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The prince was startled suddenly. Nie Wushuang quickly wiped away the tears from the corner of his eyes and said coldly: "When your mother passed away, did you know that you were going to be educated by me? Why did I give you to the Imperial Concubine? That's just because I I’m afraid that one day you won’t believe me!”

She turned her head and looked at Prince Yi Xuan who bowed his head in shame: "But I never thought that after all my attempts to avoid it, I would end up like this."

How not to be sad, because she gave her all.

Prince Yi Xuan felt that his heart was so heavy that he could not lift his head.

Nie Wushuang continued: "If you feel that you are not worthy of being the emperor, you can tell your father." The more she said it, the more painful she felt. She always thought that she had been tempered for a long time, and would not have allowed such a small misunderstanding. Sad, but still hurt after all.

Prince Yixuan looked at the deep disappointment on her face and lowered his head: "Queen mother...I..."

Nie Wushuang didn't want to look at him anymore, she pursed her red lips that had faded and turned around and walked out of the hall. She walked in a hurry. Looking at her sad and determined back, Prince Yi Xuan couldn't help but take a few steps forward, knelt down and said tremblingly: "Mother..."

Nie Wushuang looked at his handsome and gentle face with a mother's voice filled with anxiety and sadness. Suddenly, Empress Xu's unwilling expression flashed across her eyes, and she sighed deeply: "What else do you want to say to me? I can help you secure your position in the East Palace, and I can also teach you how to be a king and govern, but the only thing I cannot help is what your heart desires."

There was pain in her beautiful eyes: "If you think you can't be the emperor, no one can help you. Prince!"

"I..." Prince Yi Xuan felt his mind was in chaos, and the words stuck in his throat could not find their way out.

Nie Wushuang looked at the embarrassment on Prince Yi Xuan's face and finally realized that he might have something to hide. She helped him up and asked slowly: "Xuan'er, if you regard me as your mother, can you tell me why you said these words today?"

Prince Yi Xuan's face turned red and white, and he lowered his head for a long time, unable to speak. Nie Wushuang waited patiently. Finally, the prince raised his head and asked one word at a time: "My queen mother...how did she die?"

Nie Wushuang was startled: "Queen Xu? She committed suicide."

There was bitterness in the prince's eyes, and he lowered his head: "But some people say that my queen mother... was forced to death by... you."

Nie Wushuang felt something rumbling in his mind, and everything went blank. She was the one who saw Queen Xu for the last time, and she was the one who knew that Queen Xu didn't want to live in this world. But... how to explain these words clearly? Death is like a lamp going out, and Queen Xu can no longer speak to prove her innocence, not to mention that her innocence is half-dark and half-dark.

She exhaled and then asked: "So this is your knot? Do you suspect that your mother was forced to die by me?"

Tears slowly rolled down from Prince Yi Xuan's eyes. He has been dependent on Queen Xu and his mother since he was born, and has grown up slowly. How can he accept this fact when he suddenly loses his biological mother? But years later, when he thought that the truth was what he had heard - that his mother committed suicide because she could not accept being demoted to a commoner, someone suddenly appeared and told him another story.

Who is he going to believe?

Nie Wushuang looked at the prince who was lowering his head and crying in front of her. The vague pain in her heart grew bigger and bigger. She couldn't help hugging him, and tears rolled down her eyes: "I really didn't force your queen mother to die, but... I know that she wants to die..."

The prince finally broke down and cried in her arms. The pain that had been hidden in his heart for the past few years finally had a gap to flow out freely.

"It's my fault..." She didn't know how to comfort the painful boy in front of her. She never regarded him as her son, but treated him like a friend, but she forgot that he also longed for maternal love and the warmth of family. During the bloody storm in the palace, she was unable to lend a helping hand to Queen Xu, and she could not get rid of her own inner demons at that time.

It was her fault that she should not have allowed Queen Xu's life to wither in a lonely alley, just as she should not have allowed many people who did not deserve to die to lose their best lives one by one before her indifferent eyes...

It's her fault, her fault...

The prince's cries echoed in the royal study, each sound seemed to be whipping and tortured her about the past, which made her feel ashamed.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." she could only repeat over and over again.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the prince finally raised his head, his eyes as clear as before: "Mother, my sons believe in my mother. Mother and concubine said that you must recognize your own heart."

Relief finally welled up in Nie Wu's eyes, and she looked into his eyes: "Tell your mother, who told you this?"

Prince Yi Xuan nodded: "The queen is coming with her sons."

Nie Wushuang was surprised, but seeing how confident he was, he quickly followed. The two of them prepared a car and drove them out of the palace all the way to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. Nie Wushuang was surprised and couldn't help but look at Prince Yixuan.

With complexity and a little appreciation. She was impressed by her ability to sneak a person into the heavily guarded prison of the Ministry of Punishment without any notice.

The prince took her all the way to the most remote room in the prison and whispered: "The person who reported the secret has been imprisoned here by his ministers. If the mother has anything to ask..."

Before he finished speaking, Vice Commander Zhou, the East Palace guard who followed him closely, took a look at the cell door and suddenly exclaimed: "Prince, it's not good, he... he is dead!"

When the prince heard this, his face turned pale, and he rushed forward to take a look. Sure enough, he saw that the man was bleeding from seven holes and had been dead for many days. Nie Wushuang's eyes tightened, he stepped forward to take a look, and said calmly: "It's useless, he's dead."

The prince was so anxious that cold sweat dripped down his forehead: "This... this..."

"Don't worry." Nie Wushuang turned around with relief in his eyes: "This conspiracy has alerted me. They can no longer succeed."

Her beautiful eyes sparkled: "And I also let me know who is the final mastermind."

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