When Princess Xinyang decided to raise him, he was still just an infant in swaddling clothes, and naturally, he couldn't have heard those words from her directly. It was Princess Xinyang who later told him herself.
"I see," Gu Jiao said, "Then, does Marquis Xuanping know about this?"
Xiao Liulang lowered his eyes, "He knows. It was after he remedied the situation that Princess Xinyang mistakenly thought her son and the female servant had been taken and hurt by assassins. It was not until four years ago that, by a twist of fate, she learned the truth—that she had been raising the son of her child's murderer for fourteen years."
After that, Princess Xinyang collapsed.
She had never forgotten that son, nor did she ever treat Xiao Liulang as a substitute for anyone. She genuinely raised Xiao Liulang as if he were another son of her own.
She taught him with all her might, pouring her entire heart and soul into him, shaping him into the outstanding young Marquis unrivaled in Zhaodu.