My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

The crowd was separated.

The Great Tang Bad Commander walked forward slowly, his hands behind his back.

Looking at the two sisters who were on high alert, he did not order an attack. Instead, he politely cupped his hands and bowed slightly.

"Ladies, please don't panic, we mean no harm."

The Bad Commander's voice was deep and hoarse.

"His Majesty has decreed that, having heard that the two young ladies have suffered some injustice in Chang'an, His Majesty has specially ordered us to come and invite the two young ladies to the Taiji Palace for a talk."

"His Majesty wishes to personally welcome the two young ladies and, incidentally... clear up some misunderstandings."

Upon hearing this...

Jiang Liyue sneered, her anger burning even brighter.

"Explanation? What's there to explain!"

Jiang Liyue gripped the short sword tightly, refusing to back down.

"Go back and tell that shameless scumbag! I have nothing to say to him! Tell him to stop dreaming, I will absolutely not enter his harem!"

The face beneath the mask of the Bad Guy General twitched slightly.

This young lady is probably the only one in the world who dares to publicly curse the Tang emperor as a scumbag on the streets of Chang'an.

"Young lady, please don't make things difficult for me." The wicked marshal sighed.

"His Majesty said that even if we have to carry them on our backs, we must bring them into the palace in perfect condition."

"Excuse me!"

With a wave of his hand, the Bad Guys around him instantly closed in on him.

Although the Jiang sisters are quite capable.

But in Chang'an, a city whose fate was firmly suppressed by the Tang Dynasty, they couldn't make a ripple in the face of so many elite troops.

A moment later.

The two were politely but helplessly "invited" into a luxurious carriage, which sped towards Taiji Palace.

Half an hour later.

Taiji Palace, Lizheng Hall.

When Jiang Liyue and Jiang Qingxue were led into the main hall with angry faces and weapons in hand.

They were stunned.

In the very center of the main hall.

Standing there was a middle-aged emperor dressed in a bright yellow robe, exuding an imposing aura.

He had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and sported a dignified short beard. Although he was handsome and even somewhat dashing, he was still quite dashing.

But this face.

This face is nothing like the rogue young man who was having sex with her in the underground cave and spouting nonsense!

“Who…who are you?”

Jiang Liyue looked at Li Shimin in front of her, her mind full of questions, and for a moment she even forgot to vent her anger.

Li Shimin looked at the two stunningly beautiful women before him and gritted his teeth in anger.

"I am Li Shimin, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Shimin practically spat out those words through gritted teeth.

"Ladies, take a good look at my face. Where exactly does it resemble that scumbag who took advantage of you?"

Jiang Liyue and Jiang Qingxue were completely dumbfounded.

They looked at Li Shimin, and then recalled Li Chen's appearance.

Although the two do share some resemblance in their eyes and brows, their ages and temperaments are completely different!

"Are you really Li Shimin?" Jiang Qingxue asked incredulously.

"Absolutely genuine!" Li Shimin said with a dark face, his hands behind his back.

Just then.

Empress Zhangsun, who had been sitting to the side, slowly stood up.

She walked gracefully to Jiang Liyue.

As the mother of the Tang Dynasty, Empress Zhangsun has already reached the early stage of the Golden Core realm and is half of the core of the Tang Dynasty's destiny.

Her gaze, like a gentle yet penetrating autumn lake, quietly fell upon Jiang Liyue.

Just one glance.

Empress Zhangsun's heart skipped a beat.

She clearly sensed a faint, subtle, yet strangely familiar pure yang aura deep within Jiang Liyue's extremely cold and yin aura!

That was the essence and imperial destiny of the Tang Dynasty! This aura wasn't from any of the descendants of the Tang Dynasty; it could only be from Li Chen outside.

Dual cultivation!

Only the deepest, most fundamental fusion can leave such a profound and unbreakable bond.

The frost on Empress Zhangsun's face melted away like spring snow in that instant.

It vanished completely without a trace.

Instead, there was a kind of fanaticism and love that sent chills down Jiang Liyue's spine, as if it could be drawn into threads.

That's the look a mother-in-law gives her daughter-in-law.

"Good boy."

Empress Zhangsun walked up to her, grabbed Jiang Liyue's fair and delicate hand, and held it tightly in her hands.

Her eyes were red-rimmed, and her voice was so gentle it could melt your heart.

"It must have been a tough journey, right?"

Empress Zhangsun looked Jiang Liyue up and down, becoming more and more satisfied, and nodded repeatedly.

"She's so beautiful, with such a figure and such cultivation, she's truly a rare gem."

Jiang Liyue was stunned by this sudden enthusiasm.

She tried to pull her hand back, but found that Empress Zhangsun was surprisingly strong.

"This... Madam, you must have mistaken me for someone else?" Jiang Liyue stammered, her face flushed. "I... I don't know you."

"I'm absolutely certain, I'm definitely not mistaken."

Empress Zhangsun smiled radiantly.

She turned her head, looked at Li Shimin who was still sulking, and sighed softly.

"Your Majesty, the truth has come to light."

"That scumbag who causes trouble everywhere, takes advantage of you, and then uses your name to cover his tracks."

Empress Zhangsun turned her head and looked at Jiang Liyue with gentle eyes.

"That's our sixteenth prince of the Great Tang Dynasty..."

"Li Chen!"

"boom!"

A thunderbolt struck Jiang Liyue's mind.

Before she could fully recover, Empress Zhangsun had already turned her head slightly and instructed the eunuch beside her:

"Go and fetch the portrait of the sixteenth prince."

The eunuch obeyed the order and soon returned with a beautiful scroll in his hands, which he slowly unfurled in front of the Jiang sisters.

On the scroll, a young man in white stands with his hands behind his back. His sword-like eyebrows fly to his temples, and his peach blossom eyes reveal a hint of nonchalant laziness and casualness. The half-smile at the corner of his mouth is so engraved with the word "infuriating".

Aside from not wearing those tattered clothes, those eyebrows, those expressions, that roguish air—who else could it be but the "Tang Emperor" who stole her innocence in the underground cave?!

"Look carefully, ladies."

Li Shimin, his face dark, pointed at the portrait of his son, whom he both loved and hated, and asked through gritted teeth.

"Isn't that shameless scoundrel who uses my name to swindle and deceive people, this little bastard?!"

Jiang Liyue stared intently at the portrait, her chest heaving violently, the rage in her eyes seeming capable of instantly igniting the painting.

"That's him! I'd recognize him even if he were ashes!"

Jiang Liyue gritted her teeth, her hand holding the short sword trembling slightly. This bastard actually used a fake name.

She stared wide-eyed at the Tang Dynasty empress before her, who was smiling like a loving mother.

The sixteenth prince?!

Li Shimin's biological son?!

So it turns out that bastard not only concealed his identity, but also shamelessly used his own father's name to swindle people?!

"That bastard who deceived his father and slept with her!!!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Liyue blushed to the roots of her neck, feeling both ashamed and indignant, wishing she could disappear into the ground on the spot.

Li Shimin, standing to the side, upon hearing the truth...

I finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"The traitor!!!"

Li Shimin looked up at the sky and let out a roar filled with grief and indignation.

"When he returns, I'll break his legs!"