She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

The emperor raised his foot and kicked her away with such force that she rolled over twice and lay on the ground in a mess.

He strode towards the main seat, his robes fluttering. When he sat down, his eyes were as cold as ice, looking down coldly at Shangguan Wanrou lying on the ground.

Shangguan Wanrou endured the pain and trembled as she crawled towards him again, her forehead pressed against the ground. She cried, "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong. I beg Your Majesty to have mercy on me..."

"Do you admit your mistake?" The emperor sneered, his voice as cold as frost. "Since you dared to make such a big mistake, you should have thought about the consequences today."

Shangguan Wanrou's body stiffened suddenly when she heard this. Her raised face was full of fear. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn't dare let them fall.

Her lips trembled, she wanted to explain but she couldn't.

"Do you think I'll forgive you?" The emperor slowly stood up and looked down at her, without a trace of pity in his eyes. "You and your son dared to commit treason and regicide. Such a crime is intolerable to heaven and earth!"

Shangguan Wanrou's face turned pale as paper in an instant, as if all the blood had been drained away in an instant.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She could only sit on the ground helplessly, her eyes full of despair.

She saw the prince standing next to the emperor.

Then he turned and crawled towards the prince.

"Brother, save me. I don't want to die. I know I was wrong. I am your biological sister. You can't watch me die. I am willing to repent, even if it means I will be buried in the dark for eternity."

Shangguan Wanrou grabbed the prince's trouser leg as if it were a life-saving straw.

"Sister? When you were trying to harm Ziqi, why didn't you think of her as my sister?

Your ambition has led to your current situation. You and your son actually dared to recruit spies from the enemy country to work for yourselves.

How audacious.

You are as stupid as your mother, both of you are being used by Canglan's spies without knowing it.

I have warned you before that if you make another big mistake, I will remove you from the family tree and you will no longer be a daughter of the Shangguan family.

But you turned a deaf ear to my words.

You deserve what you've done today." The prince showed no mercy.

In terms of blood relationship, she is indeed his biological sister, but this biological sister is just like her biological mother, selfish and has never treated him as an elder brother or a relative.

What's the point of having a sister like this? She will only bring shame to the Shangguan family.

"Your Majesty, I have nothing to say. Just handle it as it should be handled. I won't have any complaints.

At the same time, I would like to say sorry to you. It is because my Shangguan family did not educate our daughter well that led to the current situation.

If the Emperor wishes to blame my Shangguan family, I will accept the blame and punishment."

The prince bowed to the emperor to express his attitude.

The emperor turned around and nodded lightly.

This is the attitude he wants.

Then his voice was as cold as a knife: "Come here, banish Shangguan Wanrou to the cold palace, give her a white silk cloth ten feet long, and let her end her life."

As soon as he finished speaking, several palace guards rushed in from outside the hall and lifted Shangguan Wanrou up with expressionless faces.

She panicked, struggled in fear, and cried out in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, spare my life! I will never dare to do it again! Please, for the sake of our past friendship, spare my life!"

The emperor acted as if he had not heard anything, his face expressionless, his back resolute and indifferent.

Shangguan Wanrou's cries gradually faded away and finally disappeared in the corridor of the deep palace.

Silence returned to the hall, with only the sunlight from outside the window shining into the hall without warmth, illuminating the emperor's stern profile.

He stood under the window, looked up and out, a complex emotion flashed in his eyes, but was quickly replaced by coldness.

"Hongyi, am I too ruthless?"

"No, the crime of regicide is unforgivable."

"You have been my study companion since you were eight years old. Back then, I often went to Prince Rong's Mansion. Wanrou is your only sister. I have always been kind to her and cared for her like a family member.

Back then, she wanted to enter the palace and plot against me. Because of my feelings for her, I couldn't bear to see her sad, so I agreed.

Alas, it has finally come to this point today.

I never thought it would end like this, but things are unpredictable."

"Your Majesty, what's happened is over. Don't worry about it. Third Prince, how should you handle this?" The prince changed the subject.

"The Third Prince has been led step by step by his mother to this point today, and it is also my fault for neglecting to discipline him. But he is my own son after all. I cannot kill him, but he has indeed committed the crime of patricide, which is unforgivable by heaven and earth. I am in a dilemma."

"Then let him die suddenly." The prince raised his eyebrows, suggesting something.

The implication is to fake the death of the Third Prince.

"Okay, as you said, then send him to the imperial mausoleum and let him repent for the rest of his life in front of the ancestors. However, the Third Prince's wife is pregnant now, so let her give birth to the child, and both mother and child will be demoted to commoners. Give them a chance to live."

"Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor is a man of long-lasting affection. This the prince has long known, otherwise the Shangguan family would also be punished by the emperor for this matter.

At the same time, in the cold palace.

Shangguan Wanrou was thrown to the ground roughly by the palace guards, and a ten-foot-long white silk was thrown in front of her.

She reached out her trembling hand to touch the cold silk, and tears finally burst out.

"Why...why is it like this..." She murmured to herself, her voice full of regret and unwillingness.

However, deep in the palace, no one responded to her cries. Only the cold wind blew through the broken window frames, making a shrill whimpering sound, like a wail.

Shangguan Wanrou slowly stood up and looked out the window with a dull look.

She knew she had no way out.

Her trembling fingers clenched the white silk, she closed her eyes, tears slid down her cheeks, and finally turned into a silent sigh.

At this moment, she had no idea what the third prince would become, and only lamented her own life.

"Your Majesty, please get on your way." The palace guards standing by urged, they were still waiting to go back and report.

Seeing that they didn't give her any chance to hesitate, Shangguan Wanrou knew that it was useless to struggle any further.

Her life came to an end.

Does she regret it?

Of course she regrets it, but if she were given the choice again, she might still take the same path.

Her mother taught her from a young age that if she wanted to be successful, she had to work hard on her own.

In order to become the superior person, she deliberately seduced the emperor and gave birth to a son. Everything was going according to her plan, but since Ziqi woke up, nothing went so smoothly.

The plan was supposed to be perfect, but it ended up failing.

Until now she still doesn't know what the problem is?

Why didn’t the emperor die?

At this moment, Shangguan Ziqi finished dealing with other arrests in the palace and came to the cold palace.

He wanted to see his aunt for the last time. He wanted to ask her if she was sincere. He wanted to ask her if she knew that Zishu was not his father's child.

"Meet Prince Rong."

"Well, you guys go guard the door." Shangguan Ziqi ordered in a calm voice.

The two palace guards withdrew.

"Zi Qi, you are here to save your aunt, right? Your aunt loved you the most when you were a child. Can you please save your aunt?" Shangguan Wanrou seemed to be grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Save you? I'm not that stupid." Shangguan Ziqi said with disdain.

"Ziqi, Auntie was wrong. I apologize to you. Please save me. I will definitely change for the better in the future."

"Aunt, don't you think it's too late to say this?"