The Crown Prince is plotting a rebellion, and the two of them will definitely get involved. They have already planned that as soon as the Crown Prince forces the emperor to abdicate, they will purge the court of corrupt officials!
The Crown Prince can forget about sitting on the throne peacefully!
Qianqing Palace…
"Empress, it is I who have implicated you!"
Emperor Cheng Dexun looked at the Empress with a pale face and a guilty expression, and said softly.
"What nonsense is Your Majesty spouting? Since I am the Empress, I will stand with you through thick and thin."
The Empress disagreed with the Emperor's words and said with a serious expression.
"It's so good to have you by my side!"
The emperor was deeply moved. As the saying goes, "Husbands and wives are like birds in the same forest; when disaster strikes, they fly away separately."
His empress was not like that.
"Oh! I never expected you two to be such a star-crossed couple!"
At that moment, a sharp female voice came from outside, and then Consort Xiao walked in dressed in gorgeous clothes, looking at the two of them with disgust.
When the Emperor saw the newcomer, the disgust on his face was no less than that on Consort Xiao's.
What are you doing here?
The Emperor looked coldly at Consort Xiao, and subtly pushed the Empress behind him.
"Your Majesty, I've come to have a chat and, incidentally, to ask you to pass the throne to the Crown Prince!"
Consort Xiao looked at the Emperor, concealing the disgust on her face, and said casually.
"What if I don't!"
The Emperor did not move, but just looked at Consort Xiao and spoke calmly.
"If you don't agree, there's no antidote for the poison in your body. Oh, and by the way, your good queen, there's no antidote for the poison she's been given either!"
Consort Xiao shrugged nonchalantly, looking at the Emperor as if he were telling him a secret, and said...
Consort Xiao knew the Emperor wouldn't agree, but she wasn't in a hurry. Her father controlled the entire palace, so she had plenty of time to wait it out with them.
"You poisonous woman! I knew the Empress's poisoning was related to you!!"
The Emperor was furious. He had known for half a year that the Empress had been poisoned. At that time, he sent people to investigate, and the final clues pointed to Consort Xiao. However, due to insufficient evidence, the matter was temporarily shelved.
I can't believe it really is her?
"Hahaha! I am a poisonous woman? I have been with you since I was sixteen. I thought I would be your Crown Princess, your Empress. But what happened? This woman."
When Consort Xiao heard the Emperor scold her, she immediately lost her composure and loudly questioned him. Finally, pointing angrily at the woman the Emperor was protecting behind him, she growled in a low voice, filled with resentment:
"It's this woman. You were willing to sign unequal terms with the Empress Dowager just to make her Empress. Why should she be Empress? I've been with you for so long. Why can she be Empress, but I can't?"
"With a heart as small as yours, you are not worthy to be empress!"
The Emperor looked coldly at the woman opposite him with a ferocious expression and said with disgust.
"What's wrong with my heart? What woman doesn't want her husband to be loyal to only her? Who would willingly give up their husband? I just made a mistake that all women in the world would make!"
Consort Xiao didn't think she had done anything wrong; she just wanted her husband to love her.
"You think too highly of yourself. I am not your husband. I only have one empress. You are at most my concubine. It is wrong for a concubine to covet what does not belong to her."
"Besides, I don't love you. It was the Empress Dowager's idea to make you a Noble Consort. If you weren't the Empress Dowager's niece and my cousin, you probably wouldn't have had this fate! It's just a pity that you didn't seize the opportunity!"
The emperor showed her no respect, and his words struck a nerve, shattering her last hope.
"Shut up, shut up!"
Consort Xiao was enraged by what the Emperor said and roared at him.
The emperor obediently shut his mouth; he didn't want to argue with this crazy woman, lest it lower his status as emperor!
For a moment, the entire Qianqing Palace was very quiet.
After calming down, Consort Xiao seemed to remember something, suppressed her anger, and chuckled softly.
"Hehehe, since you're so unforgiving, then I have nothing more to say. Your Majesty, write the abdication letter! Only when you abdicate, and my Crown Prince becomes Emperor, will I become Empress Dowager, and you can then live happily ever after with your Empress!"
"Mother, has Father not written the abdication document yet?"
At this moment, the crown prince walked in, followed by a group of men, looking menacing.
"not yet!"
Consort Xiao shook her head, glanced at her son. It had been three days already, and they had come every day to coerce and bribe him, but this wretched man just wouldn't write the imperial edict.
"Father, you should write it. I have already taken control of the entire palace. You only have this one choice now. Once I become the emperor, you will be the retired emperor and live a leisurely life. Wouldn't that be better?"
"Besides, you and the Empress are both poisoned now, and you are powerless to deal with matters of state. Why not leave it to your son? I will definitely do a good job. You can just focus on recuperating. Wouldn't that be better?"
The crown prince looked at his father and said earnestly, as if it were for his own good.
"Heh, this is the first time I've heard that my sons are all so ambitious. They have no ability but want to seize the throne. Do they really think that throne is so good? Writing an abdication letter is out of the question. If you have the ability, then come and take it!"
The emperor looked at his son and smiled nonchalantly.
He felt that being an emperor was pathetic, because his sons were not of one mind with him and were plotting to seize the throne every day.
The women each harbored their own ulterior motives, yet they were all entangled with Sheng Guang and could not be touched.
There's no one easy to deal with in the imperial court either; not a single person can offer any advice, so we have to rely on that young girl.
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