Chapter 11650 — You Bastard
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The Three Ancestors had already been battered senseless by the shocks; at these words their faces drained of color. "He is not the current Prince of Qi?!"
Seeing their stunned reaction, Wei Zhao said, puzzled, "You didn't know?"
"..."
The Three Ancestors stared at him in unison. "You knew?"
Wei Zhao nodded without a shred of tact. "I figured it out a moment ago. After all, I've never heard of the Prince of Qi being a woman."
The Three Ancestors grew only more bewildered. "She's a woman too?"
This chain of shocks was even harder for them to accept than watching the Prince of Qi desecrate the ancestral tablets with their own eyes.
They were the ancestors enshrined by the Prince of Qi's Estate—the Prince of Qi was their own blood descendant. They had dealt with the Prince at close quarters for so long, and yet none of them had noticed that the other party was a woman!
Was there anything more absurd in all the world?
If word of this got out, it would be the laughingstock of the age.
The Three Ancestors could not help but begin to doubt life itself. "How is that possible? How could a woman slip past the scrutiny of all the ancestral spirits?"
Qi Zhuiyun smiled bitterly. "Because she is no ordinary woman. She is my elder brother's woman—Li Hongshou."
The crowd grew even more dumbfounded.
At this, the Prince of Qi finally dropped the pretense. She removed her mask and revealed her true appearance.
It was a woman of striking elegance, every glance and smile brimming with charm—none other than the legendary Li Hongshou, the Prince of Qi's consort of unmatched beauty.
Only then did the Three Ancestors finally grasp what had happened.
As the Prince's consort, she was familiar with every affair of the estate, and knew the Prince himself inside and out in every particular. That she could impersonate him and pull off such a grand deception was not, in the end, entirely beyond belief.
But the very next moment, a chill ran down their spines.
"And the current Prince of Qi? Where is he?"
At this, Li Hongshou wore a mocking expression. "It seems you venerable ancestors really have gone senile in your old age. The Prince of Qi is of course dead and gone—otherwise how could I have possibly impersonated him?"
The three ancestors of the Prince of Qi's Estate turned cold. "You did it?"
The Prince of Qi's strength was no small matter. Even if she was his pillow companion of many years, given the gap in their power, killing the Prince of Qi would have been no easy feat.
Li Hongshou giggled. "Who else could it be but me?"
The tall old man shouted in a heavy voice, "Why would you do such a thing? The Prince of Qi's Estate treated you without the slightest stinginess—and this is how you repay kindness with enmity?"
Li Hongshou sneered. "True enough, your estate was never stingy toward me. But as for repaying kindness with enmity—there you are mistaken. There has always been a sea of blood between us. Seeking vengeance against you is only fitting."
"What sea of blood?"
The crowd was baffled.
Her selection as the Prince of Qi's wife had been handled with the utmost caution by everyone in the estate, high and low. Under normal circumstances, there could have been no possibility of inviting a wolf into the fold—of turning an enemy into the Prince of Qi's wife.
Li Hongshou said softly, "It's no wonder you don't know. The Prince of Qi kept this from everyone and did it quietly. Even I only discovered the truth by chance after living with him for decades."
"He killed my junior apprentice brother with his own hands, for no reason other than that we had grown up together and once held tender feelings for each other."
"Is it not entirely reasonable that I should avenge my junior apprentice brother?"
Everyone was dumbstruck.