That gave both his father and his brother pause.
His father asked hesitantly, “In… in what way?”
Bearing with the pain in his stomach, Xiang Ming sat up before answering, “In exactly the way you are thinking, Father. He lies with…”
Just as he was about to say, “He lies with his half-brother,” he stopped himself short.
After seeing how much happier Qing Xue had become compared to before, and then seeing him interact with the first prince thereafter, he was only assuming that such was the case. But it wasn’t out of loyalty that he thought better of revealing everything he knew. It was mostly out of self-preservation that he was choosing to keep that part to himself.
He didn’t know what kind of far-reaching consequences it could cause if it got out, and right now, as far as he knew, he
