With the issuance of the Imperial Edict, the Empress was dethroned and banished to the Cold Palace, her family torn apart, shocking both the court and the common people.
What was shocking was the reason for the Empress's dethronement and the extermination of her family: she was accused of orchestrating the Imperial Jue Temple incident?
What kind of hatred or grievance could have driven the Empress, as Mother of the Nation, to plot against the imperial heir and the Emperor?
Later, it was discovered that, despite the severity of the Empress's crime, she was merely dethroned and not executed immediately, because she was pregnant, which seemed to suggest a hidden secret to all.
Could it be that Empress Song was removing obstacles to pave the way for her unborn child?
But isn't that too far-fetched? Was Empress Song certain that the born child would definitely be a male infant?
Or perhaps, she was determined to make it a boy who could inherit the throne?
This is quite intriguing.
