A surge of anger welled up from within.
In her mind, she couldn’t help but recall what Xin Lin had warned her earlier.
This Imperial Palace is a place that devours people without leaving a trace.
She and her child tread carefully, pleasing the Emperor, Empress Dowager, and Empress, believing that this would ensure peace.
But in reality, these people were all aggressive, eager to swallow them whole.
Motherhood brings courage, and this ti, she was determined to take a stand.
Shi Pin, with a sudden burst of courage, stood up abruptly.
"Empress Feng, Consort Zhao, don’t push the royal child any further. What do you want him to confess? That I, his birth mother, incited him to harm the Third Prince! He’s only seven or eight years old, while the Third Prince is already seventeen or eighteen. Even if my son wanted to incite him, would the Third Prince easily believe such slander?"
Empress Feng and Consort Zhao were both taken aback.
Shi Pin usually appeared ek as a lamb, seemingly inept, always speaking and acting submissively.
Long Qingchen, lying on the bed, was rendered speechless by the questioning, dumbfounded for a while before regaining his composure.
"Shi Pin, what are you talking about? Are you questioning this Prince’s words? The Seventh Prince is my brother after all. How could I think he’d deceive ? Besides, I only believed what I heard about Little Qi achieving a breakthrough after eating fish, which led to trust his words. Otherwise, how could I be so easily deceived?"
"The Third Prince is right, my son indeed recently broke through to beco a Great Spirit Master. He was born in the countryside, without Elixir Pills, and couldn’t eat Spiritual Food. Yet, he relied on his own talent to beco a Spirit Master. After consuming so Spiritual Food, he had a breakthrough, and that’s truly his fortune. Little Eight also wanted to make a breakthrough, so he asked what he ate. With a child’s innocence, he told Little Eight what he knew. How could he know that Little Eight would tell you? Or are you saying my son is so capable, with divine foresight, that he predicted Little Eight would inform you?"
Shi Pin expressed all her dissatisfaction and doubts in one breath.
The Empress Dowager listened silently, her brows slightly furrowed.
From this lengthy speech, the Empress Dowager noted several points.
Little Qi’s breakthrough to a Great Spirit Master.
He was only seven or eight years old, having grown up outside, naturally not receiving the sa treatnt as the Princes in the palace.
Yet even so, he achieved the status of a Great Spirit Master.
This showed that his talent was incomparable to Long Qingchen.
And Little Eight, who was close with Little Qi, yet spread tales to the Third Prince.
What was Little Eight really intending?
The Empress Dowager remained silent.
"Shi Pin, are you blaming my royal child? Ah Jing is even younger than the Seventh Prince, how could he have malicious intent!"
Consort Zhao flushed red with indignation, clearly dissatisfied.
Beside her, Empress Feng rely chuckled coldly.
"Shi Pin, who would have thought, you have quite a sharp tongue. Indeed, everything you said is correct. But you forgot, although Little Qi is only seven or eight, he has a capable sister. Xin Lin from the Chu Mansion, at the age of fourteen. She knows how to manage the Chu family split, securing a third of the family assets. She also knows how to claim credit from the Emperor, being titled the first Princess of Longteng. As a three-star Spirit Chef, she naturally knows how to use the Seventh Prince to harm my royal child. Poor Seventh Prince, used as a pawn without realizing it."
Empress Feng was adept at reading people, and she imdiately noticed that the Empress Dowager was hesitant.
In the Royal bloodline, a Great Spirit Master was rare, and naturally, the Empress Dowager was reluctant to let go.
However, her intention today was to trouble the Seventh Prince and his mother.
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