"Let’s talk about Prince Ping next!" As he said that, Prince Le laughed, a mocking laughter, "Is he really your child? Have you asked Her Highness Noble Princess Consort?"
"Now, let’s talk about yourself! How many siblings did you kill to seize the throne back then? Do you think I don’t know why that General treated my mother like he did?"
"You slept with soone’s wife, and he only humiliated your consort and stole your daughter-in-law. I think that’s quite normal now, don’t you?"
As he spoke, the Emperor’s face turned various shades of green and purple, his heart nearly leaping out.
How does he know such ancient secrets?
The Emperor was greatly shocked, but he was not alone in his astonishnt; even Prince Ping in the court was astounded. Was this man insane? Was he implying that he was not an imperial family mber?
How could this be possible?
"Utter nonsense, all of it is sheer nonsense!" The Emperor was the first to stand up from the dragon throne, his face livid with anger, veins and blood vessels bulging on his forehead, threatening to burst at any mont.
"Guards, capture this wretch for , it’s driving crazy, utterly enraging !"
All the ministers looked straight at the Emperor; they had never seen him lose his composure like this.
"Prince Le, we are brothers, although we have not been amicable in the past, your brother has never done anything to wrong you, but now you co to harm , what is the reason?" The Emperor finished his anger, and now Prince Le was furious.
Staring at the man in the center, ready to leap and fight at any mont.
"Ha ha..." Prince Le laughed, sarcastically looking at both Prince Ping and the Emperor, "Feeling angry and embarrassed? Not willing to admit it?"
He clapped twice, and an elderly nanny walked in.
"Please, tell His Majesty the Emperor of Great Zhou, which consort in the palace was once General Tong’s fiancée!" General Tong was the one who forced Prince Le’s mother to commit suicide.
"Your Highness, this old servant was the nanny by Noble Princess Consort Luo back then. Before entering the palace, she was betrothed to General Tong; at that ti, General Tong was just an ordinary secretary. Although the Luo Family initially disapproved, Noble Princess Consort Luo threatened suicide, and Old Madam Luo, loving her daughter dearly, consented. In winter of that year, the young lady was about to marry General Tong when she happened to et the Emperor outside the residence; soon after returning ho, an imperial edict arrived at the Luo Residence, and the engagent with General Tong was annulled."
"Ha, did you hear that? Do you know why this happened?" Prince Le looked at the Emperor and continued, "You were captivated by Noble Princess Consort Luo’s beauty and issued an edict without concerning yourself about her engagent, tearing apart soone’s marriage, and harboring resentnt. Yet my mother suffered for your misdeeds..."
This incident happened just as the Emperor ascended the throne, a ti when he was young and reckless, feeling that the world was his, wanting whatever he desired, daring anyone to defy him. And moreover, it was just a beauty, wasn’t it? He liked her, so he issued an edict, not caring whether she already had a marriage agreent!
And it was precisely this incident that triggered a series of conflicts and wars thereafter.
Back then, the Luo Family despised the Tong Family’s low status. Even though the engagent was arranged, it was kept secret from the people of Capital City. Thus, after Noble Princess Consort Luo entered the palace, the Tong Family did not bring it up again, and the affair gradually buried itself in history.
Due to the intense battle for the throne in the previous dynasty, the Emperor ascended with an alliance with Great Qi and the support of the entire Luo Family. However, two princes were left scattered among the common folk during the fight for the throne and incessantly sought to cause rebellions and conspiracies.
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