Chapter 2245: Fourth Prince

The Fourth Prince wore a pink brocade robe, with ink-black hair tied up high like satin, held in place by a pink hair crown, with just a few strands of jet-black hair hanging down beside his ears, gently swaying in the wind like willows in spring, elegant and graceful, except for the black eye patch on his face that ruined his aura.

The Fourth Prince turned around and saw Situtu Xuexue coming up with her maid, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "Miss Situ, why are you here?"

Xuexue glanced at the stage where more than a hundred people were tied to wooden stakes, surrounded by piles of firewood, looking like they were ready for execution at any moment. Her face suddenly turned icy cold; this scoundrel of a Fourth Prince, in order to gain the position of Crown Prince, was resorting to any means necessary. Thus, she said, "Fourth Prince, I should be asking you, what are you doing here? Why are so many people tied up here? And why prepare so much firewood, what exactly are you planning to do?"

Fourth Prince: "I am following the orders of my imperial father, dealing with these possessed people."

Xuexue frowned and said, "The so-called dealing with by the Fourth Prince, is to burn all these people to death? To prevent future troubles?"

"Of course, otherwise leaving them would still be a disaster, they would harm all the people in the Capital."

"Doesn’t the Fourth Prince think such handling is very cruel?"

"Keeping them is the greatest cruelty to us, Miss Situ, do you know? The possession is spreading terrifyingly; it is a critical time, and you must not be soft-hearted. Besides, these people have already lost their sanity, if you don’t kill them, keeping them would still be a disaster."

A deafening cry came from below the stage; it was the relatives of those possessed, all kneeling on the ground, begging the Fourth Prince not to burn their loved ones.

Xuexue pointed at the common people below the stage and said, "Fourth Prince, look at them, don’t you have even a little compassion?"

The Fourth Prince glanced at the common people below, his tone very indifferent, and said, "To accomplish great things, one shouldn’t bother with trifles."

Xuexue: "Did the Emperor know that the Fourth Prince does this?"

The Fourth Prince: "My imperial father has delegated this matter to me entirely, I am doing this for the sake of Moli Country; Moli Country cannot be ruined at the hands of these people."

"From the Fourth Prince’s tone, it seems the Emperor does not know your decision to burn the commoners. If the Emperor knew, he would probably be very disappointed in the Fourth Prince’s way of handling it."

"Such a big incident has happened, this Prince has no choice but to make such a decision."

"If the Fourth Prince hasn’t even tried, how do you know there’s no way?"

"The possession is incurable by any medicine, what can this Prince do?"

"If you haven’t tried, how does the Fourth Prince know there’s no way? Fourth Prince, lives are at stake, moreover so many people are possessed, burning them to death like this seems inappropriate, have you even shown them to the Imperial Physician?"

"That, I haven’t."

"Since you haven’t, what makes you so sure that their illness is incurable?"

"Hasn’t the County Magistrate tried to cure them? They weren’t cured either!"

"So, to save trouble, you’ll just burn them all, right?"

"Miss Situ, why are you angry? They are just some ordinary commoners, their deaths are not worth regretting."

"The Fourth Prince doesn’t consider the lives of ordinary people as important, yet wants to become the Crown Prince? Who would trust Moli Country in the hands of someone like you?" Xuexue couldn’t help but sarcastically retort.

"You...!" The Fourth Prince wanted to get angry, his eyes flashed, and then he laughed: "Miss Situ truly cares for the country and its people, worthy of being the wise helper of the War Prince."