Chapter 290 You haven’t gotten married yet
Looking at Xiao Nanchen standing beside Emperor Jiaping, Empress Wei's eyes welled up with tears: "Seventh Brother, you are my biological son. How could I harm you, Seventh Brother? Don't you believe in me?"
Shen Ning felt a chill in her heart, and she wished she could slap her in the face.
How could there be such a shameless person? Doesn’t she know how she treats her own son?
How dare you still act like a loving mother and son here?
At this moment, Shen Ning felt that Xiao Nanchen was really pitiful...
Xiao Nanchen slowly turned around and looked at his biological mother quietly. After a moment, he curled his lips and said, "Yes, who could believe that a mother would deliberately try to kill her own son... Mother, no, you are no longer the Queen. Mother, I also want to know what I have done to make you hate me so much that you would not give up until I die."
Queen Wei's heart skipped a beat. It was at this moment that she suddenly realized that the child whose eyes were always filled with longing and expectation when he looked at her... had suddenly become filled with indifference.
The next moment, Xiao Nanchen stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Liaodong Pass Commander, under the Empress' orders, has murdered the Prince of Beihai and the Second Prince, slaughtered the Beihai Prefecture garrison, and led the Yuan army into the country. These crimes are unforgivable. I, your son, personally request to suppress these traitors. I beg Your Majesty for your approval."
Queen Wei stared at her youngest son, and finally realized a fact in her heart: he no longer regarded her as his mother.
His biological mother was facing the possibility of being deposed, and as Prince Ding, not only did he not stand up for his mother, but the only thing he wanted to do was to avenge his fiancée... He no longer considered her his mother.
Even though she had wanted to kill her son countless times, in Queen Wei's heart, as long as she waved her hand, he would still be like he was when he was a child, like an unwanted puppy, and would easily stagger into her arms.
But now, he no longer looks at her...
At this time, everyone heard Emperor Jiaping speak slowly, his voice was hoarse and deep!
"I have given you my oral order. The Crown Prince is confined to the Eastern Palace and is not allowed to leave without my permission... The Empress has failed in her virtue, lacks the grace of a mother, harbors evil intentions, and is unfit to uphold the Mandate of Heaven and serve our ancestors. She is stripped of her official seal and demoted to a commoner..."
Queen Wei suddenly opened her eyes wide, her face drained of all color, and she slumped to the ground...
Without any warning, the queen was deposed and the prince was confined to his house, shocking the whole country... The entire capital was talking about it, wondering what had happened.
Before Shen Ning had time to go home, she was summoned to the Cining Palace by the Queen Mother.
The empress dowager's face became extremely gloomy when she learned from Chen Ning that the queen had colluded with the Tianxin Sect and had the audacity to order the Liaodong commander to lead troops to surround and kill Shen Ning.
"She just can't stand seeing the Seventh Son doing well... No, she can't stand seeing the Emperor doing well. She doesn't want the Emperor to favor the Seventh Son. She's afraid that someone else will threaten her wicked son's position, and that the Xuan Dynasty won't be in chaos anymore..."
"I shouldn't have been soft-hearted and agreed to let the Emperor marry her. I knew she was a disaster long ago. She and Prince Heng had such a wicked ambition..."
The empress dowager stopped talking reluctantly when she realized she had said something wrong.
"Let's not talk about those awful people..."
With a long sigh, the Queen Mother took Shen Ning's hand and looked at her carefully: "Let me take a good look at you, monkey... You are a little darker, but you look in good spirits. You have to ask for trouble..."
Shen Ning smiled and said, "I didn't suffer much, I just missed you, the Queen Mother."
"You're the only one who's so talkative. You haven't suffered any hardship yet. You were almost killed and you still say you haven't suffered any hardship!"
The Queen Mother's face was full of anger, but she held Shen Ning's hand tightly.
Shen Ning remembered something and took two steps back to kneel down: "I was unable to return to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday, so I will kowtow to you as well."
The Queen Mother was so angry that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This can be repaired..."
Aunt Gui smiled beside her and said, "This is the princess, oh no, this is the prince's filial piety, Queen Mother, you can just accept it with peace of mind."
The Queen Mother shook her head and scolded with a smile, "This rascal is still the same, always acting the way he wants."
Shen Ning kowtowed and got up, smiling: "I kowtowed. Shouldn't the Empress Dowager also give me the red envelope? I want a big red envelope!"
The Queen Mother pointed at Chen Ning, feeling both angry and amused: "I knew you were too clever, you little monkey. Look, you're waiting for me here... Don't you think I don't know that you're a wealthy woman now, and you're still thinking about my little money..."
Shen Ning stepped forward and ignored it: "Red envelope, red envelope, Queen Mother, red envelope..."
For a moment, the usually quiet and cold Cining Palace was filled with laughter.
Not long after, lunch was served. The Queen Mother asked Chen Ning to eat lunch and then waved her hand: "Alright, you haven't been back for so long. Now that you're home, I won't do anything that would make people dislike you. Go home and see your mother."
Shen Ning smiled and said, "Okay, I'll come back to pay my respects to you tomorrow."
Just as Shen Ning was leaving Cining Palace and heading out of the palace, on the other side, Xiao Nanchen, the eighth prince Xiao Nanying, and the fifth prince Xiao Nanze were walking together.
The Fifth Prince, Xiao Nanze, was always irritable, and his words were full of gunpowder. "So, all the times you got into trouble, it was the Queen who did it? She's your biological mother, but she wants to kill you? Just because she's afraid you'll threaten the Crown Prince's position?"
"Is there something wrong with her brain?"
Before he could finish his words, Xiao Nanze was elbowed by Xiao Nanying on the other side. He suddenly realized that the queen was Xiao Nanchen's biological mother after all, but... it was precisely because she was his biological mother that it was particularly difficult for people to understand.
Xiao Nanying laughed, "Alright, alright, stop talking. Now that the Empress has been deposed and sent to the cold palace to cultivate her character, who knows, she might realize she's made a mistake in a few days... Tsk, the Crown Prince has been confined to his house. I'm afraid he'll be deposed next, right?"
Xiao Nanze curled his lips: "It should have been abandoned long ago."
Xiao Nanchen had no expression: "Be careful with your words."
Xiao Nanying smiled: "Seventh Brother, you are just too serious. Who doesn't think so? Besides being the eldest son, what else can the Crown Prince have?... The throne should have been given to you long ago...
But then again, if you, Seventh Brother, were to become the Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace, wouldn't your fiancée be unsuitable? As the Crown Prince, you can't marry a woman who's been married before, right? Anyway, you haven't gotten married yet..."
Before Xiao Nanying finished speaking, she saw Xiao Nanchen, who had ignored and ignored them when they were discussing the queen, suddenly frowned.
He stopped and looked at Xiao Nanying: "Don't say such things from now on. I am Prince Ding, and Chen Ning is Princess Ding. No matter how the world changes in the future, she will always be my legal wife and my only woman... Moreover, she is not some 'married woman'. She is now the Prince of Beihai."
Xiao Nanchen spoke each word with great emphasis: "She was crowned king on her own initiative. No one has the right to look down on her."
Xiao Nanying quickly raised her hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, I spoke without thinking. Don't blame me, Seventh Brother. When you marry the King of Beihai one day, I will definitely present you with a great gift to congratulate you..."
As they were talking, they walked around the corridor and suddenly stopped in their tracks. They all looked at Shen Ning who was walking towards them...
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