The throne of queen was left vacant.
Once, Leng Hong asked Su Wanti if she wanted to be the queen.
Su Wanti shook her head and said, "The title of Queen is very restrictive. I don't want it. I only want to be favored by Your Majesty. I am happy to be a concubine who enjoys daily pleasures."
Leng Hong smiled with satisfaction and never mentioned the matter again.
One day, Qingzhi took advantage of the emperor's absence and secretly told Su Wanti that the deposed queen wanted to see her.
Su Wanti thought about it and agreed. Although she didn't know what the queen's intention was in meeting her, she still decided to go and meet her.
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The cold palace was desolate and bleak, without even a single servant. The ground was covered with dead grass, and the walls were covered with mottled marks.
The queen had a bruised face and nose, probably because she was beaten by the imperial concubine and Concubine Qiu.
She was wearing a coarse cloth dress, not as luxurious and elegant as before, but her expression was much calmer than before.
When the queen saw that it was Su Wanti coming over, she simply raised her eyes and said, "You win."
Su Wanti chuckled, "I won't be the queen. I have no intention of becoming one."
"Haha!" The queen laughed until tears came out, as if she had heard a joke.
"No woman in the harem would not want to be the queen. Moreover, you are favored and have given birth to the emperor's eldest son. It doesn't matter if you are not interested. Someone will naturally lift you to this position."
Su Wanti shrugged. It was not up to her to decide what she did. Leng Hong didn't want her to be the queen. What else could she do?
Fortunately, Leng Hong had no intention of establishing a queen. He felt that she was enough to be the only imperial concubine in the harem.
Su Wanti didn't want to explain Leng Hong's thoughts to the Queen, nor did she want to argue with her about the Queen's position, so she changed the subject.
"After the palace banquet, your family disowned you and said they had removed you from the family."
When talking about her family, there was no fluctuation in the queen's eyes. She remained indifferent, as if she was listening to someone else's affairs.
"I thought about it. My family is like this. They don't treat me as a daughter at all. They just treat me as an outsider. It's like they raised me and I should fight for them."
"When I was the Queen, I knew they didn't treat me well, but I still thought about how they had raised me, so I always wanted to repay them and do something good for them. At that time, I felt conflicted and uneasy."
"Now that I've become a commoner, truly useless in their eyes, unable to do anything, I feel at peace. I no longer need to think of ways to repay them."
"If they don't treat you as their family, do you still treat them as your family?" Su Wanti asked.
The Queen smiled softly, calmly, "Of course not. If I don't have a good life, then they won't have an easy life either."
"This is also the reason why I want to see you this time."
After the Queen finished speaking, she took out a small notebook from her sleeve and handed it to Su Wanti, saying:
"Help me deliver this to the Emperor. This is evidence of my family's crimes over the years. Tell the Emperor that I sincerely repent and have decided to kill my own family for the greater good."
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