"Today, at Xuanwu Gate, my elder brother tried to make a move against me. He wanted to kill me."
After Xu Tianchen spoke those words, the entire bedchamber fell into deathly silence.
Neither Kong Deming nor Ye Yulin spoke. Other than Xu Tianchen, the other three present all fell silent.
"Then... what happened after that?"
Xu Chengjing's slightly trembling voice broke the deathly silence in the bedchamber. Though he already had some guesses in his heart, he still held onto a faint hope that the outcome would differ from what he feared.
After all, he himself had obtained the throne by killing his brothers. Though he had gone through such things before, his circumstances back then had been different from those of the Xu Tianchen brothers.
Moreover, he truly did not wish to see his children at odds with one another, eventually coming to fratricide—especially his two most outstanding sons.
Over the years, he had noticed that the relationship between the two brothers was worsening, so he had done everything he could to mediate between them.
He had always hoped that his children could live peacefully together and support one another until the end, rather than turning against each other in hatred and meeting with blades drawn.
Kong Deming and Ye Yulin, however, did not react much. Xu Tianran had neither blood ties with them nor a compatible personality. In their hearts, Xu Tianran had always only mattered because of Xu Tianchen, and his status was far inferior to Xu Tianchen's.
Xu Tianchen looked at Xu Chengjing and noticed that even his lips were trembling slightly.
Xu Tianchen said nothing. A flash of light passed over his Storage Soul Tool, and a cold corpse appeared on the ground. The face of the corpse was none other than Xu Tianran's!
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