"But there was no concubine who had given birth at the time. Just when Emperor Gan was at a loss as to what to do, Concubine Shu accidentally overheard the incident."
"The Concubine Shu, who only has the emperor in her heart, volunteered to exchange her child with this baby girl to help the emperor."
When Long Mujiang said this, he laughed disdainfully. What kind of mother would say such a thing, abandon her own child, and then adopt someone else's child.
Could it be that she only cared about the emperor's favor? With three thousand concubines, was she so sure the emperor wouldn't abandon her? Or did she think this incident would make the emperor feel guilty about her forever?
The empress didn't know what to say for a moment. She grew up in the matriarchal Minglan Kingdom, and the education she received since childhood also taught her that women can still stand on their own feet and are never vassals of men.
So she couldn't understand why Concubine Shu did this, nor could she understand what Concubine Shu would get by loving someone to her heart's content.
"You said that women can be independent and strong, so why do they have to be trapped in love and torture their whole lives?" The empress murmured to herself, as if asking Long Mujiang, or as if searching for the voice deep in her heart.
"I don't know. Whether it's a woman or a man, they will always get lost in love, like Concubine Shu, Aze, and me." Long Mujiang was silent for a while. He had no way to give the empress the answer.
Because even he himself did not see clearly what was in love that made him so obsessed. In the end, he was deeply trapped in the quagmire of thoughts and could not get out no matter how hard he struggled.
"And then?" The empress took a deep breath, suppressing her inner confusion. "Why is Concubine Shu so sure that her child must be a prince, and not a princess?"
"Of course she can't be sure, and Emperor Gan doesn't believe that she is so lucky that she can give birth to a prince in one go, so Xu Li and the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo came into being." Long Mujiang sneered, with sarcasm on his face.
For a moment, he remembered the time when Gan Di was confessing with tears in his eyes in front of Gan Di's bed, saying that he was sorry for this and that.
But what's the use of feeling sorry? In the end, didn't everything go according to his plan and all his wishes were fulfilled?
"When Xu Li and Song Zhenjiang learned of this secret, they were also willing to contribute their own offspring. Coincidentally, Madam Xu, Madam Song, and Concubine Shu were all pregnant within a short time."
"So they secretly found a royal physician to induce labor, and with the help of a disguised assassin, they ended up having simultaneous births."
"Maybe they didn't expect that the last three pregnant women gave birth to babies, all of them were boys. This can be said to have provided a great guarantee for their plan." When Song Yu said this, there was anger on his face.
Sometimes he really blamed the injustice of heaven for letting such a person get what he wanted, but sometimes he felt guilty because he was the ultimate beneficiary.
All the hardships he overcame along the way were fake, only the final harvest was real, so anyone can spit on them, but he is not qualified. However, he is the one who knows all the truth.
"So in the end, Madam Xu's child was chosen for the exchange?" The empress asked tentatively. After all, everything revolved around Xu Tianze in the end. It could be said that Xu Tianze was the one who was exchanged in the end.
"No, that's Lan Nuoling." A flash of enlightenment came to the empress's mind.
The three pregnant women gave birth to three baby boys, but what about the baby girl who was taken away at the beginning? This baby girl has never appeared in the country.
She had also never heard that any of the three concubines had daughters.
Long Mujiang nodded, then shook his head: "You have guessed it, but your guess is not complete."
"The three of Emperor Gan were overjoyed at the time, and the first thing they thought about was how to swap the baby boy and what to do with the baby girl.
"Finally, Concubine Shu's child was chosen as the replacement for the baby girl and was the heir to the throne. However, this child could not be raised by Concubine Shu, so she was given to Madam Xu to raise, who is now Xu Tianze."
"Originally, Madam Xu's child was sent to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to be raised and inherited everything in the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. He is now Song Yu."
"The baby boy from the Zhenguo Mansion was brought to the care of Concubine Shu and raised as the second prince of Emperor Gan, and eventually, it was me."
"As for the last baby girl, she was disguised as Xu Tianze's full sister and sent back to Minglan Country to be raised. She became the current Lan Nuoling."
After Song Yu finished speaking in one breath, he drank a sip of water and gave the empress time to react. Later, as if remembering something, he added: "There is no wall that is impenetrable. They are also afraid that this matter will be exposed, so they pushed the eldest son of the Xu family to the public first to cover up Xu Tianze's existence."
Empress:...
Originally, the empress thought it was just an ordinary secret, but when she heard that the twins were both girls, her face became a little solemn. After all, the secret medicine was related to the relationship between Gan Kingdom and Minglan Kingdom.
But when she heard everything, she suddenly became speechless and didn't know how to complain about it.
She had expected such a shocking plan, and it finally succeeded. There must have been many other plans and calculations involved.
But she didn't expect that it would turn out like this in the end. There were twists and turns in each layer of identity. She suddenly understood why Xu Tianze was so crazy. This revealed a layer of truth, an identity.
He didn't figure out his identity until the end. Even after leaving Gan Kingdom, this mystery still stayed with him. No wonder Xu Tianze fainted due to emotional fluctuations after meeting Song Yu yesterday.
Let alone Xu Tianze, if it were her, she might just let Tiandu be buried with him, let alone go straight to the most important person.
"So, in the end, it should be Xu Tianze who ascended the throne. Why is it you, the real legitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo and the adopted son of Concubine Shu, who ascended the throne in the end?" The empress finally sorted out all her thoughts and became suspicious again.
Isn't Xu Tianze the one who ultimately benefits from this truth? But the person sitting in front of her now is Long Mujiang.
"Of course it was in the end. They found that all the plans were too perfect, but also too terrifying. After Aze knew everything, he might not be able to survive, so he chose me." Long Mujiang put down the teacup with self-mockery and bitterness on his face.
When he knew everything, he went crazy for a while, but at that time he was the only one among the three children who did not show any preference for heterosexuality, so in the end he became the only choice.
Later, after he regained his strength, he was like a spectator, mocking Aze, Song Yu, and his brothers who were fighting for the throne.
At that time, he always felt that everyone was drunk but he was the only one sober.
But in the end he couldn't help himself and joined in. Only then did he understand why everyone was sinking into it without knowing it.
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