"Your majesty, my brother thinks what the queen mother said is reasonable, please think again." Shen Qi who was standing at the side said in a timely manner.

"What do you think?" Emperor Xuanhui once again turned his attention to the courtiers.

There were only small voices of discussion coming from below, but no one dared to speak out. After all...the matter involved is not just Taiwei Cao...

"Empress Dowager is so partial to Taiwei Cao, could it be... really related to those rumors?"

"This... who knows, but the rumors are really outrageous. It has something to do with the face of the royal family. Who dares to speak up? Isn't this a matter of losing their heads?"

"In my opinion, the Empress Dowager should calm down and stop pleading for him, otherwise when the time comes...it will become more and more black."

...

Cao Zhongqian, who was standing there, heard the comments from the people around him, and his flustered face gradually calmed down. He frowned and thought about something, until a familiar voice came from his ear: "Your Majesty, this matter... is far more than that simple.”

The voice was cold and clean, extremely majestic, and everyone's voices stopped abruptly, and they turned their eyes slowly to the people who came up from outside the hall.

The man was dressed in black with a calm expression on his face.

Emperor Xuan Hui's mouth curved slightly, and he said, "Ninth Brother, what do you mean?"

Shen Li walked to the front and stood still, and cast a sideways glance at Cao Zhongqian, "Our Taiwei Cao did more than just do such a little thing, it might shock everyone if he said it."

In fact, the courtiers guessed something, but this matter... Here, except for the cold and arrogant His Royal Highness Li Wang, who would dare to speak?

Cao Zhongqian looked at Shen Li with killing intent in his eyes.

Shen Li ignored it, but directly clapped his hands twice, and then... a person came up from outside the hall again.

It was a middle-aged woman who walked all the way to Shen Li's side. When she saw her, Wu's brows could not help but frown, "Sister, why are you getting involved with Li Wang?"

It is Empress Dowager's sister, Wu Tinglan.

Wu Tinglan glanced at Mrs. Wu lightly, and said, "My sister forgot, he is my sister's son-in-law."

"What do you want to do? You are a woman, the court is not the place for you, why don't you leave quickly?" For some reason, when Wu Tinglan came out, a bad premonition surged in Wu's heart.

Wu Tinglan couldn't help but said: "Sister, don't worry, I will leave naturally after I finish talking."

"It's late at night, I don't want to delay everyone any longer, Madam, please tell me." Emperor Xuanhui answered.

Wu Tinglan nodded and said: "What I want to talk about today is about Taiwei Cao and... my sister, and it is also something that everyone has been curious about before."

As soon as these words fell, the people in the court were shocked. Being so straightforward, it confirmed their guess.

Wu's face turned pale, and said: "Sister, please don't speak up and keep your mouth shut!"

Wu Tinglan continued: "It's not that I'm outspoken. What I'm going to say next is true. If there are lies, I will die a bad death."

There was silence in the arena, and almost everyone held their breath, waiting for his next words.

"Before my sister entered the palace, I made a private decision with Cao Taiwei for life, but...the family members disagreed with the two of them and sent my sister to the palace. Since then, my sister has become the late emperor's concubine.It was also at that time that she began to hate our Wu family. She blamed my parents for breaking up her and Cao Taiwei, but how could she win our Wu family with the power of her little favorite concubine, so she forced herself to sleep with her,Finally... she gave birth to the Third Highness, and with this son, she consolidated her position."

When Wu Tinglan said this, she deliberately paused, and everyone couldn't help turning their attention to Emperor Xuanhui. He was the former Third Highness. Wu Tinglan made it very clear that the previous rumors said that he might be Cao Taiwei and the Queen MotherSon, this kind of rumor is naturally self-defeating.

"Once, when she went out to offer incense, she couldn't help but went to see Cao Taiwei. The two hadn't seen each other for many years, and they suddenly felt like a fire, and couldn't help it. At that time, the third highness was only a few years old. My sister thought it was just that one time., there will be no accidents, but the sky is not fulfilled, she is pregnant, and she is afraid that the matter will be exposed. She has never summoned the imperial physician.The late emperor often fell asleep early after drinking too much stuff, and as time went on, the late emperor became more and more in a trance, and he didn't have any doubts about her being pregnant again, and then... gave birth to the fourth highness."

There was an uproar in the court.

"Oh my god! I thought that the emperor was not the first emperor's own son, but now it seems that the fourth prince is..."

"No wonder...Empress Dowager has always loved King Su, but he is so indifferent to the emperor...It turns out there is something else wrong!"

"The Empress Dowager... is too... hard to describe..."

...

The voices of discussion entered Wu's ears one after another, and she also subconsciously turned her gaze to Shen Qi, her youngest son.

It seemed that Shen Qi hadn't come out of that incident, but his face turned gray visible to the naked eye, and the fist placed by his side was trembling unconsciously.

Wu shi was both distressed and resentful, she stood up and pointed at Wu Tinglan and said, "It's nonsense! It's nonsense! What kind of ecstasy soup did Shen Li pour into you to make you speak such wild words!"

There was a hint of ridicule in Wu Tinglan's eyes, "Is it nonsense, don't you understand it in your heart?"

"What a shameless thankless wretch. How did the Ai family take care of your Lin family these years? How can you avenge your kindness! Is your conscience being eaten by dogs?" Mrs. Wu's face had already turned pale, and she pointed at Wu Tinglan and began to yell.There's a hint of gravitas as an Empress Dowager.

"Take care? I think it's a guilty conscience. My parents died one after another, and only my so-called younger sister is left. Do you not bear to do it, or are you afraid to do it? Is it because you are afraid of being suspected, or when you meet my parents when you dream back at midnight?"Is it difficult to explain?" Wu Tinglan was also unwilling to show weakness, her eyes were like knives and shot straight into Wu's heart.

Wu Shi was so excited that she trembled all over, she couldn't help but glanced at the civil and military officials standing below, all of them looked at her with contempt, and felt that the cold sweat broke out quickly on her body.

She was almost at a loss for words, and she didn't even dare to listen to Wu Tinglan's continuation. She was even more afraid of letting the civil and military officials know...the person who originally stood at the top of power and was above the emperor was so humble...It's just that the Wu family looked pitiful.adopted daughter.

"Sister, now that things have come to an end, do you think you can still lie to others? Right and wrong, good and evil will be rewarded. You have been sitting in the back seat for so many years, and you should have enjoyed enough blessings."

Wu Tinglan always remembered that it was because of the blind kindness of her parents back then that she brought back such a woman who was pure on the surface but vicious like a snake in her heart.

Even though she was jealous when her parents asked Wu to enter the palace instead of her, she shouldn't forget about her parents' upbringing for so many years. Apart from this, her parents treated her like their own daughter., never revealed to the outside world that she was just an adopted daughter.