He directly rented a small courtyard at Sincerity Tower. Don't ask—he simply wanted peace and quiet, lest someone disturb his Wen scholar's secluded cultivation and diligent studies.
"What a huge commotion outside. Didn't they say this was the quietest courtyard among all the residences here?"
Bian Chunchou still loved watching a spectacle, so he went outside to take a look, only to find a group of Ironclad Guard soldiers galloping past on horseback. Hadn't riding horses within the imperial city been forbidden? And on Black Tortoise Avenue, no less. Could they have landed in trouble on their very first day here?
"Waiter, these..."
The waiter's face was filled with terror. "Shh—sir, you mustn't make a sound."
Was it really that sinister?!
Only after the clatter of iron hooves had faded far into the distance did the waiter, still looking as though his soul had fled, finally relax. Before leaving, perhaps because Chunchou had tipped generously, he reminded him not to offend the Ironclad Guard.
Bian Chunchou did not understand at the time. It was only the next day, while eating in the main hall, that he learned those people had gone to raid an official's home—and by sheer coincidence, it was the family of the Crown Princess.
"How strange. Wasn't the Crown Prince only installed recently? Why has the Crown Princess's maternal family already fallen? Is that even proper?!" This did not fit his fixed impression of a victor in the struggle for the throne at all.
Bian Chunchou was not the only one baffled. Wen Xu was equally puzzled when he heard it. The Crown Prince had originally been the third prince, and the Third Prince had enjoyed tremendous popular prestige among the common people. Why had things instead gone downhill after he entered the Eastern Palace?
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