ke up before dawn.Lu Ze's hot and burning body pressed tightly against his back.Ning Shu was slightly taken aback, but she wasn't as helpless as she had been the first time.He closed his eyes, not wan...Ning Shu lowered her eyes, only listening to herself speak in a calm voice: "There are innocent women in the harem too, Your Highness doesn't think they are pitiful"

He probably feels spoiled and entitled, which is why he dared to speak to the Crown Prince like that.

Ken Ning no longer cared, despite the obvious clues. Yet he repeatedly found excuses for the crown prince, such as the medicinal herb hunting incident.

Although there were many doubts, he still pretended not to see them, or came up with many excuses and answers for the Crown Prince.

The prince, upon hearing this, did not get angry.

He even gently touched the young man's forehead, his voice sweet as he said: "I naturally have no feelings for them. But if Ning'er finds them pitiful, I will let them go."

"Let's get together another day and plan a palace coup."

The prince has done enough for him.

Ning Shu knew very well, he also wanted to pretend not to know anything. He blinked his eyelashes, unable to get over the hurdle in his heart, and couldn't help but speak: "Your Highness, did you kill Li Huai De"

The Crown Prince's hand paused on his silken hair, and he turned to look over.

But his eyes were still as water, calm to a terrifying degree, and cold to a terrifying degree.

The Crown Prince said, "It was I who killed him."

Ning Shu heard her heart skip a beat. She clenched her hands and said, "The prince said he wouldn't kill him, but he actually did, didn't he"

He was not troubled by the death of Li Gonggong.

but I just want to ask a truth.

The sound of the prince's promise that day, not to kill easily, still echoed in her ears.

"Right now, the crown prince is just saying through gritted teeth: 'Yes, I killed him that night. Right in front of Ning'er, do you want me to tell you how I did it' "

"Gulu first used that jade power to pierce his throat, and then crushed both of his hands."

Ning Shu heard this, her fingers trembled slightly.

He remembered Liu Sui's words, verbatim.

Ning Shu said again, "Was the County Princess also killed by Your Highness"

The crown prince's peach blossom eyes stared at him, his face cold and indifferent: "It was also I who killed her. She lifted the curtain in front of you, what difference does it make if I killed her"

Ning Shu's throat was dry.

He heard himself asking again, “Your Highness knows there’s medicine in the soup, right”

Upon hearing this, the Crown Prince was not surprised that he knew where it came from. He simply said in a pleasant voice: "I indeed know, I drank it on purpose." He lowered his gaze to look at the young man's brows and eyes, and slowly said: "In fact, I am not ignorant of love affairs."

"I've seen erotic paintings before, but I don't know as much about them as you might think."

“There used to be women who climbed onto the lone bed.”

"How could Gu be unaware of the affairs between a man and a woman"

But Ning Shu appeared dazed, amusingly enough he still thought the Crown Prince was unaware and regretted leading him astray.

It turns out the prince knew everything.

He recalled everything from the past, feeling like a prized object being observed by the prince.

Ning Shu moved her dry throat: "That slave only glanced at me while I was bathing, Your Highness would use such means to kill him"

He knew the servant was no good, he just closed his eyes and imagined the dismembered flesh.

Now that I think about it, it makes me sick.

Ning Shu couldn't imagine that it was the prince who did it.

The prince just stared at him, without refuting: “It was I who did it. I first gouged out his eyes, and then killed him, dismembering his body. I was afraid of getting too much blood on myself, so I didn't torture him for long.”

Ning Shu was clenching her lips tightly as she listened to his words.

He is a modern man, and he knows these people are not innocent. Yet Ning Shu never thought that the prince's methods would be so decisive, even extremely cruel.

He took a deep breath and said, "But Master Zhao, Master Zhao has done nothing wrong. He hasn't harmed me, Your Highness."

The Crown Prince raised his hand and touched the man's face, his eyes cold. "I only wanted to scare him and make him leave the capital."

"Don't you feel like killing him"

Ning Shu fell silent when he heard this, his heart wavering once more. But he vaguely sensed that he had strayed into a misunderstanding. Lord Zhao had only given him a bowl of mung bean porridge.

What's wrong with that

When that slave saw him bathing, he was killed. But did the prince, when he killed, really investigate whether he was a good person or a bad one

And Master Zhao was injured, all because he gave himself a bowl of mung bean porridge.

Ning Shu saw the indifference and coldness in the Crown Prince's eyes.

He steadied his mind slightly, then struggled free. Ning Shu felt a chill in her heart; she sensed that the Crown Prince wasn't telling the truth, and that he didn't truly value human life.

Ningshu said, "Your Highness, wouldn't you think that I can't bear to see people killed, that I pity them"

The Crown Prince gazed at him, his voice soft, "I know your heart is kind, and I know you've never killed nor harmed a soul, not even a small deer. You are always compassionate."

Ning Shu looked at his eyes, moved her lips and said: "I and Your Highness's views may have some differences. Your Highness was born in the royal family...."

