"Your Majesty!"
"Guanyin!"
"Your Majesty! I beg you to issue an edict stripping Chengqian of his position as Crown Prince! Since Your Majesty is unwilling to let Chengqian be Crown Prince, why force him into such a situation in the future?"
"No, no! Guanyin, I never meant that! How could I possibly be unwilling to let Chengqian be Crown Prince? He is our child—the realm will still have to be entrusted to him in the future!"
The moment Li Shimin heard Empress Zhangsun's words, he panicked!
He felt like this family was about to fall apart!
If Li Chengqian were stripped of his position as Crown Prince too, how would later generations judge him?
Did they really want him to become that "Emperor of the Ages" from the future shown on the light screen?
"Imperial Preceptor! Imperial Preceptor! Say something!"
Seeing that Empress Zhangsun and Li Chengqian were now ignoring him completely, Li Shimin, so anxious he was nearly in tears like a child, hurriedly looked toward Qing Mo, who was calmly sipping tea beside him!
He should never have let his mouth run away with him today. Why had he asked how Li Chengqian fared as emperor in the future?
Well, wasn't this just perfect?
Not only had his own son from the "future" stabbed him right in the lungs, but even his current wife and son no longer wanted him!
"Historically, Li Shimin truly never considered deposing Li Chengqian. But in his later years, he was constantly on guard against the Crown Prince."
"More precisely, he feared that the great clans would take the Crown Prince's side! Though the old ministers from the Prince of Qin's residence were loyal enough, the court was still dominated by the great clans!"
"Later generations also speculated that the reason Li Shimin