Devoted Love

Chu Honglin frowned. "You'd better not ask around about these matters."

Chu Zhiyuan asked in confusion, "Is there some taboo involved?"

"This is what His Majesty least wishes to mention. If you ask around carelessly, you will surely anger His Majesty," Chu Honglin said.

Inwardly, he shook his head and sighed.

This Third Prince truly acted viciously.

Luckily, Zhao'er had asked him. If he had asked someone else and His Majesty heard of it, he would certainly have been punished.

Chu Zhiyuan frowned.

Naturally, he had thought of what Chu Honglin had thought of.

All he could say was, as expected of Third Brother!

Chu Honglin said, "As far as I know, the one who attacked you was indeed from the Devil Race—a Great Heavenly Demon, at that."

"That is strange. Why would they want to kill me? I am not Eldest Brother or Second Brother. If they wanted to kill anyone, it should have been them, shouldn't it? ...Was it because they wanted to kill my mother?"

"Yes, that should be it. To His Majesty, your mother was a fatal weakness."

"If she was a fatal weakness," Chu Zhiyuan said, "then she might also have been the source of his strength."

The deeper his understanding of the Great Brightness Fist became, the more he sensed the principles of light and darkness.

Where there was light, there was darkness; where there was yin, there was yang. The two could even transform into each other.

Chu Honglin froze, seemingly enlightened.

In the end, he slowly nodded.

"The Devil Race was targeting Father," Chu Zhiyuan said, swiftly piecing together the whole chain of events. "They lacked the power to kill my mother and Father directly, so they used me to kill my mother, causing Father's state of mind to collapse... Could it