"How is the Empress doing now? Could Eldest Young Master tell me in detail?" I asked curiously. After all, I couldn't get any firsthand information from Di Yiqin, and the people around the Empress had also been driven away by me. With the Jiufang Family's Imperial Guards and the joint blockade by the other families, the Di Family's forces here could almost be considered expendable pawns at any moment.
"The Empress withdrew the female officials and guards we had planted by her side long ago. We have no way to contact her as we did before and can only request an audience through official channels each time, which has caused us a great deal of trouble. Likewise, her own situation inside isn't very good. The hostile families took the opportunity to plant their forces around her, and some even coveted the Empress's position. It's simply unconscionable, but we truly don't know why the Empress's temperament changed so drastically during this period... Sigh, could it be because..." Di Wenhe hesitated, seemingly unable to continue.
After listening, I thought for a moment and said, "Has she seen through all the struggles and decided to let nature take its course?"
Di Wenhe shook his head. "Perhaps she has already lost all hope in this world."
Coming from Di Wenhe, those words indeed carried the greatest authority. After all, no one understood his daughter better than her father. At present, Di Yifei had even intended to cut off contact with her own father. Perhaps she simply didn't want to implicate the Di Family.
Of course, Di Yiqin had said something similar before, so I wasn't surprised by this answer.
"It seems her heart has died from overwhelming grief. After everything the Empress has experienced, it's only natural that her thoughts became tangled and she