Sima Yu hesitated for only a moment before raising her eyes to look at the young man before her. "Young Master Yu," she said, "you are the Lady's son. Have you ever considered that the Lady and your father might one day become the masters of this world?"
Yu Zihan was taken aback. He never expected Sima Yu to say something like this to him.
To be honest, he'd been hearing talk about his father usurping the throne and changing Da Qi's name to Yu ever since he was a child. He was already numb to it.
After his father and Uncle Jiang became openly opposed to the court, the number of people saying such things had grown by the hundreds, even thousands. And unlike the mockery and concern of the past, Yu Zihan could tell that these people genuinely, even desperately, hoped his father and mother would take that position and rule Da Qi.
