Father, who is both a heir and a descendant, is still biased; the bound system has gone berserk.

Minghuang raised her hand and took off the face mask.

In an instant, a stunningly beautiful face appeared before everyone.

She looked remarkably like the Crown Prince, but her demeanor was more gentle.

"So alike! So very alike!" Xiang San Niang murmured.

The others also changed their expressions, their eyes turning slightly red.

"I apologize, Third Sister. I didn't expect to see something so similar...so similar..." in Beixuan.

"Someone like Empress Dongchen?" Minghuang continued.

Xiang San Niang and the others' expressions changed.

Minghuang said, "There are indeed similar people in this world, but not all people are similar."

Xiang San Niang and the others stared intently at Ming Huang, "What do you mean by that, Miss?"

They all knew that Dongchen's eldest princess had been lost at birth, and if she had married and had children, those children would be about the same age as the girl in front of them...

However, the girl looked exactly like the prince, but while the prince resembled her, his temperament was completely different. They didn't think of it that way at first.

But this girl looks too much like her.

She looks remarkably similar to the Empress Dowager from back then.

No, the Empress must have looked just like this girl when she was young.

Minghuang looked at the Crown Prince and said, "Mingxu, bring out the painting."

The crown prince nodded and slowly unfolded the portrait of the crown prince of Dongchen Kingdom.

The person in the portrait was dressed in white with a jade belt, had jet-black hair, and eyebrows like stars; he was quite dashing.

Upon seeing the portrait, Xiang San Niang and the others almost instinctively knelt down in unison.

"Your Highness!"

The portrait on this painting is of the Crown Prince of Dongchen Kingdom.

Xiang San Niang and the others were in tears. They looked at the person in the portrait, and then at the Crown Prince of Bei Xuan. They were suddenly surprised to find that they looked so alike.

"This, how is this possible..." Xiang San Niang murmured.

The crown prince glanced at them and then took out the Blood Moon Jade Pendant, a token of the Dongchen Kingdom's royal family.

"Do you recognize this?" the prince asked.

"It's the Blood Moon Jade Pendant, a token possessed only by members of the Dongchen royal family."

A burly man spoke, his eyes burning with fervor as he looked at the Crown Prince and Minghuang, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

The Third Prince was also stunned. Seeing the familiar old Dongchen items here, she was in a daze and at a loss.

Just then, the Crown Prince took out another letter and handed it to Xiang San Niang. "Take a look," he said. "These are the words left by my maternal grandparents when they found my mother in her swaddling clothes."

With trembling hands, Xiang San Niang took the letter. Her first reaction was to widen her eyes, "This paper..."

"This is the unique Yunguang paper of the Dongchen Kingdom's royal family!"

The letter paper is as soft and supple as sheepskin, with colorful patterns and a gentle luster. It does not dissolve in water and is therefore very precious.

Unfolding the letter to Third Sister, the contents immediately caught her eye: "At midnight on the Lantern Festival of the third year of Deyu."

"The third year of Deyu..." Xiang San Niang murmured as she handed the letter to the others.

"The Lantern Festival of the third year of Deyu was the time when Her Majesty the Empress gave birth at the temple. Third Sister, this..."

The group from Wangxiang Blacksmith Shop looked up at the Crown Prince and Minghuang, their eyes filled with fervor and madness.

"You, you are...?"

"Do you recognize this hairpin?" Minghuang suddenly took out the nine-headed phoenix hairpin with nine stars in a row from her bosom.

The blacksmiths at Wangxiang were momentarily stunned. Their eyes widened as they stared at the hairpin in Minghuang's hand, their expressions shifting from blank to shocked, and then to awe.

"It is a symbol of national sovereignty!"

The group knelt down, heads bowed, and remained kneeling for a long time.

"Get up, you can't speak while kneeling like this," Minghuang said.

Xiang San Niang and the others raised their heads, their eyes fixed on the hairpin in Ming Huang's hand. "Previously, there were rumors in Dongchen that the national symbol had been lost, and it turns out it was true."

"This hairpin was also placed in my mother's swaddling clothes when she was an infant."

Minghuang said.

Xiang San Niang looked at Ming Huang and the Crown Prince and asked, "May I ask, gentlemen, what about your bodies...?"

"The blood moon birthmark, yes," the prince said.

"There can't be any mistake, you are the eldest princess's children!"

Xiang San Niang and the others were so happy they wept.

But after she finished speaking, she looked at her companions.

The group exchanged glances, then suddenly said to Third Sister, "We beg the two young princes to return to Dongchen and save His Highness the Crown Prince, restoring him to the court!"

"We beg the two young princes to return to Dongchen!"

"We beg the two young princes to return to Dongchen!"

"We beg the two young princes to return to Dongchen!"

Several people shouted in unison.

The crown prince looked at them calmly and said, "I am the Crown Prince of Beixuan."

"We know," Xiang San Niang and the others said.

"I will not participate in the affairs of the Eastern Chen Kingdom," the Crown Prince said.

Xiang San Niang and the others were quite disappointed. They stared blankly at the Crown Prince, not expecting to hear such an answer.

"Your mother is Princess Dongchen, and His Highness the Crown Prince is your maternal uncle!"

Now that the two young princes know their true identities, how can they just sit idly by?

"It's not that we're sitting idly by, it's just that it's inconvenient for us to get involved in the affairs of Dongchen. But we would be willing to meet with the Crown Prince of Dongchen."

We are revealing our identities to you today for this very reason.

We want to know, what exactly happened in Dongchen back then? Why was our mother... Princess Dongchen, lost at birth?

Xiang San Niang shook her head and said, "Your Highness, we don't know either!"

The Crown Prince and Minghuang frowned.

The Crown Prince said, "You don't know either? You're from the deposed Crown Prince's faction, do you really know nothing?"

Xiang San Niang shook her head: "We only know that it was Prince Chen's lineage that framed His Highness the Crown Prince and the Nangong family. As for what happened between His Majesty and the Empress, we don't know."

After all, some of us weren't even born back then, and some were still children. Perhaps our elders know the inside story.

They were only later controlled and sent to Beixuan as spies; their knowledge of what happened back then was truly limited.

The Crown Prince and Minghuang exchanged a glance. It seemed that they would have to make a trip to Dongchen Kingdom sooner or later.

"Alright, you can go back to the prison now. I'm sure you won't reveal my and my sister's identities."

The crown prince waved his hand, indicating that the person should be sent back to the imperial prison.

Xiang San Niang and the others immediately became anxious.

"Your Highness!"

"We do not want to go back to the prison. We will tell you everything that Your Highness wants to know. We only ask to stay by your side and protect you."

We know you don't need us, but we beg you to give us this opportunity. We promise we won't let you down.

He knelt down and paid his respects to San Niang and the others.

They were performing the court etiquette between the emperor and his subjects.

The Crown Prince glanced at them and said, "You're willing to tell me anything? Then I'll ask you how many spies your Eastern Chen Kingdom has planted in Northern Xuan, and you'll tell me then?"

"We'll tell you everything we know," Xiang San Niang said, her eyes filled with hatred.

"All the spies that Dongchen planted in Beixuan were done by Prince Chen. We wish we could wipe out Prince Chen's entire lineage, so why would we keep his secrets?"

The only regret is that our knowledge is limited.