Shea soon met "someone's future little empress wife" and her younger sister, who had been "so utterly bewitched that she would marry no one but that someone."
Shea did not greet the timid-looking Tiffany with a cold face. Instead, she was exceedingly polite and friendly—not only because of Tiffany's future status, but even more because she genuinely sympathized with her and understood her feelings.
In truth, Shea and Alice were not Crown Prince Green's only children. Alice had an older brother as well. The boy had been hidden away by Green from the moment he was born. On the surface, Green had raised Shea to be the lord of Dark Moon, but in reality, he regarded that son as his true heir. Unfortunately, not long after Alice was born, Shea's mother and younger brother died in an "accident."
That "accident" had been orchestrated single-handedly by the Regent Heiyao. Green had thought he could deceive heaven and cross the sea, never realizing that his plan had long been seen through by someone with ulterior motives. Since Green's son had been born in secret, unlike Shea, Heiyao did not need to consider the pressure from General George and the others. He struck in the shadows without restraint, leaving Green to suffer in silence.
Green had already been afflicted by hidden injuries. This incident filled him with grief and fury beyond measure, and in the end, his old wounds flared up and claimed his life.
To put it bluntly, Shea, the Eldest Princess of Dark Moon, had merely been a decoy to draw enemy fire. To make her a convincing decoy, Green killed all her friends and forcibly twisted her personality, turning her into a cold and ruthless, qualified decoy.
Only after that boy died an unnatural death did Green truly give up.