[Hehehe, Grandmother is having Concubine Xu and Mother spy on Father!]

[As expected, experience counts! The Empress Dowager has truly gone to great lengths for the sake of the royal bloodline!]

The Empress Dowager sighed.

How can I not worry?

It's also because the emperor was young, impetuous, and amorous when he was still a prince.

I just hope he wasn't like a stud, rushing to add every pretty girl he saw to his harem.

The Empress Dowager worried that one day other women or men from the common people might come to claim kinship.

Then he asked Ye Ling.

"Besides Lotus, did you have any other romantic affairs with other women back then?"

Ye Ling blushed deeply when questioned.

I never imagined the foolish things I did when I was young.

Now, it has become a boomerang that has struck him squarely between the eyebrows.

"Reporting to Mother, there are none left."

"That's good. I don't want another common woman to come out and claim kinship with me."

"With princesses on the left and princesses on the right, I don't have the time to keep them all by my side."

"Only Qianqian's bloodline is real now."

As she spoke, the Empress Dowager held Ye Qianqian and looked her over.

"Qianqian is getting cuter and cuter."

Hehe, because I take after my grandmother!

Even in her old age, the Empress Dowager still possessed remarkable grace!

[Time never diminishes beauty! My grandmother must have been a great beauty in her youth!]

[Qianqian naturally followed her grandmother's example!]

The Empress Dowager was overjoyed by the praise.

"Right now, I only love Princess Qianqian."

"Qianqian, don't be as sentimental as your father."

Ye Ling glanced at Xu Qingzhi.

He wanted Xu Qingzhi to help him out of this predicament.

Xu Qingzhi rolled her eyes inwardly, annoyed.

When we went to Jiangnan, didn't we say we wanted to see the local customs and conditions?

Don't tell me that getting someone pregnant and having a daughter is what it means to "understand the people's sentiments".

I really want to pretend I didn't see anything!

Hmph! I don't want to help you!

But as someone who assists in managing the six palaces.

Xu Qingzhi couldn't just sit idly by.

So he said...

"Empress Dowager—"

"Alright, I know you want to speak up for the Emperor, but I also know you are very angry."

"Which woman in the harem wouldn't be angry to see the emperor have children with a commoner woman!"

"Your Majesty, go and accept your punishment. For the next month, you shall eat vegetarian meals and shall not set foot in the inner palace to see the concubines!"

"Except for children."

[Hehehe! Grandmother's values ​​are so upright!]

[If this happened to a mother-in-law with warped values, her first reaction would be—Wow, my son is so amazing, he brought home a granddaughter for me!]

Xu Qingzhi almost burst out laughing after hearing this.

Ye Ling was still in a difficult situation.

"Yes, son accepts the punishment."

"Then, I'll take my leave now."

The Empress Dowager didn't even raise her head.

"Don't come to pay your respects for the next few days."