No wonder Ying Five speculated that the crown prince may have been killed by Xia Longyuan himself… Only if Xia Longyuan had done it himself would Tang Wanzhuang and the others’ silence be justified, as well as why the Wang Clan had suddenly turned against him. Otherwise, such a serious political incident should have resulted in widespread bloodshed throughout the nation. Even if an explanation was given, heads should have rolled, yet there had never been any reports of turmoil due to this matter.0

Thus, either Xia Longyuan had other reasons for preventing Tang Wanzhuang and the others from investigating, or he had simply killed the crown prince himself.0

But he only said that he had been considering killing the crown prince, without specifying if he actually had gone through with it. He had also not said anything about why the crown prince had only died around a year ago when it seemed like he had been considering killing him much earlier… All of this made Zhao Changhe so frustrated that he did not want to talk about the crown prince anymore. He would much rather go back to talking about himself and Xia Chic...0