CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 76: EMPRESS, YOU REALLY ARE SOMETHING

"Moreover, Father, do you know? Mother said that if I help her accomplish this task, she has other good things to give me!"

Jun Ning finished speaking and looked expectantly at the Empress, as if she could see the good thing she might get in the future. Her grape-like big eyes sparkled with a delicate light.

"What good thing?"

Emperor Yongning’s voice carried no trace of emotion as he asked.

Jun Ning replied, "I don’t know."

"You don’t know, and you dared to agree to her?" Emperor Yongning looked at his treasured child with heartache, "Silly child, aren’t you afraid of being deceived by the Empress?"

"Mother shouldn’t lie, right!" Jun Ning shrugged indifferently and continued, "However, even if she deceives me about this matter, it doesn’t matter. It’s just worldly possessions, nothing too serious if I don’t get them. She has also promised me another thing."

Emperor Yongning furrowed his brows, "Another thing?"

In order to lift her confinement and regain power over the harem, the Empress really knew how to manipulate a child!

One temptation after another for a little child?

His precious child was only two and a half years old this year, how could she resist such temptation?

Today, he’s going to see what else the Empress is using to tempt his child.

"Child, don’t look at the Empress. Tell Father, what else did the Empress promise you?"

Jun Ning’s nose twitched as tears began to pour down uncontrollably, "Mother also promised me that once this matter is done, she would plead with you on my behalf to bring my mother out of the Cold Palace."

"Father, it has been so long since I last saw my mother. I really miss her."

"I don’t even know how my mother has been doing lately!"

After speaking, Jun Ning could no longer contain the pain in her heart and broke into sobs.

Emperor Yongning looked at Jun Ning with a pained expression, wanting to comfort her immediately, but knowing that without solving this matter, it would be impossible to truly comfort his child.

It would be better to wait until this matter is resolved.

He then turned to the Empress and said, "Empress, you are truly something!"

Even if his child could resist the previous temptations, being able to bring her mother out of the Cold Palace was undoubtedly a temptation she could not resist.

Empress: "..."

The Empress was almost dying of frustration, "Your Majesty, it’s not like that. Don’t listen to that little rabbit..." The words "little rascal" were on the tip of her tongue, but considering that Emperor Yongning might not like it, she changed her tone and said, "Don’t listen to the nonsense of the eighteenth, I didn’t tempt her like that, really, I didn’t."

Emperor Yongning: "If you didn’t, why would she say such things? Did she help you get out of trouble because she was bored? Did she plot this to harm you on her own?"

These words hit the Empress’s sore spot.

The Empress had no words to respond.

She did indeed ask Jun Ning for help.

But helping to this extent, is it still considered help?

She had grievances she couldn’t voice... and it felt like lifting a rock only to drop it on her own foot...

"No words to say?" Emperor Yongning said, "Empress, you increasingly disappoint me."

The Empress was infuriated upon hearing this and questioned with deep resentment, "Your Majesty, when have you ever had any hope for me?"

Her son, her residence in Jiaofang Palace, even her position as empress, were all things she had painstakingly sought. He never gave them willingly.

Because she did not reside in his heart, he never considered her interests.

Previously, she didn’t want Jun Ning to be a companion for the seventeenth prince, and now she was pinning her hopes for liberation on Jun Ning too.

He always thought these matters were her fault, but little did he know...