Chapter 204

204 TOO NAIVE, TOO STUPID

Indeed, Bai Chen did not know the current situation in the Rongyao Imperial Palace, and that was why he was surprised when he heard the explanation from his old servant.

“What? Does Lord Shao want to force the Emperor to admit that he was the one who caused the incident in the Forbidden Forest? That person didn’t ask the Emperor to continue the investigation, but he directly asked the Emperor to admit he was the mastermind behind the incident?” Bai Chen immediately questioned his servant when he noticed something odd here.

He sometimes watched historical dramas in his previous life, and officials within the palace sometimes sought justice by kneeling before the Emperor’s residence.

In the Rongyao Imperial Palace, the Emperor lived in his residence which was directly behind the Zuigao Hall, and it was no wonder that someone would kneel before the Zuigao Hall when they wanted to request something from the Emperor.

The way Shao Yaoting chose to kneel before the Zuigao Hall was to be expected, but Bai Chen did not expect that the head of the Black Werewolf Clan would make such a request.

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To this day, there was no evidence that the Emperor was indeed behind the incident other than the fact that the people who had broken the barrier were hired by the Emperor, but that one thing was not enough to prove that the Emperor was indeed the traitor.

Bai Chen could sense that something wasn’t quite right here, but he only sighed heavily as he said, “It’s none of my business, so I don’t have to think about it.”

He did think that it was the Emperor’s responsibility to handle matters related to Shao Yaoting, and that was why he flatly responded to Ma Qiao’s explanation.

Perhaps Ma Qiao did not expect such a response from the young man, and that was why the old servant could only blink innocently at the man without being able to say anything.

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Bai Chen could guess that Ma Qiao wouldn’t argue with him anymore, and that was why he turned to Zhu Ge saying, “You’re right with what you said earlier, Zhu Ge. We’d better go now so we can reach the river before noon. It’s too inconvenient to walk from this palace to the river when it’s too hot.”

He and Zhu Ge would walk from the palace to the river which was near the snow mountain that was the border between the two empires. He did know how to teleport, but he was going to take Zhu Ge with him, and that was why he decided to walk to the river because he still didn’t know how to teleport when he was going to take another person with him.

Zhu Ge nodded his head without saying anything, and Bai Chen then led the way to the front gate of his palace. Ma Qiao didn’t say anything as the two young men started to leave him, and he only sighed before walking away from the Jing Pavilion where Bai Chen was living.

Now Bai Chen was only with Zhu Ge as he walked towards the front gate of his palace, and even if he didn’t say anything, he could feel Zhu Ge constantly glancing at him as the two of them continued walking side by side.

“I’m also curious as to why Bai Renshu suddenly wanted you to scatter his ashes into the river,” the man in red finally broke the silence between them.

There was nothing different from Zhu Ge’s appearance even after three days had passed. The man’s hair was still as dark as night, and the color of his clothes still resembled the fire that was so bright and bold.

Perhaps Bai Chen was too tired to remind the man to dress like the other servants in his palace, and that was why he stopped wasting time giving Zhu Ge those useless orders.

“Three days ago, the Emperor informed me that Crown Prince Bai Renshu left a letter to him, and within the letter, it was written that Crown Prince Bai Renshu wanted me to be the one to scatter his ashes into the river,” Bai Chen explained the situation as they walked past the front gate of his palace.

Zhu Ge was still walking next to the Prince, and he furrowed his brows for a moment before his expression relaxed once more. “It was an unexpected wish from your brother,” he replied calmly. “I always thought that he was not a good person, and I even thought that he had bad intentions for you. I didn’t expect him to have such a request as his last wish.”

Bai Chen smiled bitterly at the void in front of him. If he could tell the truth, then he also didn’t expect that the mighty Crown Prince who had always treated him coldly, and even his gaze was full of hostility, would suddenly want him to be the one who had to release his ashes into the river.

Bai Chen also couldn’t believe that the older man would have such a wish, and he also still remembered how Zhu Ge had suspected the Crown Prince when the man was still alive.

“Maybe Bai Renshu isn’t that bad, and maybe your suspicions of him aren’t accurate, Zhu Ge,” Bai Chen said, and Zhu Ge suddenly had a displeased look on his face after hearing the Prince’s statement.

“Just because of Bai Renshu’s last wish, you decided to stop seeing him as a villain who always wanted to hurt you in the past? Don’t you think you are too naive, Bai Chen?” Zhu Ge questioned him sternly, and Bai Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks as he turned to the taller man.

Zhu Ge also stopped walking, and Bai Chen looked into the man’s eyes as he replied, “If you think that I’m too naive to trust Bai Renshu, then that means you think that my mother is too stupid, Zhu Ge. You don’t know that my mother trusted Bai Renshu for so long until her last breath, right?”