Five years after her death, she awoke on the dragon bed.

Chapter 241 His Majesty is Jealous

Lou Suyi really didn't expect Liang Wanying to be watching her so closely. She had just arrived when Liang Wanying followed right after her.

“Chen’er missed His Majesty, so I brought him here to see His Majesty. There’s no other way, Chen’er can’t be without his father. Consort Hui, you’ve never given birth, so you don’t know the principle of blood being intertwined with water.” Lou Suyi started by showing off her baby.

Liang Wanying hated Lou Suyi for this thing the most, as if giving birth to a prince was something extraordinary.

Once she gives birth to a prince, let's see how smug Lou Suying will be then.

Liang Wanying looked at the little prince sitting on Murong's lap, and then at the expression on Murong's face when she held the baby. It was a tenderness she had never seen before.

How wonderful it would be if that child were hers?

At this moment, she desperately hoped that the censors could successfully impeach Lou Suyi and remove this woman from the position of Empress.

She went to Murong's side and subtly pushed Lou Suyi aside, standing closest to Murong: "Chen'er is so handsome, may I hold him?"

Murong was playing with Chen'er when she heard this. She glanced at her and replied, "My dear consort has never held a child before. Chen'er is too soft to hold. I feel more at ease holding him."

"Your Majesty..." Liang Wanying said coquettishly.

Lou Suyi, who was standing to the side, got goosebumps when she heard the word "Your Majesty".

How can someone speak so sweetly? Do men just like women who act cute?
She was eavesdropping when she heard Murong say, "My beloved concubine, is there something you need at Qianqing Palace?"

Liang Wanying was taken aback, and asked with a wronged expression, "I miss Your Majesty. Can't I come to see Your Majesty if there's nothing wrong?"

"I am busy with state affairs. If my beloved consort has nothing important to do, she should not come to Qianqing Palace casually in the future," Murong said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Liang Wanying immediately felt embarrassed.

"Why can the Empress come to see His Majesty whenever she has nothing to do, but I cannot?" Her eyes reddened.

Wasn't Murong the one who doted on her the most? Yet he embarrassed her in front of Lou Suyi.

"The Empress came to see me because Chen'er misses me. The last time I saw Chen'er was ten days ago. Do I need my beloved concubine's permission to even see my own flesh and blood?" Murong looked at Liang Wanying, his eyes turning cold.

When Liang Wanying saw Murong Bing's cold gaze, she felt not only embarrassed, but also terrified.

She hurriedly lowered her head, realizing once again that Murong was different from the late emperor who loved and indulged her.

When the late emperor was alive, no matter when or where she sought him out, he would always put aside everything else to be with her. But in Murong's eyes, his child was more important than him.

"I know I was wrong, Your Majesty, please don't be angry." Liang Wanying kept shedding tears.

Murong showed no expression upon seeing her condition.

Lou Suying felt a little embarrassed. She coughed lightly and was about to take the child away when Liang Wanying suddenly looked at her, her tearful eyes suddenly turning sharp: "Is the Empress laughing at me?"

Lou Suyi felt wronged.

With Liang being so fierce, how could she dare to watch this woman make a fool of herself?
Why should Liang Wanying take out her anger on Murong after she was wronged there?

She coughed lightly and said, "Consort Hui, please don't feel embarrassed. We are all sisters, and I won't make fun of you."

Since Liang Wanying felt she was a joke, she decided to watch anyway.

Liang Wanying clenched her fists and looked at Murong: "The Empress bullies me all the time, and His Majesty doesn't do anything about it."

"The Empress is magnanimous and won't laugh at my beloved concubine. Please don't overthink it." Murong didn't even look up, continuing to tease the little dumpling in her arms.

Xiao Muchen, however, was unhappy that his father kept poking his face. He stretched out his chubby hand towards Lou Suyi and shouted, "Liang..."

Everyone present was stunned, including Lou Suyi, the mother. She was overjoyed: "Chen'er called me Mother?"

Xiao Muchen was still reaching out to her for a hug: "Liang..."

Lou Suyi burst into tears of joy and stepped forward to take the child away, but Murong wouldn't let go and said to little Muchen, "Chen'er, call me father."

Lou Suyi couldn't help but burst out laughing, discovering that Murong also had a childish side.

He spends little time with his child, yet he expects the child to call him "Dad" at such a young age?

Murong looked at Lou Suyi and questioned, "Is it because you haven't been teaching him properly?"

Lou Suyi couldn't help but chuckle: "Your Majesty, please don't be jealous. Your Majesty is usually busy and doesn't spend much time with the children, so it's normal that the children learned to call me 'Mother' first."

Murong felt it was unfair, so she simply held the child and wanted to teach the child the word "father".

Lou Suying shook her head and chuckled at the sight, but when she turned her head, she saw Liang Wanying staring at her fiercely with eyes full of resentment.

She suppressed her smile and looked back at him calmly.

Only at this moment did Liang Wanying truly realize how vast the gap was between herself and Lou Suyi.

Even if Lou Suyi had a bad background, and even if this woman had no family support, she still gave birth to a prince.

With the connection to the young prince, Lou Suyi had the opportunity to get close to Murong.

Because of the child, Murong was completely different from his usual indifferent and cold demeanor; it was a side of him she had never seen before. He would even compete with Lou Suyi for the child's affections.

Just now, she had no chance to speak, and no one noticed that she was still there.

They were more like a family of three, while she was an outsider.

Murong looked up and saw that Liang Wanying was still there, so he instructed Jiqing: "Go and escort Consort Hui back to Quanfu Palace."

Ji Qing quickly agreed and went to Liang Wanying, saying, "This servant will escort Consort Hui back."

Liang Wanying knew that Murong was indirectly issuing an order to leave. She felt embarrassed, but she could not disobey the imperial decree.

"This concubine takes her leave." She bowed to Murong and withdrew from the imperial study.

She didn't know how she got back to Quanfu Palace. It wasn't until Jiqing had been gone for a while that she blinked her dry eyes and said, "I only just realized that Lou Suying is His Majesty's wife. She was lucky to give birth to a prince. With the prince as a connection, how could His Majesty easily let Lou Suying step down from the position of Empress?"

Unless... the young prince dies.

Or rather, Lou Suyi didn't take good care of the child, and the child fell seriously ill.

At that moment, she harbored murderous intent towards the young prince.

But she also knew that to solve the fundamental problem, she still needed to serve the emperor in bed so that she could conceive a royal heir.

Seeing that her mistress was finally facing the problem squarely, Mo Lan breathed a sigh of relief: "The most urgent thing is for Your Highness to find a way to serve the Emperor. As long as Your Highness gives birth to the little prince, you will have a chance to compete with the Empress."

Liang Wanying took a deep breath and felt that Mo Lan's words made sense.

She couldn't afford to lose her composure; she still needed to figure out a way to serve the emperor.

As long as she can conceive a royal heir, what if Lou Suyi gives birth to a legitimate son? She can still go toe-to-toe with Lou Suyi.

But she also had to admit that Lou Suying was her strongest rival, and she shouldn't underestimate Lou Suying. Lou Suying was not only the Empress, but she also gave birth to a legitimate son and even had Empress Dowager Chen backing her up.

The scene she had witnessed in the Imperial Study, where Murong and Lou Suying appeared relaxed together, was a side of them she had never seen before.