Not mentioning the Crown Princess would have been better; bringing it up stoked a fire in the Princess.
"Do you think I really wanted to become the Crown Princess that much? Wasn't it you who pushed me to compete and seize it?"
The Princess angrily said, "I'm so tired, Mother, do you understand? I'm very tired!"
"I could have been a carefree princess, eating and drinking without a care, yet now, for this baseless position, I've killed person after person whom I didn't want to kill, plotted conspiracy after conspiracy..."
All this wasn't really the worst; what she found hardest to accept was being burdened with the black stigma of assassinating Gongliang Liao.
"After all this, you still won't tell the Crown Prince that foolish truth. Are you worried it would tarnish the noble image he has of you?"
"Couldn't you at least make it less obvious, so I wouldn't learn the truth? This truth, I honestly don't want to know at all."
