378 Happy (two more updates)

"The young master understands all of this, doesn't he? It's just that your heart can't accept it.

Over the years, the Emperor has been too good, too good to her, to the extent that she has forgotten how this favor came to be. Perhaps she hasn't forgotten, but she too has put in a great deal of effort and believes that an unbreakable bond of mother-and-son affection has been cultivated between them.

In plain terms, her self-respect and pride won't allow it. She feels she shouldn't be so charmless that she can't even manage her own son.

—He must truly have mother-and-son affection for me.

Consort Jing had said this more than once in front of Nanny Cai.

Nanny Cai still remembered Consort Jing's smile at the time. It was an exceedingly happy smile, but it wasn't a mother boasting about her relationship with her son; rather, it was more like a victorious general showing off his spoils of war.

Now, those spoils are gone.

Both self-respect and pride have been crushed.