章節 809: 376 Mother (first watch)

The reason for such a speculation was that Xiao Liulang had told the older sacrificial priest that Princess Xinyang also had the Dragon Shadow Guard under her command. Regardless of why the late emperor had given Princess Xinyang the Dragon Shadow Guard, it at least indicated one thing—that Princess Xinyang held a significant place in the late emperor's heart.

Indeed, had it not been for the information from Xiao Liulang, the old sacrificial priest might never have known that the relationship between this father and daughter was so deep.

Princess Xinyang's birth mother was Consort Yu, who had passed away due to illness when the princess was thirteen years old. By that time, Princess Xinyang was grown up and there was no talk of her being adopted into another clan for upbringing.

The late emperor did not show her extra care for having lost her parents, and his treatment of her was not different from how he treated the many other princesses in the palace...