A Thought Arises, and heaven and earth Open Wide (First Update Big Chapter) Quan Juntai looked at the vast sky and said with feeling, "We heads of the Four Great Dukes' families have seen it all and remembered it all."
"The Imperial Family knows that we know, and we know that they know we know..."
"Back then, we opposed Tantai Hongyuan, when he was still a prince, being with your aunt Nine Yi."
"Not only was it absolutely impossible for Tantai Hongyuan to marry a woman from the Four Great Noble Families, but the Imperial Family would never tolerate a child born to your aunt having any possibility of inheriting the throne."
With his hands behind his back, Quan Yuxun said coldly, "...But he married her anyway. Though it would have been better if he hadn't."
Everyone at their level knew perfectly well what Empress Li Feng'en had gone through.
Quan Juntai said with a trace of cruelty, "From the moment Li Feng'en married into the Imperial Family, we were all waiting—waiting for the day when the Grand Prince she bore would die 'accidentally.'"
"Then the daughter she bore would also die 'accidentally.'"
"But instead, I first saw the daughter he had with a woman of our Quan family die an unnatural death."
"And the Grand Prince, the Empress's son, grew up."
Quan Juntai gave a bleak smile. "But he died too. He merely died eighteen years later... Hahahaha..."
Nineteen years ago, that baby girl who had been bled to death in the mysterious sacrifice had also been one of the victims sacrificed in the struggle between Imperial Power and the Four Great Noble Families.
Quan Yuxun said at that moment, "What about the daughter the Empress gave birth to?"
"Was she sacrificed too?"
Quan Juntai sighed. "We don't know."