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If one wanted to discuss, was Crown Prince Li Zheng's fate good or bad?

It would be tough if one were to only look at it from one point of view.

He was born by the Empress of the late Emperor Long An, but he was not the eldest. There was an ambitious elder brother above him. According to common sense, when he grew up, he would probably take the road of competing with his elder brother for his mother's favor and fight to the death for the title of Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince's nature was gentle and quiet - the gentleness was from his grandfather, and the tranquility was from his mother. Neither of these qualities were anything good, judging from a ruler's standpoint.

His mother was sentimental and sickly. Her family had no influence, could not be considered ambitious, and had no backbone, very suitable to Long An Emperor Li Feng's temper. She once relied on favors to achieve the title of Empress.

However, after sitting in this position, mud still couldn’t hold up to the wall; compared with the First Prince and Consort Lu's influence, she would most likely be used as cannon fodder in the future.

However, fate was always changeable. When the young Crown Prince Li Zheng was only six or seven years old, peace was broken, and the nation was in disorder.

Li Zheng, who lived in the Deep Palace during those difficult years of war, did not have a direct impression. He only remembered that there were very few cases in that year. In the early summer, the capital was as hot as a boiler, the western sky overflowed with purple gas, and people inside and outside the palace walls were in a panic. There was no smile on the faces of the maids and servants coming in and out.

The little crown prince was stuck by his mother's side, who was bedridden, and he had not seen his father for a few days. Whenever he awoke in the middle of the night, he could always hear the servants reporting the situations outside in a hushed tone.

The crown prince was too young to understand what the adults were saying. However, he remembered that the topic was always accompanied by the sound of his mother’s low sobbing.

Later, as the young crown prince grew up, he began to understand the world around him, and the situation of Great Liang became clearer and clearer.

Then the situation in the Imperial Court changed. Concubine Lu's party fell down overnight, the Lu's were punished for rebellion. Consort Lu lost her position and was transferred to the Cold Palace, and the First Prince fell down from then on.