After all, Chen Ping clearly remembered what Dai Yueheng had told Dai Huabin in the original story.
[After this tournament, I'll be qualified to graduate from the Inner Court.]
[I'll go home first and prepare for our grand undertaking under Mother's arrangements.]
Dai Yueheng had said this while reprimanding Dai Huabin in the original story, after Dai Huabin's attempt to hire assassins to kill Huo Yuhao had failed and the Duchess had forcibly hushed the matter up.
What could count as a grand undertaking in the White Tiger Duke's household?
What grand undertaking required Dai Yueheng, Dai Huabin, and the Duchess all to get involved?
Although Dai Hao had never revealed any ambition in the original story, always presenting himself as devoted to his country and its people.
Other than rebellion, Chen Ping truly could not think of anything Dai Yueheng would refer to so solemnly as a grand undertaking.
However, the Duchess's later death had been suspicious too. Coupled with Huo Yuhao's meteoric rise, it had led the reigning Star Luo Emperor, Xu Jiawei, to simply quit and stage an abdication, handing the throne to Dai Hao. The matter had thus become an unsolved mystery with no leads whatsoever.
But regardless, Chen Ping had taken one thing to heart: Dai Yueheng, like Dai Huabin, was someone he had to guard against carefully. Rather than befriend people like that, Chen Ping preferred to spend time with that unfortunate kid Huo Yuhao.
At worst, Huo Yuhao's miserable childhood experiences had made him a little extreme. As long as the Tang God King had not stepped in to discipline him those few times, there was still hope for him.
In contrast, there was Dai Huabin, who hired assassins at the slightest disagreement in the original story, and Dai Yueheng, who, upon learning