Chapter 1731 - 1731: The Exiled Crown Prince

You know, Shangguan Wan'er and Dong Ruyan's worries aren't exactly groundless.

Anyway, Jiang Feng did launch an Annihilation Gate last night, and wiped out three top aristocratic families in the Capital City in one go. How could the higher–ups not be shaken?

At the very least, after the two women came back, once the initial excitement and thrill wore off, they started feeling scared in hindsight.

Even though they were born into the Moon Fox Alliance, they'd never experienced a scene of this scale. The level involved was just too high.

"But it's weird—by now someone should've discovered what happened to those three families, yet there's been no movement at all, and definitely no related news…"

Dong Ruyan turned around at this point, asking in puzzlement.

"Not strange at all."

Jiang Feng smiled faintly, casually grabbed his clothes and put them on: "This fits Ying Zheng's personality perfectly. I know him too well. He's extremely selfish and obsessed with his reputation. He'd never let the scandals of his underlings splash onto him. It's exactly because of that that I dared to go on a killing spree without any scruples."

"But he won't just let this go. He'll deal with it privately. It's just that this time I don't know which families he's going to send over as scapegoats."

Shangguan Wan'er and Dong Ruyan exchanged a look. Shangguan Wan'er suddenly asked curiously, "Jiang Feng, were you really a top–tier playboy of the Capital City back in the day? With this devil–may–care, slacker attitude of yours you really don't look like one…"

This question had been stuck in their hearts for a long time.

It wasn't until last night, when the two of them followed Jiang Feng deep into the Capital City and saw how familiar he was with all those aristocratic mansions, that they truly became convinced about Jiang Feng's past identity!

"I was before, not anymore."

Jiang Feng smiled playfully, got up and pulled on his pants, then ordered, "You came at the perfect time. Head out in a bit and tell Wu Feng: from now on, full–coverage surveillance, no blind spots. Send people to watch every single route from the Capital City into Binhai—don't miss a single one!"

"Binhai?!"

The two women were startled when they heard that. Isn't Jiang Feng currently in the Provincial City? Why does he still want eyes on Binhai?

"Jiang Feng, are you saying they might target Binhai this time?" Dong Ruyan asked.

"It's always good to be prepared."

Jiang Feng's gaze turned deep as he sneered, "Ying Zheng likes playing dirty. I figure this time I've stepped on his bottom line. We need to guard against him resorting to every possible trick. He'd better not do what I'm expecting and set his sights on Binhai. Otherwise, all I can say is he's playing with fire and burning himself alive!"

After hearing this, the two women didn't dare take it lightly. Dong Ruyan immediately said, "Okay, I'll go tell Wu Feng right away!"

With that, she headed out first, leaving only Shangguan Wan'er in the room.

Shangguan Wan'er hesitated for a moment, then said to Jiang Feng, "Jiang Feng, there's something I don't really get."

"After seeing how you were last night, Ruyan and I are even more certain—you're downright invincible, undefeated in battle. Even those neither–human–nor–ghost monsters don't have the slightest chance to fight back against you!"

"But I don't get it. Since your enemy can be clearly identified as someone named Ying Zheng, why don't you capture the ringleader first, take him out directly? Wouldn't that put an end to everything once and for all, and save us from having to live on edge every day, setting up all these defenses?"

Jiang Feng gave Shangguan Wan'er a look and sighed. "You think I don't want to? I've said this before: the moment I really take Ying Zheng out, my old family will lock onto me. It'll be hard to keep living this carefree Xiao Yao life I've got now."

"In other words, killing one Ying Zheng is nothing, just a flick of the wrist for me. But the trouble that comes after killing him would be much bigger, especially since it would force some things I don't want to face right now directly in front of me."

"Secondly, don't let my ridicule of Ying Zheng fool you into thinking he's just some trivial little figure. He's actually the current Crown Prince of China in the truest sense, set to ascend the throne. If I lose my head and butcher him, how could the whole country not be shaken?"

"When that happens, if a serious civil turmoil really breaks out and affects ordinary civilians, I'd truly become a sinner. That's something I don't want to see."

"So what I can do right now is keep provoking Ying Zheng, slowly chop off all his claws, make him and the Ying Family gradually lose power—maybe even drag the Ying Family down altogether—so new figures and families in China can inherit the mandate without causing internal chaos. Only then can I feel at ease killing him."

After listening to Jiang Feng say all this, Shangguan Wan'er couldn't help sticking out her tongue, exclaiming in surprise, "So your enemy, to put it bluntly, is actually the current Crown Prince!!! That's even more than I imagined…"

Suddenly, her eyes lit up. She sat down on Jiang Feng's bed, looking even more excited. "Wow, I just figured something out. If Ying Zheng is the current Crown Prince, doesn't that make you the exiled, out–of–office Crown Prince? Tsk tsk, who would've thought—you really were a dragon's son and grandson back then…"

Jiang Feng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Dragon's son and grandson? That's not something he can claim.

But thinking about it, judging by the status he used to have in the Jiang Family, it wasn't exactly far off, except…

Once he thought of the Jiang Family, there were inevitably people and things he didn't want to recall, and his expression slowly sank.

"Enough, don't overthink it. Go tell Abraham, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and the others to head out too. Have them secretly protect everyone related to Binhai for me. Pass on my words: if Qingcheng and Fei'er so much as have a single finger touched, they can all bring their heads to see me!"

"Got it!"

Shangguan Wan'er got up with a squinty smile and ran out in high spirits to relay Jiang Feng's orders.

How could she not be happy? By Jiang Feng's logic here, she's actually one of the many Crown Princess Consorts. That's way too dreamy!

Watching Shangguan Wan'er's gleeful figure disappear, Jiang Feng felt even more helplessly amused. After washing up, he also stepped out of the room.

Right then, his phone happened to ring. He took it out and saw it was actually a call from Murong Qian!

Now that was long overdue. Thinking carefully, he hadn't contacted Murong Qian in quite a while. As for that "big sister" who'd shared hardship with him and had given him her whole heart, he still felt very moved.

"Sister Qian, what made you think of calling me?" Jiang Feng answered and laughed.

"You little brat, if I don't call you, you'll never call me, is that it?"

On the other end, Murong Qian's deliberately teasing and complaining voice came through right away: "Spit it out! Where have you been so happy you forgot home lately? Met what new beauties again?"

"Ahem, what are you talking about!" Jiang Feng instantly broke into a sweat and hurriedly changed the subject. "Sister Qian, you're calling me now because something's up, right?"

"Hmph, of course there's something! Let me ask you, was that mess with those families in the Capital City last night your doing?" Murong Qian asked with a cute little snort.