Although Shen Nianzu had braced himself mentally, the situation began to go downhill fast and in a way much worse than he had expected.
In the matter of minutes, the bloody scene of Prince Kaivia's death abruptly spread like a wildfire, taking over the holographic billboards, television channels, even printed out to be distributed to every street and alley across the city. Like a deadly virus, the news continued to spread in a frenzy and uncontrollable manner as though afraid that people would miss the fact that His Royal Highness of the Sea had been brutally murdered.
Just as Shen Nianzu had surmised, it was mockery, provocation, and a declaration of war.
It further proved that the culprit had come prepared. The situation progressed far too rapidly and systematically for it to be a crime of passion.
