Falling Out

"Alas..." Chu Honglin sighed. "This time, Yang'er took a hard fall."

Chu Zhiyuan smiled.

Chu Honglin said, "Xuan'er talks a lot, but he has never struck so ruthlessly before. Besides, he and Yang'er never had any major conflict."

"Fifteenth Uncle, how do you know Third Brother and Second Brother have no major conflict?"

"What conflict could the two of them possibly have?" Chu Honglin said. "If there is one, it should be with your eldest brother, shouldn't it?"

"Fifteenth Uncle, outsiders find the relationships within this very hard to see clearly."

"Then tell me."

"I can't explain it clearly either." Chu Zhiyuan said, "The feeling involved is very subtle."

"Then Yang'er really has a woman outside who looks very much like the Twelfth Princess?"

"Yes."

"Alas... that foolish boy!" Chu Honglin lamented. "Why go that far?"

No wonder the Emperor Brother had flown into a rage and unleashed thunderous wrath. It was truly too degrading, too far beneath his station.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "I wronged Third Brother as well. I originally thought he merely coveted Twelfth Princess's Divine Race Bloodline. Only now did I learn that he was also infatuated with her beauty."

"Heh, he would have been better off merely coveting her Divine Race Bloodline."

"I think a Third Brother like this is rather more endearing."

"Haha... endearing? Hahaha!"

"Third Brother is gloomy all day long. No one knows what he is thinking, yet it turns out he is so devoted in love."

"After Emperor Brother scolded him like that, Yang'er's reputation has plummeted. Unless his cultivation surges dramatically and far surpasses Liechu's, otherwise..."

As he spoke, he shook his head.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "This may let him bury himself in cultivation wholeheartedly and unswervingly. It may not be a bad thing."

"That is true." Chu Honglin nodded. "Cast