To be honest, Zishu Tang didn't think they had done anything wrong. After all, they were both women, and even if they had done something, they were powerless to do so.
So he felt that the other party was just provoking him: "Do you have to keep making me angry?"
Wan Ge gave him a cold glance and didn't say anything more.
Zishu Tang continued, "I know what I did made you very angry, but we've known each other for so long, and we still have some feelings for each other. You don't need to be so angry with me. So what if you have a good relationship with the Empress? She is still just a woman. No matter how good your relationship is, she can never become the Empress."
Wan Ge slowly leaned closer to him and said in a voice that only the three of them could hear, "He can't, but your son can! Rather than supporting an emperor who might stab me in the back at any time, it seems more beneficial for me to have a puppet emperor like Fu Cheng."
"Impossible! He is my child with Mei'er. How could you possibly support him to the throne!"
Wan Ge curled her lips and slowly replied, "He's just a puppet emperor. It doesn't matter who he is. Besides, he was the one you personally brought to me and raised, wasn't he? At least nominally he'll still call me 'Mother Consort'."
Zishu Tang felt cold sweat breaking out, but he still thought it was impossible: "You dare to provoke me so openly? Have you forgotten that you are still my imperial concubine and still in the palace? Aren't you afraid of angering me? At worst, we'll fight to the death."
Wan Ge sneered: "You don't even know what kind of forces I have behind the scenes, so what makes you think you can kill me?"
Zishu Tang was immediately stumped by the question.
Yes, he didn't even know what kind of power she had behind her, nor did he know who his spies were in the palace. He had underestimated Wan Ge's appearance from the very beginning.
From the day she agreed to his request, he thought she was just an ignorant and naive young girl. Someone like him, who would be sold out and still have to help count the money, wouldn't pose any threat to him.
Especially on the day he went from being the Crown Princess to a Noble Consort, she seemed genuinely indifferent, which was incredibly deceptive. Even he was fooled by her, thinking she was an extremely naive girl.
He was too naive; how could someone from such a prestigious family be a simple young girl?
He's starting to wonder if the person who initially agreed to cooperate with him truly believed him or had ulterior motives, all for the sake of this day.
But if she was really just acting, then he acted too well. At least until her life was in danger, he never doubted her, not even a little bit.
Wan Ge looked at him and slowly said, "Do you know why your father entrusted military power to your Princess?"
Zishu Tang had a premonition that the other party was about to say something he didn't want to hear.
"That's because your late emperor saw that you were a ruler who would never amount to anything, and by not handing you the military seal, he was able to prevent you from losing the entire country. Otherwise, with your ambition that doesn't match your intelligence, the Zishu family's legacy would have been ruined in your hands sooner or later."
"Impossible! Father Emperor only gave military power to my elder sister because he favored her."
Wan Ge said this in order to break the other party's defenses: "If he really favored the Princess, why would he let him stay in the northern frontier for so long?"
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