Dai Weisi's Ecstasy: My Throne is Secure!

"Training?" Nan Feng raised a brow and set down his wine cup. "Then what about the Zhu family girl who had been betrothed to him since childhood and was supposed to live and die alongside him? Did she go training with him too?"

At Nan Feng's pressing question, a sheen of cold sweat instantly appeared on the forehead of the Netherworld Grand Duke, seated at the very end of the lower seats.

He did not dare hesitate in the slightest. He hurriedly rose to his feet and turned halfway aside, revealing a little girl whom he had kept hidden behind himself and deliberately shielded from view.

She was only nine years old, still with a hint of baby fat on her face, petite and frail-looking.

"Y-Your Excellency."

The Netherworld Grand Duke's voice trembled slightly as he pointed to the girl and introduced her. "Th-this is my daughter, Zhu Zhuqing. She is also... the Third Prince's fiancée."

Suddenly exposed to everyone's gaze—especially Nan Feng's intensely oppressive stare—the young Zhu Zhuqing went pale. Terrified, she took half a step forward and shakily performed a noble's curtsy.

Nan Feng's gaze lingered on Zhu Zhuqing for a moment.

At nine, she should have been carefree, cherished in her parents' palms. Yet her eyes held a numbness and despair utterly unfitting for her age.

Nan Feng withdrew his gaze and turned to Dai Tianfeng, his tone gradually growing cold.

"Your Majesty, though I am not from Star Luo, I have heard of your imperial family's rules."

"Princes and their fiancées are bound together from childhood. They cultivate together and compete together. Their glory and ruin are shared—one could say they live and die together."

"Now, this Third Prince has run off to train, yet he left behind the fiancée who was meant to live and