After her rebirth, she became the sweetheart of the sickly uncle.

"What about my brother?" Su Qingcheng asked.

"Your brother, I guess he is not your mother's child."

"What?" Su Qingcheng was very surprised.

She never thought that her brother was not her biological brother.

But she still asked: "So maybe daddy is not my biological daddy?"

"No, your father is your father, but you were not conceived in Beiyuan. You should have been conceived in Nanye by your mother who escaped from Beiyuan and left Dongling."

"Then how are you sure that your brother is not your mother's son?" Su Qingcheng asked.

Her mind was in chaos and it was really difficult to accept this.

"At that time, I felt very guilty about her and sent many people to Nanye to investigate the affairs of the Su family. When your brother was born, she was still in Dongling." The Queen Mother said.

"Then my brother is not my father's son?" Su Qingcheng asked doubtfully.

"I don't know about this, but judging from his age, he may be the child of your father and another woman." The Queen said softly.

She didn't seem to care whose child Su Yizhi was. All she could remember was the figure of the woman who was no longer there, and the past that she thought she would never mention again.

When I was young at that time, I always thought that power and status were the most important, and family glory always came first.

In order to prevent her status from being shaken, she could only sacrifice the love between her children to keep the position of queen that the Zhou family wanted.

Obviously she succeeded, but she also lost a lot.

For example, from then on, she and the imperial concubine no longer had the joy they had in the past, but rather competed for favor and plotted against each other.

Both of them are doing everything possible to put their children in position.

Su Qingcheng was shocked speechless by this incident, and was still thinking about it for a long time.

The queen looked at the empty Lily Pavilion with mixed feelings and said: "I am not here anymore. It will inevitably bring up some sad things. You can look around and leave at any time when you want to leave."

"By the way," she walked a few steps and looked back and added, "I will be released from seclusion once the Crown Prince Ceremony is over, so I will still deal with Su Yizhi."

Su Qingcheng reacted and said: "Why? Hao'er is already so old, can't you let them have lovers and get married eventually? Besides, the crown prince's position has been confirmed, and it is impossible for the eldest princess to inherit the throne."

Su Qingcheng was inevitably a little emotional. She could understand how the imperial concubine dealt with Su Yizhi. After all, she needed an outlet to vent the pain of losing her son.

But she didn't understand why the Queen was so obsessed with breaking up the eldest princess and Su Yizhi.

The Empress said: "Being born in my Zhou family, you never have the right to choose your marriage. Do you think the one I wanted to marry back then was the emperor?"

"So you want to extend your misfortune to your daughter?" Su Qingcheng said.

Her words made the Queen froze on the spot. The woman was speechless for a moment and couldn't think of anything to say in reply.

"The marriage of the daughter of the Zhou family must be helpful to the Zhou family. Regardless of whether Su Yizhi is a retainer of the fourth prince or the eldest son of the Nanye Su family, the eldest princess cannot marry her."

The Empress is very vocal, which is the tragedy of everyone, especially the Zhou family, which has more daughters, so it is even more important for every daughter to play a role.

"As for Hao'er, it's just the product of irresponsibility between the two of them. I can send Hao'er away."

Su Qingcheng was a little angry, but she still calmed down and said, "I can tell you what I just said to the imperial concubine. I have no control over the affairs between the two of them, and I don't want to."

"Believe it or not, the position of the Crown Princess is still the daughter of my Zhou family." The Empress said casually.

Su Qingcheng was silent for a moment. Thinking about it, the Zhou family was the only one in the Dongling family and they couldn't let Lin Changshuang succeed. The imperial concubine might really seek cooperation with the Zhou family.

She said calmly: "If you can break them up, you can try. But I believe that love is stronger than gold. You broke them up six years ago, and they reunite six years later. This is fate."

After Su Qingcheng said these words, she walked out of Lily Pavilion firmly.

She didn't want to stay here any longer, even though it had the taste of her mother, her breath, and traces of her mother's past.

But she knew her mother didn't belong here.

This is also the place where my mother is sad.

The Queen looked at her stubborn back and sighed deeply: "Both temperament and appearance, I look a lot like you..."

A look of loneliness flashed across her eyes, and a wry smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Su Qingcheng got on the carriage back to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, she kept digesting what happened today.

I thought I was here to solve Lin Changshuang's matter, but unexpectedly I learned my mother's secret.

She turned out not to be from Nanye, but from Beiyuan, and she might even be from the Beiyuan royal family.

But isn’t Beiyuan famous for saving face and paying attention to etiquette and integrity?

How could he allow members of the royal family to flee Beiyuan, first travel to Dongling, and finally marry a Nanye person and die in Nanye?

What about her...

Is Su Yizhi his father's son?

She believed that no matter what the answer was, she would regard Su Yizhi as her only brother.

It was already midnight when Su Qingcheng returned to the palace.

Ye Tantai stood outside the palace gate waiting for her. He didn't know how long he waited, but he greeted her as soon as he saw her.

Su Qingcheng was exhausted both physically and mentally, so she threw herself into his warm and generous embrace and said coquettishly, "Have you had your dinner? Something happened and it delayed her."

Ye Tantai hugged her tightly, touched her head and said, "Not yet. I was worried that something might happen to you. I wanted to go to the harem to pick you up, but I was afraid that you would turn around and nag me, so I have been waiting here."

Su Qingcheng raised her head, stood on tiptoes and kissed him gently on the lips, saying, "Then I'll cook noodles for you?"

"Okay," Ye Tantai picked up the woman and walked toward the kitchen. "There is nothing at home. I have been hungry for a long time, and I just want to eat the noodles you cooked."

"Why is this happening? Didn't the house prepare dinner? That Fu Yi is too incompetent. I will deduct his wages later." Su Qingcheng said.

"No, they all thought I was with you." Ye Dan said without changing his expression.

Their figures gradually faded away, and so did their voices.

Fu Yi was left with a helpless look on his face, and muttered: "Your Highness, it's true. If you leave such a table full of dishes there without eating them, and they are still warm, you will be lying."

Huo Mei snickered and said: "What do you know? This is called a cruel trick. Your Highness relied on this trick to trap the princess tightly."

"Of course you don't care if it's not your salary!" Fu Yi complained sadly.