Inside Qingzhu Hall, it was utterly silent.
After his grandfather finished recording the deposition from his time in prison, he left, leaving Lu Mingyuan to sit alone in the courtyard and think.
'Speak for the nation?'
'How am I supposed to do that?'
'Could it be that the method my grandfather thought up for me will end in failure?'
'But why?'
'I've only met the Demoness of the Demon Kingdom once. How could the Great Nether Empress see through the body double so easily?'
Thinking back to how the Demoness had been escorted to prison, only to leave the Capital City without a hitch…
Lu Mingyuan felt there was something strange about it all.
'Perhaps there's another secret I don't know.'
Lu Mingyuan stood in the courtyard of the Cold Palace, gazing north, unable to find an answer.
However, at this very moment,
the Cabinet's preliminary decision on the royal marriage was spreading rapidly throughout the Imperial Capital, instantly sparking immense controversy.
