The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 750 - 750 347 Mother and Son United (First Update)_2

Chapter 750: 347 Mother and Son United (First Update)_2 Chapter 750: 347 Mother and Son United (First Update)_2 It sounds quite heart-wrenching.

Gu Jiao isn’t apt at understanding complex emotions, but she tries to put herself in Xiao Jingkong’s shoes. If one day Xiao Jingkong abandoned her for someone else, she would be devastated, truly devastated.

Emotion is the most wondrous thing in the world. When unrelated to blood, when formed within a family, you can’t lose that person.

“Did Grand Auntie and Empress Jing feel the same way?” Gu Jiao asked.

Eunuch Qin nodded, the Empress Dowager once sincere considered Empress Jing as a friend, but who hasn’t made a poor judgement in their youth?

An enemy’s attack isn’t terrifying, but betrayal from someone you trust is the true agony.

Gu Jiao hesitated, then asked, “Even someone as smart as Grand Auntie, can’t bring His Majesty back from that woman?”

Eunuch Qin helplessly shook his head, “It’s not that she can’t, but she doesn’t want to strategize. Once the heart grows cold, nothing matters.”

“Is it… grief at the extremity of death?” Gu Jiao asked, looking at Eunuch Qin.

Eunuch Qin nodded, “Yes, that’s the idea.”

Gu Jiao had probably experienced such feelings, she just couldn’t remember. The memories of being abandoned by her parents in her childhood were reduced to but some sounds and images, she could look at them calmly, without a hint of pain.

This is perhaps what they call numbness.

She had been numbed since a young age, and hence, she was able to be a Special Agent in the Organization, to be the most ruthless of assassins.

Dowager Empress Zhuang experienced such feelings only in her middle age, she couldn’t numb herself completely, but could only attempt to harden her heart.

She was Zhuang Jinse, the most powerful Empress Dowager in the Zhan Country. She had her pride, even as a queen, she despised competing for the emperor’s favor in the Imperial Harem, so why then, would she vie for a man with Empress Jing? Even if that man was her adopted son.

Gu Jiao understood, she held onto the swing rope as she looked at Eunuch Qin. “I get it now, thanks Eunuch Qin.”

She wouldn’t force her great-aunt to do something she didn’t want to.

If the old master’s method didn’t work, then she’d think of other ways.

Eunuch Qin was secretly gratified. She truly was a considerate child. Aside from the Empress Dowager’s fondness for her, even he, with his aging bones, couldn’t help but want to pamper her.

Pity, he was a eunuch, not able to do much, and could not really pamper her.

Gu Jiao got up from the swing and went to the Dowager Empress Zhuang’s study.

Dowager Empress Zhuang was furious at the document she was reading – someone under her command got caught red-handed being corrupt, she was not a ruler who only employed virtuous men, having risen and fallen in the Court and Imperial Harem for so many years, she deeply understood that too much purity leaves you alone.

She always valued people’s merits, shortcoming were to be tolerated if their merits overshadowed them, but this doesn’t mean her subordinates could do as they please.

Everything has its limits, one can’t literally do arson or murder, nor could they oppress the people to fulfill their desires. Everything has its limit, cross it and she would not turn a blind eye nor cover for them.

“A million tael for disaster relief, embezzled nine hundred and fifty thousand tael, and gave people a handle against them, who other than you deserves death!”

Dowager Empress Zhuang coldly threw the document into the pile on her left, these were all to be presented to the Emperor. Given the Emperor’s impatient temper, he would surely punish severely for this matter.

“Great Auntie?”

A round head popped in.

She didn’t need to look to know who it was.

Dowager Empress Zhuang responded indifferently, “Yes, what is it?”

Gu Jiao said, “It’s getting late, I should go back. Do take a rest earlier.”

After saying this, she gently closed the door for her great aunt.

“Hold on.” Dowager Empress Zhuang called her back in a disinterested voice.

“Yes?” Gu Jiao pushed the door open again, her eyes rolled a bit as she stepped over the threshold, her phoenix eyes staring intently at Dowager Empress Zhuang.

Dowager Empress Zhuang picked up a folder, and asked casually, “Does what we said earlier still count?”

“Which part?” Gu Jiao asked.

Dowager Empress Zhuang cleared her throat, “The…five piece part!”

Gu Jiao stretched out her hand, looked at her five fingers, then looked at Dowager Empress Zhuang, her eyes sparkling, “Of course it counts! But, didn’t you have reservations?”

Dowager Empress Zhuang, in her mind, was furiously slamming the document, a successful dowager empress should not haggle over candies!

Dowager Empress Zhuang said coolly, “Count from today.”

“Okay!” Gu Jiao did not hesitate, coincidentally, she had a box of freshly candied fruits in her purse. She took out the box, left five pieces in it, and crammed the rest into her mouth.

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