“This has nothing to do with Fengguang,” Wang Ci said with a smile. “The only thing Mother is worried about now is your marriage. At your age, Mother will have already entered the palace as Empress. As long as Fengguang can find a good husband, then I will have nothing to worry about in my life.”

"Mother...have you never considered that perhaps Father......"

"Alright, you don't need to worry about what happens between me and your father, little girl." Wang Ci poked Feng Guang's forehead, her smile full of relief.

From the first day she entered the palace, she had no intention of liking Xia Chao, nor did she intend to win his favor. Wang Ci was a smart woman. She knew that her family background was enough to make the emperor wary. With this relationship, how could Xia Chao be moved by her?

Even when she discovered she was pregnant, she was uneasy and even considered aborting the child. She understood that once she gave birth to a prince, it would inevitably break the current precarious balance and might even trigger a palace coup... Wang Ci prepared a decoction for herself, but a strange thing happened: the kitchen of Fengyi Palace caught fire, and the bowl of medicine was naturally destroyed in the fire.

Immediately afterwards, the Phoenix Palace was replaced with a group of people from the Xia Dynasty. Wang Ci regarded this as surveillance, monitoring her after giving birth to the child, because the Xia Dynasty needed this child, needed this child as an excuse to make the Wang family unable to resist taking action, or it could be said to be an excuse to purge the court of corrupt officials.

No one knows how anxious Wang Ci has been for the past ten months. When she learned that she had given birth to a princess, her heart finally settled down. Even though she knew that as empress, she would not have a smooth life if she did not have a prince, Wang Ci also thought that she would not be able to hold the position of empress for long. Over the past sixteen years, the Xia Dynasty had been slowly weakening the power of the Wang family. She was not unaware of this, so she waited and waited, waiting for the day when the Xia Dynasty would depose her as empress.

But that day never came.

Wang Ci, whose memories of the past were stirred by his daughter, suddenly heard his daughter in his arms ask again, "Mother, do you love Father?"

Wang Ci was taken aback. She had never thought about this question before, but she quickly added, "Your father is the ruler of a country, and I am the empress. We don't need these things like love and affection."

"However, I feel that both Mother and Father are actually..."

“Little girl, didn’t you come to me today to discuss your affairs?” Wang Ci interrupted Feng Guang and pulled her to sit down on the couch. “I’m very curious about what kind of abilities that Si Jia has that can make my daughter so devoted to him.”

Feng Guang shrugged, looking sickly. She was already overwhelmed with her own troubles, so how could she possibly have the time to worry about her elders?

She politely declined her mother's invitation to stay overnight at Fengyi Palace. Fengguang strolled leisurely along the corridor, unconsciously plucking many of the flowers and plants along the way. Anyone could tell that she was not in a good mood. The palace maids kept a distance of five steps behind her, following at a distance, not daring to disturb her.

At this moment, the only one who dared to approach her was Xia Fengxue, the man who had just been named Crown Prince.

"Scenic views".

A gentle voice rang out, and Feng Guang looked up at the man walking towards him, "Royal brother."