At this moment, Empress Li Feng'en, like her younger sister Li Fengci, paid no attention whatsoever to outside affairs. She even shot Qiu Zijun a resentful glance.
Everyone saw the Empress's expression and sighed inwardly.
Sure enough, Emperor Tantai Hongyuan had another illegitimate daughter...
Who knew how many more illegitimate children would appear later? It seemed Empress Li Feng'en's search for her biological daughter would stretch on indefinitely! Could the Empire's throne wait forever? Absolutely not...
Qiu Zijun's eyes widened at that moment, her face full of disbelief. She even took several steps back and shook her head. "High Priest, have you made a mistake... How could this be? How could it?!"
High Priest Su Yanxing looked solemn. "Highness Zijun, even if you do not believe me, you should believe this instrument."
"This is no ordinary Gene Detector. It has been passed down through the Tan Tai Royal Family for generations and is specifically used to test royal bloodlines!"
"For ten thousand years, it has never made a mistake."
Qiu Zijun looked uncertain as she slowly said, "This is too sudden. I still can't accept it."
"I need to go back and ask my mother..."
Her surname was Qiu, so naturally she was a Qiu woman.
The Qiu Clan was no ordinary family.
Among the Empire's sixty Counts, Jing, Wei, Qiu, and Chen were the four most powerful surnames.
And the Qiu Clan stood first among the Four Great Earls.
Could the daughter-in-law of a family with such power and status also have once been the Emperor's mistress?
At that thought, the noblemen present could not help feeling as if there was a little more green atop their heads.
However, aside from the Four Great Dukes, most of the other noblemen felt neither shame nor embarrassment. Instead, they secretly felt