The emperor stared at Xie Ling'er's eyes with anger and disappointment. At this moment, he felt that his whole life seemed like a joke. He was the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the most powerful man in the world. Everyone in the harem seemed to be afraid of him and respected him, but in fact, they were all betraying, calculating, teasing and mocking him.

He suddenly laughed, staggering, and the white hair on his temples seemed to have suddenly increased a lot. "Forget it, you can leave! I will send someone to teach you etiquette. Your mother spoiled you too much in the past."

"Father, the Queen really beat me, but you didn't see it." Xie Ling'er was exposed and wanted to complain, "Father, I told the truth, but I have no evidence. How could she leave evidence if she wanted to punish me? I am stupid, so I came up with this idea. The Queen is just pretending. She is not a good person. She..."

"Cao De, take her away." The emperor shouted harshly.

Xie Ling'er was taken away, and the emperor did not let the queen get up from the snow. Jiang Fenghua was trembling with fear, and she didn't know whether to leave or not. Just when she wanted to say, "My daughter-in-law is leaving..."

The emperor suddenly said, "I am the Son of Heaven, the Emperor. Have I not treated them well? I have fed them with good food and drink, and given them endless wealth and glory. Why are they betraying me?"

Jiang Fenghua stopped and saw the emperor's disappointment. She thought it was a bit absurd. She thought of Xie Shang's desire for fatherly love since he was a child. "The prince has always needed you since he was a child. He has worked very hard and has always longed for his father's recognition and care. The ladies should be the same!"

After saying that, she didn't want to stay and be cannon fodder so she left directly. As long as the emperor had no reason to execute Nanny Wang, what happened next had nothing to do with her.

The emperor wanted to get angry, but he couldn't find anyone to vent his anger on. He felt that he was a lonely man. He seemed to have everything, but in fact, he had nothing.

The emperor suddenly felt empty as he sat on the soft chair.

A moment later, Empress Cheng suddenly walked in and knelt before the emperor, "I am innocent."

She still didn't want her son's future to be affected because of her, so she decided to apologize to the emperor. After all, she had often broken into the emperor's bedroom before.

Queen Cheng lived a heartless life all her life because she didn't care about the emperor at all. She was not his first queen, but only the successor.

The emperor suddenly stared into her eyes. The queen was insincere and there was no love for him in her eyes. But even if she was hypocritical, she had an affair with his cousin, she betrayed him, she was always noisy and unreasonable, in the end he could tolerate her and keep her position as queen.

Now he finally understood why he could tolerate the Queen all these years, it was because he was too lonely. All the women in the harem were afraid of him and flattered him, except the Queen. Even when she did something wrong, she never came to him for help and never pretended to be in front of him for the sake of the Cheng family.

Looking at the emperor like this, Empress Cheng knelt on the ground and didn't know what to say for a moment. Her thoughts were surging. After so many things happened tonight, why didn't the emperor get angry? What happened to him?

The emperor's eyes were as sharp as torches, as if there was a raging fire burning in them. He should have deposed her from the position of queen, when he thought that among his many princes, only Xie Shang had the ability and skill to succeed the position of crown prince.

The emperor suddenly said in a cold voice, "You should be thankful that you gave birth to a good son, instead of coming to me and playing tricks on me so that I can let you go."

Queen Cheng was stunned. What did the emperor mean?

She said, "I was teaching the Ninth Princess with all my heart and didn't abuse her. Haven't I already found out about this?"

"Get up! Undress me and wait for me to go to bed." The emperor wanted to humiliate her deliberately.

Empress Cheng knelt on the ground and said, "Why not let Sister Yafei serve Your Majesty? My clothes are wet and my makeup is not good enough. But she doesn't know that the more she refuses the emperor, the harder her life will be.

The emperor can make her live a good life, or he can humiliate her to the point where her life is worse than death. The only man she thinks of is the emperor.

The emperor's eyes were cold and emotionless, and his tone was almost commanding, "After hiding for twenty years, you seem to be able to hide away and have nothing to do. It is not natural for a wife to serve her husband. Have you forgotten your duty, or are you as disdainful of serving me as Wang Zhaoyi?"

"I dare not." The queen knew that he was bringing up the past again. She thought that the emperor had been so affectionate towards her some time ago and that he had let go of those things long ago. It turned out that she was too naive. A man can never let go of his wife's betrayal.

She clearly did not betray him but she did not dare to talk back, for she was afraid that her impulsiveness would prevent Xie Shang from becoming emperor.

Besides, which woman would waste her prime years of youth hiding from her husband for twenty years? It was obvious that he hated her and never took her, the queen, seriously, and now he was turning the tables on her.

Empress Cheng was no less resentful than Concubine Yan. She was also helpless, so she had to take the initiative to step forward and undress the emperor, looking submissive and submissive.

The emperor pushed her away when he saw her like this, "You are so reluctant, I didn't force you."

Empress Cheng clenched her fists, endured and endured, and her voice became gentler, "I am not unwilling, I just have frozen legs."

The emperor's eyes flickered when he saw that her skirt was mostly wet, her hair was not tied up in a bun, and she didn't even have a hairpin or ring. Her long black hair was scattered on her shoulders, just like her attire before she got married.

"You can go back now. I am tired." The emperor could only say helplessly, "If he wins this battle, I will make him the crown prince, and you won't have to work so hard to pretend for him in front of me for so many years."

Queen Cheng was completely dumbfounded. In her mind, the emperor was suspicious and petty. He had countless women in his harem. Although he married her as queen, he did not make her queen because he loved her. The Su family was also prosperous at that time, but later...

Su Qingqing was appointed as the Imperial Concubine when she entered the palace, and later on, he always favored Su Qingqing alone. If she had not become the Queen first, would the position of Queen have been Su Qingqing's? If Su Qingqing had not been unable to give birth to a son, would the position of Crown Prince have belonged to no one else.

In Queen Cheng's heart, the Emperor liked Su Qingqing, otherwise why would he still support her even though her body was taken away by someone else and she even went crazy.

The emperor entered the inner hall alone, not bothering to care whether she left or not.

Queen Cheng was in torment. She had been stubborn for so many years. What was she doing for? It was to prove to the emperor that she had never done anything to let him down and had never liked her cousin.

She and the emperor had a happy time when they first got married, but everything changed after Su Qingqing entered the palace.

Now the emperor looks older and older, his hair has turned white, and he looks very haggard. He was obviously a suspicious person by nature, so why has he changed now?

What he meant just now was to make Shang'er the crown prince, but didn't he hate her son the most? He had treated Shang'er harshly since he was a child and never liked him.

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