King Ning remained silent, so the Emperor had no choice but to send for the Crown Prince from the East Palace.
Not long after Gu Jiao left, the Crown Prince woke up. He didn't make a sound, just blankly stared at the canopy above him.
"Is it you? You really came back... You came back to find me."
"Why won't you speak? Are you angry with me?"
"I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional..."
"... I've only now realized that you were always the one in my heart. I regret so much that I didn't marry you."
"Don't love someone else, don't love her, she doesn't deserve you."
"You look so good lying there; never leave me again."
"Can we never part again, please? Let's live well together from now on, alright?"
The Crown Prince tried to remove Wo Linlang's voice from his mind, but found he simply couldn't do it.
Those words echoed over and over in his head like a knife, piercing his heart until it was riddled with holes.