Huo Yuhao's accusation was gravely serious. A clash whose cause had already been murky had suddenly escalated into a potential fuse for renewed war between the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire.
Watching from the side, Zhu Jing, the Zhu Family's eldest son, could not help looking grave. A powerful man who had risen to the office of Chancellor, he quickly saw through Huo Yuhao's intentions after his brief surprise.
The Zhu Family and the Dai Family had been joined by marriage for generations, so he naturally paid attention to news about the Dai Family and had heard of its third son, born to a concubine. The story of how the still-young Huo Yuhao had dared travel alone to the Borderlands to find the White Tiger Duke for his mother's sake had become a celebrated tale among the Star Luo Empire Nobles.
It was then that he had learned that even the iron-blooded White Tiger Duke had a tender side.
Of course, there was nothing unusual about nobles having several wives and concubines. Had one of the Zhu Family women of his generation married the White Tiger Duke and become the Duchess, the Zhu Family would not have forbidden him from taking concubines.
But for a principal wife to scheme so relentlessly to suppress a seemingly harmless concubine inevitably called her magnanimity into question. Even the Empress would not say much about other consorts she disliked.
Zhu Jing knew about this long-standing feud within the Dai Family, but that knowledge only made him break out in a cold sweat.
In little more than a decade, the Dai Family's illegitimate son named Huo Yuhao had grown to an unfathomable level. Even Zhu Jing could not see through his restrained, immeasurably deep cultivation. Now, as Huo Yuhao stopped containing his