Mo Ning looked like an upright and honorable gentleman, but in truth, he was interested in doing anything bad. From murder, arson, robbery, and burglary to stealing chickens, pilfering dogs, and frightening children, as long as his happiness could be built upon someone else's suffering, he was willing to do anything.
Mo Lin had no idea how such a vile personality had been nurtured on the isolated Soul Beast Island. All he could say was that people's innate natures could not be generalized; some were born saints, while others were born evil.
To soothe Mo Ning's mood, Mo Lin thought of someone he could mess with: Xue Beng. Xue Beng was exceptionally good at enduring in silence. To avoid being killed by Xue Qinghe, who was impersonated by Qian Renxue, he had pretended to be a debauched young master for more than a decade. In the original story, he kept up the act until Dugu Bo discovered something was wrong and joined Tang San and Yang Wudi in exposing Qian Renxue's disguise, after which he ultimately inherited the throne.
However, this showed that Qian Renxue's political thinking was still lacking and that she had not thought matters through. Qian Renxue had already disguised herself as the eldest son of the Heaven Dou Empire's emperor, so there was no need to begin eliminating rivals so early. Although imperial families were the most ruthless of all, and struggles between princes were perfectly normal, when the emperor still had another ten or twenty years before kicking the bucket, Qian Renxue, as the first in line by age, had already begun dealing with the threatening princes one by one. She was acting far too hastily.
Since the Second Prince had been widely acknowledged as the best successor, and the Heaven Dou Empire did not