"Crown Prince, you really don't recognize good from bad. Do you understand what it means to fail in becoming the Crown Prince? It means that you will either be executed or sent to a distant fief, and I, as your mother, will not become the Dowager Empress but will be reduced to shaving my head and becoming a nun. Do you still think the throne is unimportant?"
The Crown Prince fell into silence, while Nangong Nini was equally at a loss.
The Empress then looked at Nangong Nini, "If you truly love the Crown Prince, you should stop meddling in so many affairs."
Now that everything was out in the open, Nangong Nini naturally could not continue the pretense. What was once a beautiful lie had been brutally torn apart into an ugly affair, so Nangong Nini simply chose to remain silent.