Chapter 26: Chapter 26: General’s Mansion Eldest Lady VS Transmigrated Younger Sister (Part 25)
The Empress’s hands were steady as she slowly picked up the docunts from the floor.
They detailed so matters explicitly, such as which rivals she had persecuted when she was young, which concubines she had caused to miscarry, or whom she had frad and set up.
The Empress wasn’t particularly afraid in her heart. Those people were already buried bones beneath the Imperial Palace by this ti, and the Emperor might not even rember their faces, let alone punish her harshly, the Empress who had been by his side for twenty years.
It was rely a shattering of the image the Emperor held of her in his heart. As she aged, she had beco less favored in recent years. She didn’t care about herself, only worrying that the Emperor would develop animosity toward the Crown Prince she had borne.
It wasn’t until she flipped to a certain page that the Empress’s hand trembled slightly when she saw that na.
So that’s why, she realized why the Emperor had been so agitated; it turned out he had discovered this particular piece.
The Forr Empress, her blood sister, today’s Empress Yuen, was the woman who could never be erased from this man’s heart.
“Your Majesty, what is this supposed to an?” After a peak of extre panic, the Empress surprisingly cald down gradually.
“What matter?” The Emperor, who had once most admired his Empress for her composure during crises, now found her face utterly repulsive.
“Was Ah Le’s difficult childbirth not an accident? I demand you tell yourself!” The Emperor’s eyes reddened as he looked at the Empress.
“Hasn’t Your Majesty already investigated everything clearly? Why must you ask your servant again?” The Empress gently rearranged her slightly disheveled hair. “Yes, it was . Back then, out of jealousy for my sister, during her childbirth, I bribed the midwife, originally planning to kill them both. Unexpectedly, the little one turned out to be tough to kill.”
“Slap!” The Empress’s face was struck to one side.
“Vicious woman!”
The Empress suddenly laughed, “Vicious woman? Yes, I am a vicious woman! She, Li Lejun, was the most perfect and kind-hearted woman! But even she was silently killed by . I beca the Empress, my son beca the Crown Prince, and what about her? Her son is still in the temple as a monk!”
The Emperor shook all over with rage, looking at the woman who had been by his side for more than twenty years, feeling as if he had never truly known her.
“Guards, the Empress has suddenly fallen seriously ill and is not fit to receive guests. Phoenix Perch Palace shall be closed to visitors!” The Emperor left the Empress’s palace without looking back.
During this period, the Imperial City always seed to have a feeling of an impending storm.
The Empress fell ill and was refusing visitors. The Crown Prince was put under de facto house arrest. Many sensitive individuals sensed that a significant change was about to sweep through the Tianqi Dynasty.
Especially at this ti, the Emperor suddenly issued an edict.
Welco back the Crown Prince who has been praying for the Imperial Family in Qianlong Temple to the palace!
For many years, the Crown Prince had been like an invisible person within the Imperial City, with many almost forgetting that he was originally the most distinguished Prince, yet he had spent over a decade in a humble temple.
“Has His Majesty finally co to his senses?” the Great General said to his wife.
They all knew that the Forr Empress was a hurdle the Emperor had never gotten over. They were youthful spouses, deeply in love, and the Forr Empress died in her pri, a permanent scar etched in the Emperor’s heart.
The Crown Prince Ji Yu was undoubtedly a pitiable figure. The Emperor had blad the death of the Forr Empress on him, never showing him favor, treating the legitimate son worse than even a decent servant in the palace, and in the end, the Emperor did not even wish to see him, sending him as a young boy to live in Qianlong Temple.
At that ti, the Great General and other senior officials had advised against it, but the Emperor was resolute, leaving no room for change.
“That child has finally co into his own after all these years; he’s had a tough ti,” Eldest Princess Wen Cheng noted with emotion.
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