"Here is a letter from General Huo to you." The Crown Prince suddenly pulled a letter from his sleeve.

Fang Ruotang took the letter guiltily, glanced at the Crown Prince's face, but showed no emotion.

"How did Huo Zhige's letter end up with you?"

"The letters they wrote all passed through my hands first."

The crown prince frankly admitted it.

Fang Ruotang suddenly realized something; no wonder the Prince Rong, who had always said he would write to her, hadn't sent a single letter.

It turns out they were all detained by the Crown Prince.

"what's on your mind?"

"No, no!"

Fang Ruotang dared not audaciously admit that she was waiting for a letter from another man.

But in fact, she didn't wait.

She would have forgotten about it if the Crown Prince hadn't suddenly brought her a letter.

"Aren't you going to open it and take a look?" The Crown Prince gestured with his eyes to the letter Fang Ruotang was holding.

Fang Ruotang was a little flustered.

"Ah! Now?"

She and Huo Zhige were, after all, close friends, and Huo Zhige was a passionate man; she didn't know what he would write in his letter.

There might be some cheesy, even offensive, love quotes.

She felt it was inappropriate to be seen in front of the Crown Prince.

"See!"

The Crown Prince's gaze was oppressive.

Fang Ruotang said somewhat timidly, "Then I'll watch it?"

"look!"

"I really watched it?"

The Crown Prince remained silent this time, only staring intently at Fang Ruotang, giving her no chance to avoid the question.

"Actually, letters are very private things and are not good to share with others."

Fang Ruotang muttered softly.

The prince ignored him.

"Hurry up and check, there's more."

"Um?"

Fang Ruotang was puzzled.

The crown prince didn't say much.

Seeing that she couldn't avoid it, Fang Ruotang simply stopped trying to dodge.

She spread out the letter and began to read it.

The contents of the letter were completely different from what she had expected.

The first page is filled with apologies.

"He wrote the letter specifically to explain because of his grandmother's situation."

"I know."

"You've seen it?"

Fang Ruotang shook the envelope. When she opened it, the inkpad was intact, not like it had been opened before.

I guessed it.

"oh!"

The Crown Prince has always been intelligent, and Fang Ruotang firmly believes this.

In fact, the Crown Prince hadn't actually read it. He had thought about peeking, but he was afraid that if Fang Ruotang found out, she would think he was too controlling and like a pervert, so he held back. Otherwise, he wouldn't have insisted on standing here waiting for Fang Ruotang to finish reading the letter.

"Huo Zhige said that he did not get along with his grandmother, that his grandmother could not represent him, and that I should not hate him because of his grandmother."

Fang Ruotang looked at the letter, which detailed the intricate relationships within the Huo family, and was somewhat confused.

"The Huo family, when they were betrothed to Huo Zhige's mother, wasn't it because she could bring a generous dowry? How come they're spending their money while looking down on their merchant background? What's with this hypocrisy?"

Fang Ruotang was dumbfounded; she had never seen such an unreasonable family.

[I know the answer to this question. This is a common way for nobles and marquises to amass wealth, since merchants have a low social status! They flock to any opportunity to climb the social ladder, and the women's dowries are actually given to these families, like Jin Wuyou, who was originally supposed to marry into the Third Prince's household.]

The little mirror answered first.

The prince said slowly, "The nine sons of the dragon are all different, let alone humans."

"Huo Zhige's mother died in childbirth, and he himself was disliked by Old Madam Huo from a young age, who felt that he had the blood of a merchant and was very lowly."

Fang Ruotang reads the contents of the letter.

He explained the affairs of the Huo family to her in a straightforward manner.

She didn't know what Huo Zhige's mood was when he wrote the letter, or rather, what tone he used when he read it to him.

However, Fang Ruotang felt a little sorry for him.

After all, he was born when his mother passed away.

He lived in the inner quarters, struggling to make a living under the care of his grandmother, whom he loathed. It was easy to imagine how difficult it would be for such a young child.

Was Huo Zhige's mother's difficult childbirth caused by human intervention or an accident?

[Whether it was an accident or intentional, Huo Zhige's mother's delivery conditions were indeed poor, but the Huo family didn't do everything they could to save her.]

Fang Ruotang frowned and pouted.

I really look down on families like that.

How disgusting!

【yes! 】

"Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants—their social status has always been low," the crown prince replied calmly.

Fang Ruotang pouted, "But being of low status is not a reason for those people to murder for money, and this is not an isolated case."

First there was Huo Zhige's mother, and now there's Jin Wuyou.

If she hadn't inadvertently led the Emperor to catch them in bed together, Jin Wuyou would definitely have ended up in the Third Prince's residence, and losing her life would have been a matter of time.

Fang Ruotang suddenly realized that she had taken good care of these girls who originally had such tragic fates.

Suddenly, she felt very fortunate that she had impulsively established the Tianyi Sect, giving these girls a place to belong.

"Human hearts are unpredictable." The crown prince offered no further comment on these four simple words, for after all, one cannot see into another's heart.

He already knew about the Huo family's affairs.

When the Huo family was short of money, Old Madam Huo arranged for her least valued son to marry a merchant's daughter.

“I think this is unfair. Men and women should have equal inheritance rights. This would also prevent many cases of people living off their inheritance. If the Jin family could, they wouldn’t have had to send Wuyou to the Third Prince’s residence. Those only daughters of merchants might not have to marry into high-ranking families, or they might have a way to survive even if they did.”

Jin's father felt that Jin Wuyou would not be able to protect the vast family fortune after his death, so he used all his wealth to arrange her marriage to the Third Prince.

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