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“Was Yao Xingning behind this?” He Lingchuan understood Fushan Yue’s difficulty as well. “If I remember correctly, that little Crown Prince isn’t very old, right?”
“Mm. Only thirteen. For its kind, that’s equivalent to infancy among humans. It only learned to speak human language last year.”
That young, and already doing things no decent creature would?
Right, the Monster Emperor’s child was never human to begin with.
Fushan Yue continued, “Its temper is violent. It kills people at the slightest provocation. The first tutor the Lord Emperor found for it was human—learned and knowledgeable, but unversed in divine techniques or martial arts. In the end, the Crown Prince found his constant lectures too annoying and swallowed him whole. The Lord Emperor’s scolding did nothing. Helpless, he had to find a greater monster to teach it instead, and only then did there stop being fatal incidents of tutors getting eaten.”
There was no reasoning with infants. The Crown Prince was precisely at that stage.
“And if Yao Xingning stirred it up with a few words…”
He Lingchuan’s brow furrowed. “What good does she get from urging the Beijia Crown Prince to make trouble at the Mount Pan Residence?”
“Venting anger, I suppose.” Fushan Yue finally could not help but sneer. “Cen Boqing’s conviction is already set in stone. It can’t be changed.”
“That’s also making trouble for...
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