With this guess in mind,
all the things he hadn't been able to figure out for years now fell into place.
Everything that had defied explanation could now be explained.
It was just a pity that a guess was, in the end, only a guess.
Right now he had neither witnesses nor physical evidence; if he rushed out and declared that the Empress Dowager was not his birth mother,
forget the people of the realm not believing him—
even he himself might not be a full ten parts convinced!
So the most pressing task at the moment was to find evidence.
Zhao Junyao pondered for a long time, and an idea had already formed in his mind.
He glanced outside at the darkening sky.
He summoned Zhou Lin and passed his plan down to him.
"First, we must find this Lady Tian's full title! Track down every woman with the surname Tian who entered the palace that year, one by one. I refuse to believe there'll be no trace at all!"
