National Guardian General Mansion fell due to Ning Xu's betrayal—five generals perished on the battlefield, and the mansion was deliberately accused of colluding with the enemy and treason. The entire family was executed without sparing a single soul, including the infant still in swaddling clothes.
The Empress Dowager received the news and was literally angered to death.
After listening to Rong Heng's words, Tangyuan suddenly felt the irony. To secure her position as Empress Dowager, she had forsaken herself. She thought that her dreams were beautiful, believing that once she became Empress and bore a child, he would naturally become the legitimate son. Yet she failed to see through the Yuan Family's sinister plots—had she stepped into an everlasting regret?
She didn't know whether to hate or pity, only to sigh at the ruthless path to Imperial Power, truly paved with countless bones and flesh of others.
