My father, Li Shimin, please call me Crown Prince

Chapter 2 Your Majesty, please call me the Crown Prince!

Taiji Palace, Purple Palace.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Li Chengqian limped in.

Until he knelt down in the center of the hall.

"Father."

Li Chengqian felt a little ashamed. Having a male favorite was indeed very shameful.

Li Shimin, who was at the top, looked at Li Chengqian coldly.

The word "Father" could not evoke the father-son warmth in his heart.

Angry, disappointed.

The prince whom he had cultivated with all his efforts had now done something ridiculous. Was he happy only when he could lose all the face of the Li family?

Li Chengqian raised his head slightly and watched Li Shimin staring at him as he walked towards him step by step.

As the crown prince, he felt somewhat flustered.

As a person from later generations, he was also a little flustered.

After all, standing in front of him was the Taiwei of the Tang Dynasty, who had the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix and the face of the sun and the moon, and who was as great as the sky and the sun. He also won the title of Situ, the Minister of the Chancellery, the Minister of the Central Chancellery, the Minister of the Grand Secretariat of the East Shaanxi Road, the Minister of the Grand Secretariat of the Yizhou Road, the Governor of Yongzhou, the Governor of Liangzhou, the Left and Right Wuhou Generals, the Left and Right Twelve Guards Generals, the Supreme Pillar of the State, the King of Qin, the General of Tiance, the Khan of Heaven, the Governor of Asia, the strongest carbon-based creature of the seventh century, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin.

Maybe I can explain this?
Li Shimin walked up to Li Chengqian and stopped.

After staring at the prince for a moment, he said coldly, "Bring it here."

"What, Your Majesty?" The eunuch did not understand what Li Shimin meant.

"Horsewhip!"

There was anger in Li Shimin's voice.

Everyone in the hall, including Li Chengqian, trembled with fear.

The eunuch did not dare to delay and quickly fetched the horsewhip.

Li Shimin, holding a horse whip, ordered Li Chengqian: "Turn around."

Li Chengqian raised his head and met Li Shimin's eyes.

"Turn around!"

Li Shimin shouted.

Li Chengqian slowly lowered his head and turned around.

Looking at the prince's back, Li Shimin's hands holding the whip were shaking.

Since birth, Crown Prince Li Chengqian has been intelligent, sensible, kind, filial, gentle, respectful and frugal.

Not to mention beatings, I hardly even blamed him.

This was once his greatest pride.

How did it become like this?

She kept male favorites, had corrupt personal morals, and had no conduct at all.

The deeper the love was in the beginning, the harder the beating will be now.

Snapped!
Ah!
The horsewhip hit Li Chengqian hard.

Pain, it hurts.

It hurts more than the time I fell off the horse.

The pain was so unbearable that I cried out.

This sound also stunned Li Shimin.

It was the first time he heard his eldest son's screams, which made him hesitate.

But the next moment, his eyes became firm.

It is time to teach my son a lesson and let him know what is right and what is wrong.

Let him remember, remember deeply.

Only in this way can my son change.

Li Shimin's eyes became firm and he waved the whip again.

He swung the whip back and hit Li Chengqian again.

However, this time, Li Chengqian did not make any sound.

Li Shimin forgot that his son, who was already the crown prince, was 23 years old this year.

At the age of 23, would whipping really make him realize his mistakes?

Li Shimin did not know how to educate his son, and he had forgotten.

Was it he who educated the once sensible child?

No, it’s Empress Changsun.

But Empress Changsun is no longer with us.

Snapped!
Another whip.

The hit on the wound hurt more than the previous two times.

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and tried to endure it, but he couldn't completely hold it back.

"You are such a loser!"

Snapped!
"What on earth is this!"

Snapped!
Li Shimin became more and more angry.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

The more you curse, the angrier I get.

Li Chengqian was also very angry. The memory fusion was too short and he would still be greatly affected by his original body.

These four whippings shattered Li Chengqian's pride as a prince and his dignity.

Li Chengqian is the crown prince, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

From childhood to adulthood, I have never been beaten.

Even his mother, who had raised him, had never hit him.

Think of this.

Li Chengqian turned around immediately.

At this time, Li Shimin's fifth whip fell and hit Li Chengqian hard in the face.

A bloodstain appeared on Li Chengqian's right cheek.

If it was just a little bit more, just the distance of a finger, my right eye would be ruined.

Li Chengqian subconsciously touched his face and felt a sticky feeling.

He raised his hand and saw it was covered in blood.

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin’s eyes widened and his mind went blank.

He subconsciously took two steps back.

