They suspected they were experiencing an illusion.
Beside their ears was the continued reading voice of the Chief Eunuch...
Until they heard who would inherit, everyone was even more astonished!
The Third Prince!
The son of a peasant girl!
The Princes are all children born to the most noble n in this world; they are already invincible compared to their fathers, so the only competition between them is their mothers and maternal lineage.
The Empress has no offspring, so there is no legitimate heir from the middle palace.
In fact, if the Empress had given birth to a son, none of these people, no matter how outstanding, would have had any chance. After all, for the past ten years, the Empress has been the Emperor’s sole favorite, the deep affection between them known to all.
The New Emperor’s ascension brought a general amnesty, and he even canceled all his selection processes during his reign, which further convinced people that the Emperor deeply loved the Empress and that their affection was as deep as the sea.
The mother of this Third Prince was the one with the most looked-down-upon maternal family among the Princes, always belonging to the least favored group.
When the Emperor was still a Prince, because he was an outsider Prince, he had relatively more freedom to play around and observe everywhere. One day, he saw a little peasant girl in a field of rapeseed flowers.
Perhaps it was the beauty of the sunset glow, or perhaps the rapeseed field was too beautiful, making the little peasant girl appear extraordinarily fresh and refined.
He found it amusing, so he hid his identity and interacted with the little peasant girl, who developed genuine feelings for him, waiting for him to co and marry her, not knowing he was just a passerby.
Later, when the little peasant girl couldn’t wait for him to co back, her belly grew bigger by the day, and she finally panicked, confessing to her elders at ho, described his appearance to a painter, and eventually plastered his portraits all over the nearby towns, offering quality farmland as a reward.
He was drugged unconscious by the owner of a lamb shop, and when he woke up, he returned to the village, first laying eyes on the little peasant girl with a bulging belly.
Since there was a child, having one more woman in the Prince’s Mansion wasn’t impossible. Considering himself as a responsible man, he revealed his noble identity, generously offered to make her a concubine, and even secretly felt that letting her into the Prince’s Mansion was a great favor.
The little peasant girl hated him to death in her heart and didn’t want to be a concubine, but she could only bla her own confusion for not figuring out his situation; she was coaxed into drinking two glasses of wine, and then coaxed into giving herself to him. Now, with a child, she had no other choice.
This little peasant girl held the lowest status in the Prince’s Mansion; the Prince had long lost interest in her after she gave birth and gained weight, and without affection or status, there was no other path but to keep her head down.
She was considered obedient and diligent, perhaps too insignificant for anyone to plot against her. The won in the forr Prince’s Mansion fought fiercely with each other, and no one paid her any mind. Later, when she entered the Imperial Palace, the won of the harem fought fiercely, and still, no one minded her, allowing her to live peacefully and raise her son peacefully.
Standing out ant heading for death, so she always reminded her son to hide his talents; until his wings were fully developed, he mustn’t stand out. Hence, over the years, the Third Prince lived like a little invisible ghost.
It was precisely because he lived like a little invisible ghost that, now, when the decree naming him as heir was given, everyone was shocked.
Even the eunuch reading the decree himself found it incredible, repeatedly believing he might have read wrongly, but after confirming multiple tis, there was no mistake—it was truly absurd.
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