“Tai Yu, how long have I been here?” Zhou Xuzi asked after a long sigh.

“My lord, you’ve been here for over two months,” Honorable Tai Yu said.

“Two months…” Zhou Xuzi murmured in a daze. “And here I thought a century had passed.”

Honorable Tai Yu looked away to hide the pain in his expression.

Zhou Qingchen’s death—especially the way he had died—had been a huge blow to Zhou Xuzi.

Since then, he had been racked by the pain of losing his son, regret toward his late wife, and self-loathing.

Who would’ve thought that the former God Child Messiah, Yun Che, could become this vicious and cruel after he turned into a devil?

Zhou Xuzi then said, “It is time to crown a new prince.”

Honorable Tai Yu was slightly caught off guard. He was about to say that it was too soon considering that Zhou Qingchen had only just passed away when he realized something.

The fastest way to wipe Zhou Qingchen from memory was to crown a new prince. Besides that, it would divert the world’s attention from the cause of his death and alleviate the pain in Zhou Qingchen’s heart.

“Is it Qingfeng?” Honorable Tai Yu asked. It was phrased as a question, but he was aware that Qingfeng was the best and only choice.

Zhou Xuzi nodded. “I have wronged him long enough.”

Zhou Qingchen was very talented, but he definitely wasn’t the most talented of Zhou Xuzi’s descendants. The only reason he was selected to be the Crown Prince was because he was the only son of his first wife. Zhou Xuzi...