"Bless you, Your Highness!" A voice as thin as a gnat penetrated Li You's eardrum. "Who, who's talking?" Li You raised his head suspiciously, looked around with suspicious eyes, and the palace maids looked indifferent, holding their breath and concentrating, blowing like an orchid. Apparently, no one spoke, and no one heard the mysterious voice.

Li You waved his hand, and the palace maids retreated quietly one by one. When the beautiful shadow of the last palace maid disappeared into the corner, Li You jumped up and began to search around the empty room for the source of the sound, even the cobwebs in the corner of the room refused to let go. "Could it be an auditory hallucination?" After a futile search, Li You sighed softly, stopped, and sat down on the bed.

"Bless you, Your Highness the Prince!" The weak voice pierced his eardrum again, Li You's heart seemed to be lightly pierced by a steel needle, excitement and excitement were written all over his delicate face, "Could it be that I still have a chance?" This time, Li You lost the urge to find the source of the sound, because he believed that it was the will of heaven and the blessing of the gods.

"Bless you, future Son of Heaven!" Before the blush of happiness faded from Li You's face, he received the third blessing from the gods. "Not only will I have the opportunity to become the prince of the empire, but I will eventually ascend to that position and become the ruler of this empire!" Li You's face bloomed with brilliant flowers!

Yes, Li You, you still have a chance, really! Because, Li Ning, the eldest son of the emperor who was favored by Li Chun, and Li Ning, the prince who "has elegant words and is courteous in every move", did not receive the blessing of the gods, let alone the favor of the heavens.

In April, the Chang'an grass is smoky and warm, the lotus is gradually open, the bamboo shakes the clear shadow, and the plum apricot is green. Li Chun originally placed the ceremony of canonizing the crown prince in this beautiful early summer because he hoped that after a thousand years, the Tang Empire could continue to be full of vitality and vitality in Li Ning's hands, and he believed that with his vision, Li Ning could do it, and he would definitely be able to!

However, God does not want the beauty of adults, Chang'an in the fourth year of Yuanhe, the light rain in April is dripping, dripping, and the next one does not stop. The unexpected rain disrupted the ceremony and upset Li Chun's heart. In the months that followed, a thick layer of dark clouds hung over Chang'an, and rain could return at any time, forcing the ceremony to postpone the canonization of the crown prince until the Mengqiu season.

Autumn arrived in July, but the lead-gray clouds did not disperse, and the ceremony was again postponed until October, when everything was bleak.

The delay of more than six months consumed everyone's passion, including the Son of Heaven Li Chun and the Crown Prince Li Ning, and in this way, the cumbersome ceremony ended hastily in the bitter cold wind. Two years later, the prince Li Ningxu, who had not received God's favor, passed away, and the grief-stricken Li Chun held a grand and unusual funeral for his son. This is unknown.

Li Ning died, and the competition unfolded between his two younger brothers, Li Kuan, the king of Li, or Li You, the king of Sui? Once again, Li Chun was faced with a difficult choice. Last time, he chose his eldest son Li Ning, this time, will he choose his second son Li Kuan?

Yes, Li Chun preferred Li Kuan, the king of Li, compared to Li You, the king of Sui, but he lacked a reason, a reason to convince the ministers. Because, Li Kuan's biological mother's background is too humble, and she is a palace maid whose name is not even known. In the harem of "the son is more precious than the mother", Li Kuan really lacks the capital to compete with Li You. Li Chun, who had just experienced the pain of losing his son, did not want to have a fierce conflict with his ministers at this time, but fortunately he was in the prime of spring and autumn, and the future was long. Therefore, he finally made a compromise, agreed with the ministers, and made Wang Li You the crown prince.

But Li Chun, who was unwilling to stop there, still played a little trick, he called Cui Qun, a scholar from Hanlin, and asked him to draft a concession on behalf of Li Kuan, the king of Li, in order to provide a public opinion atmosphere for the abolition of the crown prince in the future. But Cui Qun is not a fool, he saw through the trickiness at a glance, and retorted unceremoniously: "It is only right that the son-in-law Li You entered the East Palace!" There is no question of letting or not letting go. "Strictly speaking, Cui Qun's words can't stand scrutiny, because Guo is not the queen, so Li You is not a son-in-law, but he represents a point of view, the point of view of the civilian-official group, in their eyes, Li You is the son-in-law, the best candidate for the prince of the empire.

His heart was seen through, and he didn't want to stand on the opposite side of the entire civilian clique, so Li Chun had no choice but to give up.

"The mother is more precious than the son" and "the son is more precious than the mother" are the two major rules of survival in the harem. Although there were twists and turns, Guo's illustrious background finally played a role, and Li You's "son is more precious than mother" and struggled to enter the East Palace. But the back position is vacant, and Guo Shi has not been able to "mother is more precious than son", and ascended to the queen's throne that seems to be only one step away, which makes Li You very uneasy, a small half is for his mother, and most of it is for himself. Because, he clearly knows, this is a danger signal, quite dangerous. If the mother cannot ascend to the throne of the queen, it means that her status as a concubine is not settled, and the father may kick herself away at any time, like kicking off a stone. Every time Li You entered the palace to greet his father, he could feel inexplicable fear from his father's cold gaze, and his eyes without the slightest fatherly love seemed to warn him that if he was revoking his status as the crown prince, it might be in the minutes and seconds. And once you leave the East Palace, it often means death, the lessons of the former prince Li Jiancheng, Li Chengqian, and Li Chongjun always linger in Li You's mind, and sometimes even get into his dreamland, how many times did he dream back at midnight, Li You was awakened by a nightmare in a cold sweat.

Li You vented his depression to his uncle, who told him that as long as you abide by filial piety, what should be yours is yours, and no one can take it away!

Li You's hanging heart relaxed, he believed in his uncle, because behind his uncle was his mother, and behind his mother was the powerful Guo family and the entire civil official group. He began to believe in the three mysterious blessings two years ago, and now that he has become the crown prince, the second blessing has become a reality, how long will the third blessing wait? Li You was already a little impatient.