Storm Overheard
Hua Chi hesitated before saying to Mo Shanshan, "They say there may be two Sons of the Underworld King: Ning Que and Wang Yue."
Wang Yue understood at once. Someone wanted to use Xia Hou to kill Ning Que, then use Wang Yue to get rid of Xia Hou, setting him against the Great Tang military.
Wang Yue didn't much care about going up against the Great Tang military. After all, although those people had indeed done a lot for the Great Tang, they were hypocritical when it came to Ning Que.
They loudly proclaimed that they upheld the laws of the Great Tang, yet when Xia Hou and the Prince had murdered civilians and claimed credit for their deaths, they hadn't reacted at all.
After all, Lin Guangyuan had been part of the military, too. If they'd stood up for him back then, things might never have come to this.
If he really ended up at odds with the military, so be it—he could fight. And if he couldn't win, he could always run.
So he asked the question that concerned him more. "Miss Hua Chi, how did you hear that someone suspected I was the Son of the Underworld King?"
Lu Chenjia glanced at Wang Yue and hesitated before finally gritting her teeth and saying, "I heard that when Wang Yue entered Chang'an in the thirteenth year of Tianqi, the Xiling Divine Palace saw that the Clear Text Scroll of the Heavenly Books had been opened. It had been open for quite a while, so they were able to work out the location of the Heavenly Books. At the time, Wang Yue was the only person in that room."
Wang Yue was taken aback. He hadn't realized he'd been exposed back then. So the reason he'd