"No, not long after the late Empress sent Zhou Yuheng out of the palace, she died in despair."

"..."

Su Tiyue then asked, "And then?"

"Later, Jiutian Snow Mountain also suffered an avalanche, half of the mountain collapsed, and Sanqing Temple was buried by the heavy snow. No one in the temple survived..."

...

Therefore, an unnamed memorial tablet was added to the Great Buddha Hall in the palace.

Zhou Yuheng's name cannot be engraved on this, because he has been demoted to a commoner.

But the Empress Dowager still wanted to leave something for this grandson of the emperor; she also wanted the world to remember him…

Zhou Yuheng ended up in this predicament because of the Northern Liang.

The reason the Empress Dowager told Su Tiyue these things was that she hoped that after her death, Su Tiyue would continue to burn incense and offer sacrifices to the deceased Crown Prince to comfort his spirit.

Outside, the sun was shining brightly, and the early spring sun was so warm, but Su Tiyue felt that the sunlight and the spring breeze were... chilly.

It was even colder than Xiao Heye's body temperature.

On her way back to Tingyu Tower from Cining Palace, she kept replaying her conversation with the Empress Dowager in her mind.

Su Tiyue also asked the Empress Dowager why no one had mentioned this matter since it was not a secret.

The late Crown Prince and the late Empress... Su Tiyue had never heard of these things.

The answer was that no one would care about the life or death of an ordinary citizen, and no one would remember the incident.

People only care about whether the crown prince, whose fate was incompatible with that of the Northern Liang, was actually deposed.

As for whether he lives or dies after he is crippled... what does that have to do with the world?

The world is cold and indifferent, and so is imperial power.

Su Tiyue didn't believe in so-called divination, fate, or any divine will...

She didn't believe any of it. The only thing she knew was that the fate and destiny of Northern Liang couldn't be calculated by Master Salo with a simple snap of his fingers.

It's not something a newborn or a child who is only five or six years old can decide.