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"This... This is... "Ping …"

The empress dowager trembled as she stood up. She didn't even have the time to wait for the maidservant by her side to support her as she walked towards Gu Qingyi in quick steps. She carefully took the portrait in her hands and focused on it, her eyes filled with tears …

The corners of his mouth twitched continuously …

After a long while, huge tears kept rolling down his face.

"An Ping, An Ping, This Dowager's An Ping …"

Ye Zichen stared at the portrait, while tears rolled down his cheeks.

In the past, when Princess Anping was still young, no one had expected her to leave just like that. Moreover, no one would have thought to leave behind such a portrait. Moreover … Most of Princess Anping's previous portraits were taken away during the wedding... The pictures that she drew when she was very young remained by her side …

However, those portraits had been around for many years, and they had been around for a long time. After a few days, they had all been meticulously preserved, but they had inevitably turned yellow … He could not even clearly see the person in the portrait.

But this …

She was very clear that the person in the portrait was completely real. Looking at the person in the portrait, for a moment she felt as if the person in the portrait was about to walk out.

"Grandmother …"

This was the first time Gu Qingyi had seen the empress dowager lose control of herself. In her memories, the empress dowager had always been a person of high status. No matter what happened, the empress dowager would not budge. However … But at the moment she looks like she loves you past an old man, this feeling...

Gu Qingyi felt unspeakable pain in her heart.

At first, she didn't understand why her father would let her enter the palace and show this portrait to the empress dowager.

Initially, she was still wondering if her father had some tricks up his sleeve. After all, if there was nothing else, why did she make a portrait for the empress dowager to see?

But when she saw the empress dowager's genuine expression, Gu Qingyi seemed to suddenly understand.

Yes, no matter what, her mother was still the empress dowager's daughter. Regardless of whether she was the exalted empress dowager or not, regardless of how noble her status was, she was still a mother. A mother who had lost a child.

"This... This is... "Where did this come from?"

The empress dowager carefully held the portrait in her hands, as if she was afraid that she would accidentally damage it.

What good thing had she not seen as Empress Dowager? However, in her eyes, there was no treasure in this portrait.

This was her precious daughter. She had missed this portrait for so many years, but never the person she had dreamed of. She had dreamt of having a daughter many times, but she felt that her daughter was still very young … Sometimes, he would dream that after she had grown up, he couldn't see her face clearly. He knew that she was his daughter, but he didn't know why he couldn't see her face no matter how hard he tried …

It wasn't that she hadn't looked for An Ping's portrait all these years. Even the Emperor had people look for her, be it in the light or in the dark. But … However, the one with the most portraits of Nian Ping was the Gu Kingdom. But... However, ever since Ah Ping had left, Prince Gu's temperament had become increasingly strange. He had been fine throughout the other times, but as long as it involved An Ping, he simply couldn't get involved. Later on … And then he even simply destroyed all the portraits...

To tell the truth, at that moment, she really had the impulse to kill him, but … But in the end, he still didn't do anything … After all … After all, where was his identity … There was nothing he could do …

This was also the reason why she barely had any interactions with the Gu Estate over the years.

It wasn't until Gu Qingyi appeared that she finally started to want to meet her again. No matter what, Qing Yi was An Ping's daughter and was the closest person to her in this world.

Although she was no longer there, but … However, her daughter was still alive and well. As his grandmother, he naturally had to take good care of her.

Of course, this was all based on Qing Yi's intelligence and her self-control. She would also curry favor with him.

Gu Qingyi was very clear about all of this. The empress dowager had treated her well in this life, but it didn't mean anything … Furthermore, it was not because he was the daughter of her daughter … It was all done intentionally. It was just doing what he wanted …

Putting everything else aside, just talking about his previous life was enough. In his previous life, she didn't treat him like this.

In his previous life, he had been working so hard to become a lady and study hard … But no matter what he did, it was just … In the eyes of the Empress Dowager, she was just a young girl … She was no different from any of the other little girls. Perhaps she had looked at him once more at the beginning, but it was only a little more than that … However, nothing was different.

If she really cared about her daughter, then she would have treated her well in her previous life. If she had treated her better in her previous life, then perhaps so many things wouldn't have happened to her.

So...

No matter how well the Empress Mother treated her, she knew in her heart that … There was a price to be paid for such a good deed … There was a limit to all of this. It didn't just depend on how she treated him now. She was incredibly nice to him now, even responding to all of his requests. However … If he had accidentally said or done something wrong … Hehe, she was certain that this woman would mercilessly exterminate her at the first possible moment …

This kind of woman could live on in such a deep wall, and very well at that … This meant that this woman was not a simple person …

In order to achieve his goals, he was only the daughter of a daughter who had been left behind early. Even if she was his own daughter, it would be the same.

