Zu An said with a bitter smile, “Crown princess, you’re normally pretty smart. Why did you only realize this now?”

“What’s going on?” Bi Linglong was full of shock. She instinctively backed up away from Zhao Ruizhi, instead feeling safer by Zu An’s side.

Zu An sighed. “He isn’t the crown prince, but rather his majesty. Uh… I shouldn’t call him his majesty, because his majesty is also the crown prince.”

Bi Linglong was stupefied. “What… do you mean?”

Zu An stared at Zhao Ruizhi, on guard against a sudden attack, while quickly explaining, “For the sake of pursuing immortality, he used a possession technique on the crown prince when he was little, sending a portion of his own soul into the crown prince’s body to replace his fate soul. This soul portion usually stays asleep. The crown prince is stupid because he lacks his fate soul. However, when needed, the...