Chapter 757: Fake Innocence
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
He was definitely the Crown Prince after the blood test. Now, he dared to say anything about the jade pendant.
“Why was it on him instead?” Emperor Hao was puzzled.
Shao Zhongxi and Shao Boqi were also puzzled and looked at him.
Wei Zizhan said, “Originally, I didn’t have a jade pendant on me. I picked it up from him previously. Apparently, he had this jade pendant on him when he was swaddled. At that time, the Wei family treated me badly. I didn’t have any money on hand and couldn’t buy anything I wanted to buy. Coincidentally, his jade pendant fell off and I picked it up. I originally wanted to return it… But… Father, the people from the Wei family were never good to me. It turns out that it was because I wasn’t the biological child of that family.”
Towards the end, Wei Zizhan even cried to attract the pity of the people there.
He was clearly the Crown Prince, but he had actually suffered for so many years outside.
Emperor Hao originally didn’t like it because Wei Zizhan picked up other people’s things and didn’t return them, but when he thought of his son wandering outside for so many year and knowing that the Wei family actually didn’t treat him well, he naturally felt more heartache and naturally couldn’t blame him for his actions.
Moreover, his son was still young. He could still be taught.
Hence, Emperor Hao quickly comforted his son. While comforting him, he didn’t forget to wonder, “Why is that jade pendant on that child Xue Yan?” Shao Boqi naturally felt that it was strange. “Ji Yi is already dead, so there’s no way to ask.”
Shao Zhongxi didn’t say anything, but he already didn’t like this nephew of his. He was not young anymore. He was almost eight years old, but he actively stole other people’s things and did not return them.
Even if it was originally his, his nephew did not know that it was his at that
No matter how tight his finances were, he should never result to stealing other people’s things.
Also, this matter was indeed strange, but just as his elder brother had said, Ji Yi was already dead, so there was no way to ask why the jade pendant was with Xue Yan.
This matter was really a coincidence. Xue Yan was adopted into the Xue family and was about the same age as his nephew. Moreover, his sister had previously thought that Xue Yan looked like his nephew when he grew up. Anyway, they hit it off. Now that the jade pendant was mentioned, he learnt that it was actually on Xue Yan… If it wasn’t for the fact that he had already performed a blood test earlier and personally saw the two drops of blood fuse together, he would have suspected that this nephew he found was fake and that Xue Yan was actually his real nephew.
Since Xue Yan wasn’t his nephew and that the jade pendant was with Xue Yan from the start… Could it be that Ji Yi had found a child who was about the same age as his nephew and placed his nephew’s jade pendant with that child, pretending that the child was his nephew, so that all the danger would be directed to that child?
Even though he felt that this was probably the reason why the jade pendant was with Xue Yan in the first place, Shao Zhongxi still did not say anything.
Moreover, this possibility was not difficult to think of.
Wei Zizhan was curious at that time that if he was the Crown Prince, why did he think of this possibility when that jade pendant was with Xue Yan? It was just that Wei Zizhan had yet to speak when he heard Shao Boqi say again …
“Although Ji Yi is no longer around, in order to protect the Crown Prince, he left the Crown Prince at the Wei familys doorstep and lured away the people who were after him. However, time was of essence and there was no way to investigate the surroundings. He didn’t know that the person was a hypocrite and would harm the Crown Prince. Then it is very likely that he placed the jade pendant on another child to protect the Crown Prince, making people mistakenly think that the other child is the crown prince.”
Emperor Hao nodded his head in deep agreement. He, who had always been kind, sighed, “Fortunately, the child is fine and out of harm’s way.” If he was killed because of this, how would he live with that?
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