118 A Piece of Puzzle (1/2)

With a start, he realised that it was the look of a person who had stared into the deep abyss and found it staring back at them.

A look that was only supported by people who have watched their entire world burn and scatter into the wind like ash in front of them as they watched helplessly, without the power to stop the carnage.

It was the look of a person who had lost their very reason to live and was just breathing to go through the motions and didn't care for the life and death of their person.

And another puzzle piece of the monarch slotted itself into Ning Fu's mind and seared it with a deeper understanding.

From that look, Ning Fu knew that the person the monarch loved had departed from the mortal world and if he recalled correctly, the monarch had begged and knelt to someone to spare the life of his beloved and cut a retreat root for him but it seemed that it was to no avail.

The one that occupied the monarch's heart had still died and it seemed like the monarch's heart had died along with it.

This acute understanding made him comprehend many other snippets of information he had intentionally or unintentionally heard.

First, the monarch and his beloved had been caught unaware of whatever situation that had propagated the end.

Second, the monarch had given up his self-esteem and self-respect to abase himself at another's feet to spare his beloved.

Third, the monarch had obviously failed at it and it had marked the end of that person.

Fourth, the monarch blamed himself for the outcome thinking that he could have done something else to save the said person.

Fifth, Zhou Sheng had been involved in all of this somehow but he had also failed in rescuing the two people before things took a turn for the worse.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

He recalled the shouting match between his brother and the monarch a few days ago when the monarch had said that he had wanted to ask his father –the late emperor for help but the message had been instead been delivered to Zhou Sheng, by mistake.

Sixth, whatever had happened had left deep emotional scars on everyone involved.

What Ning Fu couldn't comprehend was the look of that Zhou Sheng supported whenever this topic was brought up.

Was the guilt for not being able to save the monarch's beloved?

Or was it because Zhou Sheng had failed to live up to what he thought the monarch expected of him?

Or was it something else that had been going on behind the scenes and Zhou Sheng had been privy to it but had intentionally or unintentionally kept the information from the monarch?