Lin Mu had definitely not expected to meet the former crown prince here. He recognized the name as he had heard that a few times before. The last time he heard about a prince was from Tongguo Bing who had told him that the prince came to the Big Zhao's Heavenly Delicacies restaurant with the other young masters of the noble clans of the city.

He had thought that this was the none other than Shuang Zedong, but it turned out to be false.

"How did you become like this? If you're not the crown prince, who is now?" Lin Mu questioned, feeling shocked.

"The crown prince is none other than my second brother now." Shuang Zedong spoke.

"Second brother? You had a brother?" Lin Mu questioned.

Till now he had not heard that the king had another child from the queen. He knew that there were more children from the concubines but not from the queen.

~Sigh~

"He is not my blood brother, rather the son of my father's favorite concubine. He schemed against me and assassinate me with the assistance of Gu Yao. But Lord Wu Hei managed to save me." Shuang Zedong spoke.

"What! But the assassination of a prince would have been great news if it happened." Lin Mu said.

"Indeed… but the current crown prince managed to convince father that letting such news spread would be bad for the current morale of the kingdom. Instead, they fabricated a story of how I have entered seclusion to focus on cultivation and have given up on my position of the crown prince." Shuang Zedong explained.

king be so stupid?" Lin Mu said,

the aristocrats and nobles were already in the negative

best guess is that the concubine had managed to charm the king so badly that he does not question his own actions." Shuang

supported the current crown prince's rise to his position." Wu Hei

Lin Mu angry but then he forcibly calmed himself down. He swore to himself he would take them

myself now." The final man who was remaining in the group spoke. "I am nameless, one of the elders

his brows as he looked

time. In fact, he knew about

you join the Gu Legion." Lin Mu questioned, still not feeling safe with the

been away from them for a long time. But when I returned, I found them to all be dead and only skeletons were left behind in

a couple of years before I was able to find out who the culprits were. I originally wanted to kill them and die in the process, but I realize that it was not just

them and thus I took it upon myself. I researched more about the Gu Legion and found out that

approach. Eventually, an opportunity presented to

was not always successful." Nameless

Nameless would kill the members who found out about the

are an honorable man." Lin

being able to act and wait patiently. If it were Lin Mu in his place, he probably

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