Jin Moli said coldly, "It isn't that I don't want to let him go anymore. It's that he doesn't want to let me go."
The Empress Dowager thought he was brushing her off. He simply didn't want to spare his younger brother.
"That's impossible. Han has always respected you as his imperial elder brother, and he's never had any ambitions. He doesn't like those political affairs and memorials, and he barely even speaks to people. How could he possibly go against you?"
"He only cares about the child in that Su Qiao woman's belly. After all, his body... He knows that it will be difficult for him to have any more children in this lifetime. That is the only child he might ever have."
"Moli, how about this? After the child in Su Qiao's belly is born, we can switch the child out and let your younger brother raise him here in the Underground Palace, all right?"
"As for Su Qiao and the Su family, we can deal with all of them thoroughly when the time comes. What do you think?"
Jin Moli did not speak.
He was also considering how to deal with the Su family and what to do with Su Qiao.
As for killing Su Qiao, he was unwilling.
The Empress Dowager thought he still refused to spare that child and continued pleading, "Moli, just leave this child alive and let your younger brother have a descendant! There won't be any problems."
"Impossible!"
That child was his humiliation. It represented the fact that his woman had once been with another man. He had to get rid of the bastard.
These days, he had endured more than enough. He had suffered more than enough humiliation, too.
Every time he saw her belly, he grew extremely agitated—so agitated that