Before long, the guards found more than a dozen boxes of various sizes in the backyard of the Crown Prince's residence.

Long Zhen opened it and exclaimed, "Tsk tsk, so many treasures, and Your Highness is still dragging your feet on returning them? Your Highness is disregarding the Emperor's words!"

Sikong Yu was completely bewildered; where did all these boxes come from?

He sold everything in his mansion, and only managed to raise 20 million! He gave it all to the people in the Ghost Market.

When Longzhen opened the box, he was greeted by a dazzling array of various magical artifacts.

More than a dozen boxes were opened together and placed at the entrance of the Crown Prince's residence.

Long Zhen: "Your Highness is truly a man of his word. You called off the engagement just like that, and you returned the items just like that! However, the items on my young lady's list are worth 30 million spirit stones, so our Jun family will only accept 30 million. Your Highness, please keep the rest safe."

There were more than a dozen boxes. Long Zhen had his guards move eight boxes away, leaving eight boxes remaining.

However, all of these boxes were opened in public.

Sikong Yu still couldn't figure out where these boxes came from. His Crown Prince's storeroom was clearly empty.

The bustling street was crowded with onlookers.

"Was His Highness so wealthy?"

"So many spirit stones..."

"Even a single one of those magical artifacts would be worth a million, right?"

"I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince has also purchased Spirit Gathering Elixir!"

"Spirit Gathering Elixir? Wow! That's worth thirty million!"

The onlookers were astonished; thirty million was beyond their comprehension.

That's too much! They'll never see 30 million in their entire lives.

Long Zhen thoughtfully had the box carried back to the Crown Prince's residence: "From today onwards, my young lady has nothing to do with you anymore. Your Highness, don't regret it."

In the past, Long Zhen would not have dared to make such outrageous remarks, but since that night, he has changed his mind.

How could a good-for-nothing like Sikong Yu be worthy of the young lady?

One day, Sikong Yu will surely regret it.

"Heh, of course I, the Crown Prince, will not regret breaking off my engagement with a piece of trash," Sikong Yu sneered.

He felt something was very wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Where did these boxes come from?

Sikong Yu's eyelids twitched wildly, but—with these boxes, all his current predicaments could be easily resolved.

He could also befriend the Ghost Doctor, and if the Ghost Doctor could help him... Thinking of this, Sikong Yu didn't bother to think about why these boxes had appeared out of thin air in the warehouse.

He ordered his men to carry the boxes back to the warehouse.

Just as they were carrying the last one, a palm strike came down, and Sikong Yu was thrown off his chair.

"Your Highness! Don't you owe me an explanation?!"

Mu Nan tossed out a jade pendant, which was Sikong Yu's personal jade pendant, found last night in the burned-down warehouse.

"Master Mu, how dare you! How dare you!" Sikong Yu spat out a mouthful of blood as guards blocked Mu Nan's path.

Mu Nan was blinded by rage; this was the foundation of his Mu family's business built over many years!

He used his spiritual power to open the box, and its contents spilled all over the ground.

Gold, silver, jewelry, spiritual stones, and magical artifacts!

These things looked incredibly familiar to Mu Nan, because they belonged to his Mu family!

"The Mu family was robbed last night. Why are the items from my storeroom in the Crown Prince's residence? And why is His Highness the Crown Prince's jade pendant in the Mu family's house?!"

"How could I possibly know that these things suddenly appeared in the Crown Prince's residence?"

Sikong Yu broke out in a cold sweat. These things... actually belonged to the Mu family!

How could something from the Ke Mu family end up in the Crown Prince's residence?

Sikong Yu then realized that he had been tricked.

"Patriarch Mu, please listen to my explanation. I have absolutely no connection with the theft of the Mu family!" Sikong Yu tried to explain.

"Heh, Crown Prince! My Mu family is heavily guarded. Only those familiar with the terrain and defenses of my Mu family can operate without anyone noticing," Mu Qing sneered.

"Are you suspecting that I, the Crown Prince, stole something from the Mu family?"

"Otherwise, how could these things have appeared in your Crown Prince's residence?"

Mu Qing said coldly, "Your Highness, I never expected that someone of royal blood would do such a despicable thing!"

"I have never done such a thing!" Sikong Yu roared. "Get out of my residence!"

"Whether or not it was done, it cannot be cleared of suspicion by His Highness the Crown Prince's word alone."

Previously, the Mu family had always been on the same side as the Crown Prince.

But because of this incident, they completely broke off relations! Sikong Yu certainly knew what this meant.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Sikong Yu, and he remembered something.

"It's someone from the Jun family! The Jun family framed me, the Crown Prince!"

Be aware of this.

Sikong Yu was so angry he felt like vomiting blood. Why did the people of Longzhen find these boxes so accurately in the warehouse? And why did they deliberately display them in public?

"Keep these words for His Majesty."

"Prime Minister Mu, you must believe me! How could I possibly steal from the Mu family?"

Even if Sikong Yu had a hundred mouths, he couldn't explain himself. Once this label was pinned on him, he was completely finished.

Not only have we lost the Mu family's support, but Father Emperor will surely be furious!

Sikong Yu dared not imagine how miserable his fate would be if this matter reached his father, the Emperor.

"Prime Minister Mu, I, the Crown Prince, guarantee with my personal integrity that I absolutely did not do this. Moreover, I stayed in my residence all night last night and never left." Sikong Yu, disregarding his injuries, hurriedly explained.

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