Ares didn't dare relax his tense body until he had left Sofie Manor and returned to his car. The news he had learned from Her Majesty the Queen today had hit him with a massive shock.
As calm as he usually was, he found what he had just witnessed almost too much to bear.
He couldn't help but wonder if he had simply been too young and misremembered. 'Maybe I never saw a similar portrait before,' he thought. 'Or even if I did, it wasn't my Father. It wasn't the same person.'
How could his Father be Prince Li Ke?
But at the same time, a flood of previously ignored details surfaced one by one after his meeting with Her Majesty the Queen.
Why did Buck never go to the Emperor Star? Why did he sometimes sit alone in the courtyard late at night, drinking himself into a stupor? And who was in that lone photograph—taken from behind—in his study drawer?
All the questions he had once been curious about but could never answer now flooded his memory.
