After Being Reborn, I Returned the Eldest Prince to His Birth Mother, and He Regretted It

The day the emperor assigned the eldest prince to my care, Ning, a concubine at Lanqing Court, jumped into the lake. The eldest prince remained expressionless and kept calling me Mother Consort. It was only when news of the concubine's death arrived that he was frightened enough to turn red-eyed. From then on, he was respectful and filial, treating me as his birth mother. But everything changed after he ascended the throne. “If you hadn't asked Father to give me to you, my mother consort wouldn't have taken her own life!” He made me keep vigil for the concubine and copy Buddhist scriptures in blood to atone for her. When my maternal family learned of it, they led the court officials in remonstrating with him. He used a forged letter accusing us of treason to execute my entire family. In the dark dungeon, the eunuchs he sent berated and whipped me every day, leaving me unable to die even when I begged for death. When I opened my eyes again, I sent the eldest prince, who had been so affectionate in calling me Mother Consort, back to Lanqing Court. He panicked at once.