Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 1074 - 874 Nangong Nini’s Confession

Chapter 1074: Chapter 874 Nangong Nini’s Confession

"Crown Prince, you really don’t recognize good from bad. Do you understand what it means to fail in becoming the Crown Prince? It means that you will either be executed or sent to a distant fief, and I, as your mother, will not become the Dowager Empress but will be reduced to shaving my head and becoming a nun. Do you still think the throne is unimportant?"

The Crown Prince fell into silence, while Nangong Nini was equally at a loss.

The Empress then looked at Nangong Nini, "If you truly love the Crown Prince, you should stop meddling in so many affairs."

Now that everything was out in the open, Nangong Nini naturally could not continue the pretense. What was once a beautiful lie had been brutally torn apart into an ugly affair, so Nangong Nini simply chose to remain silent.

After a long silence, the Crown Prince finally looked at the Empress. "Mother, my eldest brother is still recovering from a serious illness. It is too early to discuss this matter. Let’s not worry too much for now. I will definitely strive my hardest, and Father is not someone who cannot distinguish right from wrong. He surely has a clear idea of who is more suitable to be the Crown Prince."

After the Empress left, the Crown Prince turned to look at Nangong Nini.

The marital relationship that had just eased was on the verge of collapsing once again.

Nangong Nini couldn’t help but walk up to the Crown Prince. Wiping away tears with a pitiable look, she said, "Your Highness, I have always protected the Eldest Prince for a reason."

The situation had progressed to this point, and Nangong Nini felt there was no longer any reason to hide it. Just as Nan Feng had said, after laying everything out, the Crown Prince could either accept it or leave it.

Having just been shaken by what the Empress had said, the Crown Prince was at a loss for words when faced with Nangong Nini’s pitiable state. Looking at her tears, he felt that they no longer tugged at his heart as they once had.

Still, he patiently watched her, "It’s about that childhood friend, isn’t it?"

"No, not entirely because of that," said Nangong Nini. "The main reason is because of my real name. You know the Eldest Prince’s real name is Nangong Ye, but you definitely don’t know that my real name is Nangong Nini."

The Crown Prince was suddenly astonished.

Now that there were no outsiders left in the palace, and Doudou had been carried out, Nangong Nini laid everything bare: "My real name is Nangong Nini, daughter of the previous Nangong General of the Dajin dynasty. The former Nangong General was renowned in the Dajin dynasty. I remember you mentioning to me before, how much you admired the General and how regrettable you found his death. At the time, I wept incessantly, and you thought I was just being overly sensitive, not suspecting anything. But you didn’t know that every time I thought of my father, it was like a knife twisting in my heart. When the Nangong family was annihilated, I was fortunate enough to be swapped for a death-row prisoner by the Emperor of Dajin. Later, by chance during a marriage alliance, I took the place of the Grand Tutor Yan’s granddaughter, Yan Tian, and married you."

Nangong Nini spoke succinctly, but to the Crown Prince, it was an indescribable shock. He had not expected that this lively and naive young lady had endured so much before this.

Especially her background, she had suffered the tragic fate of her family’s extermination. How helpless she must have been at that time. No wonder she had been so full of sorrow after marrying him. He had just thought she was homesick and tried various ways to cheer her up, but he had not realized the depth of pain she had gone through.

Besides Doudou and her husband, Nangong Ye was her only remaining family. How could she not be anxious, how could she not rush to see him?

One was her brother, and one her husband. When the Empress intended to harm Nangong Ye, how could she not stand up for him?