The Ill-Timed Mistake!
Emperor Chu carefully reviewed all the files Lin Bai had requested. Sitting in his grand chair, he closed his eyes and sank into thought.
In the dim room, the faint candlelight fell across Emperor Chu's resolute face, adding several degrees of murderous solemnity.
Emperor Chu was thinking... Should he let Lin Bai investigate this matter, or should he investigate it himself?
By now, Emperor Chu had also realized that the deaths of the First Prince and the Second Prince might be related to the God-Devil Calamity Poison.
If Emperor Chu secretly ordered the Zhao Xing Office to investigate now, they would inevitably be much faster than Lin Bai working alone.
But Emperor Chu also considered that... a thousand years ago, the Zhao Xing Office and the Three Great Princes had joined forces with the Celestial Mystery Pavilion, exhausting countless manpower and resources, yet they had still been unable to uncover the truth behind the deaths of the First Prince and the Second Prince.
Would sending the Zhao Xing Office to investigate this time really work?
That was the first question Emperor Chu pondered.
The second question Emperor Chu pondered was... if they truly uncovered the culprit, would it still have any meaning given the current situation?
If the truth had come to light a thousand years ago, Emperor Chu would certainly have brought the culprit to justice. But now, his ten-thousandth birthday was fast approaching.
At the birthday celebration, he would announce the candidate for Crown Prince.
If the culprit were discovered at this moment, would he really execute that "culprit"?
The second question Emperor Chu pondered already showed... that he had long since guessed who the culprit was!
It was merely that he had no evidence, and could not make a move against him.
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