Hou Ye's palm heart is a black lotus

Chapter 832 He's unwilling!

Dead silence.

Ogiwara's words were like a thunderclap, suddenly exploding in everyone's hearts!

Countless eyes stared at Xiao Chenglin in disbelief.

"Lord Di... what did you just say?" A soldier beside him murmured incredulously, "Your Highness... how could it not be His Highness!?"

Xiao Chenglin said coldly, "Do you believe me, or do you believe Ogiwara, who betrayed us long ago?!"

A look of hesitation appeared on the speaker's face.

"This……"

Who could have imagined this would happen!?

Ogiwara was the greatest contributor to saving His Highness the Crown Prince back then, but now he says it himself—Xiao Chenglin is Xiao Chenglin, not the Crown Prince!

Ogiwara closed his eyes, as if recalling that painful memory once again.

"...Back then, I led the Crown Prince to escape the encirclement, but later, I still sent him back to the palace. At that time, the Fourth Prince, Xiao Chenglin, had just been born, and I planned to switch the Crown Prince with the Fourth Prince, killing him and replacing him with the Crown Prince. At first, I thought I had succeeded. But..."

However, things in this world are often beyond our control.

Ogiwara bribed someone close to Xiao Chenglin to secretly switch the two children, but not long after, the Crown Prince died of illness.

The palace servant he bribed, fearing exposure and the loss of his life, kept the matter a secret and brought Xiao Chenglin, who had already been sent out of the palace, back into the palace.

He kept lying to Ogihara, claiming that Xiao Chenglin was the crown prince who had been sent there by him.

Ogiwara changed his appearance and lived in seclusion in the capital. However, he always secretly found opportunities to teach Xiao Chenglin, telling him about his identity and everything about the Great Zhou, so that he would conserve his energy and prepare to restore the Great Zhou in the future.

At first, Ogiwara did not realize that something was wrong. It was not until later, when Xiao Chenglin grew up, that he showed no resemblance to Emperor Mingcheng.

Ogiwara then realized that things seemed to have gone wrong.

However, the palace servant who had served him had long since retired and returned to his hometown.

Ogiwara spent a lot of effort looking for him. Fortunately, he finally found him.

Under his persistent questioning, the man finally revealed the truth—the real crown prince had died long ago! The fourth prince currently in the palace is the original fourth prince!
This was nothing short of a bolt from the blue for Ogihara.

He returned to the capital in a daze. Xiao Chenglin noticed that he hadn't appeared for a long time, so he sent someone to deliver a message to him, asking what was wrong.

It was a sunny and breezy summer day.

Ogiwara was torn between the two options, but ultimately chose to tell him the truth.

—All of this was predicated on the existence of the Crown Prince. Now that the Crown Prince is gone, what's the point of all this?!

Ogiwara has feelings for Xiao Chenglin.

Xiao Chenglin was the same.

He suffered all kinds of bullying in the palace since childhood, and only Ogiwara would help him, protect him, and teach him many principles.

In his heart, Ogiwara was his true family.

However, how could he bear such a shock when his dream was shattered?

For so many years, he gritted his teeth and deeply engraved "Restore the Great Zhou" into his bones and blood, never forgetting it for a single day!

He endured all the crying and pain because of this!

But one day, Ogiwara suddenly told him that everything was fake, that he was not the last bloodline of the Great Zhou, and that all his efforts and sacrifices had become a joke!

How is this possible?

Feeling guilty, Ogiwara couldn't bear to continue deceiving Xiao Chenglin, so he told him everything.

He thought that Xiao Chenglin could continue to be Xiao Chenglin, since that false identity of the crown prince had never been exposed to the light of day. Now it was just a matter of ending everything early and letting it disappear quietly.

But Xiao Chenglin refused.

He has been the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou for so many years, so he will continue to be the Crown Prince to the very end!