Also, who exactly was that "noblewoman" who had been beaten to death as a stand-in?
Xia Chujian frowned and studied the picture carefully.
She realized that the high-resolution room was the one the dead noblewoman had once occupied—the same room where Xia Chujian had found the hairpin.
Xia Chujian was focused on that room, but ordinary netizens were focused on the Crown Princess ascending the throne! What did that mean? It meant that Emperor Tantai Hongyuan, who had long been gravely ill, was about to pass away! From that perspective, the Crown Princess only cared about taking the throne while allowing her birth mother to nearly be attacked at the Royal Sanatorium. That truly was outrageously unfilial!
After all, once the Crown Princess ascended the throne, the Empress would become the Empress Dowager.
And within the Tan Tai Royal Family, the Empress Dowager had always held a rather special position.
Over the past ten thousand years, there had been quite a few Empress Dowagers who had ruled from behind the curtain.
No one could afford to ignore an Empress Dowager capable of ruling from behind the curtain.
Thus, with astroturfers fanning the flames, more and more ordinary people joined the discussion.
The Hot Search actually remained on Star Blog for a full two days.
Ever since the Beichen Empire had Star Net Hot Searches, not a single topic had remained explosively popular online for twenty-four consecutive hours.
That was because Hot Search data reset at midnight every day, and rankings began climbing anew the next day.
Under such circumstances, staying at the top of the Hot Search rankings for two days and two nights straight was indeed an enormous event.
Even the news program on the Imperial Family-led Royal Television Station discussed the matter on Sunday evening, when the topic