While everyone else at the arena felt only shock and greed, two people were gripped by far more complicated emotions!
Dai Yueheng's face was filled with disbelief. He stared fixedly at the confident Huo Yuhao, and after watching him produce twelve soul bones, a sense of crisis surged through his heart!
As far as he was concerned, there was absolutely no way Huo Yuhao could have acquired so many soul bones himself at his age.
Someone had to be backing Huo Yuhao, and within the Star Luo Empire, the only power capable of producing that many soul bones was the imperial family!
In other words, Huo Yuhao was very likely a puppet supported by the imperial family!
The White Tiger Lineage had always adhered to the iron-blooded principles of its ancestors. Succession to the title of White Tiger Duke had always meant the capable rose while the incapable stepped down.
Age and legitimacy had nothing to do with it. Huo Yuhao's ostentatious appearance was undoubtedly meant to catch his father's attention. Then he could reveal his identity, return to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, and compete with Dai Yueheng for the title of White Tiger Duke.
What a cunning scheme, Uncle!
Even if he had to stake everything on today's match, he could not lose.
If he could reach that conclusion, how could the White Tiger Duchess fail to? She held every affair of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion firmly in her grasp. She had even concealed the existence of the White Tiger Duke's illegitimate son for over a decade and secretly planned to help her husband rebel. No one could possibly claim she lacked cunning!
Suddenly, the White Tiger Duchess felt that her elder brother was a stranger, as though she were seeing Xu Jiawei for the first time.