"Then... all right! I suppose Chen'er should be able to understand!"
Seeing Xiao Zhentian speak up and her younger son's face turn ashen, Wen Wanrong hurriedly changed her tune.
At the end of the day, she still doted more on her younger son.
As for Xiao Chen, years of estrangement, coupled with his ruined talent, had thinned her feelings for him to almost nothing.
Butler Li, standing quietly to one side, heard their conversation. His eyelids could not help but twitch a few times, and his heart suddenly went cold.
Xiao Chen had only just suffered the calamity of falling from the Heavenly Prodigy Rank into a cripple, then having his engagement broken off by the person he loved most. As his parents and brother, should they not have been comforting and caring for him at a time like this?
Yet the Zhenbei King had not only shut Xiao Chen out, Xiao Lingtian even wanted to take away Xiao Chen's childhood sweetheart and fiancée, while Wen Wanrong merely offered a few token words of persuasion before quickly changing sides to support her younger son.
This was more than unfair to Xiao Chen. It was simply cruel beyond measure.
Xiao Chen had clearly been such an outstanding child. From a young age, he had been humble and generous. Even toward servants like them, he had always been courteous and never put on airs as the young master. He was countless times better than the arrogant and overbearing Xiao Lingtian!
But in the end, why had he met such a miserable fate?
There was fire in Butler Li's heart, and he desperately wanted to speak up and angrily rebuke the three selfish people before him. But that thought flashed by only to be forcibly crushed down. The fury in his eyes turned