But the Prince stared at him without blinking, then suddenly said, "Are you afraid of me"

Ning Shu knew he had done his best, but the Crown Prince still saw through him. He was indeed afraid of the Crown Prince; all the encounters he had with the Crown Prince were carefully orchestrated by the prince himself.

Now everything has been revealed.

Ning Shu said that there was no fear in her heart, which was false.

The prince did nothing wrong, they simply had different worldviews.

But even so, it made Ning Shu a little unable to accept.

The prince stared into his eyes and said, "Do you find me frightening"

Ning Shu opened her mouth, after a long while she said: “I shouldn’t be afraid of Your Highness.”

Because the prince was killed for him.

He shouldn't be afraid of him, but that doesn't mean it's not a big deal, his body reacting is another matter entirely.

The prince looked at the youth's expression and said, calmly, "You shouldn't be afraid of me, but you are."

He affectionately pulled the person into a hug.

"If little Ninger knew what I had done, she would be terrified."

The prince spoke, but there was not a hint of a smile in his eyes.

He grabbed the boy's hand and said, "I've killed many people."

He told of how, as a child, the Third Prince's servants had mistreated him and how he had killed them.

And there is still the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince snatched something his mother had given him and broke it. So the Crown Prince beat him to a pulp.

The prince felt the youth's stiffness: "Am I being cruel But I am also innocent. What have I done wrong Isn't this palace a place where people devour each other"

Ning Shu did not speak.

He recalled what Zhao Da had said about the Seventh Prince, but now it was being admitted by the Crown Prince himself.

He thought about the prince's appearance as a child and moved his lips.

How could Ning Shu possibly say that the Crown Prince wasn't a good person

He was unable to stand by the Crown Prince's side and speak words of sympathy for the Seventh Prince.

After the prince finished speaking, he grabbed his hand and led him to touch the wound on his wrist.

Ning Shu's finger touched the scar.

He was slightly stunned, his eyes widening. Then he saw a scar on the wrist that the prince had been hiding all along.

The prince said, "When my father was ill, I let him drink my blood."

Ning Shu was astonished. He remembered that during that time, the prince had been going to see the Emperor every day. But he never knew that the prince had actually been donating blood.

But the emperor is ill, why take the prince's blood

The prince continued, "I tricked him."

He said with a cheerful air, “I killed the Grand Tutor by his side. It's pitiful that he didn't even know the Grand Tutor was dead. Every time I gave him blood, I would add a slow-acting poison.”

And so he died.

"Does he do wrong if at eighteen years old, he eats the flesh of the lonely one, drinks the blood of the lonely one, and the lonely one slays him"

The crown prince caressed his face and nuzzled closer affectionately: "He ate my mother's flesh, so I shall cut a piece of flesh from him to appease her spirit."

Ning Shu listened, only feeling goosebumps rise.

He never thought that the words the prince had spoken back then were not a joke. They were true. The current emperor really wanted to eat the prince's flesh and drink his blood, just to live a long life.

Ning Shu only felt absurd, too absurd.

Those people were probably unaware that the Emperor's favoritism towards the Crown Prince stemmed solely from the State Oracle's suggestion to drink his blood and eat his flesh.

He stiffened, raised his hand, and touched the prince's head. After a long silence, he said, "Your Highness, you had to do this."

The crown prince said faintly, "I'm forced to do this. I hate that I have to make them suffer eternally in the underworld."

Ning Shu didn't speak.

The prince's experiences were also extremely tragic. He closed his eyes, feeling he couldn't empathize with those people.

The prince grasped his hand and said, "I am indeed so cruel. I have killed countless people, it's true."

Ning Shu opened her mouth and said, “...But Your Highness, you don't need to dismember them, or…”

He moved his lips and still spoke the words in his heart: “Your Highness doesn't need to do that. Minister Zhao only gave me a bowl of mung bean porridge, why would Your Highness have to harm him”

The prince watched him quietly.

The peach blossom eyes deepened with understanding, and a melodious voice said, “Why should I not harm him I dislike the way he looks at you.”

Ning Shu hesitated for a moment.

But the Crown Prince grabbed his hand, pressing him beneath him, and looked down at him with a cold gaze. "I want to keep you locked up in this palace," he said, "where no one can see you."

He caressed the youth's face, warm breath whispering in his ear: "Anyone who dares look at you, I'll gouge out their eyes."

"You're still afraid of being alone."

"Why do you still pretend in front of me"

"If only there were only you and I in the world, Gusu wouldn't have to feel so alone."

"Will I regret it I won't regret it at all."

The Crown Prince said softly, “Would you like me to keep you here”

"Gu spent so much effort to become the one you like, but now Ning'er knows my true face."

He can't pretend to be alone anymore.e young man's trance-like state with eyes that flickered with a deep and obscure darkness.His fingers lightly brushed the rim of the cup and asked, "Xiaoshū, is there something on your mind"Ning Shu c...