The Eighth Princess seemed like she was possessed, her laughter extremely piercing.

Grand Commander Liu Chunfeng brewed a cup of fresh tea for Her Majesty the Empress.

Your Majesty sipped the tea and then said, "Is Yuwen the one behind you?"

The Empress asked casually, causing the Eighth Princess, who was previously in a frenzied state, to suddenly freeze.

The Eighth Princess chuckled, "By now, I understand. Since ancient times, it’s the victor who becomes king, the loser a villain. Now that Mother Empress has awakened, you surely won’t let me live."

She raised her lips mockingly, the mockery in her tone was thick.

Her Majesty the Empress slowly put down the Multi-coloured Glazed tea cup, and Grand Commander Liu Chunfeng, seeing Her Majesty move, hurriedly came forward to assist.

Her delicate hand rested on the Grand Commander’s arm, as the Empress looked at the Eighth Princess with a bland expression.

"Even if you don’t say, I can guess it. At this point, I will only ask you this last question."

"Have you ever regretted harming your kin and plotting against your own mother?"

The Eighth Princess scoffed, "Why should I regret it, what is there to regret?"

Knowing full well that she was bound not to survive, why act like a coward? People say to endure for the sake of peace, but that depends on the situation.

In the situation the Eighth Princess found herself, she felt she had nothing left to lose, and therefore nothing to fear.

"From the beginning to the end, you only saw Lao Jiu, never once looking at me properly. Even if I rebelled, what was my fault? Wasn’t it you who forced me?"

The Eighth Princess clenched her fists, the veins on her arms bulging.

She was even too lazy to respectfully call the Empress ’Mother Empress,’ instead, she insolently used ’you’.

"I never had a place in your heart. Though we are both the Empress’ children, I lived so poorly due to your neglect, while Lao Jiu was loved from birth."

"Your heart was always biased!"

The Empress cast her a glance.

"You remain unconvinced; no matter what, you think you’re justified, just like when you cruelly killed Xiao Shiyi’s Hidden Sleeve Dog, you were the same."

The Empress sighed wearily.

"I didn’t favor you, because. I was always fair, there was never any distinction of high or low among you sisters, I never showed favoritism, but you, you disappointed me."

"I loved Jiujiu due to natural mother-daughter affection, how was it any different with you?"

But as the children grew, some of them strayed.

Even though they received the same things, it’s not certain that the same environment will produce identical people.

Perhaps this is a nature carried from the womb.

The Eighth Princess wanted to retort, but saw the Empress wave a weary hand.

"Take her away, I don’t want to see her anymore!"

The Grand Commander glanced at Her Majesty, then quietly sighed.

Making a gesture in secret, a Hidden Guard immediately came forward to take the Eighth Princess away.

The Eighth Princess’s fate was easily imaginable.

However, Dong Huiying furrowed her little eyebrows with a melancholic look.

Strange.

What on earth is going on?

She looked at the back of the Eighth Princess being taken away, a vague feeling of doubt in her heart.

She always felt that something seemed amiss?

But upon thinking carefully, it seemed like she was overthinking it, like an illusion.

Yet this feeling was hard to dismiss.

It felt like she was missing something.

She furrowed her eyebrows in frustration, staying silent for a long time.

...

Dong Huiying walked out from Her Majesty the Empress’s place, and was met by Yixuan’s smiling face.

The elegant and handsome man was dressed in a suit of jade-colored green, his demeanor like a radiant moon, his eyes gentle.