Gu Huai must be angry because he felt that she had abandoned him.

"Gu Huai, listen to me..." Xie Yunjiao was afraid that Gu Huai would say something unpleasant and make Gu Wei uncomfortable, so she quickly pulled him aside.

Although Gu Huai was angry, he would not disobey his wife.

"If you want to tell me about her, I don't want to listen." Gu Huai said with a deliberately stern face.

Xie Yunjiao raised her hand and punched his chest, then glared at him: "Why are you trying to be so tough in front of me?"

Gu Huai looked at Xie Yunjiao, frowning slightly.

"I... who said I was showing off?"

Xie Yunjiao put her hands on her hips, staring at Gu Huai without blinking, without saying a word.

Gu Huai couldn't pretend anymore, so he said, "Forget it, go ahead."

Xie Yunjiao finally spoke up: "Shouldn't this have been done earlier? It's made my eyes look cross-eyed."

Gu Huai, who was originally sulking, couldn't hold back when he heard her say that. He curled his lips and said, "Forget it. You, I just can't do anything about you."

"I have a shocking news for you..."

Xie Yunjiao briefly told Gu Huai about Gu Wei. The light in Gu Huai's eyes flickered. Before Xie Yunjiao finished speaking, he patted Xie Yunjiao on the shoulder and ran past her towards Gu Wei.

He was very fast and arrived beside Gu Wei in a short while.

Before Gu Wei could react, he knelt down in front of her and said, "Mother, thank you for your hard work."

Gu Wei's eyes lit up. Her eyes were so sore and had already been wet with tears.

She squatted down, helped Gu Huai up, put her hands on Gu Huai's face and stroked it gently.

"Good boy, good boy..."

Gu Huai's face had been simply processed before, and she looked a bit like but not quite like that person. But now, she looks very similar to that person, as if they were printed out from the same mold!

"I'm sorry, I misunderstood you." Gu Huai said.

Gu Wei shook her head. "I'm not wronged. As long as I can preserve your father's bloodline, it doesn't matter how hard I work or how many people scold me."

"Master Ye, Master Gu, we have searched the entire palace but still can't find the emperor or the imperial seal."

Prince Duan refused to tell the emperor where he had trapped him, but from the seal in his imperial study, it could be seen that he was using a fake one and the emperor had never given him the real seal.

So Prince Duan Ding did not kill the emperor yet, but hid him somewhere in the palace, ready to wait for the emperor to give in and then let him pass the seal to him!

Gu Huai also had to find the real imperial seal before he could announce to the world that he had ascended the throne as the new emperor.

"It's impossible for him to transport the emperor out. My spies in the palace are always watching him." Ye Baien said.

Gu Huai pondered for a while and thought of a place.

"I do know a place." Gu Huai said.

Ye Baien also thought of it, his eyes lit up and he looked at Gu Huai.

Gu Huai nodded at him, not expecting that they actually thought of the same thing.

Together they rushed to the emperor's bedroom and opened the secret passage mechanism under his bed.

Soon they saw the emperor and the dying empress dowager.

When Gu Wei saw the coffin placed in the middle, she couldn't move her legs.

Supported by Xie Yunjiao and Princess Mingyue, she walked tremblingly towards the coffin, thinking she would see the man's body.

But she only saw a blackened, bloody shirt that had been torn into pieces.

Her eyes went dark and she almost fell backwards, but fortunately Xie Yunjiao was quick to catch her.

"Are you okay?" Xie Yunjiao asked.

Gu Wei pursed her lips and shook her head. She said to Xie Yunjiao, "Can you help me get it out?"

Before Xie Yunjiao could say anything, Gu Wei said, "Forget it. Help me over there. I want to get it myself."

"Gu Wei, no, you can't touch him!" the emperor shouted.

But Gu Wei didn't even glance at him. She hugged the bloody clothes tightly to her chest, and tears kept flowing out of her eyes like an unstoppable faucet.

"After all these years, I finally get to see you again. I thought I'd never see you again."

"Gu Wei!" The emperor's voice was sharp, and he looked at Gu Wei with eyes wide open.

"You have hidden him here for so long, just let him go." Princess Mingyue said to the emperor.

The emperor clenched his hands into fists, pursed his lips, and shook his head vigorously.

"She is mine, and only mine."

"You've been clinging to it for so long, but in the end, you still get nothing. You can't even hold on to the rights you want.

Why not let go?" Princess Mingyue said to the emperor.

"Rebellious son, don't you understand even now? Let go!" The empress dowager scolded the emperor.

After saying this, the Empress Dowager was already dying, gasping for air, but it seemed that only air was going out but not coming in.

Xie Yunjiao asked Princess Mingyue to look after Gu Wei, while she and Ye Baien rushed over anxiously to help the Empress Dowager with first aid.

But soon Ye Baien shook his head sadly, his expression gloomy.

It’s no use. The Empress Dowager is at the end of her strength and there’s nothing she can do to save the situation.

Xie Yunjiao didn't want to give up, so she fed the empress dowager some spiritual spring water.

But the Empress Dowager couldn't swallow it at all, and the spiritual spring water all flowed out from the corners of her mouth.

Xie Yunjiao fed the Empress Dowager again, but it was the same.

It was the first time she felt so powerless.

"Yun Jiao, stop struggling. It will only make her more miserable. It's better to let her talk to them properly." Ye Baien said.

Gu Wei and Gu Huai both came over.

The Empress Dowager stared at the blood-stained shirt in Gu Wei's hand with her cloudy eyes. She spoke slowly, word by word, "Can I touch him?"

Gu Wei nodded and handed the bloody shirt to the Empress Dowager.

A satisfied smile appeared on the Queen Mother's face. She said kindly, "I can finally hold you again, just like when you were just born."

"None of my sons had a good ending. It's my fault. I didn't teach you well." After the Queen Mother said this, her eyes almost closed.

Gu Wei screamed in horror, and the Empress Dowager opened her eyes again.

But her eyes were a little blurry and almost out of focus.

She grabbed her hand in the air, and Gu Wei quickly placed her hand on the Empress Dowager's hand.

The Empress Dowager asked her to come closer, and Gu Wei hurried closer.

The Empress Dowager said something in Gu Wei's ear, and Gu Wei's face showed a look of horror. After a while, the Empress Dowager's hand loosened, and she died.

Ye Baien said sadly: "The Empress Dowager has passed away."

"Empress Dowager..." Gu Wei burst into tears in grief.

The emperor looked at the empress dowager's body, tears silently flowing from the corners of his eyes.

Although he hated her, she was still his own mother.

"Mother, I am an unfilial child. I have let you down by trapping you in a place like this when you were away..."