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Chapter 444 - 398, All Credit Goes to Susu, Feng Wuyou’s Hidden Portrait is Discovered

Chapter 444: Chapter 398, All Credit Goes to Susu, Feng Wuyou’s Hidden Portrait is Discovered

The officials watched the Emperor’s granddaughter cry so terribly that none dared to say a word, yet internally they were full of complaints.

How could His Majesty bring such a small child to such an important occasion?

The ceaseless wailing of a child was truly a vexing matter.

It seemed that today’s issue would be left unresolved again.

The Emperor tried handing Susu several items to play with, hoping to cheer her up, "Susu, look, this is the Jade Seal."

But Susu kept on crying nonstop.

The Emperor had no choice but to say, "Imperial Grandfather won’t catch them anymore, Susu, don’t cry."

A miraculous scene unfolded, as Susu, who had been crying loudly, immediately stopped her tears, clutching the Emperor’s hand with her little one, and gazed at him with her sparkling eyes.

The sudden silence shocked everyone present.

The officials looked puzzled at the Emperor’s granddaughter and were also curious as to why she had suddenly stopped crying.

The Emperor was surprised as he looked at Susu, who had just been crying so fiercely but suddenly stopped. Could it be a sign that he shouldn’t arrest the Chunan King?

After calming down, the Emperor gave the matter careful thought.

With the Chunan King’s formidable power, rashly arresting him might provoke resistance, which wouldn’t be good.

The Emperor looked up at the officials, "I have decided to retract my edict, and for now, not arrest the Chunan King."

"Your Majesty, but the evidence is right before us, if the Chunan King truly harbors rebellious intent, the consequences are unimaginable."

"Please think again, Your Majesty."

The Emperor looked down at Susu, who was lying on the imperial desk, hugging the Jade Seal and holding a Dragon Pendant in her other hand, placing it next to the Jade Seal.

Being so small, her coordination was not the best, and the Dragon Pendant kept clinking crisply against the Jade Seal.

The Emperor watched Susu’s movements for a good while, then suddenly had a brilliant idea.

He looked down at the officials and said, "I hear the Chunan King has two sons, and Yinyin is also over four years old, almost ready for schooling. Make the Chunan King’s son the heir, and let him come to the palace to study alongside Yinyin."

Upon hearing this, the officials shouted in approval.

"Your Majesty is wise! With the heir in the palace, it will restrain the Chunan King, deterring him from harboring any ulterior motives."

The Emperor laughed heartily, pleased, "This is the merit of my granddaughter."

The officials exchanged looks, full of confusion.

"The merit of the Emperor’s granddaughter?"

The officials turned their gazes to Susu in the Emperor’s arms, all showing expressions of shock.

Susu was seen playing with the Dragon Pendant that the Emperor always wore and was also holding the Jade Seal, hitting the Jade Seal with the Dragon Pendant as if afraid of shattering the pendant or damaging the seal.

How could His Majesty indulge his granddaughter in such a manner? What if something were to break?

The Emperor had neither the inclination nor the time to discuss this topic with the officials; he waved his hand, signaling for them to withdraw.

He looked down at Susu, who was still playing with the Jade Seal and the Dragon Pendant, allowing her to continue.

In the meantime, the Emperor had the Imperial Edict written and dispatched Eunuch Li to deliver it.

The Emperor realized it had been a few days since he last saw the Empress. She would not come to the Imperial Study Room or Yangxin Hall to see him if he did not visit Fengyi Palace.

She didn’t have him in her heart at all.

Thinking that the Empress might still hold a place in her heart for Ye Chu, his mood grew heavy.

The Emperor watched Susu for a good while, then the corners of his mouth curled up in a smile. He picked up Susu from the imperial desk, "Susu, Imperial Grandfather will take you to play with Imperial Grandmother."

Susu tightly grasped the Dragon Pendant in her little hand and joyfully chattered away.

The Emperor laughed happily and instructed, "When we get to the Fengyi Palace, you tell her you’ve missed Imperial Grandmother, okay?"

