After exchanging marriage with my elder sister, I won with a bad hand.

Prime Minister Shen went in for a while, and when he came out again, he was holding a scroll in his hand.

The queen was annoyed by his nonsense just now. When she saw him finally come out again and was about to go up to him to settle the score, she saw him throw the scroll down.

He said, "Take a good look at this woman. She is the lifelong love of that dog emperor."

With a rustling sound, the entire scroll was spread out, and it was revealed that the painting was a picture of a lady. The woman in the painting was very beautiful and full of spirit.

Those beautiful eyes were full of affection, as if they could speak.

When the queen saw the woman in the painting clearly, she pointed at the painting and said, "Isn't this my portrait?"

Shen Xiangguo's face was full of sarcasm: "Are you sure it's yours? Take a closer look and see if it's you."

His words made the queen very confused. She frowned and walked forward, looking at it carefully. The more she looked, the more she felt that although the painting was about 80% similar to herself, if she looked closely, it was definitely not her.

She shuddered inwardly, a little afraid to think about what Shen Xiangguo had just said. Could it be true?

Impossible, he must have been the one to sow discord between them. The emperor would not treat her like this. He loved her so much and said that he only loved her. How could she be someone else's substitute? Impossible!

"Who is she? Who is she?" the queen asked excitedly.

Prime Minister Shen looked at her with pity and sneered, "You are her substitute. The old emperor's favorite woman is her."

Prime Minister Shen looked at the woman in the painting, his face full of tenderness and his voice became gentle as well.

"You know, the woman in this painting was originally my wife. She was really a good woman, gentle and kind, and good at managing the household. Although we were poor at that time, we lived a life that even gods and immortals would envy."

"But!" Suddenly, Prime Minister Shen changed the subject and his voice became sharp, "It was him, the dog emperor who saw my wife. He, he coveted the wife of his minister. The emperor took the wife of his minister. He is worse than a beast."

"Impossible, you're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense..." The Queen was shocked when she saw Prime Minister Shen's furious expression, but after years of loving each other as husband and wife, even at this moment, she still wanted to deceive herself.

It seemed that as long as she didn't believe it, her emperor would still be her beloved husband, and would love only her for the rest of his life.

Shen Xiangguo looked at her emotional breakdown and felt very satisfied, and continued to speak cruelly.

"He couldn't get her, so he came to you. Now you know what's going on, right?"

"Why is he so good to you, making you the most favored concubine in the harem and the queen? All of this is just because you look like my wife. Everything you have now is just because you are her substitute."

With every word Prime Minister Shen spoke, the Queen's face became paler, and finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and fell to the ground.

His eyes were dull and he murmured, "Impossible, you lied to me, you lied to me."

In fact, she had already believed it. After all, who would joke with their own wife? At this moment, her heart was in a mess, and she had long forgotten to save her beloved man. She just immersed herself in the emotional pain, unable to extricate herself for a long time.

Shen Xiangguo looked at her face which resembled his ex-wife, and the anger in his heart slowly subsided.

Suddenly, I felt a little sorry for this woman. She had been deceived for more than 20 years, and happily thought she had found true love, but it turned out that she was just a substitute for the other person. It must be very heartbreaking.

But seeing that she didn't want to believe it, he was annoyed by her timidity, so he said, "Whether I am lying to you or not, you can ask your good emperor. He is in the bedroom, go and ask him."

This stupid woman should face reality. And that dog emperor should be deserted by everyone and let everyone see what a disgusting person he is.

Shen Yihuan was listening to this and was stunned. This was really a big melon.

Prime Minister Shen's words seemed to remind the queen who was sitting on the ground. She stood up suddenly and walked quickly towards the bedroom.

After the queen left, Prime Minister Shen seemed to have finally discovered another person in the palace, his second daughter, Shen Yihuan.

Prime Minister Shen walked up to her, narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Huan'er, should I call you the Crown Princess?"

Shen Yihuan looked at her father calmly and said obediently: "Father, I am your daughter, you can call me the same way you did when I was at home."

"How can this be? A daughter who is married off is like water that has been poured out." Prime Minister Shen showed a trace of sneer on his face, as if he was seeing his daughter clearly for the first time. "Father remembers it very clearly. The horse was handed to me by the Crown Princess herself."

"Let me guess, is this a trap set by the Crown Princess on purpose?"

Shen Yihuan maintained a submissive expression on her face, and her mood was a bit complicated. It was not surprising that her cunning father would guess what she had done.

However, this is something that cannot be admitted.

"Father, you think too much. How could I deceive you? I am just a woman in the harem. At most, I would fight with the women in the palace. How could I possibly reach out to the former dynasty?"

She said this calmly, as if she really had no intention.

Shen Xiangguo observed carefully for a while, and he couldn't help but admire his daughter's calmness. At such a young age, she was able to argue without changing her expression after the failure. She really deserved to be his biological daughter! She really deserved to be the vicious woman born by Zhao Jianing.

"But is it such a coincidence?" He was determined to suspect her, so he pressed her step by step, "A total of thirty-five officials, each of them is a parasite in the court and a criminal."

He just wanted to see how this vicious woman, who had framed her own father's daughter, could continue to argue. He wanted to tear apart her indifferent face.

"Father, if it weren't for the numerous crimes they committed, I wouldn't have been able to catch them. Please help me become the Crown Princess."

"Hmph, let's just assume that you have a point." Seeing that she still had an indifferent expression, Shen Xiangguo really felt it was irritating.

There was really no way he could argue with her anymore, so he could only suppress his displeasure.

"What's the matter with you coming here this time?"

"I heard that father wanted the old emperor to write a letter of abdication, but he refused to do it?"

"I didn't realize that you have such great influence in the palace. How could you know this secret so quickly?"

"Father, I am the Crown Princess. If I don't have some means to protect my life, how can I survive in the harem?" She did not refute this point. Anyway, her father already knew that she was scheming, so there was no need for her to hide it.