CHAPTER 692: CHAPTER 340 TERRIFYING PRINCE CHU_2

"I underestimated Prince Chu," Li Jue admitted candidly this time. "I originally thought Prince Chu was only slightly smarter than the Crown Prince and Prince Dai, which is why the Emperor viewed him with newfound respect. But now it seems Prince Chu far surpasses the Crown Prince and the others."

"Is this just being a little smarter?" Fang Zhimiao stood up, exclaiming in astonishment. "This is like the difference between heaven and earth. Prince Chu might have placed his people in Jinling long ago, and we never noticed. This is not something an ordinary person could achieve."

Fang Zhimiao couldn’t help but mock the ever-composed Li Jue: "You always consider yourself clever, thinking you’re the smartest in the world. But now it seems you are not; Prince Chu’s wisdom and methods surpass yours."

Li Jue remained silent, lifting his eyes to glare coldly at Fang Zhimiao.

Fang Zhimiao, somehow finding courage, fearlessly glared back.

"You thought you could manipulate the Emperor and his sons at will, but in the end, you didn’t even see through Prince Chu," Fang Zhimiao said, feeling disdain for Li Jue’s arrogance, as if he were the only clever one in the world, treating others as fools for his amusement. "You toyed with the Crown Prince and Prince Dai mercilessly, but in the end, you were the one toyed with by Prince Chu. How does it feel to be treated like a fool and be played around with?"

Li Jue maintained a gloomy expression without speaking, but his eyes when looking at Fang Zhimiao were terrifying.

Fang Zhimiao bravely glared back again: "I’ve long told you, you’re not the only one smart in this world. Stop treating everyone like fools. You looked down on the Emperor and his sons, entertaining yourself by teasing them, and now you’ve become Prince Chu’s entertainment."

Li Jue’s tone turned sinister: "Have you said enough?"

Fang Zhimiao realized it wasn’t the time to joke about Li Jue and sat back across from him.

"Prince Chu’s influence is unfathomable; what should we do next?"

"Find them one by one," Li Jue didn’t expect to stumble so deeply on account of a mere prince.

"How do we find them?" Fang Zhimiao was eager to locate them immediately but had no leads. "We can’t even find the tenth prince; how could we possibly find Prince Chu’s people?"

As he finished speaking, a thought struck him, causing his face to change drastically, his eyes filled with shock.

"If Prince Chu planted people in Jinling long ago, wouldn’t he have known everything we did?" Fang Zhimiao grew increasingly uneasy, "Our collaboration with the Crown Prince, he must have known about it too. He didn’t expose us or take action; he wants to wait until the time is right to take us and the Crown Prince down all at once..." Prince Chu’s cunning and means were terrifying.

Upon hearing Fang Zhimiao’s words, Li Jue’s usually expressionless face showed astonishment.

A storm of emotions raged inside Fang Zhimiao as he stammered, "Prince Chu he... he..." He dared not think further.

Li Jue’s expression turned extremely unpleasant.

Fang Zhimiao felt a chill in his heart, his scalp tingling. An unprecedented fear gripped him tightly, making him more afraid and uneasy than he had ever been.

"Prince Chu has been watching us, watching us and the Crown Prince foolishly think ourselves clever."

Li Jue gripped the wine cup tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.

Fang Zhimiao’s face grew pale, his body shook violently. If he hadn’t caught himself in time, he would have collapsed on the deck.

"Now I finally understand how Prince Chu managed to escape the assassination attempts by the Crown Prince and Prince Dai; they are simply not his match."

Even though it was summer, Fang Zhimiao felt a bone-chilling cold at this moment.

Prince Chu, having quietly arrived in Peng City, was unaware that he had frightened Li Jue and the others.

The Crown Prince’s people in Peng City hadn’t discovered Prince Chu and his entourage had already infiltrated the city. The assassins sent by the Crown Prince were still searching for Prince Chu en route to Peng City.

Upon reaching Peng City, Prince Chu wrote a letter to Prince Wei, inquiring about Zhao Yao’s whereabouts.

Prince Wei received the letter from Prince Chu without any surprise in his heart.

"Your Highness, Prince Chu managed to reach Peng City safely?" Yu Hai, knowing how many people the Crown Prince and Prince Dai had sent to assassinate Prince Chu, thought to himself that Prince Chu was surely destined to die this time.

"With his abilities, successfully infiltrating Peng City is no surprise," Prince Wei sneered. "If he couldn’t reach Peng City, then I would underestimate him."

Yu Hai murmured to himself: Your Highness, aren’t you praising Prince Chu?