"Your Majesty, my daughter has been disobedient. Please have mercy on her." Song Maozhang hurriedly pleaded for his daughter.

“I overheard outside for a while just now. Your daughter said that the things Zhiyi gave were rubbish, not presentable, and embarrassing? She deliberately broke things and dared to slander her elder sister-in-law? Do you know…”

The Empress Dowager's eyes suddenly sharpened. "This clay sculpture was made by the late Emperor himself!"

What?

Made by the late emperor himself?

This is far more valuable than any other imperial gift.

In short, Song Ruoying turned pale with fright, and everyone in the Song family was also trembling with fear.

"After having two sons, Duke Shen finally had a daughter, but he was unable to attend Zhiyi's full moon and first birthday banquet because he was far away on the frontier. The late emperor heard that children in the countryside liked clay dolls, so he made them by hand and gave them to Zhiyi."

"She's giving this child something so precious, and you're disgusted by it and even dare to break it?"

"She was even worried that the two children were being adopted by her, fearing that they would be pointed at and bullied because of their birth, so she specially invited me to attend the ceremony."

"We've given them enough face, done so much, isn't that enough?"

"And you, my sister-in-law, dare to criticize me? Who gave you the audacity!"

The Empress Dowager was furious.

Song Ruoying was so frightened that her body went limp.

The crowd kowtowed again to apologize and beg her to calm down.

The Song family was terrified, their bodies covered in cold sweat.

This Empress Dowager...

It turned out that Shen Zhiyi had invited them!

Meanwhile, Shen Zhiyi was also kneeling on the ground, a slight smile playing on her lips.

This was the reward she had asked the Empress Dowager for when she last went to the palace.

Seeing the Song family members trembling in fear, she couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips into a slight smile:

Don't rush, this is just the beginning.

The Regent, however, stared at Shen Zhiyi with great interest for a few moments. Wearing a mask, his expression was hidden, and naturally, no one could see the upturned corners of his mouth beneath the mask…

The smile on his lips deepened.