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Princess Royale... Is she really that formidable?

The Crown Prince was somewhat bewildered. From the rumors he’d heard in his childhood, he knew that his aunt was no mere decorative princess, but to say she could contend with the Duke of Qin, wasn’t that an exaggeration?

Even His Majesty, his father, probably couldn’t make such a claim, right?

"What? Does the Crown Prince not believe it?" The Princess Royale said with a teasing smile.

A hint of embarrassment appeared on the Crown Prince’s face, and he hastily waved his hands, "I didn’t mean..."

"It’s alright." The Princess Royale laughed and said, "Who is the Duke of Qin? The foremost duke of Great Jin, who persuaded seventy percent of the lords to surrender, and who was once universally acknowledged as the King of Qin’s top military general.

How could I, a frail woman, compare to him, right or not? "

"Uh..." The Crown Prince was taken aback and unconsciously took a step back, sensing that something was amiss.

It wasn’t because of his aunt’s confidence, but rather her words. The term ’King of Qin’ was a taboo within the Imperial Family, usually not to be mentioned lightly, let alone openly discussing the past relationship between the Duke of Qin and the King of Qin.

"You’re quite clever..." The Princess chuckled, "Realizing that something is off. Indeed, you are precociously intelligent!"

"You..." The color drained from the Crown Prince’s face, a look of disbelief overtaking him!

This secret... how could she know this secret?

Countless memories surged in his mind.

He was a Reincarnator, with memories of his past life.

Different from other children from birth, he didn’t cry much, only crying after being spanked by the midwife, and at three months old, while his father was at war and his mother was weak after giving birth, it was often the Duke of Qin who came to see him.

He keenly detected his secret.

When no one was paying attention, the Duke of Qin said to him, "If you must act like a child, at least make it convincing. The world is a dangerous place, and if your abnormality is discovered, you’ll die quickly!"

From then on, thanks to Uncle Lu’s warning, he began to be extremely cautious, concealing his precocious talents and behaving like the other children, naive and playful, especially after witnessing many dark facets of his father, the Emperor.

Especially after his eldest brother’s death!

He became even more cautious, deliberately exhibiting negative traits, such as hypocrisy, weakness, and cruelty...

He was just an ordinary Reincarnator, and he didn’t want to be involved in the dreadful royal power struggles.

He merely wanted to reveal his disadvantages so that his second brother would ascend to the throne, allowing him, once he came of age, to have his own fief and stay far away from his terrifying father and the sinister politics of Capital City.

But soon enough, his second brother died on the battlefield.

His death came exceedingly sudden, declared as a casualty of war, but it instilled terror in him because he had always felt his brave and skilled second brother should not have died in battle.

He wanted to flee, but he couldn’t because now he was his father’s only pure-blooded child.

Frankly, he would have preferred not to possess any talent of the Golden Crow Bloodline, but that thing... was impossible to hide!

Once he became the Crown Prince, he could only continue to hide his nature and reveal his worst side...

He had no choice but to keep hiding, and this concealment... lasted for over thirty years!

Even as a Reincarnator, such repression for thirty years could drive one to madness...

So oftentimes, his cruelty wasn’t feigned, but a genuine desire to vent, and in this half-real, half-fake state, everyone became even more convinced that he was a Crown Prince far inferior to his elder and second brothers.

But he never expected that after so many painful years of such a fa?ade, the person in front of him would actually know about it?

"What are you talking about, Aunt? I don’t understand..." The Crown Prince’s face paled, clinging to a last sliver of hope.

"Tsk..." The Princess Royale clucked her tongue and led the somewhat dazed Crown Prince out toward the valley. Unbeknownst to him, they were heading into an increasingly remote area.

"Pretending for thirty years, you’d think there’d be at least some improvement, at least the ability to keep your composure in face of important matters, yet look at you now.

.." The Princess Royale shook her head with a look of pity, "Indeed, no matter how much you try to transform, if you are inherently a worm, you can never become a dragon! "

Transform?

The Crown Prince swallowed hard, his wishful thinking disappearing without a trace as he suddenly looked around. Only then did he realize he had been led to a desolate place. Panic-stricken and with his Bloodline Power erupting, he nervously faced his own aunt!

"Don’t embarrass yourself with your little tricks..." Watching the Crown Prince’s eruption of the Golden Crow Bloodline, the Princess sighed and gently patted his shoulder. A great pressure made his rising flames of the Golden Crow forcefully contract back!

That almost instinctive fear from deep within his body made his Bloodline Power dissipate into nothingness!

The Crown Prince looked at the woman before him with horror. Indeed, her bloodline power was as mighty as the rumors claimed, not at all inferior to Father’s!

