"Your Majesty... I know I am guilty, but I still have to speak!"

"The country already has a crown prince, and he is upright and of excellent character. Why should Your Majesty keep Prince Jin around to cause trouble for the crown prince?"

"Your Majesty, our Great Tang has already deposed two crown princes. You can't possibly depose the grandson of the crown prince as well, can you?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin immediately angrily flicked his sleeve.

"Nonsense!"

"When did I ever say anything about deposing Li Jue?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Hui immediately offered her advice.

"Your Majesty, if you didn't have this intention, why keep the Prince of Jin in the capital?"

"Does Your Majesty not know the principle that loving one's son is like killing him?"

"Your Majesty, parents who love their children plan far ahead for them!"

"Your Majesty, please consider this carefully!"

Li Shimin raised his hand angrily upon hearing this, but upon seeing Xu Hui's prominently protruding belly, he abruptly stopped himself from striking her.

"I……"

"For the sake of the child in your womb, I will spare you this time!"

After saying this, Li Shimin stormed off, but after only a few steps, he heard a heart-wrenching cry behind him.

"Bitch maid!"

"How dare you feign illness to scare me!"

Just as Li Shimin was thinking this, he saw palace maids and eunuchs rushing out.

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! Consort Chongrong's water has broken!"

"ah?"

Li Shimin panicked upon hearing this.

"What are you all standing there for? Quickly summon the imperial physician and the midwife..."

"promise!"

The midwife arrived shortly afterward, but she ran out again after only a short while inside.

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The Empress's baby is too big, and her birth canal is too narrow; she simply can't give birth..."

"What?"

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, and he paced around in a panic.

Several of his concubines died in childbirth because of this!

what to do!

what to do!

Just when Li Shimin was at his wit's end, a brilliant idea flashed into his mind.

"Quickly, quickly, summon Li Jue... and also Master Sun to the palace!"