Susu blinked her lovely big eyes at Imperial Grandfather and then smiled broadly.

The Emperor happily carried Susu out of the Imperial Study Room.

At this time, in Fengyi Palace,

The Empress was busy with Qing Ying, making little garments for their precious grandson and granddaughter when they saw Shen Chuwei enter with Taotao.

She put down her needlework and stood up with a smile, "Crown Princess, Taotao."

Shen Chuwei beamed, "Mother, Taotao said she missed you."

The Empress took Taotao from Shen Chuwei’s arms and saw Taotao smiling at her with an open mouth, eliciting laughter from the Empress.

"Grandma missed you too."

Shen Chuwei noticed the children’s garments on the table and picked one up to look it over, "Mother, you’re still making little garments?"

While playing with Taotao, the Empress said, "Since I have nothing better to do, I thought I might as well make some more little garments for them."

Shen Chuwei was immensely impressed, "It’s because Mother has such skillful hands."

The Empress, not having seen Susu, couldn’t help but ask, "And Susu? Why didn’t you bring her along to play as well?"

Shen Chuwei said, "Susu is with Father."

Upon hearing this, the Empress paused. Ever since that night, the Emperor hadn’t visited Fengyi Palace again.

Just then, a little eunuch came in to report, "Your Majesty, the Emperor has arrived."

The Empress was taken aback for a moment. She had just been thinking about the Emperor not coming, and now he was here?

The Emperor came in, holding Susu.

Shen Chuwei followed the Empress forward to greet him.

"Taotao is here too," observed the Emperor upon seeing Taotao in the Empress’s arms, then looking down at Susu in his own arms, he said, "Susu was just crying. I thought she might be missing Grandma, so I brought her over to see."

The Empress, upon hearing this, was overjoyed, completely ignoring the possibility that the Emperor might be lying. Seeing that Susu’s eyes were red, obviously having cried, she had no doubt in what the Emperor said.

"Your Majesty, let your concubine hold Susu."

The Emperor had come on a pretext, and when the Empress made a request, he was still inclined to oblige. The two exchanged the babies in their arms.

Shen Chuwei too noticed that Susu had signs of having cried, but the good thing about Susu was, as long as her wishes were satisfied, she would immediately stop crying.

At this time, in the Chunan King’s residence, an Imperial Edict had caused a heavy atmosphere to settle.

The Princess Consort was adamantly against letting her son enter the palace, "It sounds nice to say he’s going in to study, but who doesn’t know what the Emperor is thinking?"

With a furrowed brow, the Chunan King said, "The Imperial Edict has been issued. If we defy it, do you understand that our whole clan could be executed?"

"Even so, I can’t let our son enter the palace. If anything were to happen to him, I wouldn’t want to live either," the Princess Consort said, bursting into tears. After a while, she suddenly thought of the adopted son in their residence.

"My Lord, don’t we have an adopted son in our residence? He’s about the same age as our son. Why not let him go to the palace in our son’s place?"

The Chunan King also remembered the adopted son in the residence and after a long deliberation, he agreed to the Princess Consort’s suggestion.

The Chunan King personally sent the adopted son to the palace.

As the Empress Dowager’s return to the palace was scheduled for the next day, the Imperial Palace was busy preparing for her welcome early on.

After reviewing the account book, Shen Chuwei went to Xiao Jinyan’s study room and didn’t find him there, "Not in the study, where has he gone?"

She placed the account book on the desk and was about to leave when she then noticed Xuetuan on the bookshelf and walked over out of curiosity.

Just as she was about to reach out and pick it up, Xuetuan suddenly jumped, apparently hitting something, and with a "click," a compartment appeared on the right side of the bookshelf.

Curiously, she looked into the compartment and noticed there were items inside.

Well aware that curiosity killed the cat... she couldn’t help but pick up the items from within the compartment.

One of them was a painting. She opened it with curiosity, and on it was a five- or six-year-old girl with two small tufts of hair.

On the right side, there was writing, Feng Wuyou...

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