If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

Queen Mother Mu walked slowly in from outside the palace. Her hair had turned gray, but her face and skin were still rosy and fair, and her pair of almond-shaped eyes were bright and lively.

Emperor Fu glanced at Empress Ruan angrily, "How dare you disturb my mother again?"

Queen Ruan turned a deaf ear and walked down the steps to pay her respects.

"Your Majesty, please take a seat." Queen Ruan held the Queen Mother's hand and sat in her previous seat.

Empress Dowager Mu has not been in charge of the Cining Palace in recent years and has been obsessed with Taoism. Two years ago, she went to Wudao Mountain to practice Taoism. She suddenly came back this time, and she must have been invited back by the Queen.

“It was not the Queen who asked me to come down the mountain. It was Taoist Bu Xuanfeng who calculated that the Southern Dynasty’s imperial star would regain its brightness, so I rushed back.” Empress Dowager Mu said in a deep voice.

She looked towards Lu Yuan, her heart tightened, and her eyes showed some emotion, "Resemblance, so similar."

Fu Jinyi walked respectfully to the side of Empress Dowager Mu, "Grandmother, are you saying that Lu Yuan looks like my father?"

Queen Mother Mu retracted her gaze and looked at Fu Jinyi lovingly, "The prince has grown taller, and his complexion looks good."

"Ever since I went to Yong Dynasty, with Lu Yuan by my side, I feel like my illness is almost healed." Fu Jinyi said with a smile.

"Oh, really?" A gleam of light flashed in Empress Dowager Mu's eyes.

Queen Ruan said gently, "Mother, don't listen to this monkey's nonsense. He secretly went to Shangjing and met a miracle doctor in Shangjing, who cured his illness."

Empress Dowager Mu smiled and said, "That's great luck, otherwise how could you have met a miracle doctor when you went to Shangjing?"

The space between Emperor Fu's brows was wrinkled into the shape of a "川" character.

"Mother, you are tired from the journey, why don't you..."

"Emperor, if this child is really a royal heir, he must not continue to live outside." Empress Dowager Mu looked at him.

Emperor Fu: "Mother, today the Yong Dynasty envoys escorted the princess to the capital. Even if you want to recognize her, you have to check it out first."

Queen Ruan chuckled: "Even the assassins have gone to Shangjing to kill Lu Yuan, what else is there that has not been investigated?"

"Someone, bring in the magic water." said Queen Mother Mu.

"This is what Taoist Master Bu Xuanfeng prayed for in front of the altar. As long as they are blood relatives, the blood of the two people will definitely be able to merge."

Emperor Fu looked at the ministers beside him and regretted that He Zhiyuan was not here today.

If He Zhiyuan was present, how could he allow the Queen Mother to appear in the hall?

"Child, you come first." Queen Mother Mu looked at Lu Yuan gently.

Lu Yuan just frowned and looked down at the basin of water.

Everyone looked at him expectantly, except Emperor Fu.

According to his research, Empress Dowager Mu was the biological mother of the Southern Dynasty Emperor, but what she said today was actually to help him verify his identity, not to help her son.

Very weird!

Queen Ruan seemed relaxed and as if she was sure of victory, but she was tense deep down.

Today's occasion was a rare one. She had eliminated two of He Zhiyuan's confidants who had been planted in the court, and transferred several others out of the royal capital. Now that He Zhiyuan was not here, his most capable men were not here either.

No one can stop the emperor from recognizing Lu Yuan.

But if Lu Yuan doesn't cooperate...

Everything has to start over again.

It was with great difficulty that we managed to get the Queen Mother down the mountain.

"Okay." Lu Yuan lowered his eyes, ready to drip his blood into the water.

"Wait." Emperor Fu stopped him immediately.

Emperor Fu: "Mother, what if someone bribed Taoist Bu Xuanfeng to cheat in the water?"

Queen Ruan immediately ordered someone to bring a basin and asked all the imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital to come to the main hall.

"Let the imperial physician check if there is anything wrong with the water and the basin."

