disillusionment

As for this person, Su Lin recognized him directly.

This was Prime Minister Gu, the same person who had brought the Seventh Prince out of seclusion and informed him of the news of the murder of the previous emperor and all the people in the royal palace at that time.

As for this person, even the Seventh Prince, whose entire life was training and who did not care about anything outside of that, knew him.

Because he was the second most important person in the Shu Kingdom after the emperor.

Gu Jung Wei.

The Prime Minister of the Shu Dynasty as well as the head of the Gu family, one of the three largest and most powerful families in the royal capital.

At this moment, Gu Jung Wei stepped under the throne, looked directly into Su Lin's eyes without any consideration for Su Lin's status as the crown prince, and spoke in a calm tone.

 "As for what the Seventh Prince said, this minister agrees, and I believe that no one is more qualified to inherit the throne than Your Highness."

At this point, Gu Jung Wei shook his head sadly and continued, "It was only after this unfortunate incident that all sorts of people with ill intentions came out from everywhere."

"There is even some news that some of the great families in the north are gathering the citizens and trying to start an uprising."

Prime Minister Gu Jung Wei stopped talking at this moment, sighed through his nose, raised his head and looked at Su Lin with sad eyes, and even the tears seemed to be trying to fall.

But it seemed that they encountered some difficulties and did not fall immediately.

"Hmm?", Su Lin blinked his eyes curiously.

Su Lin adjusted his posture and moved his head forward slightly and looked at Gu Jung Wei's eyes with great interest, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

Gu Jung Wei clenched his fist and his body shook, but fortunately, in the next moment, the tears finally fell.

 Seeing the tears starting to stream down Gu Jung Wei's eyes, Su Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but nod his head in satisfaction.

This was the performance he had come here for today, although there were some difficulties in the middle, he had done his best and was worthy of appreciation.

Not like those idiots who didn't even try, and were too lazy to even speak.

What kind of dereliction of duty is this?, and yet you dare to call yourselves corrupt officials.

Su Lin looked at the others who were currently waiting for him with mockery and shook his head in disappointment.

He was really low-key, didn't they even know that one shouldn't be happy until the egg was already in the palm of their hand?

At this moment, Gu Jung Wei continued speaking, which brought Su Lin's attention back to him.

 "Your Highness, I think it would be best for you to be installed as emperor quickly to preserve the hearts of the people, and I also want to ask Your Highness to return to seclusion as soon as possible."

"Back to isolation?" Su Lin raised his eyebrows and asked.

"That's right, Your Highness," Jo Jung Wei nodded in confirmation.

Ju Jung Wei climbed the stairs and approached Su Lin, grabbing his right hand with both hands and speaking in a voice filled with worry.

"After His Highness's death, the Shu Dynasty lost its backbone, which led to this situation where it was in the midst of turmoil that no one knew when it would erupt."

"The late emperor was so powerful that no one dared to think of betrayal. If Your Highness could reach the same power as His Highness or even surpass it, this kingdom would be safe."

"I…," Su Lin looked at the shaking hand helplessly and opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, Gu Jung Wei quickly interrupted him.

"Please, Your Highness."

"There is no time to waste. If Your Highness cannot take the late emperor's place as a deterrent, who knows what will happen to the Shu Dynasty?"

"I…," Su Lin opened his mouth but Gu Jung Wei interrupted him again. 

"These traitors, when His Majesty was alive, he did not wrong them in any way, but now that His Majesty is gone, they, they..."

At this point, Gu Jongwei let go of Su Lin's hand and sat on the ground exaggeratedly, gritting his teeth in displeasure and punching the ground angrily.

"These, these…", Gu Jongwei repeated the same sentence and punched the ground over and over again until his face turned red with anger.

Su Lin looked at Gu Jongwei's performance indifferently, at this point he couldn't bear to look at his acting anymore.

In order for his performance to be convincing, he lost his sense and the result was that the performance became exaggerated and embarrassing.

Su Lin issued an evaluation of Gu Jongwei's performance in his heart but the result made him feel disappointed.

At this moment, Jo Jung Wei raised his eyes and looked at Su Lin.

Gu Jongwei noticed the lack of interest in Su Lin's expression and narrowed his eyes, His expression became serious.

he couldn't believe that this prince who had lived in isolation his entire life didn't care about his words at all.

He thought that he would shed a couple of tears and lie, and this ignorant prince would believe him, but unfortunately it seemed that he was wrong.

Gu Jongwei understood at this moment that he looked at this prince with contempt.

 This seventh prince was not simple, unlike that foolish emperor, and the ignorant princes, the Su royal family seemed to have a talented heir.

But unfortunately, she came out at the wrong time, Gu Jung Wei nodded indifferently.

Now that the royal family had lost all its foundation, no matter how talented the Seventh Prince was, he would end up as a puppet emperor under the alliance of all the ministers.

They controlled all the ministries and the military protector army responsible for protecting the royal capital, what could a lone prince without any allies do?