The blue-robed scholar wore a remarkable expression.
"...Trouble shouldn't be visited on the children. No matter how much these people hated our lord, they shouldn't have treated Her Highness this way." Even ordinary male heirs didn't have so many demons and monsters lurking around them! They'd been careless. Had the Little Highness spent the past two years caught between enemies on all sides, enduring one scheme after another?
They were also to blame for not thinking things through. They'd assumed, without even realizing it, that such filthy tactics would never be used against the Crown Princess. After all, which princess in the past had ever faced these problems? But they'd forgotten that this princess was no ordinary princess. She could rightfully inherit the power in Zhai Le's hands. That power was like a chunk of bloody meat, drawing greedy flies at every hour of the day!
Yu Hai said, "It's come to this. All we can do now is mend the fence after the sheep have escaped."
The blue-robed scholar sighed and agreed, but his thoughts remained on the person at the center of this mess. "How is Her Highness doing?"
Honestly, if he'd suffered such a devastating blow at that age, he wouldn't have been able to accept reality right away either. It didn't matter how many people their lord killed to vent her fury. What mattered was that this mustn't affect Her Highness! Yu Hai's expression darkened as he shook his head.
It was obvious that the Crown Princess wasn't doing well.
"...Did our lord punish Her Highness?"
"No." Zhai Le had been utterly indulgent toward her daughter. When father and daughter first confronted each other, the Crown Princess had tried to stop him from killing someone. He couldn't bring himself to kill her outright, so he'd taken