If you insist on saying how much she values her grand-nephew, well, even the Empress Dowager herself doesn't believe it.
After so many years in the harem, her husband and son all left her.
Her heart wasn't completely cold, but she wouldn't be so emotionally invested in caring for a grand-nephew with whom she had little affection.
"..."
Seeing that the Empress Dowager was being so disrespectful, the middle-aged woman looked rather embarrassed.
But soon, she regained her composure and continued to persuade, "Yes! The Empress Dowager is right."
“You are indeed the ancestor of the Helian family, but you are also a daughter of our Yang family.”
“The sage was extremely filial. He observed three years of mourning for the late emperor, and he also showed great respect to you, his grandmother.”
“But you are, after all, a grandmother, not a mother, and there is a layer between you and the saint.”
"As for the Crown Prince, he is born to the Xie family, which makes him even more distant from you."
"I believe that having a prince born to the Yang family would be extremely beneficial to both the Yang family and you."
"Alas, thanks to the Emperor's favor, Lady Xie has long since become the most honored woman. People only know to praise Lady Xie, but they don't know that the former Empress Yang was also a virtuous empress who held immense power in the palace and was famous throughout the world."
The middle-aged woman wasn't really that stupid.
As they talked, they brought up the glorious past of the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager looked somewhat dazed. Yes, she was now just an old woman confined to the inner palace.
Once upon a time, she, like Lady Xie, was a virtuous wife of the Holy Emperor and the Ancestor Emperor, and a wise empress praised by court officials and historians.
Having enjoyed power and once been high above others, the Empress Dowager was suddenly thrown into a corner, and she indeed experienced a great psychological gap.
There was a prince born to a member of the Yang family... Although she knew it was bait provided by the Yang family, the Empress Dowager was indeed somewhat tempted.
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