sbdcsierra Chapter 310 A Substitute Bride's Brave Love, A Prince Without Heirs Forever By Her Side - 40
Chapter 310 A Substitute Bride's Brave Love, A Prince Without Heirs Forever By Her Side - 40
"It's just~"
"But what? Don't scare me!"
Mu Wanwan smiled sweetly, her smile as bright as when she was in the Prince's mansion.
"Aunt Mei, perhaps my meeting with him was a mistake from the very beginning."
If she were to reunite with Zhuo Yucheng and rekindle their old relationship, they would still have to face the fact that she is the only princess of this foreign land.
"how could be?"
“He is the emperor, and I am a princess from a foreign land. The Empress Dowager’s concerns are not unfounded! In the eyes of others, I and the child in my womb are always a threat to the Zhuo family.”
Aunt Mei hurriedly explained, "But Yucheng doesn't think that way! He loves you!"
Mu Wanwan chuckled softly, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Aunt Mei. "Aunt Mei, sometimes love can't overcome everything. He has his identity, and I have mine. If my parents hadn't found me, none of this would have been a problem."
"Wanwan, don't give up on him!"
Aunt May pleaded with her, saying she didn't want to see either of them get hurt.
Mu Wanwan broke free from Aunt Mei's hand and put the letter back in the box. "I'll keep the letter as a keepsake."
"You...you're not going to reply to him?"
"Aunt Mei, do you think my letter will reach him?"
Aunt Mei bit her lip. The Empress Dowager in the palace was indeed a problem. She guessed that the Empress Dowager already knew that she had come to see Mu Wanwan.
“Wanwan, let’s not think too much about it for now. Let’s focus on the pregnancy and have the baby before we make further plans.”
Mu Wanwan could only nod. With the child born, her mission was considered complete.
Zhuo Yucheng's men returned to report, "Your Majesty, according to our scouts, Aunt Mei has successfully met with Mu Wanwan."
While he was reviewing memorials, his pen suddenly fell to the ground.
Did Wanwan also see his letter and understand his predicament?
His mood shifted from heavy to cheerful. "Did you bring back any letters?"
The person kneeling below shook their head, "It's just..."
Seeing the man stammering, Zhuo Yucheng snapped at him impatiently, "Just what? Speak up!"
His voice filled the entire room, deafeningly loud.
"Aunt Mei seems to have spread the word that Mu Wanwan is pregnant and in very poor health. She said that she was traumatized by your taking a concubine and is now vomiting blood every day, and her health is deteriorating day by day."
"You, what did you say... How could she, how could she vomit blood? It's all my fault. If I hadn't become emperor, she wouldn't have suffered like this..."
Zhuo Yucheng took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and calmly came up with a solution. His Wanwan was still waiting for him.
"How's the investigation going with what I asked you to do?"
He couldn't believe that Wanwan had been back in a foreign land for so long without sending him a letter.
"This subordinate dares not speak!"
Zhuo Yucheng picked up the inkstone and smashed it in front of him. "Speak up! Speak up! No matter who it is, I won't let them get away with it."
"Yes, it's the Empress Dowager~"
"Who is it?" Zhuo Yucheng couldn't believe he was hearing a name. How could it be his mother?
Doesn't my mother like Wanwan just as much as I do?
"Your Majesty, it was the Empress Dowager who intercepted Mu Wanwan's letter."
He never expected that his kind and gentle mother would treat him and Wanwan like this.
Wanwan once treated her with utmost respect and filial piety in the Crown Prince's residence. Even a heart made of stone should have been warmed by now.
Why is she different from the mother she remembers?
"There's something else, but I'm not sure if I should say it!"
There's nothing we can't talk about now.
Being betrayed by one's own mother—such a melodramatic thing has already happened; what could be more shocking than this?
"Say!"
"Regarding the three concubines of the former Prince's mansion, the Empress Dowager later learned that they were the First Prince's people."
Zhuo Yucheng felt like a ridiculous clown.
The Empress Dowager's eyelids twitched incessantly today. She rubbed her temples, looking listless and droopy.
"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is resting!"
The old woman spread her arms to block the emperor from entering, shouting, "You dare to stop me? Get out!"
Zhuo Yucheng pushed aside the cumbersome nanny and went straight into the hall.
The Empress Dowager, who had been resting with her eyes closed, opened them in displeasure and saw her son standing in front of her.
She then greeted him with a gentle smile.
"What happened to the emperor?"
Her son was not outwardly pleased, but the chill emanating from him was particularly unsettling.
"Mother!"
Mother?
Since he ascended the throne, he has always called her Empress Dowager and has never called her Mother.
Although it was according to the etiquette and rules of the palace, she preferred that her child call her mother, as if that would eliminate any discord between them and allow them to be as harmonious as ever.
"Hey! Yucheng, come and sit down."
The word "mother" is enough to make me incredibly happy.
"Mother, I have something I want you to answer!"
The Empress Dowager paused, then slowly withdrew her hand from Zhuo Yucheng's grasp.
"The Emperor certainly didn't come today to visit this old man!"
What do you mean by wanting an answer? You're just trying to interrogate me!
"This concerns Wanwan and the child, I have to find out the truth!"
So he found out after all?
That's right. He's the emperor now. If he wants to know anything, as long as he's willing to spend the time and effort, he'll eventually find out the truth.
"Zhuo Yucheng, I am your mother, your biological mother! What kind of attitude is this?"
Zhuo Yucheng tilted his head back to force the tears back into his eyes, the soreness in his nose making him extremely uncomfortable.
Even though he already had the answer in his heart, he still wanted to hear her say it herself.
Deep down, he hoped that his mother was still the good mother he remembered.
Rather than someone who would stop at nothing to get him to the throne.
“It is precisely because you are my mother that I have come back to ask you for clarification. If it were anyone else, I would have stabbed them to death.”
The Empress Dowager clutched her chest, then beat her chest and stamped her feet, her grief-stricken appearance extremely pitiful.
"Ask away! This is the first time in my life I've been questioned by my own child. My life hasn't been in vain."
It's time to come.
"Do you have Wanwan's letter?"
He quickly stretched his hand out in front of his mother, "Give me back the letter!"
The Empress Dowager nodded to the nanny, and soon a box was handed to him. He gripped the box tightly, his whole body trembling.
"You admitted it!"
The Empress Dowager wiped away her tears. "Now that you've already found out, what use is there for me to hide?"
"why?"
He truly didn't understand why his mother would treat him and Wanwan this way.
"Why? Ha! Without my planning for you, Zhuo Yucheng, could you have ascended the throne?"
Everything is about power. "Did you even ask me if I wanted to be in this position?"
"You and your elder brother, it's either you die and he takes over, or he dies and you take over! Mother didn't choose."
Overwhelmed with grief, Zhuo Yucheng said, "So, you actually knew all along that the three concubines were my elder brother's women, but you kept it from me and watched me bring down my elder brother."