Except for not personally going to the battlefield like the emperor to slay enemies, she has faced every other hardship imaginable. The admiration of the entire court towards the Empress comes from her heroic bravery that rivals any man. But at this moment, seeing the fan, she displayed unprecedented panic! With trembling hands, she handed the fan to the emperor. As her gaze lifted, everyone noticed that the emperor’s eyes were also sharply focused! "This fan, are you sure it was hidden with Prince Rong?!" "I dare not say a single false word." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝓷𝓮𝓽 Investigating the bloody case in Baiyu Lane until now, Pei Zhan and the others all realized it was no ordinary case. The main purpose of entering the palace today to recount everything was to expose Xu Yin. The Empress’s reaction throughout had been calm, but upon seeing this fan, they all became agitated! "The clue was indeed with him!" The empress’s voice also trembled as she grabbed the emperor’s hand, "They didn’t get the message wrong. For so many years, Yi Yi has appeared and disappeared, and we still don’t know where he is. Prince Rong’s Mansion indeed has a hand in this!" The emperor held back the empress’s withered hand. This man, who had never flinched in the face of danger and had never surrendered against thousands of Dayue troops, surprisingly had tears in his eyes at this moment. Among those present, Pei Zhan and the Liang Brothers were still full of doubts, while Du Mingqian, only learning the whole story today, was even more indescribably shocked! "Dare I ask, Your Majesty, who is this ’Yi Yi’ you speak of?" Pei Zhan and Liang Chen exchanged a sudden glance upon hearing this. The empress stood up, her thin body leaning forward: "Yi Yi is the Crown Prince!" The words "Crown Prince" exploded like a thunderclap over their heads! Pei Zhan felt his voice floating as if it had drifted from afar: "Wasn’t the Crown Prince already missing for many years?" Saying he had been missing for many years was putting it mildly, as it was already over twenty years ago! In fact, none of the people present had ever seen the Crown Prince. For so many years, everyone only knew that the Empress and Emperor had three sons altogether, and the eldest son, born before they conquered the land, was lost during the battles and had never been found, and the Empress had never mentioned him. Thus, the entire court assumed the Crown Prince was no longer in this world, or that the Empress and Emperor had given up searching for him, and the Crown Prince, in the minds of everyone who knew of this matter, was just a vague symbol. Who could have thought that at this critical moment of exposing Xu Yin, the Crown Prince, who had never been mentioned, would suddenly be brought up by the Empress? Moreover, the Crown Prince’s nickname was Yi Yi! "He was only lost to us, he didn’t disappear!" The empress stepped down from the platform, and her usually composed and graceful manner faltered as she stumbled over her own feet. Pei Zhan and Liang Chen both stepped forward to support her, but she brushed them aside, saying, "After we parted from him, we fought for two more years. Two years later, we settled the country, and we immediately sent people to search along the old clues. It was hard to find someone in the chaos of war, but I was attentive when we parted, and I swore that mother and son would meet again someday! So the people sent out were not like headless flies. In those years, although progress was slow, we continually discovered places where he had stayed. But just a few years ago, he suddenly had no more news!" Pei Zhan couldn’t help but ask, "I don’t know how many years this ’few years’ refers to?" The emperor also stood up at this moment: "Six years! To be exact, almost seven years!" This number caused huge waves in the hearts of Pei Zhan and Liang Chen! Pei Zhan took an item from his sleeve: "I have two things here, which I took from the secret compartment where Prince Rong hid the fan on the night of the incident. Please have a look and see if you recognize them!" The Empress and Emperor looked over and saw it was a folded letter and a blood-stained handkerchief. Upon seeing the embroidered words on the handkerchief and the contents written in the letter, the Empress immediately raised her head again: "This is the handkerchief I left for Yi Yi! The words on it were embroidered by me, I could never mistake them!" The emperor nodded and, after looking over the letter’s content several times, said in a low voice, "Why didn’t you take these out together earlier?"