"Your Majesty's use of the horse whip, is it family law or national law?"

Anger filled Li Chengqian's mind.

The roar was not only due to the physical pain, but also the disappointment and anger towards his father over the past few years.

"If this is family law, is Your Majesty punishing me on behalf of my mother?"

"You still have the nerve to mention your mother!"

Li Shimin, who was at a loss at first, became furious again after hearing this. "I grew up drinking my mother's milk."

"Why can't I mention my mother?"

"That morning at Xuanwu Gate, it was my mother who stood guard at my door, holding a dagger to prevent anyone from hurting me."

"And you're hurting me today."

Li Shimin fell silent. He didn't know how to answer.

Li Chengqian's words made him feel as if he saw that year, the day he rebelled.

Guanyin's maid holds a dagger.

The scene of fear, panic, and anxiety, yet she guards her son closely.

The child she once protected with all her might, a child she would not let come to any harm, even if it meant losing her life.

But now he was being whipped with a horsewhip, leaving a bloody mess.

If she knew, she would be very disappointed and sad.

Li Chengqian wants to fight back.

"You killed your brother."

"Shut up!"

"You make Princess Yang your princess!"

"I told you to shut up!!"

"My mother was extremely depressed, and she only spoke to me."

"Only his son came to comfort him."

"Will she whip her son with a horsewhip?"

Li Chengqian vented the anger that had been suppressed for many years.

"I told you to shut up!!!"

Each question was like a horsewhip, lashing Li Shimin deep in his heart.

Li Chengqian's face was grim, and he gritted his teeth: "Father, you have forgotten what our mother told you before she died."

"You want to make the King of Wei the crown prince in my place!"

"Let him live in Wude Hall."

Li Shimin recalled the words of Guanyinbi before her death.

"It contains poison. Since I followed you, I have been carrying this sachet every day."

"I'm afraid you have to go first."

"I swore to commit suicide to follow you."

"I don't want to be like Empress Lü of Emperor Gaozu of Han."

"There is one more thing you must promise me."

"Cheng Qian's legs are inconvenient. I beg Your Majesty to be cautious in deposing the crown prince."

Scenes from the past lingered in Li Shimin's mind.

His tone was no longer as firm as before.

"Chengqian."

"Your Majesty, please call me Prince!"

Li Chengqian's roar echoed throughout the hall.

The eunuchs in the hall crawled on the ground and dared not look up.

"Cheng Qian, what on earth do you want to do?"

There was a hint of pleading in Li Shimin's angry tone.

"What does your majesty want to do?"

"My mother's spirit in heaven will protect me."

Hearing this, Li Shimin's trembling hands lost strength and the horsewhip fell to the ground.

Li Chengqian stood up, turned around, and limped out of the hall.

"Chengqian."

"Don't force me."

Li Shimin's voice weakened.

"Force you, I force you?"

Li Chengqian paused. This sentence gave him even greater stimulation.

He turned and walked towards Li Shimin and asked:
"If you think I'm no good, why don't you just destroy me? Why use Qingque to torture me?"

"If I am good enough to be crowned as the crown prince, why would you want to use Qingque to challenge me?"

"If I'm not good enough, why don't you let Qingque be the crown prince?"

Li Shimin was shaking all over. He took two steps back, pointed at Li Chengqian, his lips trembling, and was unable to speak.

Li Chengqian had no intention of stopping, and pressed on:

"I know you're just torturing me on purpose."

"You hate the prince as much as you hate your uncle."

"I don't have a mother anymore, and now I don't have a father either."

Li Shimin looked at the prince in disbelief.

He never knew that this was what the prince was thinking in his heart.

Snapped!
A slap hit Li Chengqian on the left cheek.

It’s not heavy, not as heavy as a riding whip.

It doesn't hurt that much, not as much as a horsewhip.

But Li Chengqian's crown was knocked off.

Li Chengqian, with disheveled hair and a bloody face, looked like an evil ghost at this moment.

Seeing the madness in Li Chengqian's eyes, Li Shimin immediately regretted it.

He shouldn't have slapped her again.

"Chengqian."

"Your Majesty, please call me Prince!!!"

Li Chengqian was hysterical and completely crazy.

"You are the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, you are the Khan of Heaven, you are great, you are noble."

"You can scold me now."

"Do you know how I got through these years?"

"Everyone's looking at me! They're looking at me!"

"I'm disabled!"

"I know, I am lame, you despise me, I don't look like an emperor."

"I'll go to my mother's grave and wait now."

"You can give me three feet of white silk or poisoned wine, but you must stay in this position forever and never give it to me!!!"

(End of this chapter)