Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were both legitimate sons born to Li Yuan's primary wife, Lady Dou, and both possessed legal rights of succession. Not to mention Li Jiancheng, who held the status of heir apparent, even someone as universally despised as Li Yuanji still lived a life of leisure and ease, all granted by his status.
Although Li Yuanji was utterly repulsive, there was truly nothing anyone could do to him. To strike against him was to strike against the entire Li family. Furthermore, in this one-acre three-fen patch of Taiyuan, Li Yuanji could not simply be touched on a whim; he was protected by elite guards, deterred by the City Guard, and backed by the entire Li family as his shield. Ordinary people were genuinely powerless against him.
What was it the Three Heroes of the Dust had just heard? That Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had their heads severed right inside the Li family estate! Was this supposed to be a minor matter? This was a direct, in-your-face blow to the Li family!
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