"Aunt... how did you find out?"

After a long while, the Crown Prince finally mustered the courage to ask.

"How did I find out?" The Princess Royale looked at the Crown Prince and at last, couldn’t help but let out a snort of laughter, followed by a fit of breathless, uproarious laughter.

"What is the meaning of this, Aunt?" The Crown Prince’s face turned ugly. Even if she had noticed, was there a need to ridicule him to such an extent?

He touched his arm, where there were marks left by the Duke of Qin. The man had told him that whenever he called, at any time, at any place, he could arrive by his side in a short time!

He had tried it once when he was very young... the man... had not lied to him!

So, for thirty years, two beliefs had supported him: one was that his disguise was solid, with no one noticing his true ingenuity within, and the second was that he had the greatest backer, the mightiest military general of Great Jin, the Duke of Qin, who even Father apprehended, and he was on his side!

But this time was different from the last. His fingers had barely touched the mark when a flash of white light passed and by the time he realized it, his arm with the mark was gone, and immediately after that... blood gushed out, and an intense pain overwhelmed his last bit of mental defense!

"Ahhhh!"

The scream echoed tragically throughout the valley, with no one to respond...

The Princess Royale held the Crown Prince’s severed arm with a smile, admiring the black patterns on it: "Lumings really is generous. Even in such a state, he still bound you with his essence blood, fearing that something might happen to you, the Reincarnator."

"Reincarnator..." The Crown Prince fell to his knees, looking at her, his eyes filled with despair. This was the first time he had heard the term Reincarnator, but he understood it completely – she had always known his secret!

"What a pity..." The Princess said with a teasing smile, stepping forward and caressing the Crown Prince’s pale face: "It’s fake!"

"Fake?" The Crown Prince’s pupils shrank, shocked once again: "What do you mean?"

"I mean it literally..." The Princess said with a covered laugh: "Everything about you is fake, including the identity of the Reincarnator that Lumings believes in!"

"Fake... fake..." The Crown Prince’s face was filled with confusion, a tremendous unease washing over him: "What exactly do you mean by that?"

"Let’s start from the beginning..." The Princess Royale looked towards the twilight sky and said lightly: "In this world, there exists a kind of being called the Reincarnator.

Each time they appear, they bring earth-shattering changes to the world, and there have been two such instances in history! "

"The first was during the Sorcerer Dynasty. A group of Reincarnators appeared back then, which is recorded only in the deepest secrets of ancient Sorcerer Families. It was the most terrifying instance. A group of people who didn’t follow the rules almost overthrew the entire world.

Everyone thought that their arrival would completely rewrite the fate of the Human Race.

They certainly had the capacity to do so, but in the end. .."

At this point, the Princess Royale’s tone turned icy: "They did not do so. After briefly establishing prosperity for the Human Race, they betrayed it. The precise reasons are unknown, but ultimately, the Human Race fell back into chaos, and the existence of these Reincarnators became taboo."

"The second instance, you must have heard of it, was the King of Qin, a Demon concealed by the family, who nearly unified the Central Plains.

.." As the Princess mentioned this, her eyes were full of mockery looking at the Crown Prince: "Which Reincarnator isn’t a unique existence of a prestigious family? Do you think... you’re worthy? "

The Crown Prince: "...."

"The Lu Family is one of the few ancient families that has survived since the era of the Sorcerer Families.

" The Princess Royale spoke with a teasing smile: "Our family records contain information about the first batch of Reincarnators.

Those records are exceedingly secret; even for me and your father, not to mention the King of Qin from that time, it was impossible to uncover the truth from Lumings. "

"But I knew he had his designs on the Reincarnators. Although I didn’t know his purpose, if I tried to create one, he would surely take the bait!"

"Create one?" The Crown Prince suppressed the unease in his heart and once again gathered the courage to ask: "How to create?"

"Just alter some memories." The Princess said with a teasing smile: "It’s indeed troublesome to stuff a child’s mind with a bunch of nonsensical memories, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible, does it?"

The Crown Prince: "!!!"

In an instant, he understood...

"It was you!!"

The Crown Prince’s eyes reddened, veins throbbing with blood, his voice hoarse with strain: "The one who killed my mother... it was you!!"

How could he not understand at this moment?

Chaos in his memories, there was only one thing in this world that could do such a thing!

The mastermind behind bringing the Thousand-Faced Fox into the Capital City was right before his eyes!!

Who could have imagined that the person conspiring with the Demon, aiming to cut off the lifeblood of the Imperial Clan, would be the most powerful woman in Great Jin!

"Why did you do this?"