The news that Emperor Chu chose study companions for the two young princes spread, causing quite a stir among the nobles in the capital.
What kind of maneuver is this?
The princes dropped from their elation over the missed duties like a stone, pondering over the choice of study companion for the Fifth Prince, their faces turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Father is so biased!
This blatant favoritism was just short of an official decree proclaiming the Fifth Prince worthy of becoming Crown Prince, appointing him as the heir apparent. Just look at the resources brought by the study companions, which of them does not withstand scrutiny?
Oh, the one from the Song Family is just a nephew, and that boy's father is still a commoner?
No problem, being the nephew of Prime Minister Song is enough; lineage remains unbroken, who cares if it's the son or nephew.
