Hearing Gu An's words, Li Lingtian did not think too much and agreed outright.
Li Xuandao, however, was very displeased and spoke up to reprimand Li Lingtian. In the end, as he went on, Li Lingtian grew angry and started talking back to him.
What followed was palm-strike education. Li Lingtian was lifted up by Li Xuandao, draped over his thigh, and had his backside smacked as Li Xuandao scolded him harshly.
The scene made Gu An think of his childhood in his previous life. Those memories were growing blurry, as if they were recollections from very far away.
Gu An had not expected Li Xuandao to have this side to him as well, and he did not know whether Li Ya had been educated this way when he was young.
Still, he could tell that Li Lingtian's mother seemed far from simple, and from Li Xuandao's words, he also sounded rather helpless about her.
Gu An looked toward Li Lingtian's karma and peered into his past.
Very soon, Gu An came to understand some information.
Li Lingtian's mother came from the ocean. Her surname was Yang, and she belonged to a great clan. For her sake, Li Xuandao had directly deposed his empress and made her the new empress, and had also decided to raise Li Lingtian as the crown prince.
After Gu An finished peering into Li Lingtian's past, he sighed inwardly.
With a powerful maternal background, one really could act as wildly as one pleased.
But Li Lingtian's destiny was indeed far from simple. He had been born overseas, and when he was born, heavenly thunder had rolled in wave after wave, drawing a Great Cultivator from the clan to act and protect him.
Only after he was born did Li Xuandao formally marry Empress Yang, and