Cui Yihuan's eyes lost their light. She carried that box every day, eating and sleeping little.

He worried that if she couldn't get pregnant, she would become fixated on it.

After receiving the letter, Xie Tingzhou showed it to Ye Zhen.

Both of them were feeling bad.

Fortunately, news arrived from the Great Wei, which Xie Tingzhou received and brought to Ye Zhen.

"Shi Yan is the regent of the Great Wei, and the current emperor is his nephew. The Great Wei royal family is somewhat unusual; none of them want to be emperor and rule the country."

Thinking of the intelligence he had seen, Xie Tingzhou shrugged and continued, "When Emperor Mingjing of the Great Wei Dynasty was in power, he made the eldest princess, Wei Qingyan, the crown princess, intending to pass the throne to his daughter."

However, the Crown Princess had no interest in the throne and spent her days traveling incognito with her husband. Shi Jin had no choice but to make the Crown Princess's son the Crown Prince's grandson and personally teach him.

The Crown Prince diligently studied the art of governing the country, but perhaps influenced by his mother, he was unwilling to become emperor when he grew up and delayed his ascension to the throne.

With no one willing to take the throne, Shi Jin reigned until he was eighty years old. Taking advantage of his descendants returning to court to celebrate his eightieth birthday, he left behind an edict of succession and traveled to various countries with his elderly empress and twin children.

The country could not be left unattended, and Shi Jin was indeed getting old, so the Crown Prince had no choice but to ascend the throne and become emperor.

However, after twenty years on the throne, he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, who was even more ruthless. He fled after less than a year as emperor.

At that time, the Crown Prince was still an infant. To avoid turmoil in the court, the Crown Princess, who had been away for many years, returned to the capital and appointed her young grandson, Shi Yan, the young Crown Prince's uncle, as regent to assist the infant Crown Prince in ascending the throne, a position he holds to this day.