The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 815

Chapter 815: 378 Happy (two more updates)

"The young master understands all of this, doesn’t he? It’s just that your heart can’t accept it.

Over the years, the Emperor has been too good, too good to her, to the extent that she has forgotten how this favor came to be. Perhaps she hasn’t forgotten, but she too has put in a great deal of effort and believes that an unbreakable bond of mother-and-son affection has been cultivated between them. _{freewebnøvel.com}

In plain terms, her self-respect and pride won’t allow it. She feels she shouldn’t be so charmless that she can’t even manage her own son.

—He must truly have mother-and-son affection for me.

Consort Jing had said this more than once in front of Nanny Cai.

Nanny Cai still remembered Consort Jing’s smile at the time. It was an exceedingly happy smile, but it wasn’t a mother boasting about her relationship with her son; rather, it was more like a victorious general showing off his spoils of war.

Now, those spoils are gone.

Both self-respect and pride have been crushed.

No matter what, Consort Jing is her own young master. As a servant, Nanny Cai would not harbor any second thoughts against her.

She just didn’t want to see the young master continue to sink into such terrible moods that shouldn’t exist.

"Consort Jing..." she looked deeply at the other party.

But Consort Jing swept her wide sleeves and summoned the Dragon Shadow Guard.

A sense of ominous premonition rose from the bottom of Nanny Cai’s heart, and she asked anxiously, "Consort Jing... what are you going to do?"

Consort Jing looked at the Dragon Shadow Guard in front of her, who was as good as a killing tool, and said coldly, "Go to Renshou Palace, kill Empress Dowager Zhuang!"

Nanny Cai was deeply horrified, "Your Highness! You must not do this! If discovered, you’ll have no way out! You will be buried with the Empress Dowager!"

Consort Jing watched the Dragon Shadow Guard coldly, "Do it covertly, don’t let anyone find out, or don’t bother coming back!"

The Dragon Shadow Guard was indeed capable of sneaking into the Renshou Palace and committing murder.

They had not done so before simply because there was no need. Empress Dowager Zhuang lived in misery, constantly at odds with the Emperor; wouldn’t it be better to watch her suffer than to kill her?

Yet the Dragon Shadow Guard did not move.

Consort Jing’s brow furrowed, "I’m ordering you to go to Renshou Palace and kill the Empress Dowager, Zhuang Jinse!"

The Dragon Shadow Guard still did not move.

Consort Jing repeated it again, making sure the Dragon Shadow Guard had heard, but he still refused to carry out her command.

When the Dragon Shadow Guard had been assigned to her side, the Emperor’s order was for them to obey her every command.

But she also knew that the Dragon Shadow Guard’s commands came with a hierarchy.

The first order they followed was from the late Emperor, the second came from the current Emperor.

When her orders conflicted with the ones previously issued by them, the Dragon Shadow Guard would not execute her commands.

Since the Emperor had given her the Dragon Shadow Guard, he had never spoken to them again.

In other words, the order had already been given to the Dragon Shadow Guard before she received them—do not harm Zhuang Jinse.

Who had given the Dragon Shadow Guard this command?

The Emperor? Or the late Emperor?

If it was the late Emperor, then what was the deal with that imperial edict?

If it was the Emperor, the late Emperor had passed the Dragon Shadow Guard to the Emperor on his deathbed, but by that time, his relationship with Empress Dowager Zhuang had already begun to crumble. Yet he still commanded the Dragon Shadow Guard not to harm her?

Consort Jing was at a loss. She didn’t know which of these two men had protected Zhuang Jinse, when she was so clearly undeserving!

As a wife, she had never truly loved her husband; she exploited the late Emperor all her life, turning his entire Imperial Harem into her bowl of chives.

As a mother, she had also never wholeheartedly assisted her son; by holding court from behind the curtain, she monopolized the power of the Court and turned the Emperor into a puppet emperor, an object of ridicule.

Zhuang Jinse is a scourge upon the nation, a siren of calamity, a source of all evil; a person everyone should condemn!

"Your Highness... Your Highness..." Nanny Cai, seeing Consort Jing’s increasingly wrong complexion, stepped forward worriedly, and gently held her arm, "You are tired. Don’t think of anything else now. Let this servant take you to bed to rest for a while."

Consort Jing looked up blankly, but as she turned around, a surge of blood welled up within her, and she spat out a mouthful of blood—