Perhaps knowing that the woman was unaware of the situation, she felt better and regained her composure.

He knew that he was taking his anger out on others, and that if he had to blame anyone, it should be Xie Rong, who caused all this.

But she had no chance of winning against Xie Rong, so she could only endure and become what Xie Rong thought she should be.

But whether she took it to heart or not was different after all. Just when she was interacting with Concubine Zhou according to Xie Rong's instructions, the woman became pregnant.

She gave birth to the fifth prince safely and was promoted to Shun Guipin.

On the day the fifth prince was born, Xie Rong looked at the fifth prince in the cradle with eyes full of love.

The kindness in her eyes was different from when Yongle and Anle were born. It came from the heart, just like when she looked at Yongle.

Overnight, the woman had both children and status.

She looked at the fifth prince in the cradle, and a flash of inspiration seemed to pass through her mind.

That night, she began to review the past, and then she was shocked to realize that perhaps the miscarriage was not caused by Concubine Zhou, but by Xie Rong.

After six months, the imperial physician can tell the gender of the baby.

Since Xie Rong wanted Shun Guipin to have a child, he would definitely want this child to inherit everything he had.

But she was the queen, so if she gave birth to a princess, it would be fine, but if she gave birth to a boy, he would be the legitimate child of the empress, and would definitely block the way for Concubine Shun to have a child.

In order to verify this guess, she began to secretly observe everything about Xie Nanyuan.

This so-called son of the late queen always gets into trouble. Is it really such a coincidence?

Xie Rong had already torn off his disguise in front of her. As long as she observed carefully, she would eventually see the cruel heart beneath his pretending to be a kind father.

Even Xie Nanyuan, the legitimate son of the Empress and the daughter of a powerful maternal family, was treated like this, let alone her, the child of a puppet queen?

She was angry, terrified, and she wished she could tear Xie Rong apart with her bare hands. Even though Xie Rong had threatened her with Yongle, she had never thought that the pain of losing her son was inflicted on her by Xie Rong.

For a moment, she wanted to fight to the death and tell the Duke of Zhenguo what Xie Rong had done to Xie Nanyuan, and let the Duke of Zhenguo deal with Xie Rong.

But it was just a thought, and she soon gave up on this behavior.

Putting aside the question of whether the Duke of Zhenguo would confront Xie Rong, the mere fact that she informed the Duke of Zhenguo about this matter was already extremely difficult.

She was trapped in the deep palace, surrounded by Xie Rong's spies. The Duke of Zhenguo was often away on military campaigns, so it was difficult to see her.

Even if he saw it, she had no evidence and the Duke of Zhenguo might not believe her.

She is the next empress, and the Zhenguo Guild might think that she wants to sow discord between Xie Rong and Xie Nanyuan. If Xie Rong is informed of this, she and Yongle will be doomed.

She couldn't afford the gamble.

Since she couldn't take revenge, she put all her thoughts on Yongle.

Yongle was cute and a little naughty when he was young. When she had a falling out with Xie Rong, Yongle was only half a year old and naturally remembered nothing.

In addition, Xie Rong was good at acting, so everyone in the palace thought that Yongle was the emperor's favorite princess.

The palace maids all held Yongle.

On the contrary, the fifth prince was young, his mother was born in a low-class family, and he was not favored, so he was often looked down upon.

Yongle was fine. She knew what was going on in his mind, so she naturally warned Yongle not to bully the fifth prince.

Although Yongle was not happy, he finally listened to her.

On the contrary, Anle, born to Concubine Zhou, relied on Concubine Zhou's power and her own favor to bully the fifth prince.

In the past, they had only mocked and bullied each other verbally, until one day, Anle accidentally pushed the fifth prince into a pond and he almost drowned.

Yongle also saw it that time, but she felt that it had nothing to do with her, so she did not say anything to help when Anle was bullying the fifth prince. However, she never thought that such consequences would occur.

But Xie Rong was furious and felt that Yongle was wrong to stand idly by.

Yongle was locked up in a small dark room in the cold palace for three days.

When Yongle came out, he was covered in wounds from being beaten.

The cold palace was full of crazy concubines. Yongle was only eight years old at that time. He had been pampered since childhood, so he was naturally frightened.

What made Yongle even more unacceptable was that her father, the emperor who had always doted on her, seemed to have become a different person, revealing a hideous face.

Even Yongle was like this, and Concubine Zhou's Anle "accidentally" broke her leg while climbing up a rockery.

Concubine Zhou was furious and killed all the servants around Anle with a stick.

But she knew that it had nothing to do with those servants, it was all done by Xie Rong.

Xie Rong also wanted to use Concubine Zhou to restrain Duke Zhenguo and Xie Nanyuan, so naturally he couldn't do it too obviously.

As they, mother and daughter, had to rely on him, they naturally did not bother to hide it.

It was also from that day that Yongle began to understand things and started to be afraid of Xie Rong, and she also slowly told Yongle some things.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like