Madam Song was completely stunned, moving her lips, and blankly staring for a long time before she came to her senses from her daughter’s outrageous words, and immediately reprimanded her sharply: "What nonsense are you talking about?! The current Crown Prince is the Sixth Prince! Are you confused?!"
Song Yalin said, "But everyone has forgotten that the Great Prince is the only legitimate heir to the royal family, and he is also the firstborn legitimate son. The one who is truly most qualified to inherit the empire is him. If this identity can be used well, usurping the position is not difficult. The current Emperor was initially born from a mere beauty, yet he managed to break through the barriers and ascend to the throne. Why does Mother think that the Great Prince will have no opportunity in the future?"
"You, you, you..." Madam Song didn’t even know how to respond for a moment. Although she had been reading since childhood, most of what she read were women’s teachings and admonitions. She had never encountered an ambition like her daughter’s.
Song Yalin held Madam Song’s hand: "Mother, I don’t care what others say or discuss. The only thing I care about is the result. Only by marrying the Great Prince and becoming his main wife, helping him seize the empire, and securing glory and nobility for the Song family for generations, can I get what I want. As for who he loves in his heart and how many concubines he takes, it doesn’t matter. Mother, don’t you understand?"
Madam Song didn’t know what to say for a while. She just stared blankly at Song Yalin, staring at the daughter she had trained herself. Her daughter was excellent, much more so than she was as a mother. So now, Madam Song couldn’t even find a single word to refute her, even though she didn’t agree with her daughter’s words.
She fundamentally disagreed.
"Lin Lin, this is a lifelong matter." Madam Song pursed her lips.
Song Yalin calmly said, "It is precisely because it is a lifelong matter, of great significance, that I dare not be careless. That’s why I need to make more use of it."
Madam Song rubbed her temple, unable to say anything, and remained silently in contemplation.
Song Yalin looked out the window, the horse carriage speeding along, the scenery flitting by. She had no interest in the scenery, only able to see the one time she visited the capital city and the Imperial Palace eight years ago.
Her biological cousin was now utterly transformed, draped in splendid Chinese clothing and exuding an air of nobility. Sitting high on a throne, she received the reverence even of her own parents. The grandeur and opulence of the Imperial Palace left her deeply impressed and longing; this ambition that had been hidden in her heart for many years seemed to explode at that moment.
That year, she was twelve years old, and she was extremely envious of her sister who had become an Empress. There had never been a time when she coveted power more than at that moment, craving such supreme power that would allow her to look down upon everyone else.
But what she wanted was not just that—her sister had already achieved all that. She wanted even more, the most supreme position, the position of the Empress.
From a young age, her father had told her that she would one day become a prince’s wife, so her childhood was harder than any other girl’s, for her future was destined to be extraordinary.
As the day for choosing came closer, the ambition hidden within Song Yalin’s heart could no longer be suppressed, and she desperately hoped to fulfill the marriage contract as soon as possible.
Yet who could have imagined that the Great Prince would keep delaying the matter? His clear intention was to force her to cancel the engagement.
But how could she back down? This was her only path to supreme power, and she needed this path, even if it meant compromising in every other area, she must not compromise on this one matter.
What she wanted was always clear. She wanted to marry the prince, support him to ascend the throne, sit on the highest position of the Empress, and as for the other aspects, she didn’t care at all.
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