"…I… was wrong. I apologize. It was my fault for misunderstanding the situation."
Princess Sun Yaoqing, who followed the Emperor, heard those words from her brother as he apologized to a servant.
She couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise. There was no precedent for a noble—much less a prince—apologizing to a commoner.
It was far more shocking to her than the fact that the Fifth Prince had been beaten black and blue.
The same could be said for the Emperor, who could barely believe what he was seeing.
Even after hearing the report, he had assumed it was a minor conflict—perhaps Bai Zihan had merely struck the prince in anger or something similar.
However, looking at the state of the Fifth Prince—and hearing him apologize to a servant—was beyond shocking.
Initially, the Emperor had thought he would have to make the Fifth Prince apologize to Bai Zihan to avoid any conflict with the Bai Clan.
