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Du Qing could not answer the Third Prince's question.

He merely attached immense importance to Lin Su, and always felt that a deeper conspiracy lay hidden behind this affair. Yet when asked to explain it, he could not put it into words.

Why did he have such a strange feeling?

Because Du Qing suddenly realized that Lin Su's visit to Prince Ping's Estate today had been somewhat too brief.

The questions Lin Su had asked the four Wujianmen members had been very simple.

When he left Prince Ping's Estate, he had not taken the four of them away either.

From the perspective of rescuing Deng Hongbo, what he had done today was already enough.

But if he wanted to beat the Third Prince to death with one stroke of the cudgel, he had not done enough today—because he had left room for an explanation, and that room was a loophole!

The Third Prince could seize upon that loophole at once. Could Lin Su, shrewd as a ghost, have failed to foresee it himself?

How could that be?!

Unless Lin Su had truly come to Prince Ping's Estate today only to rescue Deng Hongbo, just as he had proclaimed.

And had never intended to point his sword at the Third Prince and drag him down from the path to becoming the Heir Apparent.

But how could that be possible?

Once the Third Prince entered the Eastern Palace, he would inevitably become the ruler of Great Cang in the future. Once he became ruler, the nine clans of the Lin Family would be in peril. With Lin Mouren's shrewdness, he should not have failed to see this. Thus, he had absolutely no reason to let the Third Prince off at such a critical juncture.

Unless he knew with certainty that the Third