Grandfather's Illegitimate Grandson?

Fortunately, everything was calm and uneventful.

They landed smoothly.

The four of them did not run into Xuan Zi or anyone from Shrek along the way.

They returned to Ming City.

It was just that the things Jing Hongchen heard along the way made his expression grow uglier and uglier.

Me?

I'm going to be executed?

The rumors grew more and more exaggerated, from being held accountable, to being beheaded, and then to having his entire clan exterminated.

Jing Hongchen knew it was not that serious, but as a subject, this was, truthfully, a dereliction of duty on his part.

So after putting them down, he hurried toward the imperial palace.

And after Grandfather left, Xiao Hongchen, who had just landed after that heart-stopping escape from Shrek and had finally returned safely to his homeland, felt the last trace of fear in his heart instantly replaced by the swelling sensation of coming home and regaining control of everything.

Especially when he saw the familiar streets around him, the pride that belonged to Xiao Hongchen as the leader of the Sun Moon Empire's younger generation quickly filled him again.

I am the Sun Moon's number one under heaven!

Your king!

Has returned!

Then his gaze instantly fell on Gu Yu.

It was this guy!

During that life-and-death escape from Shrek City, grandfather Jing Hongchen had revealed, in both words and actions, an extreme regard for this young man. There had even been a faint sense that he was taking him as the lead!

That was simply absurd!

He, Xiao Hongchen, the biological grandson of Mingde Hall's hall master Jing Hongchen, a soul-engineering genius the Sun Moon Empire had not seen in a century, someone even Shrek Academy had gone to great lengths to suppress, was the one who should naturally be