Dugu Qianye suddenly came to, puzzled as to how he ended up in front of Dugu Qianye. He then realized what he had just said and turned to see Dugu Qianye enveloped in a cold aura, while everyone else was glaring at him with fury.
"Father, I…"
"Enough!" Dugu Qianye looked at Dugu Qianye with a pained expression and said, "I've heard everything that should and shouldn't have been said! I never imagined you would want the throne so badly, that you'd even betray everyone for it!"
Dugu Qianye looked at Dugu Qianye and said, "Yes, I want it. If you hadn't been hiding it and even planned to pass it to him after he was born, would I have done this? If you and those ministers hadn't clung to traditions and refused to acknowledge a master, would I have thought to collude with outsiders? You all want to stay here forever, but I don't! I want to go out into the world! If being someone else's slave means I could go out, why couldn't I do it?!"