Seeing Su Yun'an's excitement, Su Xuening pulled him down to sit: "Don't get excited, these are just my speculations."
Su Yun'an still looked incredulous: "But Mother has always been alone and helpless. She was brought back to the capital of Eastern Chu by Father from the battlefield. How could she possibly be a member of the Western Liang royal family?"
Su Xuening sighed softly: "Have you ever thought that the one fighting against your father might be your mother? Xiliang is a matriarchal country, and women can also go to the battlefield."
Su Yun'an was startled again and asked urgently, "But if Mother is really a woman from Xiliang, wouldn't she be a woman from an enemy country? Why doesn't Father hand her over to the Emperor?"
Looking at the naive Su Yun'an, Su Xuening helplessly flicked his forehead: "What enemy country woman? She is our mother."
Su Yun'an pursed his lips, realizing he had misspoke: "What I meant was, if Mother really is from the Western Liang royal family, then she should be the enemy commander-in-chief, right? If Father, as the Grand General of Eastern Chu, won a battle and captured the enemy commander-in-chief, shouldn't he hand her over to the Emperor to claim credit? How could he bring her back to marry her?"
How could Su Xuening explain this to Su Yun'an? She smiled bitterly and said, "Perhaps Father fell in love with Mother at that time and was reluctant to hand her over to the Emperor. After all, our Mother was so beautiful!"
Although she didn't know the whole story, these were just her speculations.
But the mother was indeed very, very beautiful, and the father loved her very much. This is the most reasonable assumption.
Su Yun'an frowned, still unable to understand: "But what about Mother? How could she willingly marry Father, an enemy general, and even give up her status as a member of the Western Liang royal family? Could it be that she also fell in love with Father?"
“Your mother has amnesia, have you forgotten?” Su Xuening reminded him.
Su Yun'an suddenly realized and immediately remembered her mother's amnesia: "So, even though Father knew that Mother had amnesia and knew her identity, he still brought her back to Dongchu, leaving her far away from her homeland for decades?"
In an instant, Su Yun'an felt that her father had gone too far.
If he didn't know his mother's identity and she was homeless, there would be no problem with him bringing her back. But she knew who his mother was and what her identity was, yet she took advantage of his mother's amnesia to take her away from her hometown, married her, and had a child with her.
Although he and his sister wouldn't exist if he hadn't done it, he still felt sorry for his mother.
No wonder Mother disliked them so much after regaining her memory. Mother probably didn't love Father, so she couldn't accept that she married him. She also forgot everything that happened after she married Father!
Su Yun'an was young and might not have been able to understand her father's feelings at the time, but she could: "Perhaps my father fell in love with my mother when he was fighting her, but he knew her identity and that he was not good enough for her, so after my mother lost her memory, he brought her back."
After all, her mother had a special status, while her father was just a general at that time, and even a general without any connections. If he had truly fallen in love with her, he would have been far above his station. It's fair to say that if her mother hadn't lost her memory, her father and mother would never have ended up together.
Su Yun'an frowned, somewhat displeased: "Isn't that taking advantage of someone in distress? Father, what he did was wrong."
Seeing Su Yun'an draw a conclusion so quickly, Su Xuening became solemn: "Perhaps I'm wrong, but we don't know how Father and Mother met and fell in love, so you can't say that about Father, nor can you think of him so badly."
Love is a very complicated thing, and outsiders can't judge it, even if it's their children.
Actually, she had considered another possibility.
That means the father already knew his true identity and the mother's identity, and wanted to use the mother's influence to do something for himself.
However, if Father truly believed this, he should have told Mother the truth long ago and allowed her to return to Xiliang. After all, without Mother's return, she couldn't help him. Yet, over the years, Father had never spoken to Mother about Xiliang. He would even get angry when they inquired about her background. Clearly, Father didn't want Mother to remember the past, nor did he want to use her influence to help him in any way.
Furthermore, they all witnessed how much their father loved their mother; this couldn't be faked, so this assumption is invalid. Their father was definitely not as bad as they thought.
Su Yun'an didn't want to think of her father as so bad, so she pouted and said, "There's still something I don't understand. If Mother really was the enemy commander, wouldn't the soldiers of Dong Chu recognize her when she was fighting? And would they let Father bring her back to Dong Chu?"
Just based on this point alone, the whole speculation is unreasonable!
If anyone on this battlefield recognized the mother, they would surely go to the emperor to expose the father!
Su Xuening frowned. She hadn't overlooked this point: "Perhaps Mother didn't reveal her true face when she went to the battlefield. After all, Mother's identity is special. I've heard that ordinary members of the royal family in Xiliang can't summon the Vermilion Bird divine beast. Mother... she is very likely the Empress of Xiliang!"
"Empress!!!" Su Yun'an jumped up from the withered tree in shock again, staring wide-eyed at Su Xuening: "Your mother is the Empress of Western Liang!"
The Western Liang royal family was already in enough turmoil, but now the older sister is saying that their mother might be the Empress of Western Liang—it's simply unbelievable!
"Sit down first." Seeing him so agitated again, Su Xuening helplessly pulled him down once more: "I don't have any evidence either, these are just guesses. But I've heard that the Empress of Xiliang is very mysterious, and considering that she can summon the Vermilion Bird divine beast, perhaps only the Empress of Xiliang can do that."
At that moment, Su Yun'an instantly thought of that enormous fire phoenix, which indeed only submitted to its mother.
Yes, how could someone who can tame the Vermilion Bird divine beast possibly have a simple identity?
But the Empress of Western Liang is too exaggerated!
"But if Mother was the Empress of Western Liang, then why did no one look for her even though she's been missing for decades?" Su Yun'an still found it hard to believe.
"Someone should be looking for us, we just don't know it," Su Xuening said bitterly. "When my mother left, she said she had something very important to do. She really must have something very important to do!"
Thinking of her mother's resolute departure, Su Yun'an's heart, which had been wounded by her mother, suddenly calmed down a little.
If his mother really was the Empress of Western Liang, and had been missing for so long, taking decades to regain her memories, it was understandable that she was anxious to go back, and he could sympathize with that.
So it wasn't that her mother didn't love them; she just had something urgent to deal with. Thinking this way, Su Yun'an's gloomy mood immediately brightened.
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