Chapter 1040: Chaos in the Capital with Chickens Flying and Dogs Running
However, it was indeed strange that aside from the Main Wife who had a few daughters, none of the previous eighteen concubines had given birth to a single child, boy or girl. The Prime Minister had been striving for decades, to the point of exhaustion. Every time he lay with a woman, he doubted whether he was akin to a breeding stallion, performing the act solely for the sake of siring a son, without a shred of pleasure between men and women.
But in his pursuit of an heir and at nearly sixty years old, the Prime Minister clenched his teeth and shakily took in the nineteenth concubine.
Originally, after decades of disappointment, he held little hope that the Nineteenth Aunt would bear him a son.
Who would have thought that at this moment of relaxation, the Nineteenth Aunt actually became pregnant, and after ten months, she gave birth to a son for him.
When the Prime Minister first held this son, he wept with joy, having his wish of many decades finally fulfilled by the Nineteenth Aunt, which shows how indulgently he doted on the mother and child.
The Main Wife was so full of hatred that she gritted her teeth, but what could she do when the child was already born? All she could do was glare helplessly.
In her idle moments, she would go to the Imperial Palace to pour out her grievances to the Empress.
The Empress, heart aching for her birth mother, would make a point of visiting the Prime Minister’s Mansion every so often to suppress the Nineteenth Aunt and the Prime Minister, hinting overtly and covertly that with her, the Empress, present, no one would dare to mistreat her mother.