Taoyao said matter-of-factly that Jing Zhao was not the most special child to Emperor Xuan, so naturally it didn't matter. Not to mention that there were still so many grudges, and it was impossible for father and son to get along like ordinary people's families.
"Don't have too many expectations for your father. He doesn't hate you and turns a blind eye to you. This is the best. Do you understand? You have lived in the cold palace for so long and you should know what is really important. .”
Tao Yao held Jing Zhao's little face and warned her carefully word for word. In the previous life, Jing Zhao had too many expectations for others and had too much resentment. In the end, he found that he was the one who was not loved, so how could it be possible? How about not crashing?
More importantly, in order to get rid of the queen's control, he had no choice but to commit suicide.
"Thank you, Concubine Rong, for reminding me, I already know it!"
Jing Zhao nodded vigorously. In fact, she knew this in her heart, but when it was said so nakedly, it really felt quite hurtful.
Yes, he is not his father's only child. Otherwise, how could he have been left in the cold palace for so long?
Now it was just for Tao Yao's sake that she was a little nicer to herself and allowed herself to leave the cold palace.
If Tao Yao hadn't been there, I'm afraid she would have repeated the fate of her previous life, right?
After the queen returned, she still felt unhappy. Concubine Ning was so useless as a chess piece, and she saw how much His Majesty favored Tao Yao. Her heart was about to burst with anger!
"I really think she is a goblin, otherwise why would I confuse His Majesty into being like this? Sometimes I feel terrible when I think about it!"
Concubine De covered her chest and pretended to be scared. The hatred between her and Tao Yao had been completely forged and she would step on her whenever she had the chance.
"Yes, I also think she is a goblin, a goblin who can only confuse people. How come there is such a woman! Why does Your Majesty prefer her so much!"
The queen murmured to herself with a dazed expression on her face. She really thought about it and couldn't figure out why.
It's not like there haven't been women as favored as Tao Yao in the past, but none of them were so excessive, and none of them made her feel such a sense of crisis.
Most of them will be like that after one or two years, because people's appearance will change, grow old, and become ugly. No one can always be young and beautiful like this.
"I'm afraid Concubine Ning's face will never recover. Now she has become a useless person. She really is a waste."
The queen shook her head in disgust and helplessness. He was an incompetent and useless waste who did not deserve her mercy.
"Yes, your face is already ruined like this. What's the use? I'm afraid His Majesty won't take another look at it in the future."
Concubine De also thought the same, she had indeed become a useless chess piece.
"My concubine is really unwilling. Why do all the good things happen to her every time? Is it possible that all the good luck in the world should be concentrated on her? There is no such thing!"
Concubine De is both envious and jealous. Such a life is indeed enviable, but she only feels jealous when she looks at it.
"Since His Majesty will only favor her no matter what happens in the harem, then we can only think of other ways."
The queen took a deep breath. She could only endure this breath at this moment, and she would not be able to find another way in the future.
"Isn't she the adopted Prince Jing Zhao? Maybe this will be the best opportunity. I believe that Your Majesty still has a grudge against Prince Jing Zhao. If you can do something about him."
Concubine De rolled her eyes and immediately had an idea. To be precise, she had always had this idea in her heart.
"Tell me carefully."
The queen also became interested. There were many things she couldn't do with her own hands, so it would be nice to have a scapegoat.
"It has been almost a month since Taoyao adopted Prince Jing Zhao, but His Majesty is still lukewarm towards her, which shows that he does not like this child, and that he still cares about what happened in the past. As long as he is a man, he will not mind these things."
Concubine De smiled proudly, "It shows that the Queen's original plan was indeed brilliant, so that mother and son would never be able to recover."
She just didn't expect that this Tao Yao would adopt Prince Jing Zhao out of nowhere. Since she wanted to adopt him, she should raise him. If anything went wrong, wouldn't it be her own responsibility? "
Concubine De soon had some plans in her mind. In fact, she had been thinking about these these days and would always feel unhappy if she didn't say this out loud.
"The incident about Prince Jing Zhao's mother Liu Meiren may be spread again in the palace, as long as it reaches His Majesty's ears? Maybe it can be tolerated once or twice, but if it happens more often, it will eventually explode."
Concubine De smiled and said, although this method is despicable, it is indeed the most effective.
The most important thing now is to reduce His Majesty's preference for Tao Yao. As long as these preferences are gone, things will be easier to handle in the future.
Since following Taoyao, Jing Zhao feels as if he has lived again, and the inexplicably extra people in this life have become his salvation.
Could it be that God sent someone to save him because he felt that his life was too pitiful?
"Empress."
Chuxue hesitated, "I have something I want to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
"What's up?"
Tao Yao raised her eyebrows and understood what she was going to say. She was talking about Concubine Ning.
