"Go on."
He began to speak slowly. "Jonathan Bancroft and I are full-blooded brothers. I'm two years older than him, but my father never announced my birth to the nation. This is all what my nanny told me. For some reason, I grew up in the Imperial Palace without anyone paying me any mind. That is, until my younger brother was born. My father held a grand celebration, and news outlets all over the world reported it. He was then successfully named Crown Prince. We rarely interacted. My nanny said we look very much alike. I was seven when my nanny helped me escape from the Imperial Palace. My own mother had personally ordered the three of us to be poisoned, so my nanny took me and ran."
Upon hearing this, Chloe Marshall's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Are you sure that was your real mother?"
"Yes."
