Chapter 65: Getting a New Mother for Zhao Qin

Chapter 65: Getting a New Mother for Zhao Qin

The Princess Royal was startled awake.

She finally put Zhao Yu down and hurried over to Zhao Qin, crouching in front of him.

"Qin'er..."

She wanted to check Zhao Qin's ear, but Zhao Qin slightly turned his head away, not wanting to show it to her.

"Qin'er, I'm sorry, Qin'er. Mother didn't mean it."

"Mother was just too angry, angry that you pushed your brother, but I didn't really mean to hurt your ear."

Zhao Qin was too tired to explain anymore and merely resisted by hiding further towards the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager stepped between them. "Enough, Guangde, go back. Qin'er doesn't want to see you right now."

"Mother..."

"Go back."

When the imperial physician arrived, it was found that Zhao Yu had bumped his head, which wasn't serious but required a few days of rest.

However, with Zhao Qin, the physician bowed and said, "Your Majesty, there's nothing more I can do. Perhaps the Empress Dowager should seek the Chief Physician."

The Empress Dowager then summoned Physician Shen, which finally saved Zhao Qin's ear.

"Fortunately, the treatment was early. The young master can still recover, but it will take at least three months."

For the first time, the Princess Royal put Zhao Yu aside and stayed by Zhao Qin's side, tears of agitation and guilt streaming down her face. "It's good that he can recover. It's good that he can recover."

But Zhao Qin's reaction was unusually calm, as if he didn't care whether his ear could hear or not.

Bei Jing immediately saw the problem at first glance. "He's definitely psychologically unwell."

"True, even if he can hear again, so what?"

"Imagine having such a mother, it's despairing for the future."

"Don't let it get to the point where he's depressed and people think he's possessed, treating it as madness."

Given the ancient understanding of psychological disorders...

"Come to think of it, it's quite possible they'll see it as madness."

The Empress Dowager also felt that this couldn't go on, or else the Princess Royal would ruin the child.

"Qin'er, come here, to your grandmother's side."

First, she separated Zhao Qin from Princess Guangde to prevent her from emotionally losing control and hurting the child again.

Zhao Qin walked to the Empress Dowager's side, and only then did she speak to the Princess Royal. "I see that you don't seem to want this child. Since you don't want to be his mother, he will no longer be your child."

"Mother?"

The Princess Royal thought she had misheard.

"What do you mean?"

On the other hand, Zhao Qin, who had been silent and expressionless, looked up with anticipation in his eyes.

"It means exactly what I said. Since his real mother doesn't act like a mother, I will find him a proper one."

The Princess Royal's tears dried on her face, leaving her in panic. "Mother, I am his real mother. Who could possibly care for him more than I do?"

"Why are you being so cruel to me, Mother?"

The Empress Dowager sneered. "Who? Even I care for him more than you do."

If it didn't sound so strange, the Empress Dowager would have even said that even Bei Jing cared for him more than she did.

But she couldn't say it; it really was too strange.

Knowing she couldn't stop the Empress Dowager's decision, the Princess Royal asked Zhao Qin, "Qin'er, do you want to change mothers?"

Zhao Qin blinked his moist eyes and finally understood the meaning behind the Empress Dowager's words.

It felt like a dream.

"I want to change."

The Princess Royal couldn't believe it. "What do you mean, you don't want your mother anymore?"

Zhao Qin said, "Yes, I don't want you."

"I'd rather have no mother than have you as my mother."

His voice was slow but firm and resolute.

There was a moment of silence in Renshou Hall. After a long while, the Princess Royal found her voice again.

"Fine, fine, fine."

"So you're truly a white-eyed wolf that can't be warmed. Even your own mother doesn't like you. Do you think with such a personality, your new mother will care for you much?"

"Go ahead, don't come begging me later."

"Mother, I'll take Yu'er to rest."

Bei Jing was initially stunned by today's grand drama.

No.

Just like that, the mother is changed?

Zhao Qin’s fate in the original story was to die of depression.

Now, the little pitiful one finally saw the light after enduring so much, and Bei Jing was so happy that she drank several more sips of milk.

Sigh, she couldn’t eat anything else anyway.

Because Renshou Hall had invited imperial physicians, the filial emperor rushed over.

"Mother, why did you summon the imperial physician? Is something wrong with you or Chuer?"

The Empress Dowager scolded with a smile, "Do you ever wish us well?"

"Just looking at your spirit, I know nothing is wrong. You can still joke around, which means Chuer is fine too."

The Empress Dowager praised generously, "What a clever one."

Bei Jing suddenly burst out laughing, and the other two looked at her in confusion.

"Hahahaha, what a clever one, hahaha."

The Emperor: Great, another one in the Bei family has gone mad.

The Empress Dowager dismissed everyone else, and the Emperor knew his mother had something to say.

The Empress Dowager recounted everything that had happened before.

The Emperor’s face was full of question marks.

To be able to be so ruthless towards one’s own child, even to the point of deafening someone, how evil must one be?

Look at him; he treasures his child so much.

His bold little rascal constantly treads on dangerous ground, pulling teeth from the tiger’s mouth.

The Emperor wouldn’t even dare to touch her with a finger.

And the child in Consort Shu’s belly, even if he found her unbearable, he would still endure it to protect the child.

Even knowing that this fetus would inherit its mother’s mind and likely not be very smart in the future.

He might favor the child he raised himself a bit, but that was only natural and understandable.

But he would never treat any of them so harshly.

He really couldn’t understand.

At the same time, he lamented the unfairness of heaven.

Others who don’t cherish their children have them aplenty, while he wanted a child so badly that his eyes turned green.

Sigh, it’s just so difficult.

"You still don’t have a prince. Have you considered adopting Qin'er under your name?"

"It’s not about making him the crown prince. In the future, if you have a biological son, he can be an additional prince. If not, he will be the only choice."

"At least the ministers won’t worry about the succession and start eyeing the royal clan."

The Emperor spat out his tea, splashing Bei Jing’s face.

"Old thing, what are you doing!"

The Emperor: Fine, fine, fine, you call me Father when there’s something, and old thing when there isn’t.

Bei Jing was taken away to clean her face.

The Emperor expressed his stance to the Empress Dowager: "Impossible."

"Absolutely impossible."

Why should he pass his throne to a nephew? If he had no sons, wouldn’t a daughter suffice?

This thought was just a fleeting idea.

But the Emperor suddenly thought of Bei Jing, as cunning and devious as he was, full of schemes and stratagems.

She had been wise and calculating since childhood.

And just like him, she didn’t act like a normal person.

If the prince were an incompetent person, would he really give up a genius to make a mediocre person the crown prince?

Just because Chuer is a girl?

The Emperor fell into deep thought.

The Empress Dowager got her answer and didn’t dwell on it, starting her second plan.

Princess Xianning.

When Bei Jing, freshly cleaned, heard the Empress Dowager summon this person, she started searching in the system.

Princess Xianning had the most comfortable life among her sisters after marriage.

No other reason, just her boldness.

The other Princess Royals had yet to grasp the emperor's temperament and dared not overstep.

But Princess Xianning had accurately gauged that the emperor was both domineering and protective of his own.

While the late emperor was on the throne, she kept a low profile, but once Behen ascended, she dropped the pretense.

When her prince consort and in-laws tried to set rules for her, she had them seized by the guards and flogged that very day, and her ferocity became widely known.