The Favored Little Peasant Seizes the Heroine's Script!-Chapter 489 - 451: The Eldest Princess’s Response

The Empress Dowager’s words were definitely not just angry outbursts!

Her demeanor was very calm, her voice steady, and her gaze at the Eldest Princess was devoid of any emotion. Even though the Eldest Princess was her own daughter! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"You...!"

The Eldest Princess was stunned by the Empress Dowager’s thoughts, completely bewildered.

She didn’t know how to respond.

However, this was just the beginning!

The Empress Dowager looked at the heartbroken Eldest Princess, her expression still very calm, and continued to speak, "Do you know why it was necessary for you to marry Wei Dingjiang?"

"Because, among the many princesses of the royal family, you are the only suitable one!"

"When you were young and went to play by the lotus pond, you fell into an ice hole in the middle of winter. The Imperial Physicians from the Imperial Hospital told me you hurt your body, and it might be hard for you to bear children in this lifetime!"

"So, I wanted you to marry Wei Dingjiang!"

"Who would have thought that those Imperial Physicians were useless and could even be wrong about something like this!"

"If you hadn’t borne a son for Wei Dingjiang, none of this would have happened!"

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself!"

After the Empress Dowager finished her emotionless speech, the Eldest Princess slumped to the ground.

The truth was revealed, bloody and raw.

She truly never thought about why the Empress Dowager insisted on her marrying Wei Dingjiang back then.

Now, she finally understood!

"Mother, why?"

"The Wei Family is the backbone of Daxia, destroying the Wei Family, what good does it do for you or Daxia?"

The Eldest Princess couldn’t understand.

Although the Wei Family had always been a sword hanging over the royal family, her elder brother had already become the Emperor.

"If it weren’t for the Wei Family being so difficult to deal with, your father wouldn’t have died so early."

"It’s all that old thing Wei Huo, constantly making things difficult for your father. Your father wanted to conquer Great Yin, and he opposed it; your father wanted to expand the territory, and he incited the court officials to sing a different tune..."

"The revenge of killing my husband, I will never forget it in this life!"

"And you, you are your father’s daughter. When you were young, your father loved you so much, don’t you want to avenge him?"

"If you have any filial piety left, keep your mouth shut for me!"

"Otherwise, don’t blame me, your mother, for being unkind!"

Since the Empress Dowager had already revealed the truth, she wouldn’t let the Eldest Princess speak freely.

In fact, if it weren’t for the Eldest Princess pushing her so hard, the Empress Dowager wouldn’t have said all of this.

She had intended to take all these secrets to the grave.

Although she was scheming against the Wei Family, and even involved her own daughter, deep down, she hoped the Eldest Princess could live a muddled life, sparing her from bearing too much pain.

However, people plan, but fate decides.

Her schemes had gone awry.

"Ha, haha..."

Upon hearing the Empress Dowager’s threats, the Eldest Princess suddenly burst into laughter, "And you dare speak of ’kindness’? You used your daughter as a pawn for revenge for your selfish desires, and now you say this to me, don’t you feel ashamed?"

"After Father was gone, you were like a lost soul."

"To make you regain the will to live, I ran to the lotus pond in the freezing weather, broke through the ice, and fell into the icy pond."

"That time, I almost went with Father!"

"Since then, you finally showed a little vitality!"

"Turns out, everything I did was all in vain!"

The Eldest Princess’s heart felt like it was being cut by a thousand knives.

Back then, to keep the Empress Dowager from drowning in grief, to help her overcome this, the Eldest Princess truly risked her life.

Though they were royalty, a bout of cold could easily claim a life if not adequately managed.

Yet the Eldest Princess never imagined that all her sacrifices would only lead to her becoming a pawn for her mother.

"You say my father-in-law killed my father?"

"How ridiculous?"

"When Father was in power, Daxia was a mess, the treasury empty. Waging war against Great Yin? With what resources?"

"Without supplies, weren’t they worried about a mutiny among the soldiers?"

"If defeated, would Daxia still have a chance to exist?"

"Mother, you stayed in the palace, knowing nothing, just hearing Father’s complaints, thinking you understood everything. If I’m not mistaken, Father’s desire to wage war was due in large part to your instigation, wasn’t it?"

"After all, Grandfather died on the battlefield assaulting Great Yin!"

The Eldest Princess laughed and cried, laying bare the real thoughts inside the Empress Dowager’s heart.

Saying it was to avenge her father?

What a joke!

Back then, her grandfather followed Wei Huo to war with Great Yin, but in his eagerness to claim glory, he fell into Great Yin’s trap. Although Wei Huo dispatched troops to rescue them in time, by the time they broke through Great Yin’s encirclement, her glory-seeking grandfather was already slain on the battlefield.

This was the real reason the Empress Dowager aimed to deal with the Wei Family.

Slap!

The Empress Dowager raised her hand and slapped the Eldest Princess across the face.

"Shut up!"

"What do you know?"

"Wei Huo, that dog, knowing well your grandfather’s fiery temperament, why did he put your grandfather in the vanguard position?"

"Clearly, it was an excuse to eliminate dissidents!"

"If he hadn’t delayed the war effort, your grandfather wouldn’t have died!"

The Empress Dowager, who had been calm all along, finally revealed her hysterical side.

The Eldest Princess watched her own mother roaring with rage, a faint smile on her face, confirming the truth of her suspicions.

But, knowing the truth, what good does it do?

She was the Empress Dowager!

The most noble woman in Daxia, bar none!

This was also her mother, her birth mother!

Bound by filial piety, even if the Eldest Princess was dissatisfied with the Empress Dowager, she could only endure.

After the Empress Dowager finished venting, the Eldest Princess said nothing more but silently bowed and exited the Empress Dowager’s chamber.

This mother-daughter confrontation thus came to an end.

No winners, only losers.

The Empress Dowager lost the daughter she had nurtured for years.

The Eldest Princess lost the mother she cherished.

And in all this, who can be blamed?

The wars between nations inevitably result in deaths.

Her grandfather was dead, and her mother blamed this one and that one. But this was war between countries; even if Daxia didn’t attack Great Yin, would Great Yin not attack Daxia?

Over the years, the conflicts among Daxia, Great Yin, and Beili had been endless, with innumerable casualties.

Those who lost husbands or fathers, who are they to blame?

The Eldest Princess felt her mother was completely unreasonable now.

To the Eldest Princess, her mother seemed possessed, impervious to reason.

As for using violent means to wake her mother up?

Don’t make me laugh!

Her mother was the Empress Dowager, the most noble woman in Daxia now, who could restrain her?

The Eldest Princess left the Empress Dowager’s chamber, taking her people, and directly exited Cining Palace, returning to the Wei Family’s residence in the Capital.

Though she couldn’t use physical force to suppress her mother, she could resort to silent resistance.