Chapter 556: Your Majesty, Please Abdicate in Favor of the Third Prince
Haotian paid no heed to Daji's questioning. Dressed in an ordinary Daoist robe, he held Wu Geng's hand and led him straight into Shouxian Palace.
Seeing only two ordinary people, one adult and one child, Daji immediately waved her hand and ordered the palace guards to drag them outside and behead them. (Daji could not see Haotian's true form.)
"Stop!" King Zhou called out, halting the guards approaching Haotian and Wu Geng.
"Your Majesty?" Daji raised her head and looked at Zi Shou in bewilderment, unable to understand why he had stopped the guards.
Feeling the questioning gaze of the beauty in his arms, King Zhou grew somewhat nervous. He glanced at Haotian, frowned, then asked Wu Geng, "What are you doing here?"
"I..."
"If you have no business here, go back. I will summon you if I need anything." King Zhou waved Wu Geng away impatiently.
At this, Wu Geng looked up at Haotian beside him.
Haotian merely shook his head, his expression seemingly tinged with regret.
Indeed, King Zhou Zi Shou had once marched against the Quanrong with awe-inspiring might. At home, he had appointed worthy ministers such as Shang Rong and Bi Gan, keeping his administration honest and orderly. Yet now... merely for fear of upsetting Daji, he did not even dare acknowledge his own son, insisting on keeping him hidden. How utterly benighted!
Still, compared with his first wife, whose eyes had been gouged out before she was tortured to death, and the two legitimate sons he had personally ordered executed, Wu Geng-the illegitimate son King Zhou had secretly fathered with a palace maid-could count himself relatively fortunate.
With that thought, Haotian waved his hand. A flash of divine light instantly froze every guard