"I know. I'm no longer the Crown Prince!"
Seeing Li Chengqian still drowning in self-pity, Li Shimin frowned. He slammed a hand on the table and roared, "Li Chengqian! What's gotten into you? Where did the nerve you had when you were plotting to rebel against me go?"
"So what if your rebellion failed? Zhen isn't going to kill you!"
"But Your Son rebelled!"
"When the New Emperor ascends the throne someday, will he spare Your Son?"
Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin and demanded in a deep voice, "Does Your Son have any way to live in the future? Father Emperor might as well grant Your Son a swift death now!"
"Nonsense! Who says a Crown Prince who failed in rebellion can't become emperor?"
Li Shimin rebuked him sharply.
The moment he shouted those words, Li Chengqian froze where he stood.
Li Shimin continued, "Back then, didn't Han Zhao Emperor Liu Ju also rebel against Emperor Wu of Han? What he did was far worse than yours!"
"He truly raised an army! And what happened? He fled to Yong City, then came back and still became emperor!"
"What have you even done?"
"Coward!"
Li Chengqian looked astonished after being cursed by Li Shimin. It seemed he had never seen his father like this before. He... actually cursed people like that? So crude.
Still, Li Chengqian could understand. Li Shimin had commanded armies and fought in wars, after all. No matter how good-tempered he was, he would still curse now and then.
"So... Father Emperor does not intend to depose Your Son?"
"Of course not!"
Li Shimin nodded.
But as soon as he nodded, he immediately realized something. He glanced at Li Chengqian, then suddenly laughed.
"You stinky kid, this was the answer you were waiting for, wasn't it?"
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