Gu Jiangli looked at him coldly, "What makes you think you can be emperor?"

"Tch, my uncle has no children and will die in a few years. Besides me, who else carries the blood of the Chu royal family? After my uncle dies, I can only become emperor...!"

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Jiangli grabbed his chin.

His head was forced to be held high, and his small body almost lost its balance.

"It hurts! Let go of me!"

"Listen," Gu Jiangli's voice was as cold as ice, "If you want to be emperor, you'll have to be reborn in your next life. Also, His Majesty will definitely outlive you; he won't die even if you do. If I ever hear you say anything like 'after your uncle dies,' I'll rip your jaw off and throw it into a cesspool to feed the maggots."

"You damned woman..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Jiangli threw him forcefully to the ground, his small body landing face down.

"ah--!"

The hard stone floor cut his palms and chin, and bright red blood seeped out.

The child had probably never suffered such hardship or been injured like this before, and immediately burst into tears.

The wailing sounded incredibly pitiful, and Granny Sun immediately ran over.

"Your Highness! Are you alright, Your Highness?"

The young prince was too preoccupied with crying to answer her question.

Granny Sun held him and looked at Gu Jiangli.

Clearly, the only person who could have caused the young prince to be hurt and weep was the woman standing before him.

"Your Highness, Consort Chen..."

"Your Highness was chasing butterflies when you tripped and fell. Is there anything wrong?"

Gu Jiangli slowly wiped his hands with a handkerchief, his tone calm as usual, but his cold eyes carried a chilling threat.

“It was clearly you…” Granny Sun still tried to argue.

“Granny Sun, the young prince doesn’t understand anything and has said some unpleasant things without thinking. Surely Granny Sun shouldn’t be like the young prince and know nothing either?”

The threat in her words was very clear.

Granny Sun could only go back and say that the young prince had fallen on his own; otherwise, she would have spread all the treasonous things the young prince had said.

Who knows who will receive a more severe punishment in the end?

Granny Sun hesitated, glancing at the young prince who was still weeping bitterly, and then at Gu Jiangli, who was as cold as ice.

Looking at Consort Chen in front of her, she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

In the end, he could only nod: "Yes...yes, it was because His Highness was chasing butterflies and didn't see the road clearly that he fell."

Gu Jiangli chuckled with satisfaction and then said:

"Now that you know, quickly take the young prince to see the imperial physician."

"Yes, yes, this servant will go right away."

She turned and ran with her wailing child in her arms, her steps faltering so badly she almost tripped over herself.

Gu Jiangli watched the palace servants hurriedly leave, feeling her heart pounding rapidly.

She also found it strange that the eldest princess had left in such a hurry with her child.

But she didn't think much of it.

Now it seems that it was the eldest princess herself who had impure intentions.

She wanted her child to be emperor, but her child ultimately did not bear the surname Chu.

This must be a thorn in her side. In this era, it was only right for a child with the surname Chu to sit on the throne.

So when Gu Jiangli simply mentioned that her child didn't have the surname Chu, the Princess was completely devastated.

I see……

The eldest princess has great ambitions and her plans are quite clever, but both she and her son are utterly incompetent.

That child is absolutely not qualified to be an emperor.

Gu Jiangli clenched her fist secretly; she would never let such a thing happen.

She turned around and said to the lotus flower:

"Let's go to Jinghe Palace." She still had a gift to give to the emperor.

She left with the lotus flowers, unaware that a man in ordinary clothes was standing on the other side of the Imperial Garden.

The man only appeared when the Imperial Garden was completely empty.

He was pale, his fist was near his mouth, and he coughed twice.

"Cough cough..."

His cough made him appear even thinner.

The eunuch behind him stepped forward and said worriedly, "Your Majesty, please go back first. Consort Chen has already headed towards Jinghe Palace."

Upon hearing the words "Consort Chen," his usually cold and indifferent eyes visibly softened.

Let's go.

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Jinghe Palace.

Gu Jiangli didn't get to see the emperor, so he could only sit and chat with Xiao Anzi.

Only then did she realize that, all these years, she was the first concubine to dare to take the initiative to come to Jinghe Palace to see the emperor.

Because the emperor rarely visited the inner palace, he did not enjoy interacting with the concubines.

The concubines who wanted to see him either had to wait for him to choose them and favor them, or they had to find an opportunity to bump into him.

Although he never issued an order strictly forbidding the concubines from coming to Jinghe Palace on their own initiative, the concubines seemed to tacitly believe that going to Jinghe Palace would anger His Majesty.

Therefore, no daring concubine dared to risk offending His Majesty.

Gu Jiangli was an accident.

She couldn't detect any related memories in the original owner's memories, probably because the original owner was not favored and didn't associate with the other concubines, so no one informed her.

Hearing what Xiao Anzi told her, her first instinct was to leave before the emperor returned, as if she had never been there.

But Xiao Anzi stopped her: "Your Highness, Consort Chen, you don't need to leave. Although I haven't served His Majesty for long, I always feel that if it were Your Highness, Consort Chen, His Majesty wouldn't be angry."

"Why?"

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