Getting Ready to Wrap Things Up!

The Third Prince's return gave Mingdu a shot in the arm, letting everyone know the Sun Moon Empire still had a future and dispersing the panic caused by the destruction of Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Mingde Hall.

But when some were happy, others were naturally worried.

The most worried were naturally the people of the crown prince's faction. So, at the call of the Crown Prince's Mansion's advisers, the crown prince's faction secretly gathered at the Crown Prince's Mansion and held a small meeting.

Even now, the information that Xu Tianran was already dead still had not spread.

For one thing, the only one of their own in the palace who knew about this—namely the Queen—no longer had the heart to pay attention to these people outside. Right now, the Queen and the consort were locked in a fierce struggle.

With the Third Prince's return, the Queen's side gradually fell into a disadvantage. The Queen knew she might be doomed, but she did not want to simply accept her fate. Instead, she wanted to go mad one last time—not to seek survival, but to avenge Xu Tianran. No one knew what she was secretly plotting.

The Queen, like Yu Manwu back then, had gone mad after her son died.

For another, this matter was also deliberate on Kong Deming and the others' part. They wanted the originally powerful crown prince's faction to unite, then deal with them all together in the end.

The Sun Moon Empire could no longer endure another great upheaval. In the matter of the Third Prince's succession, every unstable factor had to be resolved with thunderous methods, and no future trouble could be left behind.

And after the meeting at the Crown Prince's Mansion was convened, the nobles and officials who ultimately came