Chapter 677: My Very Own Savior
"Amazing...? Ha!" The former Crown Prince looked as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world. His gaze toward Lu Yizhou was tinged with deep mockery, even though his words were clearly intended for Zeke to hear. "This man... who is the very person who has killed Father and Mother?"
In his arms, Lu Yizhou sensed Zeke’s body stiffen imperceptibly.
He could not help but screw his eyes shut. His complexion, which was already pale due to the blood loss, became even more pallid, making him look as if he was going to collapse anytime soon.
What the former Crown Prince said was a fact. He had already killed every member of the royalty to avenge his family, his destroyed planet as well as everyone who resided in it who were brutally killed just because of the King’s unreasonable paranoia, and he could not bring himself to regret it. He had lived all his life fueled just by this hatred alone. However... it was an undeniable fact that those people he had tortured with his own hands were related by blood to his lover.
After he discovered this fact, there were a few times where he laid wide awake at night and wondered if... if that day, Zeke was also present in the Imperial Palace, would he become another victim to Lu Yizhou’s savagery? Would Lu Yizhou have killed him, without knowing that this person would someday become his other half, his one and only, his salvation amidst this repulsive world?
No matter how long he pondered on it, he could not come to a conclusion. Or to be exact, he was... terribly afraid; afraid that the answer would haunt him for the rest of his life; afraid to admit that yes... he had been one short step away from killing his most important person with his own hands...
Lu Yizhou did not intend to hide it from Zeke at all. He was going to seek a suitable timing to break the news to him, giving him enough time to digest the information and also... to decide what he wanted to do to Lu Yizhou – the person who had purged his entire family.
Yet just now, the former Crown Prince had just unmasked one of Lu Yizhou’s greatest fears with such ease and momentum. He did it so suddenly that Lu Yizhou was not given any time to prepare!
And at long last... Zeke knew. He finally knew that Lu Yizhou was the villain who had destroyed his grandiose life, status, and position, reducing him into a mere fugitive who could not even walk under the light of the day. The more Lu Yizhou thought about it, the deeper his heart sank. He could only brace himself and wait for Zeke’s answer. Even though it would end up breaking their relationship apart, even though Zeke would end up looking at him with the same malicious gaze as the former Crown Prince...
Lu Yizhou had no one to blame as he had brought it upon himself.
"So what?"