Four years ago, it was the time when Wang Mang guarded the new capital.

At that time, not only did he not go out of the house, but even his own family was ordered not to leave the mansion at will.

Wang Mang knew that the cage would one day be opened and he would be able to get out of trouble. But in the hearts of the rest of the people, they don't think so.

For example, Wang Shu.

He resented his father and resented his fate. In his opinion, his whole life, or at least until his father's death, will be trapped in this small mansion forever, never to be freed.

Originally, he was the second son of the Wang family, the son of Wang Mang, who could call the wind and rain.

Even if the Wang family loses power in the political struggle, even if his father has been demoted back to his fiefdom and no longer has a decisive power in the court, he is still the second son of the Wang family!

But Wang Shu didn't understand. Why, after returning to the fiefdom, did the father make everyone a caged rat who was timid.

This resentment towards his father and fate always has a place to vent.

So one day, this resentment burned to the people around him.

On the morning of that day, the naked body of a maidservant was dragged out of Wang Shu's room.

Unfortunately, this scene was seen by Wang Mang.

Wang Shu, who thought he would be scolded and was a little nervous, only saw his father squatting down, took a closer look at the female corpse on the ground, turned his head and left without saying a word, and entered the study.

Seeing his father's reaction, Wang was relieved.

However, on the night when I thought that the matter had been settled, three things were sent into Wang Shu's room.

A dagger, a white silk, and a pot of poisoned wine.

Along with these three things, there is also a message from his father Wang Mang.

"Out of a father's kindness, I give you a choice."

The old servant who had been with his father for the longest time, the old servant who was loyal to his father alone, after passing the message from his father, did not say a word, but kept a straight face, held the tray flat on his chest, and quietly waited for Wang Shu to choose the tools to end his life.

No matter how much Wang Shu roared, the old servant just looked at him quietly, and saw nothing in his eyes but indifference.

I didn't expect it to end like this at all, and after the fierce noise, Wang Shu's spirit collapsed.

Whether it was a dagger, a white silk, or a poisoned wine, he was not going to accept it.

He doesn't want those options. He chose to rebel.

Wang Shu frantically pushed the old servant away and rushed out of his room.

He went to his father and asked him why he had given his own son death. He didn't believe that his father would have to pay with his own life just for the sake of a lowly slave, a "thing" that could only be called private property.

Wang Shou's original picture was that of himself angrily rushing into the study and questioning his father. He imagined that his father was just a momentary anger, and now, he must have regretted it.

He believed that his father was only to warn him, and at most to intimidate him. When he stood in front of his father, his father would never really be ruthless and forcibly want to die by himself.

Even at this time, the grievances and arrogance in his heart were more than the fright when he saw those daggers, white silk and poisonous wine for the first time. Father should take him into his arms, comfort him, and then ...... At most, I can promise myself that I will not be so rash in the future.

However, when Wang Shu had just pushed open his door, he suddenly stopped.

Behind the door, a black figure stood, blocking all his vision.

No one has an impression of when he appeared with his father in the taciturn boy who was always dressed in black.

Obviously, he was just a teenager, much younger than all of Wang Shu's brothers. However, Wang Shu always had a strange feeling - he seemed to have always accompanied and followed his father since ancient times.

He doesn't appear often, as if he is hidden in the shadows of his father all day long, and he may not see him once or twice a year. But it also makes people feel that he is everywhere, ready to emerge from the shadows at any time.

And every time Wang Shu saw this person and the black clothes on his body, he couldn't help but feel goosebumps on his back, which was difficult to suppress.

The black-clothed young man stopped in front of Wang Shu, and his figure was clearly half a head shorter than Wang Shu, but his posture of looking at Wang Shu gave Wang Shu a strange condescending feeling.

Wang Shu took two steps back sharply, his heart as if he had been hit with a hammer.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the old servant beside him, still standing in place, holding the tray in his hand, and never moved. And at this moment, Wang Shu suddenly realized the message revealed by the old servant's indifferent eyes without any emotion.

Turbid, bleak, and unwavering!

It was a pair of eyes looking at a dead man!

Wang Shu turned his head in horror and looked at the black-clothed young man in front of him who was walking into the room step by step.

If it is said that the eyes of the old servant just now are the eyes of a dead man. Then the eyes of the young man in black were the eyes of the dead.

"Lord, let me tell you."

This was the first time that Wang Yu and Wang Shu had heard the young man in black speak.

The timbre is immature, but the tone is rigid and stiff, but with an unstoppable chill.

"If you don't want to choose, then let me choose for you."

The black-clothed young man walked forward slowly, as if stepping on Wang Shu's heart every step of the way.

He walked up to the old servant, lowered his head and glanced at the three things in the tray, and gently stretched out his hand to pick up the white silk.

"Don't ...... No...... I want to see Daddy! Let me see Daddy!! ”

In the courtyard, a sudden breeze blew. The door that had been wide open slammed shut in the wind.

And Wang Shu's last roar also stopped abruptly at the same time.