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

The Queen Mother had no original intention to marry Prime Minister Shen, but she could not stand the flea of ​​the eldest princess jumping around. Finally, the matter was exposed. She had no choice but to give up and threatened to marry Prime Minister Shen.

Prime Minister Shen never thought that she would be so courageous, but he still declined.

When the Queen Mother heard this, she immediately misunderstood because of her simple mind.

"Shen Lang, are you not sincere to me?"

Shen Xiangguo looked at her lost eyes and knew very well what she was thinking. He opened his mouth, but found that this was what he was thinking in his heart. So what else could he say to comfort her?

Wrong, wrong from the beginning.

He closed his eyes and wondered if he should end this wrong relationship.

"Haha, yes, what am I asking for? I already knew that I was just a substitute." The Queen Mother deliberately said this in front of Prime Minister Shen, and then looked at his expression with anticipation.

Maybe in her heart, she was still a little unwilling. But what does it matter if she is unwilling? It is not hers, and she can't force it.

Prime Minister Shen stared at the Queen Mother for a long time with complicated eyes, and finally said: "Queen Mother, don't say that about yourself. You are you, she is her, you are not a substitute for anyone."

The Queen Mother is a little disappointed, isn't she? In his eyes, she is not even a substitute?

She clenched her fists, raised her head and said stubbornly: "So Shen Lang, have you and I had feelings for each other these days?"

Shen Xiangguo looked at her stubbornness. Although he knew that his answer was hurtful, he didn't want to make the same mistake again.

"Queen Mother, you know that in my heart, there has always been only my late wife."

Sure enough, as Prime Minister Shen said this, the last bit of starlight in the Queen Mother's eyes slowly dimmed. In the end, only darkness remained.

"Okay, I got it." She lowered her head in disappointment, turned around and walked out slowly.

Shen Xiangguo looked at her back as she walked away, and even he himself couldn't understand the emotions in his eyes. It was time to put an end to their shady relationship.

After the Queen Mother returned, she locked herself in the Changshou Palace and refused to eat or drink for several days and refused to see anyone.

This made Zhao Xun very anxious. He naturally knew what happened to the Queen Mother, but he just couldn't figure out what the Queen Mother saw in Prime Minister Shen. After being rejected, she was now threatening to die. It was really outrageous for a Queen Mother of a country.

However, he couldn't bear to criticize her. After all, his mother was still young and it was understandable that she would be tempted by love.

Compared with any other emperor, Zhao Xun was more reasonable and lenient in his policies. It was also because of this that many people liked the new emperor very much, and his supporters were growing every day.

Since he couldn't blame his own mother, he could only look for the culprit who had made his mother sad.

Just when he was about to go find Prime Minister Shen, he didn't expect that Prime Minister Shen would come to him first.

"Let him in." Zhao Xun sat back on the dragon throne with a somewhat unfriendly tone.

Xu Liang did not dare to delay and went out personally to bring the person in.

From the moment Prime Minister Shen entered the room, Zhao Xun's eyes had been on him. He unconsciously exuded the majesty of an emperor, which made Prime Minister Shen feel a little oppressed.

He raised his head slightly and looked at the young emperor, his eyes full of melancholy. All the past events reappeared before his eyes one by one, making him sigh in his heart that his life was really like a colorful drama.

There are sweet, sour, bitter, all kinds of flavors.

Looking back at the past now, it seemed as if it was very far away from him. After the old emperor died, the resentment and hatred in his heart slowly disappeared.

He originally had no intention of getting involved in the royal family's mess again, but who would have thought that the Queen Mother would suddenly break into his life.

After this incident, he felt calmer and more open-minded. Now he had nothing to ask for. He knew that it was time for him to retire.

Thinking of this, he took off the hat on his head and knelt down in Zhao Xun's astonished eyes.

"Your Majesty, I came here today to resign from my post."

"Prime Minister Shen, why are you doing this?" Prime Minister Shen's sudden resignation caught Zhao Xun off guard.

The blame that was about to come out of my mouth was now stuck in my throat, neither going up nor down.

"I am old and powerless, so please allow me to do this, Your Majesty."

Zhao Xun didn't know whether he was sincere or had some intention in saying this, and was just wondering how to respond when suddenly there was a commotion outside.

"Xu Liang, go and see what's going on?"

"Yes."

After a while, Xu Liang came in with some papers in his hand, and his face was full of fear.

"Did something happen?"

Xu Liang glanced at Zhao Xun and hesitantly said, "Your Majesty, some papers have floated into the imperial city from somewhere, covering the sky and the ground, and are everywhere."

Zhao Xun saw something written on it and said, "What is it? Bring it to me."

Xu Liang hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and presented the things.

Zhao Xun reached out to take it, looked down at the contents, and anger quickly filled his entire face.

"How dare you! Who is spreading rumors?"

"Your Majesty, these papers all floated down from the sky for no reason, and we still don't know who did it."

"Check it, go check it for me." Zhao Xun slapped the table, and several pieces of paper on the table floated down.

One of them floated right in front of Prime Minister Shen, and for some reason he reached out and picked it up.

When his eyes fell upon the contents on the paper, his eyes widened in shock, his face full of disbelief.

"This, how is this possible!"

It was written on it that the current empress was born to the previous emperor's concubine Qiu, and that she and the current emperor were half-sisters. Scandal, a big scandal.

If this is true, it would be a huge scandal that would destroy the world!

"Ridiculous! This is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world." Zhao Xun slammed the table, left Prime Minister Shen, who was slightly open-mouthed in shock, and walked quickly outside.

He hurried out, his mind full of what he had just seen on the paper.

Huan'er didn't know if she had seen those contents. If she had, would she be frightened? Now, she was still pregnant and couldn't be frightened at all.

Zhao Xun thought bitterly in his heart that if Huan'er made any mistake because of this matter, he would never let the culprit who spread the rumors go easily, and he would tear her into pieces.

Walking out of the palace, Zhao Xun looked at the papers scattered everywhere and frowned tightly.

A single look made Xu Liang tremble, and he said in a cold sweat: "Your Majesty, I'll have someone clean it up right away." After saying that, he winked at Baimu who was standing beside him.

Kashiwagi nodded solemnly and turned around to supervise.