to feel at ease because he thought Mu Nanqi should not have come into this world.

But now that I know the truth, I am shocked to realize how outrageous I was.

How could he direct his anger towards an innocent child!

They have the same blood, but he treated his own child like that.

Even for that idiot Mu Qinghan, he hurt him again and again.

He held on to the last glimmer of hope and wanted to check again to see if this matter was true.

He even hoped that Huanpei was lying to him so that he wouldn't have to think about the unbearable consequences.

But the result he obtained with great effort told him accurately that Huanpei did not lie.

Not only that, it even involved something that made him even more desperate.

It is very likely that Mu Qinghan is not even his son.

Because if we infer based on the month of Mu Qinghan's birth, the Jingshifang found out after looking through the records that he never let the deposed queen sleep with him during that period.

Because at that time he was wholeheartedly devoted to the pregnant late queen, immersed in the joy of becoming a father soon, and went to see the late queen as soon as he left the court, and had no time to take care of these things.

Is it...

He suddenly remembered what the virtuous king had said before: "You think you can call the wind and rain in this life, but you are still fooled by the world. Do you think I have lost? I won more than ten years ago."

It’s so early!

The deposed queen and the virtuous king had been having an affair so early on, and he has been wearing the green hat for so many years.

Mu Qinghan is the illegitimate offspring of the deposed queen and the virtuous king!

He actually treated his own suicidal child like that for the sake of a bastard!

The emperor covered his chest tightly with one hand, feeling a sharp pain surging wildly in his chest.

Anger and disbelief intertwined on his face, veins bulged on his forehead, and the next second, he felt a sweet taste in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood before fainting.

"emperor!"

Song Yang rushed over in a hurry and asked Eunuch Li to call the imperial physician immediately.

By the time Song Zhi learned everything from the secret guards who were gathering information, she had already returned to the capital safely.

Mu Nanqi, Qin Yuehonghong and others were all waiting to welcome them at the city gate.

Before she even got close, Huan'er came up to her with a joyful look on her face, "Miss, you're finally back!"

Qin Yue said, "It's good that you're back. Let's quickly take the young lady back to welcome her back."

Mu Nanqi only had four short words, "I'm glad you're back."

Because there were many people around, Song Zhi did not ask him about the truth of his life.

She had a lively dinner with everyone in Gouer Lane, and patiently answered many of their questions. Finally, she sent everyone away on the pretext that they were tired from the journey and needed to rest, and then she took Mu Nanqi back to the house.