"Jianshen, did you really call your father 'the biggest scum across all layers of heaven'?"
The Empress visited her son in the dungeon the day after his son was thrown into the palace dungeon, her face marred with utter disbelief.
Xie Jianshen, prim and proper in behavior despite being locked up in a prison cell, calmly replied to his mother, "Yes, Mother."
The Heavenly Empress let out a long, heavy sigh.
"Leave, all of you," she told her maids and the prison guards. "I wish to speak to my son alone."
Xie Jianshen was no criminal, only a dragon prince who defied his father, so naturally he posed no danger to his own mother. The Heavenly Empress stepped into the prison cell and pulled her son into her arms for a hug.
"Oh, Jianshen. What exactly did the scum tell you?"
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