The Fragrant Consort's Death, Your Guilty Subject Gu Changze Pays His Respects to the Dragon Monarch!

A trace of anguish entered Gu Changze's eyes. "How could that possibly be mere hatred?"

"Do you know how I suffered through these past thousand years?"

"I wasn't just a failed husband and father. I wasn't even qualified to be either!"

"Do you know? As a husband, I didn't even have the right to that name, nor could I ever have it."

The Fragrant Consort fell silent for a long time, saying nothing.

Gu Changze continued, "Do you know? For a thousand years, I've relived that night. You were so tender."

"And yet I hated that night so much."

Gu Changqing slowly climbed up from the ground as well, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth as he watched Gu Changze and the Fragrant Consort. He, too, was gravely wounded and had all but lost his chance to contend for the Dragon Monarch's throne.

Gu Changze looked at the Fragrant Consort. "You knew I would give up everything for you."

"But knowing why you were so happy and moved that night-that was the greatest agony."

"Gu Jingming promised you that if you could persuade me to relinquish the Dragon Monarch's throne, he would make you his consort."

"Your joy that day was never for me. How ridiculous. Do you know how much I suffered over these thousand years after learning the truth?"

Among those present were seventh-tier members of the Demon Race from Azure Sea Lake, including Hu Xiaozi and Jiang Zifan. They all knew of the relationship between the Fragrant Consort and Gu Jingming, and their expressions were complicated, tinged with sorrow.

Azure Sea Lake's Second Prince was not the Dragon Monarch's son, but Marquis Changze's.

This was a secret of Azure Sea Lake involving a Dragon Monarch, and no one had known of it.

But one