Hour of Hai, Yaoqin Space, Butterfly Valley.

"Father, Mother, Xiaotian...didn't find Li Zhen's soul."

Hua Qingcheng returned the jade token of vitality to Gongsun Muxue.

"No? Has Li Zhen been reincarnated?" Su Mutiansheng said as if he was mentally prepared.

"That's not the case. It's that Xiaotian used the soul-stealing and psychic technique, but he didn't sense the soul of the owner of the Vitality Token. He deduced that Li Zhen should still be alive. That's why this Vitality Jade Token is so crystal clear and full of vitality." Hua Qingcheng relayed Yu Xiaotian's words to Su Mutiansheng and his wife.

"Alive?"

"How is this possible?"

Gongsun Muxue's face was full of disbelief.

"He died in my arms after taking his last sip of milk, and... Brother Sheng and I buried him ourselves. He is still buried in the peach blossom forest on the mountain behind Tianlong Temple."

"Mother, Qingcheng suspects that the child you buried was not the real Li Zhen."

Hua Qingcheng expressed her guess.

"Mother, Father, did you really see the child born with your own eyes? Did you never let him out of your sight?"

"At that time, there were Wushan bandits causing chaos in the south, and Lengyue Kingdom in the northwest was harassing my Zhaoyang Kingdom's border from time to time. I needed to assist my father in handling state affairs and had no time to take care of my wife and children in the East Palace. I was not in the capital when Xue'er gave birth." Su Mutiansheng showed a guilty look on his face.

"At that time, Brother Sheng had gone out to quell a rebellion on the northwest border and had not yet returned. Although I was about to give birth, I couldn't help but feel worried and concerned, so I went to the Tianlong Temple outside the city to pray for Brother Sheng. Unexpectedly, on my way back, my pregnancy started prematurely. Seeing that I was about to give birth, I had no choice but to go to the nearby palace of Prince Jin outside the city."

"Prince Jin? Is that Su Mutianjun at that time?" Hua Qingcheng frowned slightly when she heard that.

"That's right. I've been friends with the Prince of Jin's concubine, Shangguan Yuechan. Her marriage and her pregnancy were almost identical. At the time, she was experiencing severe pregnancy symptoms, so she moved to a palace outside the city to nurse her baby."

Gongsun Muxue's eyes wandered as she carefully recalled the situation...

"Since arriving at the temporary palace, I've had stomach pains from noon until nightfall. Finally, at 11:55 PM that evening, I gave birth to Li Zhen. However, because I was exhausted during labor, I fainted after Li Zhen's birth. Coincidentally, the Prince of Jin's concubine also gave birth to a baby boy around the same time..."

"Shangguan Yuechan also gave birth at that time...so Monk Hua's birthday is also today..." Hua Qingcheng muttered to herself, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to her mind.

"Mother, did you... see the child before you fainted? Or did the child have any special features?"

Hua Qingcheng grabbed Gongsun Muxue's sleeve and suddenly had a bold guess in her mind.

"feature……"

Gongsun Muxue lowered her eyes and thought carefully, then suddenly she opened her eyes.

"Although I didn't see the child clearly before I fainted, when the midwife picked him up, I vaguely thought I saw him stepping on a star. But when I woke up, I saw the soles of his feet were white. The midwife said it was just a hallucination because I was weak from childbirth."

"Step on a star?" Hua Qingcheng's eyes suddenly lit up.

Having exchanged bodies with Wu Chen, she naturally knew clearly what characteristics Wu Chen had. There was indeed a red mole in the center of the sole of his left foot!

"Mother, Father, Qingcheng suspects that someone took advantage of Mother's weakness and fainted during childbirth to switch Li Zhen with her! This person is most likely the Prince of Jin's concubine, who gave birth to the child at the same time as Mother, and is currently the Imperial Noble Consort of Zhaoyang State—Shangguan Yuechan."

"As for...her motive, it's most likely because she knows her child won't survive. Perhaps it's due to a sense of imbalance, or perhaps she wants to consolidate her position."

Hua Qingcheng expressed her speculation, and everything seemed to explain why Shangguan Yuechan, as Hua Heshang's biological mother, did not have any love for him.

Even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cubs, let alone a mother? Shangguan Yuechan had completely disregarded her own son's life and death, allowing Su Mutianjun to send him to Tianlong Temple to become a monk at a young age. Not only was he forced to become a monk, but he was also forced to marry the princess of Laifeng Kingdom as a prince. And after the child was born, he was also forced to kill his wife with his own hands.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like what a biological mother should do... The only reasonable explanation is that she is not Hua Heshang's biological mother at all!

"Daughter-in-law, you mean, you mean... Young Master Wuchen from Tianlong Temple, he... he is the Li Zhen of this palace and Brother Sheng..."

Gongsun Muxue clutched Hua Qingcheng's hand tightly, tears welling in her eyes. Whenever she thought of the time she went to Tianlong Temple to burn incense and saw that stubborn little figure diligently practicing martial arts, Gongsun Muxue felt a pang of heartache.

"Mother, Father, and Monk Hua do have a red mole on the bottom of their left foot. Moles can be coincidental, but blood is thicker than water. Not only does he look very similar to Brother Li, but they also had a very close relationship when they were young. Qingcheng believed that this was a telepathic connection between them. Even though they didn't know each other was their biological brother, fate had brought them together and created a deep brotherly bond."

"Xue'er, I think Her Highness's speculation is correct..."

Su Mutiansheng clenched his fists, his eyes red and filled with tears. This Su Mutianjun had caused his family to be destroyed, and his concubine had even stolen his and Mu Xue's child. How could he swallow this hatred?

However, he was now nothing more than a weapon soul. He was powerless to deal with such a heavy hatred, nor could he selfishly let his two sons bear the hatred...

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