The Empress finished speaking, and the Emperor did not respond.
Everyone understood the same silence in different ways.
She believed that since he did not immediately rebuke her, there was still hope. After all, she had been quite "subtle" in not fully expressing her thoughts. In proper families, illegitimate sons should be raised by their legal mothers, and even illegitimate daughters should be shown to the legal mothers, and only if the legal mothers disapprove are they allowed to be raised by their birth mothers. If she had her way, she would have the disobedient concubines sold off, which would be ideal.
But Chief Su had just one thought.
If he could, he would have retired and let his grandson take over the duty—
