94 The Wolf never wanted any of this

Chu Yun turned the First Princess' words around in his mind. Her mother was the late Queen Consort, whose death Gu Wei supposedly had a hand in -- according to rumours. Chu Yun wasn't about to ask if there was any truth to those rumours to her face.

So instead, he asked, "Were Gu Wei and the late Queen Consort ever close?"

Xiao Ziyi's lips tightened into a flat line. "For a time."

"And what happened after that time?" he asked, holding himself at a distance.

Could it be that like their children, Gu Wei and the late Consort were at one point friends? Chu Yun didn't put much past Gu Wei. Despite his lofty, immaculate appearance, there was a ravenous look in his eyes, hiding the kind of hunger that reminded Chu Yun why his mother had once warned him that the lone wolf was much more dangerous than the pack.

Even so, perhaps the late Queen Consort wasn't an entirely unbiased source.