"Concubine Ning's face was completely ruined, and she often cried and made noises in her palace. The queen sent people to check it out and ignored her. By the way, she could always hear the sound of Concubine Ning crying in her palace. As time passes, no one dares to pass by again."
Chuxue felt a little scared as she said it. How could a person's face be so rotten? It must be incurable. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see His Majesty again in the future, right?
That day Concubine Ning was drinking tea with their master, but she didn't expect her face to look like this. She heard that poison was found in her own palace.
I'm afraid basically everyone knows who this poison is trying to harm.
"The queen doesn't care anymore? Is she just so perfunctory?"
Tao Yao couldn't help but laugh. It was true that this queen actually abandoned a useless chess piece like this without even showing any signs of it.
"The people sent by the queen said that Concubine Ning often cried and made noises and threw things, which would hurt the people serving around her. So after a long time, no one was willing to go and serve her."
Chuxue said.
"As for Your Majesty, he will not care about Concubine Ning anymore. Her face has become like that. I'm afraid I will never look at her again in the future."
Chuxue shook her head as she spoke, as if she had already seen her fate for the rest of her life, feeling pitiful and sad at the same time.
"Then I'll go take a look. After all, she was the only one willing to be on good terms with me when I first entered the palace. At least she still has a little bit of affection for me."
Taoyao got up and went to Concubine Ning's palace. It was indeed much deserted. Before she even entered, she heard the noise in the room. It was Concubine Ning who was crying.
"Get out! Get out of here! Get out of here!"
Concubine Ning covered her face and shouted wildly, her face still looks like this!
When I wake up every day, I am still covered with scary scars. No matter how much medicine I drink every day, there is still no change at all.
Every day she hopes that when she opens her eyes and looks in the mirror, her face will be a little better, even a little bit, but nothing will happen.
The palace people no longer wanted to serve the master. Seeing that this master had no future and had to endure this temper every day, they just left!
Concubine Ning huddled on the bed and covered her face with her hands, still feeling the bumpy touch.
Disgusting, really disgusting, even she would find it disgusting, not to mention how disgusting it would be for others to see it.
Suddenly I heard footsteps coming from behind me, and I suddenly turned my head to see the person coming over, with a disappointed look on his face.
"It seems you don't want to see me."
Tao Yao smiled helplessly, "If these scars on your face had grown on my face, I'm afraid you would have smiled a lot, right? It's a pity that they didn't grow on my face, but instead they were all on your face. Come on, what do you think of this?"
Tao Yao didn't feel at all how irritating the words she said were. Wasn't it because the other party wanted to harm her first? It was just that she had tasted the bitter consequences.
"It was you who harmed me! It was you who harmed me!"
Concubine Ning stared at Tao Yao fiercely, gritting her teeth in anger, wishing she could rush forward and tear him into pieces at this moment, but now that she didn't have that courage, she felt disgusted with herself.
"Didn't those poisons be found from your own palace? Didn't you put the poison on your hands that day? It's just that you are inferior to others and can't compete with me. Now you have tasted the bitter fruit, don't you deserve it? "
Taoyao smiled slightly as she spoke. She was not a very kind-hearted person and would not take the initiative to harm others, but she would never give in without a bottom line.
"No! It's not like that!"
Concubine Ning covered her face and did not dare to look into Taoyao's eyes. She no longer had the natural aura she had just now. It was obvious that she felt guilty at the moment.
In fact, what Taoyao said was wrong. Even if she wanted to refute it, she didn't know where to refute it, because she felt guilty and all these words were right.
Even though he had the intention to harm others, he even thought about pushing Tao Yao into the lotus pond last time. This time, he had prepared poison and wanted her face to completely rot.
"Isn't the reason why you are favored by His Majesty just because of this skin? If your face is rotten and ruined, do you think His Majesty will look at you again!"
Concubine Ning let go of her hands covering her face and shouted at Taoyao unwillingly.
"We are both women, but why do you get so much good luck? You are already more beautiful than all women. How could I not be envious? How could I not be jealous?"
Even though she said the deepest words in her heart, Concubine Ning still felt upset.
"You have His Majesty's preference. Of course you are not afraid of anything, but I am different. If I can't hold the thigh firmly, if I can't be a useful person to her, I will have become a victim. Do you understand how sad it will be if an abandoned chess piece is not favored? Do you understand!"
Concubine Ning shouted helplessly, already crying with tears streaming down her face.
It is really sad when you are not favored. Your food and clothing expenses will drop a lot. More importantly, you will suffer a lot of yin and yang looks and ridicule.
That's why I can only hug the big tree of the queen tightly, and want to be a useful person to her, even if it is just a person who is used.
But now everything is ruined, her face is ruined, and she will never be favored by His Majesty again. She has become a pawn abandoned by the queen, completely abandoned!
She is obviously still so young, but her future days can be seen at a glance.
