Prince Chen looked toward Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin, unable to bear looking straight at them. His face was filled with helplessness.
Speaking of which, the two of them could also be considered wretched souls.
More than a thousand years ago, the Twelfth Prince was ordered to tour the Desert North Thousand Provinces.
At the time, the Li family of the Desert North Thousand Provinces held a banquet to entertain the Twelfth Prince. During the banquet, who knew what bewitching potion the Li family had given him? In a daze, he was sent back to his room.
The Li family then arranged for Li Qiaoyun—the direct descendant of the Li family at the time and the daughter of the family's current patriarch—to attend to him.
Later, Li Qiaoyun became pregnant.
The Li family was overjoyed. They believed that even though they had schemed against the Twelfth Prince, the child in Li Qiaoyun's belly was, after all, the Twelfth Prince's own flesh and blood.
Even if the Twelfth Prince hated the Li family, he would not vent his anger on them.
The mother would gain status through her son.
Perhaps the Li family could even use the child in Li Qiaoyun's belly to become imperial relatives by marriage, or even move their entire clan out of the Desert North Thousand Provinces and settle within the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces.
Just as the Li family was indulging in this spring-and-autumn daydream.
Bad news came from the imperial capital.
Not long after the Twelfth Prince returned to the imperial capital from his tour of the Desert North Thousand Provinces, news spread that he had angered the Chu Emperor and been executed by him.
Prince Chen and a group of princes and princesses who had pleaded for the Twelfth Prince's life were all exiled.