Li Hua has a silver tongue; he can turn black into white. Otherwise, how could he have overcome so many difficulties and come this far, as he himself said?

Zhongli Zhengzhen, who had initially refused to believe Li Hua, lost all her resolve and stubbornness when she heard that her father was actually going to kill her brother.

All that remained in his heart was endless fear and boundless guilt towards Li Hua.

He is the younger brother.

He was the younger of the twins.

He stole his brother's nutrition while he was still in the womb, causing his brother to be crippled by his own relatives and left to wander in the mortal world for so many years.

After being found by her closest relatives, she was threatened and exploited until today, when she finally fought back...

Zhongli Zhengzhen kept his head down. Liu Kuan crawled over from the ground and knelt at Zhongli Zhengzhen's feet. He was a loyal servant whose master was the current emperor of Jinchuan.

The person in front of him was his young master, his future master, so even though Zhongli Zhengzhen treated him like this, Liu Kuan still earnestly advised him: "After this period of investigation by the people sent out by the Jinchuan royal family, Li Hua is indeed not a simple person."

"Why he agreed to be a pawn of Jinchuan remains a mystery to the royal family. All of the prince's brothers and sisters are in the palace; we must not be so soft-hearted at this time..."

Zhongli Zhengzhen didn't even have the strength to kick this person. He couldn't imagine what Li Hua, who was standing in the room right now and had heard everything, must be feeling.

If he were in Zhongli's shoes... if he were experiencing all of this today, Zhongli would definitely kill everyone.

Everyone!

Zhongli Zhengzhen took a deep breath, then suddenly gave a bitter laugh, looking at Liu Kuan and saying, "I know everything, you should step back."

"By the way, has Song Ci contacted you?"

"Hasn't Song Ci always been by Your Highness's side?" Liu Kuan asked, kneeling on the ground and looking up at Zhongli Zhengzhen's deathly pale face. "Could it be that Song Ci has betrayed you?"

Zhongli shook his head helplessly.

He waved his hand and said to Liu Kuan, "Go and rest. Leave the two maids with me. You should leave Yindu as soon as possible to avoid attracting the attention of various forces."

Liu Kuan naturally wouldn't disobey his young master. After getting up from the ground, he retreated to the doorway before turning around and leaving the house.

At this moment, Li Hua slowly walked out of the house, while Zhong Li stood there with his head down, his back bent.

Li Hua walked over to him and gently patted his shoulder. Zhong Li was so startled that he trembled on the spot before looking at Li Hua.

His eyes were filled with sorrow and grief. Li Hua reached out and touched his face, saying, "Now you finally understand? I was forced into this situation."

"I just want to live, what's wrong with that?"

"I just fell in love with a woman you all think I shouldn't have. What's wrong with wanting to protect my own woman?"

"Is that right?"

Zhongli Zhengzhen was speechless with rebuttal. He swallowed hard and said in a hoarse voice, "Brother... Father is sorry, and I am sorry too, but please don't hurt Mother."

“When I was a few years old, my mother kept having nightmares. I was too young to understand at that time,” Zhongli Zhengzhen said, never mentioning these things to anyone.

But at this moment, he finally connected the dots regarding his mother's unusual behavior when he was a child.

"My mother was not favored by my father for a long time because she would wake up countless times every night and cry continuously after waking up."

“Once I asked my mother why I kept having nightmares.”

Zhongli looked at Lihua with tears welling up in her red eyes.

"Mother said she lost a child in her dream... Mother said she had a very, very terrible dream."

Upon hearing this, Li Hua remained expressionless, but the fingers hidden in her sleeves clenched slightly.

Zhongli was truly deceiving him.

Zhongli Zhengzhen doesn't seem to be a complete fool after all. He has now realized that he is no match for him and has begun to show weakness.

Indeed, no matter how ignorant the princes may be of human suffering, they are still taught the ways of the emperor.

The way of the emperor includes the pride of never bowing down, the patience and perseverance of enduring hardship, and the skills of bewitching people.

Li Hua feigned deep emotion, turned her head away with suppressed rage, and said in a low, slow voice, "I don't believe it..."

Zhongli Zhengzhen grabbed Lihua's wrist and said, "Believe me, brother, Mother's sleep has been very poor for many years. She is often absent-minded during the day. The imperial physicians all said... that Mother was almost driven mad."

After hearing this, Li Hua looked at Zhongli Zhengzhen, her eyes seemingly glistening with tears.

Zhongli Zhengzhen reached out and hooked his arm around Li Hua's neck, hugging him tightly.

"You are in Mother's heart, you have always been in Mother's heart, brother."

Li Hua, standing behind Zhong Li Zhengzhen, forcefully swallowed the tears that had welled up in her eyes.

It's all fake.

He rested his chin on Zhongli Zhengzhen's shoulder, a slight smile even playing on his lips.

Extremely sarcastic.

Li Hua had long since bribed the people in the palace. He craved kinship and family more than anyone else.

So after he became aware of things, and after his nanny told him everything, Li Hua simply refused to believe that he was the one who had been abandoned.

He couldn't believe that his father and mother would be so heartless. He even thought that his father and mother must have had their reasons, that they must have been forced by villains, that they must love him, and that they couldn't bear to part with him.

Therefore, Li Hua had bribed the palace servants in Jinchuan Palace long ago, and the first person he learned about was his own mother, the Empress Dowager.

Over the years, Li Hua had long since pieced together the truth of what happened back then based on all sorts of trivial details passed down by the palace servants.

It also reveals his mother's attitude towards him.

In the first few years, the Empress did have nightmares, but the reason she kept having nightmares was not because she missed him, nor because she couldn't bear to part with him.

It was fear and dread, because the high and mighty empress of Jinchuan was a devout Buddhist who believed in karma and reincarnation.

She feared that her own child would come back to haunt her after dying.