Chapter 371

"Damn it!" Li Xian ground his back teeth, his eyes filled with hatred as he glared at Li Feng. It would have been one thing if Li Feng had merely escaped using the direct bloodline of the Shang Clan from Third Princess Li Rongqiu, but now Li Feng had driven a knife into his back, personally tearing apart his most brilliant disguise. True, he was not of the Shang Clan’s direct bloodline at all, and Zixiao, a disciple of the Merchant Gate, was not his grandfather. "Mother, what is the meaning of this? How could I be of the Shang Clan’s direct bloodline?" Eldest Princess Li Rongchun looked back on every detail of the past, then turned to Empress Ji to demand an answer. Others might not know, but Empress Ji, as the nominal mother of the Third Princess and the one who had insisted on adopting Li Xian back then, surely knew at least some of the truth. In fact, she was a key participant in the entire affair. Xuanyuan Haitang and the other women turned to Empress Ji as well, eager to know why the dignified Third Princess Li Rongqiu of the Xia State was actually of the Xia Clan’s royal bloodline. "No... how could it be like this? It shouldn't be this way!" Empress Ji’s gaze fell upon Li Xian, and she stumbled back two steps, looking utterly incredulous. Seeing such an abnormal reaction from the Empress, the royals of the Seven States sensed that there was much more to the story.