Chang Geng: "I personally think that according to common sense, this story should be that after the royal consort discovered she was bearing a bastard son, she had risked her life trying to escape and wanted to get rid of the child inside with a bowl of abortion medicine?"

Shen Yi: "..."

The many secrets of the royal palace were inconvenient to go into precise details, but the thing was, this kid had guessed it completely right.

After all, Shen Yi had also mingled with the aristocrats since he was a child, whatever his thoughts might be it absolutely would not show on his face. He immediately put on a surprised and tensed expression, as good as real:

"Why would Your Highness speak of such words? If it is because of Miss Xiu, then you don't have to dwell too hard on it. In the end, Miss Xiu was still a foreigner, if her heart still goes out to her own people, that isn't anything to blame her for.

"Not to mention, in the past few years, despite harboring hatred inside, she still worked tirelessly to raise Your Highness, and she has even managed to send half a piece of the jade pendant back to the capital to inform. It must have all been done as a preparation for her to die for the country, to not implicate Your Highness. Could one still say that this was not driven by familial love? Even your aunt is like this, how can your real mother not love you?"

Shen Yi momentarily paused, then continued: "The appearance of His Royal Highness and the consort were like being carved out from the same mold, but your personality is just like His Majesty's, how could this biological relation be made up? As for Miss Xiu breaking Your Highness's toe, I believe there must be some other hidden matters inside, or perhaps because Your Highness was still too young back then, hence why you could have remembered it wrong, these are all possibilities."

Teacher Shen's words were reasonable and extraordinarily eloquent, if Chang Geng was not aware of this poison inside his body slowly causing him to turn mad, he would probably get persuaded by this made-up story and truly believe that Xiu Niang had worried about him with all her heart.

He could no longer fully trust in other people's stories. He would always harbor stacks and stacks of questions and skepticism. He couldn't help but break down the other's every sentence to mull over, and as he took a deeper look, they would always be full of doubts.

Chang Geng suddenly felt very exhausted.

After an incense burning period, Shen Yi held a face that had gone stiff from smiling and was sent away by Chang Geng.

Chang Geng followed Shen Yi to the door: "Before, I was still unaware, thinking that Marquis Gu's health was no good, and often went on to be lengthy about it. I ask that the Marquis forgive me."