"What on earth happened? What could make Emperor Chu so furious?"
Lin Bai asked, intensely curious.
Li Guxian's expression was grim, as if she had some unspeakable secret weighing on her.
She looked toward Sect Master Chu Xi and said, "As the Nineteenth Princess and someone who experienced what happened a thousand years ago, you must know more than we do."
At these words,
everyone turned their eyes toward Sect Master Chu Xi.
Sect Master Chu Xi's little face was solemn, her delicate brows tightly knit, her features full of worry.
She asked, "Has the Third Prince dug up what happened a thousand years ago again?"
Li Guxian said, "I heard... the Twelfth Prince still had a child?"
Chu Xi was stunned. She rose in disbelief. "How is that possible? The Twelfth Imperial Brother actually left a child behind in this world?"
A cold gleam flickered in Li Guxian's eyes. "I'm not entirely sure either, but the Third Prince spoke with absolute certainty. He said that the Twelfth Prince had a child who remained in the Desert North Thousand Provinces."
"That day,"
"the Third Prince reported the matter to Emperor Chu and claimed that this child had already come of age. He had secretly amassed power within the Desert North Thousand Provinces and intended to rebel against the empire. He asked His Majesty to issue an order dispatching a great army to wipe out the remnants in the Desert North Thousand Provinces and execute the child!"
"When His Highness Prince Chen heard this, he began arguing with His Highness the Third Prince in court and did everything he could to protect the child!"
"Later,"
"His Majesty Emperor Chu accepted His Highness the Third Prince's suggestion and dispatched the Zhao Xing Office to the Desert North Thousand Provinces to capture the