At this very moment, all eyes were on them.
With the battle over, Prince Xue Xing led his troops onto the scene. The civilians who had originally kept their distance began trickling over, curious to see what was happening. As the saying went, three men make a tiger: tell a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
Several Titled Douluo had fought in Heaven Dou City, destroying many buildings and causing casualties. And Xue Hen, who had the blood of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family in his veins, had stepped forward and subdued those evil Titled Douluo. What did that mean?
It meant he cared about the safety of the capital, the people, and the imperial family!
Most people would think that way. Prince Xue Xing felt he ought to seize this opportunity to make it stick—at the very least, he had to make sure everyone except Xue Hen believed it.
So the man who had once feared Emperor Xue Ye would misunderstand, and thus kept his distance from Xue Hen and could only help Xue Beng build a bridge between them, changed the way he addressed Xue Hen. Like Emperor Xue Ye, he began calling him Hen'er.
Prince Xue Xing's reasoning was simple. He and His Majesty the Emperor were brothers, and their blood ties to Xue Hen were equally close. If the emperor could call him Hen'er, then there was no reason he couldn't.
But something he never expected happened.
At the sound of "Hen'er," Xue Hen turned to look at him, a trace of confusion on his face. Then he used the Tang Hao in his hand as a Hidden Weapon and hurled him at Prince Xue Xing.
"Thud—"
"Ow!" It hit dead center. Prince Xue Xing, who had been sitting astride his tall horse, was