The news exploded across the empire like a violent storm.
The Second Prince was dead.
And not only dead, he had died within the Imperial Prison after being detained for the murders of the Eleventh Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, ultimately committing suicide out of guilt and fear of punishnt.
The mont the official announcent spread, the entire Imperial Capital erupted into chaos.
Shock!
Disbelief!
Outrage!
The deaths of the Eleventh Prince and Thirteenth Princess had already shaken the empire greatly, but now that the culprit had officially been confird, emotions imdiately surged to their peak.
Within tea houses, restaurants, markets, and cultivation halls, countless people discussed the matter endlessly.
"That beast actually killed his own younger siblings?"
"To think the Second Prince was truly capable of sothing so vicious…"
"Hmph! What else do you expect from the Imperial Family?"
So cursed him furiously.
Others rely sneered coldly.
The Imperial Family's struggle for the throne had never been clean to begin with.
Brothers killing brothers.
Princes scheming against their own blood.
Such things were cruel, yet far from uncommon.
Even so, openly murdering one's own siblings still crossed a line in the eyes of many.
"The Second Prince deserves death!"
"He should have been executed publicly!"
"Committing suicide was letting him off too easily!"
The people of the capital cursed his na endlessly.
anwhile, outrage also spread throughout the Imperial Court.
morials condemning the Second Prince flooded the palace one after another.
Several renowned scholars even wrote essays criticizing the brutality and corruption hidden beneath imperial succession struggles.
However, among cultivators and older political figures, the reactions were far more complicated.
Because many understood one truth clearly.
This was the Imperial Family.
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