"But, but..."
Lin Feng had never known she could stammer so badly.
The shock this news gave her was simply beyond what she could bear. She knew the royal family was complicated, but deep down, she still couldn't believe something like this could happen. She had meant to argue, but the words reached her lips, turned in a circle, and were swallowed back down.
Gongxi Chou asked, "But what?"
Lin Feng's thousand words and ten thousand thoughts boiled down to a single sigh.
"...That Highness is far too young. It's just... What I mean is, something like this shouldn't happen to a child of that age." Lin Feng's words were a bit of a luxury for people living in troubled times. If people were only supposed to do things appropriate to their age, what about the children who died in the fires of war? Lin Feng herself would have died young if not for her good luck.
Gongxi Chou said, "Children don't kill people."
Martial Gall Warriors rarely went without bloodshed.
And Zhai Le couldn't possibly have taught his daughter only how to be a benevolent ruler.
Lin Feng's silence didn't stop Gongxi Chou from continuing. "Besides, Lin Mama doesn't know much about martial artists. After sensing Heaven and Earth Qi and condensing their Martial Spirit, their bodies enter a period of rapid growth over the following years. Three to five years can equal more than a decade for an ordinary person. Not only does the body mature, but their thinking also approaches that of an adult. This continues until they near their prime, at which point it stops, and they remain in that state for a long time."
Lin Feng knew this, of course. It was common knowledge.
Knowing it and seeing it in reality were still different.
Besides—