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Chapter 1648 Substitute Bride 52 (The End)

Although Lady Changning felt sorry for her daughter, she was also worried that Li Sanniang might spread rumors and bring trouble to the Changning Marquis's mansion. Therefore, she did not object to her son's handling of her daughter.

Of course, it was no use for her to object, because now that the Marquis of Changning had passed away, her son was in charge of the mansion. Her son didn't want the mansion to be implicated by Li San Niang, so he wanted to put her under house arrest. The Lady of Changning had no choice but to accept it.

After the original owner's brother and sister-in-law locked Li San Niang in the family temple, Li San Niang never appeared in front of Lin Lang again, disgusting her.

Although Li San Niang framed the original owner of the body, causing her to enter the Qinghe Prince's Mansion, and was one of the murderers who caused her death, Linlang did not kill her. This was because letting her live a miserable life in the family temple was more painful for her than killing her.

Li San Niang was indeed in great pain. She firmly believed that she could be reborn again, as long as she died.

But she just couldn't bring herself to commit suicide, so she could only continue living a miserable life. She could only think bitterly in her heart that if she were reborn, she would never let Li Linlang enter the Qinghe Prince's Mansion again. Although she didn't know how Li Linlang had survived in the Qinghe Prince's Mansion, at least she had a chance to live and enjoy wealth and honor. Therefore, she was determined not to let her enter the Qinghe Prince's Mansion. Even if she dared not enter and was afraid of dying, she couldn't let Li Linlang enter, lest she survive and be so lucky that all the royal family died and her child became emperor.

Come to think of it, she had died very quickly each time she was reborn before, so she really didn't know that things would turn out this way in the future, that the son of Prince Qinghe would actually become the emperor!
If she had known things would turn out this way, she definitely wouldn't have let Li Linlang marry the Prince of Qinghe, lest he be lucky enough to survive and have a child who could become emperor.

Originally, Li Linlang hadn't died, and as a Princess Consort, she already held a high position. Now, she had become a Princess Consort of the Imperial Family, and because she was the Emperor's birth mother, she was no longer an ordinary Princess Consort. She was a Princess Consort in name only, but in reality, she held the status of the Empress Dowager. Everyone had to respect her and dared not say anything bad about her. Such high status made her furious. That's why she thought that when she was reborn, she would never let Li Linlang marry into the Qinghe Prince's Mansion again. Of course, that wasn't all; she also wanted to take revenge on her. After all, when she got into trouble in the Wang family, she didn't help her at all. Now, she had only spoken a few truths to her husband and had been imprisoned in the family temple—although it was her brother and sister-in-law who imprisoned her, and it had nothing to do with Linlang. But she felt that if Linlang had been willing to say something and ask them not to imprison her, they wouldn't have imprisoned her. In the end, it was Linlang's fault—it would be strange if she didn't take revenge on her.

Linlang naturally heard Li Sanniang's mutterings in the temple, but she didn't take them to heart. After all, besides muttering like that, the other party couldn't do anything else, so she didn't need to pay attention to it.

Besides Li San Niang breaking down his defenses, the other thing that broke down his defenses was the Wang family, who had broken off the engagement with the original owner of the body.

They had already broken their guard once when Linlang married into the royal family. After all, they thought that since they had broken off the engagement with Linlang, she wouldn't be able to marry into a good family, at least not one with better conditions than their own.

As it turned out, she actually married into the royal family and became a noble princess. Fortunately, she was only a county princess. They felt that these idle members of the royal family were not as good as powerful ministers, so they were in a better mood. They thought that as long as their family rose to prominence, the county princess would not be anything special.

A few years later, the old emperor passed away, and the second prince succeeded to the throne. The days that followed were like a dream, with constant infighting. They not only failed to rise to prominence, but also worried that their family was poor and might get caught up in the struggles of several families, ultimately becoming victims. Just when the fighting was at its most intense, Wang's father's mother passed away.

When his parents passed away, officials were required to observe a period of mourning, and Wang's father quickly took this opportunity to do so. He escaped a disaster, but when the mourning period ended and he thought of resuming the marriage, he discovered that everyone from the three families had been killed in the fight, and the court was preparing to let the son of the Prince of Qinghe succeed to the throne. Then he was in an awkward situation—the son of the Prince of Qinghe was the son of the fiancée he had broken off the engagement with. This made him not only afraid of resuming the marriage, but also afraid that his fiancée might hold a grudge and say something to her son that would bring disaster to their family. So he dared not go and mention the resuming of the marriage.

Although he was unwilling to accept that his dream of becoming a high-ranking official had not been realized due to this miraculous development, and that the Wang family had not been able to achieve upward social mobility and grow into a new prominent family in the capital—after all, he had lost his official position and came from a poor family with a weak foundation; once he lost his official post, he would have nothing left—it was still better than losing his life.

Generally speaking, even if the head of a family loses his official position, as long as the younger members of the family are promising, they can take over the position. However, for the Wang family, fearing Linlang's retaliation, the father dared not return to office, nor did he dare to let his descendants become officials, for fear of being targeted.

Of course, his descendants were also unsuccessful and could not pass the imperial examinations at all.

Now that the Wang family has lost its official positions and its members are not promising, the family, which had just started to prosper, is about to decline again.

Families like these, who hold official positions, decline rapidly once they lose their posts; after all, once the person leaves, the tea cools.

Moreover, Mr. Wang is not young anymore and will pass away in a few years. Once Mr. Wang, the capable head of the Wang family, passes away, the Wang family will be nothing and will be reduced to its original state.

Upon learning that the Wang family had once broken off a marriage proposal for Linlang, who was more powerful than an empress dowager, one couldn't help but shake one's head. It's true what they say about the world: fortunes change drastically over time. Back then, the Wang family was thriving and doing so well. When the engagement was first broken off, everyone felt sorry for Li Linlang, thinking her family had fallen on hard times and she would have difficulty finding a husband. Who knew she would marry even better and have such a fortunate life? So, some things are unpredictable.

Besides these two who broke their guard, the Qinghe Prince's branch of the family, including the Qinghe Dowager Consort, had passed away before Linlang's child became emperor, so naturally they were unaware of their family's fate. If they had known, they probably wouldn't have died so early.

When the Dowager Princess Qinghe died, she was not young compared to people in this world, but she was still not very old compared to modern people.

The reason she didn't die at a very old age was quite simple. First, she couldn't bear losing power; second, she had always mistreated her eldest son, causing their relationship to become distant. When he questioned whether Linlang's child was Prince Qinghe's, he angered Prince Qinghe, who then sent her to a small Buddhist hall to worship Buddha and stopped communicating with her much. She couldn't bear it any longer and was greatly affected. In addition, her younger son became paralyzed. All these things combined led to her dying in depression.

As for the other members of the Qinghe Prince's Mansion, after the death of Third Master Jiang, Linlang had a good relationship with Third Madam Jiang, so after her son ascended the throne, he also gave Third Madam Jiang's son a relatively good title of imperial clan.

Although titles for members of the imperial clan had to be granted through examinations, the emperor could grant titles voluntarily if he wished.