However, some people say that this matter is actually untenable, because Zhu Yuanzhang indulged his son. It was the third son who was suspected of rebellion, and Zhu Yuanzhang only gave him a verbal warning. Therefore, it is untrue that Zhu Yuanzhang killed his son because of the Hu case. Therefore, there is another folk version, that is, Zhu Xi set himself on fire because Zhu Xi's father was not Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Xi's biological father is Zhu Yuanzhang's sworn enemy Chen Youliang.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang knows that his son Zhu Xi is not his own, but after all, Zhu Yuanzhang has raised him for so many years and has some feelings for each other. But Zhu Xi doesn't think so. He thinks that Zhu Yuanzhang is the enemy of his father, so even if Zhu Yuanzhang has the grace to raise him, he can't live under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule. So in the end, Zhu Xi chose to burn himself to death.
But this is not all possible reasons for Zhu Xi's death. The third possible guess is that Zhu Yuanzhang, the eighth son, was too cruel to kill the princes in the palace at will and let some women in the palace do some obscene things, which is why Zhu Xi finally angered Zhu Yuanzhang and led to the final result.