Chapter 759 The Mad Empress Dowager
Consort Chang pondered for a moment, then suddenly sneered, "The Emperor and Empress are both here, why didn't you invite Empress Dowager Cheng along?"
Xie Shang frowned. "I don't want more people to know about your shameful deeds, I don't want my fourth brother to be disgraced because of you, I don't want him to be ridiculed. Does Your Highness want him to suffer the same hardships he endured as a child?"
"All of this was caused by Empress Dowager Cheng. Why is she allowed not to come? Why is she allowed to continue living a life of luxury and high status?" Consort Chang gritted her teeth in hatred, blaming all her pain on Empress Dowager Cheng.
Xie Shang didn't understand what he meant. "In my memory, the Empress Dowager has always been very good to the Dowager Consort. I used to think that all the other concubines in the palace were fake, but the Dowager Consort and the Empress Dowager were like sisters. You..."
"Pah!" Consort Chang's veins bulged with hatred. When she hated someone, she felt as if every drop of blood and every hair in her body was filled with hatred.
Jiang Fenghua felt that Consort Chang lived in the West Palace, which was very quiet. She thought that Consort Chang's personality must also be elegant and tranquil. That was the impression she got. She was indifferent to fame and fortune, and had no feelings, love, hatred, or resentment.
However, at this time, Consort Chang hated Empress Dowager Cheng to the core.
Jiang Fenghua suggested, "Let's invite the Empress Dowager over. I think the Imperial Concubine Dowager seems to have some unavoidable difficulties."
She also disliked Empress Dowager Cheng. She didn't know why she felt disgusted whenever she saw her, just like she hated Consort Chang to the core.
Consort Chang continued, "There's a family banquet tonight. Everyone's here. Let's invite the Second Prince, the Third Prince, the Eighth Prince, and the Tenth Prince over! There are some things they should know, and they should know who their enemies are."
Xie Shang looked at her incredulously, "What does the Dowager Consort mean? Do you want everyone to know about the bastard child you had with Shu Lang, making the royal family a complete laughingstock?"
Consort Chang said, "When Zhang Yurou said in the Golden Palace that her child was the Emperor's, and then there were rumors about Empress Dowager Cheng's affair with her cousin, and now I have had an affair with a court official and even had a child, does the Emperor really think these things are so simple? The royal family has long been a laughing stock of the world, not because of me, but because the royal family is inherently filthy and disgusting, making people want to vomit."
"Even if I die, I will not let Cheng Langjin get away with this. I have long known that Yang'er has no talent for governing the country. This world should belong to the Emperor. I still forced him to fight for the throne and forced Shulang to contact officials in the court who resented the Emperor and Empress Jiang, so that they would rebel." Consort Chang took the initiative to bear all the blame. She only hoped that Xie Yang would not hate her and would not implicate Shulang.
Xie Shang asked in confusion, "Rebellion? You want Xie Yang to rebel? What kind of rebellion? How will he rebel, and who have you contacted?"
He even became angry and furious, saying, "Fourth brother, have I not treated you well? Why did you rebel? I have always valued brotherly affection. Since I ascended the throne, I have never mistreated any of my princes. Why did you rebel?"
Xie Yang suddenly knelt on the ground, hating himself, "Now I know I am not my father's son, I am a bastard just like Shu Yan."
Consort Chang said, "You are not Shu Lang's child. You are indeed the late Emperor's son. At that time, your mother was not in the palace. She was drugged by Empress Dowager Cheng and sent to the late Emperor's bed, which is how she became pregnant with you."
Xie Yang's eyes lit up. "Mother, is what you're saying true? I really am Father's child."
Shu Lang said, "Yes, your mother didn't want to enter the palace, but just because the late emperor glanced at her, Empress Dowager Cheng wanted her to enter the palace to serve the late emperor. She refused, but Empress Dowager Cheng didn't listen to her explanation and directly had someone drug her and send her to the late emperor's bed."
Shu Yan found this strange. "Father, the Fourth Prince said that I am someone's bastard. What are you talking about? What happened?"
Consort Chang looked at Shu Yan with eager eyes, hesitating to speak, and wanted to take her daughter's hand, "Yan'er."
"Why does the Empress Dowager call me Yan'er?" Shu Yan was still very grateful to the Empress Dowager for teaching her how to make pastries. She discovered that she also had a great talent for it and thought of making pastries to give to the Emperor so that he would like her.
At this moment, tears welled up in Consort Chang's eyes. Facing her daughter, she didn't know how to tell her that she was her mother!
She was sent out of the palace the moment she was born. For the past eighteen years, she has not dared to inquire about her whereabouts, nor even contact Shu Lang, for fear that she would be unable to stop thinking about her.
Madam Shu said coldly, "Consort Chang is your real mother, the bastard child born from your father's affair with her."
Madam Shu had no idea that Shu Lang and Consort Chang dared to rebel and wanted to support the Fourth Prince to become emperor. He didn't even know what kind of person he was. He was the most pathetic prince in the entire Shengjing City, and the Fourth Princess even cheated on him.
Shu Yan stared at her father, then looked at Consort Chang. "My father has always loved me the most since I was little. My mother has always been distant from me and only dotes on my brother. I thought my mother only liked boys. I never imagined that I wasn't my mother's daughter at all. But I've always treated my mother as my own mother!"
Shu Yan cried uncontrollably, "How could this happen? Why did this happen? I am clearly the most beautiful daughter of the Shu family. How did I become an illegitimate child, Mother?"
Shu Yan called out to Madam Shu, and Madam Shu was also somewhat moved. Even if she didn't like it, she had called her "Mother" for eighteen years. When she was little, she was too lazy to even hold her, but from a distance, she would still call her "Mother".
“As long as I am here, you will still be the eldest daughter of the Shu family.” Madam Shu added, “Your father is helping your own mother rebel, and the entire Shu family has been ruined by her.”
Shu Yan grew up with Madam Shu, so she must have feelings for her. As for Consort Chang, she only thought of her as a woman abandoned in the cold palace. If Consort Chang was really her mother, then she really was a bastard.
Shu Yan said coldly, "I will always be my mother's daughter. I'm afraid Consort Chang has mistaken me for someone else."
When Consort Chang saw that her daughter did not recognize her, she felt a pain in her chest.
Shu Lang said, "Yan'er, she really is your biological mother."
Xie Yang finally understood that his mother had made many little clothes, some of which she would even give to Xie Ruoyi to wear. It turned out that those clothes were made for her daughter.
He said, "I don't understand. I also lived in the West Palace at the time. How did my mother get pregnant without being discovered, and even after she gave birth, I didn't find out?"
“I drugged you, and you often fall into a deep sleep and often go to the quiet room to read.”
Xie Yang then realized that when his mother scolded him for not studying hard, it wasn't for his sake, but for the child in her womb—the child of her and the man she loved.
He was forced to do all sorts of things he didn't like from a young age, so he particularly hates certain things and people; he even hates women.
He said, "So my mother actually disliked her son because she didn't want to give birth to me at all."
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