The abandoned queen is reborn: she makes the prince cry and seizes the throne!

She walked out from the crowd, bowed slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, it is you, the subject."

"Hmm... she looks pretty good." The Queen Mother continued as the gentle breeze bathed in the warm room, "I watched Ya'er grow up, and the little girl from the Zhou family is close to Ya'er. Moreover, the Marquis of Guiyang made contributions to Your Majesty not long ago. No matter what, Your Majesty should issue a marriage decree for them to show your favor."

Ning Huaixuan nodded slightly, "I'll listen to the Imperial Grandmother."

"I think it's inappropriate—"

A voice of extreme disapproval came out of nowhere during the dinner. Others might have been a little confused, but He Hui and Zhou Yun were quite familiar with this voice.

Looking in the direction of the voice, a young man came out from the banquet. His eyes were sharp and he said bluntly, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, I feel that this is inappropriate."

"Oh? What do you think is wrong, my Lord?"

Wei Zheng took a deep breath, looked straight ahead, and said shamelessly, "Because I already have someone I like in my heart!"

"You bastard! What nonsense are you talking about?!" What followed was the verbal abuse from Marquis Chengyang and the hypocritical persuasion from Marquis Chengyang's wife Cheng Liu.

As soon as Ning Huaixuan raised his hand, Chengyang Hou restrained his arrogance and said to Wei Zheng, "Go on."

Wei Zheng bowed his hands, "I do not want to accept the arrangement of my family. If Marquis Chengyang feels embarrassed, then I beg Your Majesty to grant me permission to sever the father-son relationship with Marquis Chengyang from now on. From now on, we will go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other!"

Everyone gasped. Most people in Kyoto knew that Marquis Chengyang and the Crown Prince had a bad relationship, but family disgrace should not be made public. Marquis Chengyang and the Crown Prince said this in public. Was he afraid that everyone didn't know about their extremely tense relationship?

Marquis Chengyang's face turned ashen and he was so angry that he couldn't utter a word.

On the contrary, Cheng Liu forced herself to calm down, stood up and pretended to be a stepmother, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? Even if your father wanted to punish you last time, it was because you hit someone first. You can't break off relations with your father just because of such a small matter. This will chill your father's heart!"

In just one sentence, Wei Zheng was labeled as unfilial and unrighteous.

The Queen Mother didn't know the inside story, so she followed Cheng Liu's words and asked, "The prince beat someone? Why?"

Cheng Liu was a little embarrassed, "This...this..."

Cheng Liu was embarrassed to say it. Naturally, some people like to gossip about other people's family affairs. Wu Ya stood up and said, "Empress Dowager, you may not know yet? This Prince Wei is so angry that he is willing to risk his life for his beloved."

Wei Zheng looked at Wu Ya with cold eyes. With such an eye-catching gimmick and Wu Ya's eloquent speech, even a dead thing could be brought back to life by her.

A chill ran down her spine. Wu Ya retracted her gaze, pretending that Wei Zheng didn't exist, and said, "Empress Dowager, ever since His Majesty graciously granted the Ji family an innocence, Ji Mengshu bought a house on the outskirts of the city. Later, perhaps after losing her wealth and glory, she returned to her hometown with her elderly parents in disgrace... And that prince just wanted to send her off that day, but guess what happened? He was beaten up by the Prince Wei who came rushing over? Don't you think this is a case of risking one's life for a woman you love?"

Without factual basis, who would dare to gossip in front of the Queen Mother? At this point, many people at the banquet could no longer sit still and whispered, "So, the person that Prince Wei likes might be Ji Mengshu?"

"Be more confident and remove the word 'maybe'. The truth has been revealed. The reason why Prince Wei disobeyed the imperial order and refused to marry the daughter of Marquis Guiyang was because of Ji Mengshu, wasn't it?"

Wu Ya had a smug look on her face. Back then at the Chengyang Marquis' Mansion and the Daxiangguo Temple, Wei Zheng had stood up for He Hui and Ji Mengshu several times and had always ignored her. In that case, how could she, Wu Ya, suffer in silence?

The Queen Mother frowned. She didn't want to hear any news about the Ji family. Everyone was gone, but they were still making trouble.

"Is this true?" Ning Huaixuan looked at Wei Zheng with a serious face.

The latter remained calm, and instead, he looked at Wu Ya with a rather amused expression, his eyes teasing, as if he was watching a terrible joke. Until Wu Ya could no longer sit still, he said, "Your Majesty, I don't know where Miss Wu heard this nonsense from and made it up! I was riding a horse through the suburbs of Beijing that day, and I didn't know what Ji family Miss Wu was talking about. I only knew that it was that blind guy who wanted to rob a girl in the street and blocked my way. I was so angry that I hurt people. As for what Miss Wu said, I don't admit it at all!"

Ning Huaixuan then let out a long sigh of relief and continued, "Then tell me, which noble lady is your favorite? Who would make you risk your life to stay with her?"

Wei Zheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty, if I reveal her name, it would ruin her reputation. Therefore, please forgive me for not obeying your order."

If His Majesty is offended again and again, even a mild-tempered person would lose his temper.

The Queen Mother was a person who didn't want to get involved. Perhaps because she was old, she didn't want to see the scene of father and son being separated, so she advised, "Okay... In this case, I and Your Majesty will naturally not force you to do it. But it is true that you hurt someone. If you break the father-son relationship because of an unsatisfactory marriage, wouldn't you be an unfilial person?"

The Dali Dynasty valued loyalty and filial piety the most. Wei Zheng's behavior would surely leave him with an infamy for all eternity.

Cheng Liu also hurriedly chimed in, "Yes, Brother Zheng'er, if you have anything on your mind, why don't you just say it out loud? As long as your father and I can get it done, we will definitely satisfy you..."

As she spoke, her voice actually had a hint of tears, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and her two willow-like eyebrows were tightly knitted, looking like an old mother who was worried about her children in everything. It seemed that Wei Zheng was being unreasonable.

But others don't know, but Wei Zheng knows what kind of heart is underneath this bodhisattva's heart.

But people in the world are confused by superficial illusions and cannot see the color of the heart beneath the skin.

Her lips were extremely pale, the residual poison in her body had not yet been cleared, and her body had become weak after years of accumulated residual poison. Wei Zheng curled his lips coldly and said in a roundabout way, "Madam Chengyang, I'm sorry, but I wonder if Madam Chengyang still remembers my mother? The sister of King Dongzhi, Wen Li?"

When Wen Li was mentioned, both Chengyang Hou and Cheng Liu could no longer hold back. Cheng Liu wiped her tears with a handkerchief, looking very aggrieved. She wished she could reveal her heart to him.