Chapter 781 He is afraid of women

Qi Yao certainly knew this; she simply chose to ignore it.

"Who knows what he's up to?" Qi Yao seemed to have been hit where it hurt, and her initial quiet complaints gradually escalated into a loss of control.

"A smooth talker, a hypocrite, two-faced, two-timing, and a complete liar. What a bastard and idiot! Who cares what he's really thinking? Just looking at him annoys me!"

After venting her anger, Qi Yao hung up the phone immediately, giving Ye Wanxi no chance to ask any questions.

Ye Wanxi was dumbfounded when she heard the busy tone on the phone. After a long silence, she turned around and called her senior brother.

As soon as the call connected, Feng Tianyu sensed that Ye Wanxi's mood was a bit off, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ye Wanxi took a deep breath and briefly recounted what had just happened. At the end, she couldn't help but complain, "Tell me, what's going on between Senior Sister Qi Yao and Third Senior Brother? I have a feeling it's just Third Senior Brother's wishful thinking."

Feng Tianyu remained silent for a moment, then uttered two words in a low voice: "Serves you right?"

"What?"

"Didn't you notice that the third child has very severe symptoms of gynophobia?"

Ye Wanxi was shocked: "How is this possible? Third Senior Brother, he..."

"That's because it's you. And haven't you noticed that even with you, he rarely makes relatively intimate gestures, especially in our past life?"

Ye Wanxi frowned, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.

When Ye Wanxi was little, her face was very round, the kind of round with baby fat. Several of her senior brothers and even her master liked to pinch her cheeks. Occasionally, when they were happy, they would pick her up and lift her up high.

Only her third senior brother had never pinched her cheek.

In this life, apart from their first meeting, there seemed to be no other intimate interactions between them.

Ye Wanxi hadn't thought much of it before, assuming it was just her third senior brother's mature and steady demeanor, showing he wasn't fooling around with the other senior brothers. She never expected...

"But how could Third Senior Brother..."

Feng Tianyu did not answer immediately, but instead asked, "You should have heard about the third brother's background, right?"

"...I've heard about it. Senior brothers and sisters from other peaks mentioned that Third Senior Brother is a prince of a certain great country, while his mother is just a princess sent to marry a foreign ruler by a small vassal state. I was afraid of bringing up painful memories for Third Senior Brother, so I didn't dare ask him. Is...it true?"

"It's true."

"Is it true that my third senior brother's mother was murdered when he was very young?"

"It's true. However, there's something you might not know."

Ye Wanxi sat up abruptly: "What is it?"

"The third son's mother, who was the little princess sent for the marriage alliance, had already met the third son's father once before she was sent to marry him."

The story of Jun Wuduan's parents is actually quite cliché. The old lecher, traveling incognito, saw the beautiful little princess and, driven by lust, immediately sent people to the small country to discuss the marriage alliance, specifically naming the little princess as his bride.

The poor princess already had someone she loved, but in the end, for the sake of the greater good, she left her homeland and married a foreigner.

Unfortunately, the sincerity of emperors has always been cheap.

Jun Wuduan's mother had only been in the palace for three or five years before she was disliked, and at that time another major event happened.

"The third son's mother died young, not from illness, but from execution."

"Executed? For what reason?"

"Having an affair with a guard."

"Having an affair with a bodyguard? This..."

"It's hard to say whether the two had an affair, but the third son's mother did have an affair with that guard."

Ye Wanxi frowned and pondered for a moment before tentatively asking, "Is this guard the former lover of Third Senior Brother's mother?"

"Yes. When the princess was being sent off to her wedding, her sweetheart accompanied her as a bodyguard all the way, and eventually even stayed in another country to stay by her side. Originally, this would have been fine as long as it wasn't discovered."

"But it was still discovered?"

"right."

When an emperor has three palaces and six courtyards, he can get tired of others, but he cannot accept being cuckolded.

Even if they have no physical intimacy, the mere thought that his woman still harbors feelings for another man is enough to drive a man who has lived his entire life in the praise of others into a rage.

"That man even suspected that the third son wasn't his son, so after killing his mother and the guard, he wanted to kill the third son as well."

Ye Wanxi's heart jumped: "What happened next..."

"The third son was not destined to die. The man wanted to kill him, but was repeatedly thwarted. In the end, after calming down, he was also worried that he would be punished by heaven for accidentally killing his own son."

This sounds a bit far-fetched. You have to know that in ancient times, it was common for emperors to kill their sons.

In a theocratic world, people's reverence for gods, Buddhas, and reincarnation was far deeper than it is today.

The man spared Jun Wuduan out of consideration, but that doesn't mean he could let him continue to be a prince comfortably.

"When Master first met the third son, he was only six years old and was locked in a cage, living with wild animals."

Ye Wanxi's heart skipped a beat: "Wasn't it his mother's former subordinates who sent Third Senior Brother out of the palace that led him to meet Master?"

"No. The so-called former subordinates of his mother were actually the guard's good brother. After the third brother's mother was executed, those who served her were also punished, and this man was the only one who survived. He always wanted to find an opportunity to rescue the third brother, but in the end, he was outnumbered and outmatched. Before he died, he met his master and asked his master to help him send a message to find someone to rescue the third brother."

"Did Master...?"

"The master didn't deliver the letter; he went straight into the palace and rescued the third son."

Aside from Master and Jun Wuduan, probably only Feng Tianyu knows about this in the world.

The royal palace is a place where people fawn over the powerful and opportunistic. Jun Wuduan's mother was already out of place with the other people in the palace because she was of a different race, and Jun Wuduan was even more rejected and disliked by his peers because of his different appearance.

Originally, even if the other concubines in the palace disliked them, they still had to consider the emperor's favor and dared not act rashly.

With Jun Wuduan's mother falling from power, and on such charges no less, he, as a prince, was effectively rendered useless.

Furthermore, the emperor's obvious disgust and dislike emboldened these people, allowing them to torment Jun Wuduan with impunity.

According to Ye Wanxi's master, when he first met Jun Wuduan, he was just a skeleton, tattered and barely clothed, locked up with a ferocious beast that roared loudly, yet there was no fear on his face.

He seemed to have gotten used to it, or perhaps he had become numb. Only his eyes still burned with a chilling flame, reminding his master of a certain animal the moment he saw him.

That's... a wolf!

(End of this chapter)