Wuning Marquis Estate.
Peng Bo sat in the courtyard outside his bedchamber, staring blankly at the sky.
Since returning, he had used various channels to grasp the current situation in the Capital City. The struggle for the throne was the most prominent matter at hand, and the princes were pulling no punches in their pursuit of the crown. The Second Prince had been exposed, and government officials were being assassinated. Now, his own eldest son and heir had become a casualty. To this day, he still did not know who had struck the blow, though Peng Bo suspected it was likely one of the princes acting in secret. Analyzing it through the lens of interests and conflicts, Zhao Yi was the primary suspect, given his long-standing grudge against the Ninth Prince. Peng Bo’s second son, Peng Huayu, had also acted on this suspicion, impulsively going to the Xuanying Bureau to lodge a complaint, only to end up in prison himself on charges of slandering a prince. Whether or not Zhao Yi was the mastermind, the Peng family’s fortunes had plummeted.
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