"He and Princess Xiangcheng have been married for many years. Even if he reached a dead end, it wasn't right for him to dismiss her maids and guards, leaving her alone halfway. Moreover, at that time, he was merely eager to rendezvous with King Langya and avoid my sights, so that I wouldn't know of his desertion," Zhao Hanzhang said, "I had Yuan Li investigate, and I heard that when he first became Prince Consort, he was informal and ill-matched with the meticulous Princess Xiangcheng. The princess's maids often mocked him, but he never changed his expression or took it to heart, which earned him a reputation for being broad-minded and carefree."
"He endured for years, yet he always remembered the resentment of being belittled by the princess and her maids, and when he was sure the princess had no chance to rise again, he retaliated harshly. Such a person, once freed from constraints, do you think he would not eagerly seek to control everything?"
