"Hmph! I'd rather use these things to bribe people than let them get away with it!"
Empress Dowager Ashina was speaking in anger.
On the other side, at the Empress Dowager's residence, the Grand Princess Yongchang was also speaking out of spite: "Is it not even allowed for me to make Nanling a concubine?"
"If all else fails, I'll have her become a female Taoist priest in a temple!"
"...We are absolutely not going to marry the fifth son."
Yongchang bluntly uttered these few words.
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager glared at her, "What's wrong with the Fifth Prince? Although he is missing one eye, he is still the Emperor's younger brother and the late Emperor's son!"
He's her own grandson!
For the Empress Dowager, her grandsons and granddaughters were all her own flesh and blood.
Both are my flesh and blood.
The fifth prince, on the other hand, had lost an eye, making him already quite pitiful.
If he were to be jilted again, wouldn't he become a laughingstock in the capital? How would he ever be able to stand on his own two feet again?
"I know he is your grandson, but Nanling is still your only granddaughter!"
Yongchang panicked and, disregarding his fear of his mother, shouted at the top of his lungs.
After she finished shouting, she realized it was inappropriate, so she softened her tone and tried to appeal to people's emotions, "Mother, Nanling was raised by you too!"
"Don't you know what kind of person she is?"
"Not to mention others, even a slightly cunning maid can control her."
"If the fifth prince is still alive and well, even if the emperor demotes him from his royal title to just a county prince, I will not look down on him."
"But he... but ever since he lost an eye, he's become incredibly cruel—"
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