Why should he lie?

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He could feel the change in her mood suddenly and felt a deep desire to ask what had happened but he did not.

They were not that close to getting a right to pray in her life. She was.. Just the empress.

Though he could feel the warmth she was trying to pass but he could not ignore the fact that she was Luci's mother.

In the future, the competition for the post of the emperor was bound to happen. His father had killed all his brothers for that position.

Being an emperor was nothing but massacre and these relationships were nothing but a chain to bound him.

He was not going to sway. Yet.. if he would not have been the crown prince, would life have been different for him?

Would their relationship have been different? He did not let the wall around his heart fall.

He could not let the possibility go that it was all a facade to gain his trust so that she could stab him in his back.