To be honest, Gu Qingyi had suspected in her previous life that how could a fine princess like her be as rough and crude as her father?

Although his father had a different surname, Wang, and had made a great military achievement, the hotel was still there, but Yang, he was just born with mud legs. Everything else aside, his mother was truly a proud daughter of heaven, a true sister of the same mother as the emperor.

The person that the imperial palace lacked the most was a woman. If he really only wanted to find a woman for his father, then any woman would suffice.

With his father's status, any woman was already a blessing to him.

However, it was his mother.

Gu Qingyi hadn't seen Princess An Ping's appearance in her previous life, so although she was a bit suspicious in her heart, she didn't think much about it. After all … His father's looks were quite good, to say the least. Princess Anping was just an ordinary girl, and she wasn't very pretty either. Could it be that she had taken a fancy to her father's looks?

However … However, after seeing her mother's portrait, Gu Qingyi didn't look too good.

At the same time, she also understood why so many people suspected that she was not their own child.

Indeed, his current appearance did not resemble that of Princess Anping's daughter. If one were to speak truly, Princess Anping was definitely a cloud in the sky, while he himself was the soil on the ground. Even the soil on the ground did not count as anything.

In that case...

Gu Qingyi looked at the empress dowager, her eyes heavy.

If it was her guess before, then now she was gradually confirming it.

Perhaps his mother was really forced to do this all those years ago, and she didn't have a choice at all?

Yes, just a princess. How many women in such a family could choose among themselves?

Hehe …

For some reason, Gu Qin suddenly felt that the empress dowager's tears were a little dazzling.

If he hadn't truly wronged his mother, how could he have ended up like this?

Yes, if not for the guilt in his heart, how could this have happened?

"Where did this come from?" "Where did it come from?"

The empress dowager didn't know what Gu Qingyi was thinking. Right now, she was immersed in her own excitement.

That's right, she was really excited, she never did. Xu Aiyi, you still feel like you can see such a clear portrait, and the person in this portrait bought the most beautiful age of your own daughter, when she was sixteen or seventeen years old she was like this.

Looking at this portrait, it was as if everything had returned to a very, very long time ago, when she was still by his side, with an innocent smile on her face, as if everything in her world was beautiful.

However, at that time, he had never thought that everything would change in the near future.

She had been asking herself all these years. If she had known what would happen next, would she have gone back on her word?

However … But every time, he couldn't even answer himself.

That's right, he really had no way to answer her.

What choice would he make if he didn't till the land?

Clearly … Clearly …

Hehe, to put it bluntly, I have indeed let down my daughter. I have truly let down my daughter. In my daughter's entire life …

The empress dowager took a deep breath and looked at the person in the portrait. She could only mutter to herself in her heart, If there's an afterlife, then I'll make it up to her.

But in this life …

He was not only a mother, but also an empress dowager.

In his heart, he held not just his children, but the world as a whole …

It was a good thing that Gu Qingyi didn't know what the empress dowager was thinking. If she knew, she'd definitely laugh coldly.

That's right, to put it nicely, she had the world in her heart. To put it bluntly, she was selfish. For the sake of getting everything she wanted, she could actually give up everything, even her own daughter.

It was a pity that Gu Qingyi didn't know anything. She didn't know anything about what had happened all those years ago … In her previous life, she had never thought of investigating, but in her current life … It wasn't that she hadn't tried to understand, but it was a pity … After so many years, everything has long since changed. It's you who wants to get to know it … But after such a long time, in addition to the people who deliberately avoided them …

"Father gave it to me."

Taking a deep breath, Gu Qingyi slowly spoke.

Yes, this was indeed something that Gu Yinian had given her. Of course, she hadn't said that he had personally drawn it.

Actually, she didn't know why she chose to hide it.

"So that's how it is … So that's how it is … It seemed like … It seems that This Dowager has misunderstood him … I didn't expect him to be so considerate … "Deliberate …"

She caressed the portrait in her hand, carefully touching the face of the person in the portrait. The empress dowager's eyes were filled with a gentle light. At this moment, she looked like the most ordinary mother.

He had misunderstood Gu Yannan and thought that he had destroyed all of the portraits. It turned out that he was still holding onto the portraits.

And it seemed to be well-preserved.