Originally, Zhou Qiongyue felt a little embarrassed when she saw the eldest princess running out crying. After all, she was in her sixties and the eldest princess was just a child.

Finally, when the servants outside the palace came back to report to the Queen Mother, "The eldest princess went to the imperial study crying."

Zhou Qiongyue really felt that being soft-hearted was a disease, and no one in the royal family was worry-free.

The Queen Mother looked at her niece's sad face, and her smile widened a little. She touched Zhou Qiongyue's hand, which was hugging her arm coquettishly, and said, "You're soft-hearted again, aren't you? You, what will you do when I'm gone?"

The Queen Mother has seen too many changes in people's hearts over the years, and so far only this niece has remained innocent.

How could the Queen Mother not worry about her?

"Aunt will surely live to be a hundred years old. By the time you live to be a hundred, I, your wife, will be old too. When you are old, you are not afraid of anything."

Zhou Qiongyue didn’t think she was as kind as her aunt thought. It was just that she had a high status now, and many things did not cross her bottom line, so she was too lazy to care.

As for the eldest princess who ran to the imperial study crying, Zhou Qiongyue and the empress dowager did not take it seriously. Even if the emperor was drunk, he would not grant the marriage between the two without asking Zhou Qiongyue's opinion.

But Zhou Qiongyue and the empress dowager did not take it to heart. After a while, the emperor took the eldest princess back to Ciyu Palace.

Zhou Qiongyue and the Queen Mother heard the palace maid announce, "The Emperor is here."

Both the aunt and the niece saw surprise in each other's eyes.

As soon as the emperor came in with the eldest princess and finished his formalities, he summoned Yuan Chaokang to his side and said, "I heard from Shihuan that you like her, but your mother doesn't agree. I'm here, you don't have to care about your mother's opinion."

The Queen Mother and Zhou Qiongyue looked at the eldest princess with a bad look in their eyes. How could the eldest princess say this to the Emperor? How dare she deceive the emperor?

However, the Queen Mother and Zhou Qiongyue did not speak immediately. They both wanted to see what Yuan Chaokang would say.

If Yuan Chaokang was just annoyed with the eldest princess just now, now he hated her, the kind of hatred that made him want to stab her with a sword.

Yuan Chaokang didn't even call him cousin, but knelt down directly. "Although I am only a seven-year-old child now, I am absolutely sure that I will not like someone who is so cunning and tells lies all the time."

When the emperor heard Yuan Chaokang say this, he was a little angry. After all, Shihuan was his own daughter.

Just as the emperor was about to say something, Zhou Qiongyue knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, if you think that a certain punishment is suitable for us, mother and son, then use it! Even if my son Kang'er never marries a princess, he will never marry Xie Zixin's daughter."

Although the emperor wanted to teach Yuan Chaokang a lesson for his outrageous remarks, he had no intention of offending his God of Wealth. So, Zhou Qiongyue's kneeling left the emperor quite bewildered.

The Queen Mother looked at the tense atmosphere in the hall. She really hated her granddaughter at this moment, so she walked up and slapped the eldest princess.

The Queen Mother's movements were only frightening, but she still withdrew her hands. The eldest princess didn't even blush.

The Queen Mother saw the eldest princess covering her face and pretending to be pitiful, and she became even angrier. "It's bad luck to look at you, a troublemaker."

The emperor was also quite confused. He just asked as a routine question how things had come to this point.

The emperor personally stepped forward and helped Zhou Qiongyue up. "What did you say, cousin? I was just asking."

It was as if the person who was about to get angry just now was not the emperor.

Seeing the emperor like this, Zhou Qiongyue realized for the first time what it meant to say, "Thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all the emperor's grace."

Zhou Qiongyue certainly didn't ask the emperor to help her. She stood up on her own and thanked him respectfully, "Your Majesty, I thank you very much."

When the emperor saw his cousin's unfamiliar look, he had only one thought in his mind: "It's over, the God of Wealth is angry."

Zhou Qiongyue didn't care what the emperor was thinking at this moment. She felt bad just looking at the father and daughter. She just turned around and saluted the empress dowager, "Aunt, I will bring Kang'er to see you another day. Today, I will take my leave."

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you and Kang'er to come and see me." After the empress dowager said this, she asked someone to prepare a bunch of rewards for her niece to calm her down, and then let Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Chaokang leave.

The emperor wanted to say something, but the empress dowager looked at him fiercely and he could only be resentful and dare not speak.

The Queen Mother waited until Zhou Qiongyue and her son left before turning around and looking coldly at the Emperor and the eldest princess. The Emperor and the eldest princess both knelt down quickly.

When the Empress Dowager dislikes someone, she will resort to drastic measures. "Li Shihuan is not my daughter, nor is she under my control. I do not want to see her on the grounds of Ciyun Palace in the future.

From now on, whenever there is a banquet, please arrange a seat far away from me. Don't embarrass yourself in front of me with such a young child who still doesn't learn well. There is no need to confer the title of Princess on me. If you are not worthy of the title, you will surely suffer misfortune."

Not to mention Li Shihuan, even the emperor was scared silly.

The emperor had never seen his mother so angry, and for a moment he didn't dare to say a word.

The Queen Mother became even angrier when she saw her son remained silent. "Your Majesty, are you dumb? Didn't you hear what I said?"

The emperor quickly responded, "I heard you, I heard you, don't be angry, mother. I will do whatever you say. If you get sick from anger, I will skin you alive when father comes back."

Li Shihuan didn't even dare to cry this time, and knelt trembling on the side. She had never known that the smiling grandmother could be so terrifying when angry, and even dared to scold her father.

"Come here, send the eldest princess to the queen and tell her that I don't like her and don't let her get close to me in the future."

If the emperor had few children in the past, the empress dowager might have taught her granddaughter carefully, but now the emperor has all the princes and princesses.

The Queen Mother was too lazy to worry about this and just wanted to keep it out of sight and out of mind.

The Queen Mother gave the order, and someone came in immediately and asked the eldest princess to leave. At this time, the eldest princess still looked at the emperor with expectation.

The emperor was kneeling straight at this moment, too lazy to pay attention to his daughter. Of course, the emperor now realized that he had been deceived by his daughter.

At this moment, the emperor had only one thought in his mind about his eldest daughter: she was worthy of being the daughter of Concubine Zhen, and her ability to get into trouble was inherited from her.

This time, he was successfully trapped as well. Now he was in a difficult situation and could hardly save himself, so how could he care about her?

The Empress Dowager still gave the Emperor face and only started to teach him a lesson after the eldest princess left.

"This son is the emperor, so he is very powerful. If you find me and Marquis Cheng'en annoying, I will take them to the border to seek refuge with the retired emperor. They will no longer be an eyesore in Yuan'an."

The Queen Mother was so angry that she almost died, and her words were somewhat careless.

The emperor calmed down and quickly admitted his mistake, "Mother, I just had a wrong thought for a moment. If Huan'er hadn't said that he and Kang'er were in love, I wouldn't have asked that question.

"That brat Yuan Chaokang despises my daughter so much, isn't it normal for me to be angry? Even as an uncle, I can teach my nephew a lesson, right?"

The emperor really didn't expect that his mother and cousin would react so strongly.