Chapter 453: A Little Fatter (2) (1/2)

He Changdi shared a carriage with Prince Jin.

They hadn’t met in a long time but they still got along like they hadn’t parted.

Prince Jin seemed much more haggard than before. There was now a gloomy cast to his abnormal azure eyes. He had also become thinner.

He Changdi glanced at his close friend and personally filled his cup.

The alcohol warming up over the brazier today was milk wine, a local specialty of the north. Its alcohol content was low and it was nourishing for the body. They wouldn’t get drunk on it either, so it fit this occasion very well.

“Your Highness, did you find anything while investigating the corruption in Zhangzhou?”

The gentle and refined Prince Jin kept his silence for a while, before raising the small cup and downing the alcohol like it was a form of release. He then picked up the pot of wine and downed another three cups before he managed to calm his emotions.

“Ah-di, I found something.”

He Sanlang’s eyes were as dark as the boundless night sky when he looked towards his friend. Nothing changed in his expression, as if he had already expected the answer.

Prince Jin’s brows drew together and he tightened his grip on the cup, “Ah-di, you knew this would happen a long time ago, didn’t you?”

He Sanlang also downed his cup of milk wine in one go. His silence was as good as an answer.

“Back then, before you left for Liangzhou. You suggested that I should investigate this case because you already guessed what was happening.”

Bitterness surfaced at the bottom of He Sanlang’s heart. He hadn’t guessed it at all. He had experienced it all himself once! That agony was something he didn’t want his friend to experience again. Since he had reincarnated, he had to let his good friend see for himself the true nature of that pair of mother and son!

“Even though I’m a close friend of Your Highness, there are some things that you wouldn’t believe even if I said it outright.” He Sanlang finally spoke up.

The light in Prince Jin’s azure eyes faded even more. He stared into thin air blankly for a while, before letting out a chuckle, “You’re right. If I hadn’t seen it for myself… If It hadn’t investigated it myself… I wouldn’t have believed it even if you said it right to my face.”

However, now the ugly truth had been presented right in front of him. He had no other choice but to believe it!

What a joke!

So the people he had cared for the most had always thought of him as a chess piece that could be sacrificed at any time.

He was merely a shield for the Crown Prince.

In He Sanlang’s past life, Prince Jin had been framed and sentenced to death because he had blindly trusted the ones he cared about so much.

Back then, even though He Sanlang had warned him, Prince Jin hadn’t taken what he had said seriously.

Much later when the matter had been brought to light, it had been revealed that Prince Jin had been framed. By that time, despite wanting to save his best friend, He Sanlang had his hands tied because House Jing’an itself had been in imminent danger.