The emperor raised his foot and kicked her away with such force that she rolled over twice and lay on the ground in a mess.

He strode towards the main seat, his robes fluttering. When he sat down, his eyes were as cold as ice, and he looked down coldly at Shangguan Wanrou lying on the ground.

Shangguan Wanrou endured the pain and trembled as she crawled towards him again, her forehead pressed against the ground, her voice filled with tears: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, I beg Your Majesty to have mercy on me..."

"Do you know your mistake?" The emperor sneered, his voice piercing like frost. "Since you dared to make such a big mistake, you should have thought about the consequences today."

Shangguan Wanrou's body stiffened suddenly when she heard this. Her raised face was full of fear and tears welled up in her eyes, but she dared not let them fall.

Her lips trembled, and she wanted to explain, but she didn't know how to open her mouth.

"Do you think I will forgive you?" The emperor slowly stood up and looked down at her, without a trace of pity in his eyes. "How dare you, a bitch, plot treason and murder the emperor? Such a crime is intolerable to heaven and earth!"

Shangguan Wanrou's face turned pale as paper in an instant, as if all the blood had been drained away in an instant.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She could only sit on the ground helplessly, her eyes full of despair.

She saw the prince standing next to the emperor.

Then he turned and crawled towards the prince.

"Brother, save me. I don't want to die. I know I was wrong. I am your biological sister, you can't watch me die. I am willing to repent, even if I have to live forever in seclusion."

Shangguan Wanrou grabbed the prince's trouser leg as if she was grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Sister? When you were harming Ziqi, why didn't you think of her as my sister?

You are where you are today because of your ambition. How dare you recruit spies from the enemy country to serve yourselves?

How audacious!

You are as stupid as your mother, and you are being used by Canglan's spies without knowing it.

I have warned you before that if you make a big mistake again, I will remove you from the family tree, and you will no longer be a daughter of the Shangguan family.

In the end, you turned a deaf ear to my words.

You deserve what happened to you today." The prince showed no mercy at all.

In terms of blood relationship, she is indeed his biological sister, but this biological sister is just like her biological father, selfish and has never treated him as an elder brother or a relative.

What's the point of having a sister like this? She will only bring shame to the Shangguan family.

"Your Majesty, I have nothing to say. Just handle it as it should be handled. I won't have any complaints.

At this time, I would like to say sorry to you. It is my Shangguan family’s poor education of our daughter that has led to today’s result.

If the emperor wants to blame my Shangguan family, I will accept the blame and punishment."

The prince bowed to the emperor to show his attitude.

The emperor turned around and nodded lightly.

This is the attitude he wants.

The queen's voice was as cold as a flower: "Come here, banish Shangguan Wanrou to the cold palace, give her a piece of white silk, and let her end her life by herself."

As soon as he finished speaking, several palace guards rushed in from outside the hall and lifted Shangguan Wanrou up with expressionless faces.

She panicked, struggled in fear, and cried out in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, spare my life! I will never dare to do it again! Please, for the sake of our past relationship, spare my life!"

The emperor acted as if he had not heard it. His face was expressionless and his back was resolute and indifferent.

Shangguan Wanrou's cries gradually faded away and finally disappeared in the long corridor of the deep palace.

Silence returned to the hall, with only the sunlight from outside the window shining into the hall without warmth, illuminating the emperor's stern profile.

He stood under the window, looked up and out, a complex emotion flashed in his eyes, but was quickly replaced by coldness.

"Hongyi, am I too ruthless?"

"No, regicide is unforgivable."

"You have been my study companion since you were eight years old. At that time, I often went to the Rong Palace. Wanrou is your only sister. I have always been kind to her and took care of her like a family member.

When she wanted to enter the palace, I agreed because of my feelings for her and couldn't bear to see her sad.

Alas, it has finally come to this point today.

I never thought that this would be the outcome today, but things are unpredictable."

"Your Majesty, what has happened has passed. Don't take it to heart. Third Prince, how should you handle this?" The prince changed the subject.

"The Third Prince was led step by step by his Concubine to this point today, and it was also because I neglected to discipline him. But he is my own son after all, and I really cannot kill him. But he has indeed committed the crime of patricide, which is unacceptable to heaven and earth. I am in a dilemma."

"Then let him die suddenly." The prince raised his eyebrows, suggesting something.

The implication is to fake the death of the third prince.

"Okay, just as you said, send him to the imperial mausoleum and let him repent for the rest of his life in front of his ancestors. But the third prince's wife is pregnant now, so let her give birth to the child and demote her and the others to commoners. Give them a chance to live."

"Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor is a man of long-lasting affection. The prince has long known this, and it is not surprising that the Shangguan family will also be punished by the emperor for this.

At this time, in the cold palace.

Shangguan Wanrou was thrown to the ground roughly by the palace guards, and a ten-foot-long white silk was thrown in front of her.

She reached out her trembling hand to touch the cold silk, and tears finally burst out.

"Why...why is it like this..." She murmured to herself, her voice full of regret and unwillingness.

However, in the deep palace, no one responded to her cries. Only the cold wind blew through the broken window frames, making a shrill whimpering sound, like a mournful wail.

Shangguan Wanrou stood up slowly and looked out the window with a dull look.

She knew she had no way out.

Her trembling fingers clenched the white silk, she closed her eyes, tears slid down her cheeks, and finally turned into a silent sigh.

At this moment, she had no idea what the third prince would end up like and only lamented about her own life.

"Your Majesty, please get on your way." The palace guards standing by urged, as they were still waiting to go back and report.

Shangguan Wanrou saw that they didn't give her any chance to hesitate and knew that it was useless to struggle any further.

Her life has come to an end.

Does she regret it?

Of course she regrets it, but if she were given the choice again, perhaps she would still choose the same path.

Her parents taught her since she was young that if she wanted to be a superior person, she had to work hard on her own.

In order to become the superior person, she deliberately seduced the emperor and gave birth to a son. Everything was going according to her plan, but since Ziqi woke up, nothing was so smooth.

The plan this time was perfect, but it ended up failing.

Until now she still doesn't know what the problem is?

Why didn’t the emperor die?

At this time, Shangguan Ziqi, after dealing with other arrested persons in the palace, also came to the cold palace.

He wanted to see his aunt for the last time. He wanted to ask her if she was sincere. He wanted to ask her if she knew that Zishu was not his child.

"Meet Prince Rong."

"Well, you guys go guard the door." Shangguan Ziqi ordered in a calm voice.

The two palace guards withdrew.

"Ziqi, you are here to save your aunt, right? Your aunt loved you the most when you were a child. Can you please save your aunt?" Shangguan Wanrou seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw.

"Save you? I'm not that stupid." Shangguan Ziqi looked disdainful.

"Ziqi, auntie was wrong. I apologize to you. Please save me. I will definitely change for the better in the future."

"Aunt, don't you think it's too late for you to say this?"