When Second Son Su heard that something happened to his father he did not make any more fuss but inwardly he was very dissatisfied with what was happening in their family. Just a few months ago they were the proudest family in the capital, however, in just a few months, their family had been turned upside down. He could not understand what went wrong!
At that moment, Su Yiqian spoke up, " Mother, I am thinking about throwing off the family of the Empress. You can ask Father if he is willing to help me or not."
Old Madam Su was stunned. She did not expect her daughter to say such a thing, she blinked her eyes and then asked her daughter carefully, " Yiqian, what do you mean by throwing off the family of the Empress."
In the past, her daughter did have big ambitions but they had never escalated to the point where even she was scared of her daughter. What did her daughter mean by that they should throw off the Empress's family, that was the Empress and not a concubine!
Su Yiqian raised her head and then looked at her mother with a stern expression, " I mean it, mother. I am not saying this only because I want to make them suffer for what they did to my brother but also because I think it's necessary. We can see that the Emperor is trying to weaken our family as he thinks that we have surpassed the power that an official's family should hold."
" He even refused to let me get pregnant with his child, isn't it because he thinks that our family will become a danger to him?"
" Then why don't we throw him off? I mean if we take care of the Empress's family even if the Emperor refuses, he has to take me as the Emperor as the Empress of the country cannot be someone from the fallen family."
She then caressed her belly before saying, " I am not saying this because I am greedy but I think this is the only way I can protect my child. If this goes on, I am sure that his majesty will snatch my child and hand him to the Empress to raise. We cannot allow that to happen."
Su Yiqian's eyes darkened when she thought about how the Emperor was trying to hold her down while the Empress kept suppressing her on account of the Emperor. If that was the case then she might as show the two of them how it feels to be suppressed.
Old Madam Su was really startled when she heard the ambitions of her daughter but then she thought of it carefully and felt that what Su Yiqian was saying was indeed right. If this went on then they might not even be able to save themselves but also the child in Su Yiqian's belly.
The Emperor retaliated against them and caused her second son to lose his arms and he become a useless man, if somehow by a stroke of luck, her daughter gave birth to a son, who could guarantee whether or not the Emperor would allow her to keep this child?
Old Madam Su stared at her daughter with a complicated look in her eyes and asked, " Are you sure? Have you thought it through?"
" Throwing off the Empress is not a small matter. Even if the Empress's family is not as big as ours. It is also a scholarly family that has existed for more than two hundred years if not for the fact then why would his majesty marry her as his official wife?"
Su Yiqian was really tired of being looked down upon by the Empress especially when the latter showed off in front of her as if she was better than her.
What was more the Emperor's stance scared her, he trusted the Empress too much and every child born from the problematic concubine was sent to the Empress to be raised, this was to make sure that the concubine and her family would not cause trouble for the imperial family.
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Su Yiqian was worried that her child would be snatched away as well, which was why she needed to think of a way to deal with the Empress. If she was sitting on the phoenix's throne, Su Yiqian would love to see how the Emperor would snatch her child and hand it to someone else.
" Didn't you and Father often tell me that I should move forward without caring about anything or anyone? Then I need to move forward."
Otherwise, should she wait on the chopping board and wait for the Emperor to kill her in one sweep move?
She suspected that their scheme was the last nerve that they touched causing the Emperor to attack them, if this was the case then how were they supposed to live?
If she was the Empress would the Emperor dare to attack her brother like this without worrying about the consequences?
Would they be worrying around like this while looking for the culprit?
She would also not need to worry about that woman. She could destroy her with ease instead of hiding in the dark.
Without the Empress looking at her as if she was waiting for her to fall, she could do anything that she wanted!
Old Madam Su stared at her daughter's determined face. Though she thought that her daughter was pushing her luck way too much, she thought that it was better like this as well.
It was better to scheme and survive than wait for death silently.