The Emperor's heart is won, she sits on the Phoenix Throne! The Divine Physician's Eldest

When the Empress heard Song Siyao's words, she laughed heartily, but then she started to cry.

Now that things have come to this, she has nothing to argue about.

Seventeen years old, the seventeenth year she hated the most.

She was originally a pampered daughter of a noble family, and she and the Prince of Zhen were in love. At that time, she thought the Prince of Zhen would become the emperor.

She had always supported the Prince of Zhen in his quest for the throne, but the Prince of Zhen had little interest in it.

Later, Emperor Changlong became emperor, but the Prince of Zhen remained the Prince of Zhen.

She is not reconciled.

She was born to be an empress; she was unwilling to remain just a princess.

So she participated in the imperial concubine selection, fulfilled her wish, and entered the palace to become empress.

But the Prince of Zhen still didn't want to give up on her.

The Prince of Zhen wanted to elope with her, but she refused.

Afterwards, she became the Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty, ruling the world with grace and virtue. The Prince of Zhen left the capital and went to his fiefdom.

There was no further contact between the two, and she did not pay any attention to news about the Prince of Zhen.

Two years later, she heard news of the Prince of Zhen again: he was getting married.

At that moment, she felt a mix of emotions: anger, pain, resentment, jealousy...

The Prince of Zhen once promised her that he would love only her in this life.

But only two short years later, the town king has a new person.

She wanted to make the Prince of Zhen pay the price, so she poisoned the Prince's wife.

She wanted the Prince of Zhen to watch his wife suffer, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

She wanted to see if the Prince of Zhen would despise her if the Princess Consort was chronically ill and unable to bear him any children.

A few years later, the Prince of Zhen returned to the capital with his wife. The wife was in poor health, and the Prince of Zhen took great care of her.

The kindness that the Prince of Zhen showed to his wife was something she had never experienced or witnessed before.

Even when she was with the Prince of Zhen, he had never been this gentle to her.

Driven mad with jealousy, she wanted not only to ruin the Princess Consort's body, but also her reputation.

Even though the Princess Consort's reputation was ruined, the Prince still loved her as before.

At this point, the Empress had a new purpose: to put Shen Heng on the throne, since the Princess Consort of Zhen wouldn't live much longer anyway.

She planned to wait until Shen Heng became emperor and she became empress dowager. By then, the Princess Consort of Zhen would be dead, and she would rekindle her relationship with the Prince of Zhen.

However, things did not go as smoothly as she had hoped.

Shen Heng's past mistakes were brought up again, causing him to lose Emperor Changlong's favor and the people's hearts.

In desperation, she went to Prince Zhen and told him that Shen Heng was his son, hoping that Prince Zhen could use his relationship with Emperor Changlong to help Shen Heng.

However, the Prince of Zhen refused.

Not only that, the Prince of Zhen was also worried that she would harm the Princess Consort, and he couldn't wait to take the Princess Consort away from the capital.

The Prince of Zhen is unjust, so don't blame her for being heartless.

The town king didn't care about their son, so she wanted to kill the town king's most beloved woman.

She wanted the Prince of Zhen to watch helplessly as his wife was killed before his eyes, unable to do anything about it.

She thought her plan was foolproof.

To her surprise, Emperor Changlong actually sent Song Siyao to investigate the case.

Fearing that her crimes would be exposed, she decided to get rid of Song Siyao.

To achieve her goal, she risked her life by poisoning herself and framing Song Siyao.

She has always acted prudently and behaved appropriately. In order to provoke Song Siyao, she deliberately insulted Song Siyao as a divorced woman, thus giving everyone the impression that Song Siyao had a motive to harm her.

Despite her meticulous planning and scheming, she never imagined that Song Siyao already possessed evidence of her crimes.

"Empress, do you know your crime?" Emperor Changlong asked sternly.

"A crime?" The Empress smiled and looked at Emperor Changlong. "What crime have I committed?"

"People strive for higher positions, water flows downhill. I simply want to live a better life, what's wrong with that?"

"Your Majesty, I have always followed my heart and adhered to the principle of 'I will not offend others unless they offend me.' It was Prince Zhen who betrayed me. He promised to love only me for the rest of his life, but he turned around and married someone else."

"And you, Your Majesty, do you think you're without fault? You married me, and as the Empress, you've never loved me. Your heart only belongs to Consort Rou. What's so good about Consort Rou? She was the same before she entered the palace..."

"Shut up!" Emperor Changlong shouted, interrupting the Empress. "You have no right to mention Consort Rou, nor are you qualified to be compared to her. You are not even a hair's breadth above her!"

"Haha..." The Empress laughed unrestrainedly, as if releasing all the repression she had endured in the palace over the years. "Your Majesty, what is there to be proud of? There are three thousand beauties in the harem, yet not one of them truly loves you. It seems that you possess the whole world, but in reality, you have nothing. Everyone only cares about the imperial power in your hands. Do you think they have any sincerity towards you? Even Song Siyao, whom you trust and value the most, is no exception!"

Emperor Changlong stared coldly at the Empress, his eyes filled with indifference, ruthlessness, and disgust.

"Empress, although I do not love you, I have given you the utmost respect in all these years since you entered the palace. As long as you behave yourself, you will be the Empress Dowager no matter which prince inherits the throne in the future. Unfortunately, you have disappointed me too much. You deceived me, murdered the Princess Consort of Zhen, and used your power to murder others many times. Even if you die a thousand times, it will not be enough to atone for your sins!"

Emperor Changlong decreed, "The Empress has failed in her moral conduct, hired someone to commit murder, and deceived the Emperor. Therefore, her title of Empress is hereby revoked, she is demoted to a commoner, imprisoned in the Cold Palace, and will be whipped once a day until her death."

They sent men to whip the empress once a day, subjecting her to endless torment and pain until she breathed her last.

This is a rather severe punishment for the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

The Empress chuckled, her eyes filled with coldness. She looked at Emperor Changlong with a defiant smile, showing no intention of pleading for his life.

"Father, spare my life!"

Just then, a voice came from the entrance of Qiwu Palace; it was Shen Heng.

Shen Heng rushed in, knelt before Emperor Changlong, and pleaded, "Father, Mother is indeed at fault. Please spare her life for the sake of her many years of service to you, and do not whip her every day."

"Heng'er!" The cold Empress only showed emotion when she saw Shen Heng. "Don't beg him. Take good care of yourself. From now on, your mother will no longer be able to protect you."

"Mother!" Shen Heng cried out, tears streaming down his face, overwhelmed with grief.

"Father, I beg you to spare Mother's life. I beg you."

Shen Heng kowtowed frantically, and soon his head was bleeding profusely, but he still did not give up, constantly calling out "Father Emperor".

"Don't call me Father Emperor, I am not your father Emperor!" Emperor Changlong looked at Shen Heng, the son he once thought was the most filial.

When Song Siyao told him the truth, he could hardly believe that the son he had loved for so many years was not his biological child.

“Father, what do you mean by that? You are my father, and you will always be my father.”

Shen Heng had a bad feeling. He looked at Emperor Changlong, both expectant and afraid of the answer.

"Ask her, the one you begged me to forgive, what has she done!" Emperor Changlong was furious.

"Mother, what did Father mean?" Shen Heng asked the Empress. In fact, he already knew the answer, but he dared not face it.

"Your Majesty, the Prince of Jin is your son..."

"He is my son." Another voice came from the gate, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was the Prince of Zhen.