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What an unguarded child.
Hearing Chu Zhao’s question, Young Master Xie the Third smiled without the slightest hesitation or difficulty: “My status and the Third Prince’s status are heaven-ordained, so we don’t need to discuss our views of each other.”
His answer was quite frank. Heaven-ordained—destined that he and the Third Prince were irreconcilable. Chu Zhao said: “The Third Highness is a very dangerous person. Young Master Xie the Third shouldn’t think that avoiding him means you’ll be safe and sound.”
Was she reminding him that the Third Prince was malicious?
Or could it also be considered declaring her position?
She believed the Third Prince was malicious and should not be approached—
Xie Yanfang looked at this girl, thought for a moment, and asked: “Miss Chu, may I ask—are these words yours, or your father’s intention?”
If she said they were her words, someone like Young Master Xie the Third wouldn’t believe them, would he? Chu Zhao said: “They are my father’s.”
Xie Yanfang sat up straight and gave the girl a proper bow: “Yanfang thanks General Chu for his instruction.”
Chu Zhao accepted the courtesy calmly and spoke more clearly: “Young Master the Third shouldn’t think that no matter how malicious the Third Prince is, he’s just a scholar who can only do what scholars do.”
She looked at Xie Yanfang, lowering her voice.
“The Third Prince will kill, dares to kill, and wants to kill.”
Kill—the Third Prince had actually already killed quite a few people. Xie Yanfang looked at the girl, but he understood the person the girl was referring to now was the Crown Prince.
Will, dares, wants.
Xie Yanfang contemplated carefully for a moment, then said solemnly: “I’ve taken note of it.”
Chu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief: “Young Master the Third, you can never fully comprehend how terrifying the human heart can be, nor imagine what terrible things someone who appears harmless can do.”
Xie Yanfang nodded: “I’ve never dared claim I could see through human hearts, nor dared say I could control anything. The world is unpredictable, human hearts difficult to fathom—no one can confidently guess what will happen the next moment.”
Chu Zhao smiled: “If Young Master the Third can think this way, I’m relieved.”
Xie Yanfang smiled slightly: “Miss Chu, there’s something I don’t want to hide from you. I was about to mention it just now.”
What was it? Chu Zhao quickly asked: “Young Master the Third, please speak.”
“The matter at Chu Garden’s literary gathering—actually, the cause originated with me,” Xie Yanfang said, looking at the girl. “It was I who made the Third Prince furious with shame at you.”
Chu Zhao was stunned. It was actually him!
Watching the girl’s eyes instantly widen, her porcelain-white face no longer showing its earlier mature composure, Xie Yanfang lowered his eyes and smiled. So this was what it meant—human hearts were difficult to fathom, the world unpredictable.
You were still kindly reminding the other party to be careful and guard against someone.
While the other party had actually already used you to provoke that someone, sitting on the wall to watch tigers fight.