Is it... to save the Western Prince?
If Zhenbi hadn't arrived, wouldn't he have died when he passed out that day?
Because of his obsession with the Western Prince and his obsession to find a good home for the Western Prince, he traveled through time and space and brought Concubine Zhen here?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was how things should be.
Without him, Concubine Zhen would have been killed by the small box that day. If it weren't for Zhen Concubine, he would have died in this deep palace without warmth.
They redeemed each other.
Qian Sheng was old and had heard all kinds of strange ghost stories, but he was not afraid.
On the contrary, I am glad...
If he is still alive, he will not let anything happen to the Western Prince.
"My dear, Eunuch Sheng is awake and said he wanted to bring the Western Prince to express his gratitude."
Emperor Xuanwu paused while drinking water, and then he remembered that he still had a son with Concubine Zhen.
Jiang Xinyue saw that he didn't remember about Prince Xi at all, so she handed him a step over: "Is it also about Prince Xi that the emperor came today?"
Emperor Xuanwu cleared his throat, raised his hand to cover his lips with a guilty conscience, and responded vaguely: "Yes."
"In that case, Magpie, tell them to come in."
Qian Sheng brought over the cute and cute Prince Xi. Although the two of them had only lived in Hexi Palace for less than three days, their spirits were completely different.
Qian Sheng didn't mention it anymore. He had just recovered from a serious illness, and his face was still a little pale. He was so thin that the clothes on his body couldn't support him, and he walked a little light.
The Western Prince has really changed.
His fair and tender little face was pink, and his delicate facial features became brighter and brighter. When he smiled at Jiang Xinyue, his big eyes were curved into crescent moons, so cute that people wanted to pinch his breasts.
Wang Dequan looked at the emperor and then at Prince Xi. Isn't this the replica of the little emperor?
When I saw him being bullied before, he was dirty and dirty. Although he looked like an emperor, he was not exactly the same.
Even the emperor was shocked by Prince Xi.
Jiang Xinyue had seen the little emperor's face in her dream. She waved to the Western Prince: "Come to Empress Zhen."
The Western Prince ran over happily at first, but when the Emperor was worried that he would hit Jiang Xinyue's belly, he slowed down again, walked to the chair, and softly called out: "Empress Zhen~"
Jiang Xinyue's heart melted. She kissed him on the forehead and rubbed his cheek: "You're so good."
The Western Prince blushed and twisted his body in embarrassment.
Emperor Xuanwu coughed twice, and Jiang Xinyue said something in the ear of the Western Prince. He walked towards the emperor with admiring eyes, climbed onto his lap when the emperor was at a loss, then hugged him and kissed his face. "Baji" kissed him: "Ms. Zhen said that you are my father, aren't you? Zuzu said that the father is an adult who will protect children, will you protect me?"
His delicate neck was wrapped in a collar, but his movements still revealed bruises and bruises from purple to black twisting marks and scars from scabs scratched by a knife.
The emperor frowned and opened his collar. The Western Prince flinched and did not dare to move. Emperor Xuanwu soon saw the bruises on his back and chest.
Although he knew his life would be difficult, he never thought it would be this difficult.
The biological mother of the Western Prince, Zhou Yile, was a descendant of the former Zhou Emperor. If the Zhou Dynasty was immortal, she would at least be a princess.
But after the Zhou Dynasty fell, Zhou Yile's ancestors were sold into slavery in Jiaofangsi and Yeting.
Zhou Yile bribed the steward of Jiaofangsi and was sent to the palace to be a palace maid.
She probably learned about her life experience from somewhere, and wanted to enter the palace to kill the emperor to take revenge.
But as a weak woman with no strength, how could she kill the emperor?
She couldn't even get close to the man.
Thinking that she was somewhat beautiful, she handed over all her savings and bribed the little eunuch beside the emperor, who was responsible for revealing Emperor Xuanwu's whereabouts to her.
The hard work paid off, and after a year and a half of painstaking planning, she finally caught an opportunity to drug the emperor.
But she didn't expect that the emperor was drugged that night and was extremely ferocious. She was tortured to the point where she had no strength at all, let alone assassinating the emperor.
The next day it was revealed that she had drugged the emperor, and the emperor had her escorted to Yongxiang.
Yongxiang, that is a place more cruel than Leng Palace and Xinzheku.
To make matters worse, it wasn't long before Zhou Yile found out that she was pregnant with the emperor's child.
The palace people in Yongxiang were worried that the little prince would be held accountable for his death in Yongxiang, so they reported the matter.
The emperor hated this remnant of the previous dynasty who set up his own business, but since she was pregnant with a child, he could only leave the matter to the queen to handle.
Empress Zhu arranged for people to stay in a remote palace near Leng Palace, and Zhou Yile never saw the emperor again until his death.
And the emperor didn't know whether he had forgotten or really didn't care. From the time he was born to the present, he had never even seen the Western Prince, let alone given him any good treatment.
Qian Sheng had been favored by Zhou Yile's father in his early years. In order to repay his kindness, he stayed with the Western Prince and shouldered the heavy responsibility of protecting him.
He looked at the emperor's slightly distressed eyes and felt very calm. Why did he go there so early? Now that Concubine Zhen has saved Prince Xi, why is he showing such an expression again?
Emperor Xuanwu smiled at the frightened Prince Xi: "Your ancestor is right, I am your father."
He was not qualified to ask the Western Prince not to call an eunuch Zuzu. Although it was against the rules, he knew that Qian Sheng was the Western Prince's only spiritual sustenance during his absence for the past five years.
"You are my father, and Queen Zhen must also be my mother-in-law!"
He narrowed his eyes happily again and shook his head on Emperor Xuanwu's lap, looking proud and smart.
Emperor Xuanwu looked at Jiang Xinyue with a fatherly mentality. For a moment, he didn't know whether to tell him that Concubine Zhen was not his mother-in-law.
"My dear concubine, please forgive me..."
Qian Sheng hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Prince Xi has been..."
He choked with sobs: "Except for the slave, he has never been truly loved by anyone, so he thought that the empress Zhen was good to him, and he thought she was his mother-in-law. The Western Prince was still young and he didn't understand anything. The slave begged Your Majesty and Concubine Zhen, please give him a way to survive!"
He is over fifty years old and has only a few good years to live, but the Western Prince still has great years to live, and he can no longer be stepped on and bullied by a bunch of minions.
When Jiang Xinyue saw this, she shed tears: "Your Majesty, I am my concubine... I am very fond of Prince Xi. Can I let my concubine raise him?"
The Western Prince was born into a humble family and had a dirty background. Just because he had the blood of the Zhou Dynasty in his body, he was destined to miss the throne.
This was the reason why no one among the concubines in the harem was willing to adopt him.
Forget it if you can't be a help, it might even hinder you in the future.
Only a fool would adopt him.
Zhenbi is that fool.
