Chapter 503 - King-To-Be

"Why not the current King? Wouldn't it be better and safer?"

"It wouldn't be. Zhou Dong has been acting as the Duke of Country Y for the current King and Queen for many years, and that's why they trust him a lot. Although the King-to-be of Country Y has been of age many years ago, he didn't take over the throne because the current king and queen didn't want to burden him with the country's matters. However, the King-to-be of Country Y, as you might know, wasn't always with his parents. He was kidnapped when he was young and only returned many years later and the people who brought him back was none other than Mdm Xiao Lan Xi and Mr. Lu Qing Shi. This is the reason why the current King and Queen of Country Y dislike hearing people with the name Sapphire and Luke around as they felt that it was an insult to the people who saved their child."

"If this is the case, why do the King and Queen still keep Zhou Dong by their side as their trusted Duke and let them use the name of Country Y to do all these? Haven't Aunt Lan Xi and Uncle Qing Shi told them about the matter before?"

"Now, the thing was that Zhou Dong seldom showed up. Be it at where the King and Queen are living, or at Poker. He had always been careful and that is the reason why no one knew that he had connections with Poker or even the royalties until later. This is also the same for Mdm Xiao Lan Xi and Mr. Lu Qing Shi. While they were investigating at that time, they still hadn't found out about Zhou Dong's involvement in the matter because Shen Nan Kun didn't take the surname Zhou. They only found about it quite some time after, but they had never seen Zhou Dong with the King and Queen as well. Hence, they also didn't know about the fact that Zhou Dong was the Duke of Country Y. Hence, the current King and Queen don't know that Zhou Dong actually has ill intentions. They believed that Zhou Dong was a good man and so they listened to him. The royal family also tried to steer themselves away from the media and news as far as possible and that was why Zhou Dong was the source of news of the outside world for them."

"What about the King-to-be?"

"The King-to-be on the other hand had always kept his distance from Zhou Dong. What I am guessing is that he might have seen Zhou Dong or glimpses of him before, but he wasn't sure about the matter and that was why he kept quiet. Compared to the current King and Queen, the King-to-be is much more careful with the people he meets and interacts with, perhaps due to whatever he had experienced when he was younger."

"But how are you able to get any thing to the King to be without letting Poker finding out?"

"The King to be and the current King and Queen don't exactly live in the same place, and since only the current King and Queen had the power, Zhou Dong didn't really bother to get anyone to watch on the King to be. The other reason was that he was worried that the King to be could recognize anyone of Poker's people."

"Are there any other things?"

"Yes. One more. I hid it inside Mr. Xiao Lan Ke's urn… because it contains whatever that Poker had done to the Xiao family and some other families, and how those people died. It also contains evidence of how Mr. Xiao Lan Ke died…"

Shen Feng Xing's body visibly froze for a moment.

Everyone in the room was stunned by Xu Zi Fang's words that they forgot to react for a moment.

"What do you mean? How did my father die? How do you know my father?" Shen Feng Xing's eyes were red, and he looked at Xu Zi Fang in disbelief.

The moment those words left Shen Feng Xing's mouth, Song Qiao and Shen Yu Rou looked at him dumbfoundedly.

"Feng Xing… Did… Did you just say that Lan… Lan Ke is your father?" Song Qiao stuttered.

Shen Feng Xing looked at Song Qiao for a moment before he nodded, "Mm. I am your and grandfather's biological grandson."

"How could it be?"

Xiao Rong Yao then sighed because he was guilty about how he had treated Xiao Lan Xi and Xiao Lan Ke's marriage and romantic relationship, "Lan Ke must have dated in secret because he was worried that we would forbid them from getting together just like how we forced Lan Xi… However, he passed away all of a sudden, so he didn't have the chance to tell us anything. Feng Xing's mother might have left him at the orphanage because she wanted to protect him. She must have known about whatever that was going on at our house, and so she didn't want to put Feng Xing in danger…"

"Old Xiao, you knew about this too?" Song Qiao's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Feng Xing told me one day when I was still in a coma…"

"So… So… Feng Xing is really our grandson? He is Lan Ke's son?"

"Yes," Shen Feng Xing answered firmly.

"When did you find out about this matter?"

"When Xi came to find me after grandfather went into a coma. She said that she wasn't sure at first, so she went to do a DNA comparison test. She then went to investigate what happened, but we still don't know what exactly happened back then, the only thing we confirmed was that we are related by blood and so I am her cousin. Then, the only possibility left was for me to be my father's son."

The room went quiet, and Xu Zi Fang then took it as a chance to explain to Shen Feng Xing what he was talking about earlier on.