The Crown Prince that was highly venerated and worshipped was sculpted into the form of one who knelt and begged for forgiveness, and placed in crowded areas of town so everyone was free to spit at or kick it when they passed by, and rid themselves of misfortune. Or worse, some even had him sculpted to be prostrating, and used the statue directly as a threshold, allowing tens of thousands to walk all over it. In the first ten, twenty years after the kingdom of XianLe fell, those statues were a common sight in many of the cities and towns, so how could Xie Lian himself not recognize his own back?

Many scowled at this as both Mu Qing and Feng Xin wondered why they didn't try harder to persuade the prince to give up on those ungrateful people.

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