In the bedroom, Niu Yuanshan's face immediately lit up with extreme excitement when he heard His Highness the Prince's question.
This made Prince Rui's Heir feel rather puzzled as he watched his expression.
Could this Huo Ding Yi actually have a surprise for me?
Old Niu's face flushed red. His voice rose several degrees, and it even carried a slight tremor.
"Your Highness, Huo Ding Yi is Chu Huai Xu!"
Even with Prince Rui's Heir's unflappable composure, he could not help shifting restlessly at that moment.
"What!?"
Chu Huai Xu, the Champion of the East Continent, was a spy sent out by the Moon Kingdom?
In an instant, the young man's first reaction was to feel his scalp go numb!
His right hand, which had been resting flat on the table, suddenly clenched into a fist.
This was beyond all description as simply absurd.
He swallowed with difficulty and did his best to maintain the bearing of a member of the imperial family.
Prince Rui's Heir's tone sank. Putting on an air of calm, he gave a faint smile with his thin lips, though it carried a trace of insincerity.
"So, in a few days, I'll be fighting Huo Ding Yi?"
"The so-called East-West Continent Grand Competition is ultimately just an internal struggle within my Moon Kingdom?"
The so-called members of the organization were merely hounds serving beneath the imperial family—Imperial Hounds.
They had been brainwashed to this extent solely so they could be sacrificed.
They would offer up everything they had, including their lives.
His father had always taught him to treat the world as a Chessboard and all living beings as chess pieces.
He had to possess a top-down perspective that overlooked the entire situation.
People like those in the organization were the best chess pieces when viewed