It was the final straw, and Gaozong resolved to have the Empress Wang demoted, with the intention of raising his beloved Wu up in her place. The decision, supposedly, had nothing to do with the recent scandal over the dead baby, and was instead based on a much more prosaic concern, that the Empress Wang had yet to provide the Emperor with a male heir. Clearly, the current adopted Crown Prince was no longer suitable, and Wu had somehow managed to even sour the chances of the Pure Concubine Xiao Liangdi's child prodigy.
