When no answer was forthcoming, Zhou Sheng glared at no one, in particular, and didn't bother with Xie Chu anymore.
After all, for someone who was already treading walking on walking a traitor's path, it didn't matter what his reasons were, Zhou Sheng himself wouldn't allow any danger to befall His Majesty once again.
His gaze turned distant and he felt the all too familiar feeling of bitterness rising in his chest once again.
All those years ago...he had hoped and dreamed of a life together with Princess. Yet, he had never even once wondered about who was inside Princess's heart.
And then he had lost it all in one fell swoop - his best friend, the people he had treated like his family and had been left alone to try and pick up the pieces of Zixi's broken heart - something that he had been extremely unwilling to do but couldn't shy away from because of his silent promise to Princess.
