She gave birth to three children, the other two of whom were daughters.

This is her only son.

If he can't do it, then all her years of hard work will be wasted.

She had offended the Queen Mother a long time ago, and their Zheng family and the Xiao family behind the Queen Mother were irreconcilable. If they were to fail, what would happen to the Zheng family behind them?

She had no way to explain to her parents and was too ashamed to see her father and brother again.

Princess Gong squatted down and looked at her at eye level.

"This matter is... a bit tricky."

The queen smiled bitterly and said, "I know. I'm sorry for failing to live up to your expectations."

"Alas!" Princess Gong sighed and said, "It has already happened. There is no point in talking about this. For now, we have to find a way to save ourselves."

"Save yourself?" The queen said with a wry smile, "You only have this one son, and now he's dead, how can you save yourself?"

She looked at Princess Gong and said, "Sister-in-law, few people know that the Prince Gong Mansion has occupied the team. You might as well choose them as soon as possible and don't get involved in this mess."

Princess Gong said calmly, "You admit defeat, so can you just sit there and watch the War King ascend to the throne?"

The queen frowned and lowered her head.

Princess Gong said, "Have you ever thought about what would happen to you, the Second Prince, and the Zheng family behind you if he came to power? How would he treat you?"

The end is naturally predictable.

In the worst case, like what happened to the Cui family, the entire family was expelled from the center of power.

In the worst case, they might even be worse than the Cui family. Who knows how much blood the Cui family will shed in that vegetable market?

Princess Gong took a deep breath and said, "The Queen Mother had previously chosen the Third Prince and Consort Chen as shields. Now that Prince Zhan has suddenly recovered, Consort Chen must have realized that she is being used as a pawn."

The Queen raised her eyes and asked, "You mean, you want to cooperate with the Concubine Chen now?"

Princess Gong shook her head and said, "No, I don't know that you and Concubine Chen are not on good terms. She doesn't believe the Queen Mother now, and she won't believe you either."

The queen sighed and nodded.

"You should consider the Fourth Prince or the Fifth Prince."

"Although the fourth child is young, he is spoiled by his mother and concubine and is not a suitable choice."

"Then the Fifth Prince."

"The Fifth Mother is just a maid without any background, and she is too rich."

"Isn't this just right? A maid without any background can only rely on you, Your Majesty. It's easier to discipline her at her age. When she grows up, she will always remember your kindness. As for how to make them grateful to you and devoted to you, I think Your Majesty has more ways than you."

The queen's eyes lit up, and it was obvious that she was moved.

Even if we take a step back, no matter who becomes the emperor, it is better than Chu Li being the emperor.

Besides, as long as the emperor survived this time, it is really uncertain how this chess game will play out in the future.

She would slowly teach her son, and he might still have a chance to win back his father's heart.

…

Prince Gong saw that the emperor was fine, so he comforted him and left the palace with Ruan Xinchen.

After waiting for a while at the palace gate, Princess Gong arrived.

Prince Gong hurried forward and asked, "Is everything alright?"

Princess Gong shook her head and said, "It's okay."

"How come I heard that the Queen Mother had the Queen placed under house arrest?"

"Um."

"You entered using the token left by your father?"

Princess Gong nodded and said, "Yes."

Prince Gong took a deep breath and said, "That means I have completely offended her."

Princess Gong said: "We have thoroughly offended her. From the moment you crawled out of your mother's belly, you have been a thorn in her side."

Prince Gong was stunned for a moment and sighed helplessly.

Ah, his birth destined the Queen Mother to hate him to the core.

In fact, he had also heard about the grievances of the previous generation.

The late emperor, his father, did not appoint a queen for a long time after he ascended the throne in order to balance the power.

There are two highest ranking concubines in the harem, Consort Xian and Consort Shu.

That year, they both became pregnant at the same time.

During those years, he had strangled many of his own children in order to balance power.

But he was no longer young that year, and was about to enter adulthood. The previous dynasty had some complaints about his childlessness.

He knew that if he didn't give birth to a child, he would have no chance.

Therefore, he decided not to move the two children and let them be born safely.

With a child, especially a boy, it wouldn't be long before the old ministers of the previous dynasty forced him to establish a queen. He understood it all.

The late emperor had said that whoever gave birth to the eldest son would be the queen.

A mother is honored by her son, no problem.

But in fact, he likes Consort Hyun-bi more.

But Concubine Shu's family is more powerful, and this is also done to make Concubine Shu's family convinced.

In order to help his favorite Concubine Xian ascend to the throne, the emperor asked the Imperial Hospital to induce labor in Concubine Xian.

The child was born first, but Concubine Xian died in childbirth.

For this reason, Concubine Shu, now the Queen Mother, hated Concubine Xian to the core. She would still hate her even after her death.

She would not hate the emperor for asking the imperial physician to do this. She only hated Concubine Xian for not following the rules of the game and deceiving the emperor into agreeing to let the imperial physician induce labor.

Originally her son 꺳놆 was the eldest son, but because she did not follow the rules of the game, her son became the second son.

This incident became a thorn in her heart.

In her opinion, Concubine Xian deserved to die.

Humph, what if she gave birth to the eldest son before her? If she died, she still couldn't be the queen.

This is God's will.

After becoming the empress, Concubine Shu had no one to take revenge on, so she directed all her hatred at Concubine Xian's son, the current Prince Gong.

The Prince Gong, who was induced to give birth, has always been in good health, but the prince she gave birth to naturally has always been weak, which made her extremely jealous.

She thought that she must have been angry because of Concubine Xian's matter, which caused her son to be upset in her womb and be born weak.

During those years, Prince Gong was nearly assassinated by the Queen Mother many times in the harem.

If he hadn't been protected by his father, he was afraid that he would have died in the harem long ago.

Thinking of these past events, Prince Gong smiled bitterly.

He felt that he was indeed too weak.

She treated me like that, I should have resisted her long ago.

Could it be that he really watched that old woman kill all his relatives?

"We shouldn't have tolerated the matter of Xiao Ling." Princess Gong said to Prince Gong with red eyes.

There was resentment in his eyes.

She blamed her husband for covering up the truth and not daring to tell anyone that their son had died.

Prince Gong also felt aggrieved.

Because at that time his father was in very poor health and was about to die.

When his father knew that Xiao Ling was gone, he was worried that his father would die on the spot.

Not to mention telling his father, he didn't even dare to make the news of Xiao Ling's death public.

So until now, no one outside knows that the spirit is dead.

Even the Queen Mother thought that the assassination attempt had failed.

They thought the child had just fainted, but they took him home and treated him, and he came back to life.

She didn't know that Chu Xuanche's temperament had changed drastically, and she thought he was frightened.