My father, Li Shimin, requests Your Majesty to become the Retired Emperor.

When Li Shimin heard Xu Hui mention Consort Yan, he felt a pang of sadness.

After all, Li Xiao, the son of Li Shimin and Consort Yan, died young.

This was a major blow to Consort Yan.

But for Li Shimin, how could he not be heartbroken?

Li Shimin waved his hand: "Consort Yan has already lost Xiao'er. Such grief is hard for a mother to accept. So don't hold it against her."

Xu Hui took a step forward, her beautiful eyes looking at Li Shimin with tenderness: "Your Majesty, I know you are very saddened by Xiao'er's untimely death."

After all, they are your own flesh and blood.

However, I must remind you.

People often say, "One who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black."

Can Consort Yan and a vicious woman like Lan Po Rakshasa have a good ending if they stay together for a long time?

The Blue Rakshasa is vicious and cunning; there is nothing in this world she wouldn't dare to do.

She once tried to poison Empress Zhangsun, during the last Lantern Festival.

She then took this opportunity to poison the emperor and Empress Zhangsun during the Lantern Festival, framing them. How vicious she was!

She was dressed in witch's robes, and her entire body was poisonous.

Who knows what else she might do?

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, thinking to himself that what happened last time was indeed very dangerous.

If the Blue Rascal's plot succeeds, then the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty will probably be almost all dead.

"It is indeed necessary to strengthen the defenses of Chang'an. We cannot allow the Blue Rascal to infiltrate Chang'an and cause trouble again."

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, one should not have the heart to harm others, but one must have the heart to guard against others."

Consort Yan is a brainless woman; her brain is on someone else's head.

As long as the blue wrathful woman stirs things up in front of her,

She's capable of anything.

The Rakshasa woman Lanpo is loyal to Yanqi and is wholeheartedly hostile to our Great Tang Dynasty. It's impossible to convert such an old witch.

Li Shimin had always felt that the Blue Rakshasa woman was old and pitiful.

Therefore, I never really paid much attention to the Blue Rakshasa woman.

However, after listening to Xu Hui's account, Li Shimin gradually realized that the Blue Rakshasa woman was not simple.

The Imperial Guards of Chang'an were quite formidable, but the Blue Rakshasa woman came and went as she pleased, as if the Imperial Guards didn't exist at all.

Xu Hui rested her chin on her hand: "Actually, Consort Yan is not the most dangerous person."

She doesn't have any deep schemes and isn't difficult to deal with.

"Sometimes I have a vague feeling that there is another force within the harem that might be detrimental to Your Majesty."

"Oh, what power are you referring to?" Li Shimin leaned back in his chair and chuckled. "What's wrong? After your analysis, it seems like my harem has become a den of dragons and tigers."

"In my humble opinion, Your Majesty's harem is probably more dangerous than a dragon's den or a tiger's lair. For example, Consort Yin and her brother Yin Hongzhi..."

Yin Shishi was a loyal minister of the Sui Dynasty.

He fought the Tang army to the death, and he killed your brother Li Zhiyun and desecrated your Li family's ancestral graves.

Ultimately, Chang'an was captured.

Your father killed Yin Shishi, and your two families have been sworn enemies ever since.

I know that it was you who pleaded for them, that's why your father didn't kill Consort Yin and Yin Hongzhi.

It stands to reason,

Those two siblings should be extremely grateful to you.

Moreover, Li Shimin had already taken Consort Yin into his harem.

However, Consort Yin and her brother Yin Hongzhi might not have thought the same way.