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Since then, Emperor Wu fell seriously ill. In addition, he had suffered many injuries from his battles in youth. Previously, he could rely on his blood and bravery to calm down, but this time he was too frightened and often immersed in nightmares, and his health was getting worse and worse.
He died not long after.
But the story of Sheng's daughter did not end there.
When Emperor Wu passed away, he left his sons with a court plagued by internal and external troubles, and extremely tense relations among the royal family.
At this time, the Seventh Prince, who had been keeping a low profile, gradually emerged in the fight for the throne among his brothers. He outlasted the Crown Prince who was about to succeed him, and discovered the weakness of the most popular Fourth Prince, and announced it to the world. The other princes originally thought that the good thing of inheriting the throne would fall on them, but they suddenly realized that almost all the officials in the court and the aristocratic families were standing behind the Seventh Prince.
What a horrible discovery this was.
The little shrimp that the princes looked down upon suddenly transformed into a real dragon that could reach the sky and penetrate the earth.
At first, there were still a few princes who wanted to resist, but after someone lost his life, the other princes, no matter how angry they were, no longer dared to say a word.
Because they discovered that the Seventh Prince was not at all as gentle and polite as he had previously appeared to be, but rather timid and fearful.
On the contrary, he is a person whose methods are even tougher than those of his father.
The other princes regarded the transformation of the Seventh Prince as his previous humble behavior as a trick to play the pig and eat the tiger. Only the woman in the deep palace trembled day and night, quietly mourning her son in a very low voice.
——She is the biological mother of the seventh prince.
She was the only one who discovered early on that her son was no longer her own.
But she had no one to tell all this to, and she didn't dare tell anyone.
Emperor Wu's empire was thus quietly controlled by the woman named Sheng.
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