"The Queen has made every possible preparation for today." Emperor Fu gritted his teeth.

Queen Ruan smiled faintly: "It's nothing like some people racking their brains to kill people to silence them."

The Imperial Hospital also has Emperor Fu’s confidants.

It was impossible to tell that there was something wrong with the water or the basin in front of so many people.

Feng Chuanjin, who had been silent all this time, lifted her robe and stood up.

"The emperor should want to verify the accuracy of the blood test. Why don't I try it with Lu Yuan's blood? I think there is no possibility that Lu Yuan and I are related by blood." Feng Chuanjin said lightly.

Lu Yuan raised his eyes and looked at him.

Feng Chuanjin said nothing. She picked up the silver needle prepared by the eunuch next to her, pierced her fingertips, and dripped a drop of blood into the water.

"Come on, Lu Yuan, you must know where you come from." Feng Chuanjin said in a low voice.

As for whether or not to become the prince of the Southern Dynasty, that is a choice for the future.

He and Lu Yuan have known each other for many years and knew that Lu Yuan was never valued in the Lu family and was even insulted by Lu Chushen like a servant.

It is not natural for a person's character to become cold and hard.

Feng Chuanjin hopes that Lu Yuan also has a family, real relatives.

Lu Yuan dripped his own blood into two basins of water.

Fu Jinyi raised his lips, "Father, you are a precious child, how can you hurt your dragon body? Why don't I do a blood test with Lu Yuan to prove that we are related. If our blood mixes, it can prove that we are related by blood."

"Your Majesty, please bear with the pain, so that no one will use this matter to slander me again." Queen Ruan said lightly.

Emperor Fu is in a difficult situation.

Not only was Queen Mother Mu expecting him to shed blood, but also the ministers in the palace and the envoys from the Yong Dynasty...

"Bring me the dagger." Emperor Fu gritted his teeth.

Queen Mother Mu looked at the two basins of water, in which two drops of blood could not mix for a long time.

However, the blood of Emperor Fu and Lu Yuan quickly merged together.

"It's integrated! It's integrated!"

Fu Jinyi shouted loudly, "You are indeed my brother."

Queen Ruan burst into tears.

Ever since she lost her first child, she has put away all her tenderness and never shown weakness to others. Others say that her heart is made of iron.

That's because she can't afford to lose anymore.

Although she had long known that Lu Yuan was her eldest son, now that it had been confirmed, she was still able to maintain her composure.

“Your Majesty, you see, even if Taoist Bu Xuanfeng has never seen Yuan’er, he can still figure out that he is of royal blood,” said Empress Dowager Mu.

Emperor Fu knew very well that the Queen Mother was forcing him to recognize Lu Yuan here today. It must be that the Ruan family did something behind the scenes.

He took all sorts of precautions, but he never thought of guarding against them starting with the Empress Dowager.

"Congratulations to the Empress Dowager for recognizing her eldest son and grandson, and congratulations to the Emperor and the Empress for finding their eldest son." Ruan Xinglin knelt down and spoke in a clear voice.

All the Southern Dynasty ministers in the hall had to kneel down and congratulate.

Empress Dowager Mu was delighted. "Okay, okay. Today is the welcoming banquet for the eldest prince of Yong Dynasty and Princess Yonghe. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory will select an auspicious day and report to the heavens, the earth and our ancestors to have the eldest prince's name restored."

"Long live the emperor, long live the empress dowager..."

At this moment, Queen Ruan just wanted to have a good talk with Lu Yuan. She wanted to hear him talk about what had happened over the years.

How did her son grow up during those years that she missed and had no participation in? It must have been very difficult.

"Yuan'er, it's your mother's fault for not protecting you." Queen Ruan's voice was very soft, and the tears that she had managed to hold back were about to fall again.

"Mother, let's talk to my brother after the banquet." Fu Jinyi said softly.

At this welcoming banquet, everyone had their own thoughts.

But the news that Lu Yuan was the eldest son of the Southern Dynasty emperor had already spread out of the palace.