The Empress Dowager privately summoned Lu Xingzhou and asked him if Zhao Xunyin returned, could he hand over military power?
Lu Xingzhou replied to her, "As long as Ah Yin can stand safely before me, I will relinquish military power."
That year, Wen Wan was three years old.
Her maternal grandmother, Empress Dowager Renyi, deployed a large batch of Hidden Guards for a thorough search, and finally found her mother, Zhao Xunyin, in Pingjiang County, Ningzhou, forcibly brought her back and granted a marriage.
On the wedding night, Lu Xingzhou told her everything.
He said he went to the frontier just to wait for this day — to negotiate terms with the Empress Dowager while holding military power.
However, by that time, she was already pregnant with another man's child.
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Gathering her thoughts, the Eldest Princess lowered her eyelashes and boarded the carriage, lifting her skirt.
Her birth mother, with an extraordinary iron-fist, caused her to betray two men in her lifetime.
