"To be Crown Prince?" Chu Hengyuan thought he must have misheard. His Imperial Father wanted to make him Crown Prince.
"Yes, to appoint you Crown Prince. I know you are capable, and much smarter than your brothers, so I intend to hand the Chu State over to you when I pass away. But right now, you have no powerful backers to support you, and I worry that in the future you won't be able to keep your brothers and the officials in line. That is why I need to find you some useful allies, so that when you ascend the throne, those people will not dare to make a move against you." Emperor Chujing knew his son was brilliant, but he did not know that half of the imperial court was already under Chu Hengyuan's command.
"Yet this son does not wish to be Crown Prince! This son only wants to keep the best things for Ranran!" Chu Hengyuan cared nothing for the position of Crown Prince. To sit on that throne meant, just as his father had done back then, stuffing woman after woman into the estate until his birth mother was gradually cast aside and ignored?
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