"Yes… However, this one believes it's unlike for the Wa family to seek trouble with me. Also, the Wa Family has long upheld the pure-blooded Empress of the Shen Clan. Their hearts lean where orthodoxy resides.
Yet Heaven's designs are seldom straightforward. Others might not know, but...
The present Crown Prince was not born beneath vermilion banners, but from the womb of a palace maid of humble dust. In his early years, he was said to be mute and dull, as though his spirit had not yet awakened to this mortal coil.
Then, as seasons turned, the still water stirred, he gained sudden clarity about the world. His talent in cultivation rose like bamboo after spring rain. In but a handful of years, he grasped the principles of Alchemy, discerned the patterns of Formations, and walked the path of martial dao with uncommon swiftness.
