As there are different criteria for judging morality, it's hard to say what's right or wrong. But in terms of precedence, Gu Weifeng does have a point.
Before he met Yi Junshi, Gu Weifeng was just an insignificant and down - on - his - luck prince.
During a night hunt, or rather, an unremarkable prank among the princes, Gu Weifeng was ordered to attract all the prey out in the hunting ground.
But sending a child who had no mother to teach him, no father's favor, and knew nothing into the hunting ground was tantamount to sending him to his death.
It was Yi Junshi, who happened to pass by, that saved Gu Weifeng.
Moreover, instead of just sending the defenseless Gu Weifeng back, Yi Junshi voluntarily stayed and became his teacher.
Normally, each prince should have a teacher assigned by the educational department to teach them etiquette and literature, but Gu Weifeng didn't.
At that time, Yi Junshi was already a well - known elegant and refined scholar. He was also the eldest disciple of the Azure Sea Villa and a great Confucian scholar that every country vied to hire.
However, in the end, he became Gu Weifeng's teacher, the teacher of a poor and down - trodden little prince with no background, no status, and everything to learn from scratch.
At that time, Gu Weifeng didn't have so many ulterior motives. He only knew that Yi Junshi was a very good person, extremely good, the best in the world.
In order not to disappoint Yi Junshi, Gu Weifeng grew up rapidly.
However, during the process of his growth, the two had a little disagreement.
Yi Junshi was gentle and graceful, a true gentleman. Even when some inevitable means were needed in political confrontations, he would only use them as a last resort.
But Gu Weifeng was ruthless and extreme. He had to have absolute control over power and was very suspicious. Perhaps because he had suffered too much unfair treatment due to the lack of power since childhood, Gu Weifeng was fanatically obsessed with power.
Therefore, he didn't care about many extreme methods and was quite adept at many extreme means.
Although Yi Junshi didn't approve, he didn't object either.
He knew that to be an emperor, one had to be ruthless to sit firmly on the throne.
When the former emperor was seriously ill, all the princes were eager to take action. Some even started a tug - of - war right in front of the former emperor and divided up the land. And Gu Weifeng, who was no longer the poor little thing he used to be, naturally occupied one of the territories.
Just at this moment, Gu Weifeng suddenly confessed his feelings to Yi Junshi.
He said, "If I can become the emperor, how about making you the queen?"
Yi Junshi smiled, gentle as the spring breeze, "What a joke you're making?"
Gu Weifeng didn't say anything more, but his eyes looking at Yi Junshi were extremely serious.
After a while, Yi Junshi seemed to realize that Gu Weifeng wasn't joking but was really asking for his opinion.
Yi Junshi's face gradually turned pale, as if he had heard something that made him extremely devastated. He flicked his sleeve and turned away.
Previously, when Gu Weifeng clung to him and pestered him with all kinds of questions, he thought it was because the child was young and perhaps lacked care in his youth.
He never thought that...
But they were both men!
The more Yi Junshi thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He even felt a strange sense of being unable to accept it, and he didn't go to the palace for several days.
It wasn't until Gu Weifeng ascended the throne without any suspense that sitting in his own mansion, Yi Junshi learned that he had been conferred the title of Marquis Jing.
Gu Weifeng didn't press him further. He just sent a message to Yi Junshi.
I can wait. Ten years is the deadline.
Yi Junshi was very confused and numb. What he couldn't figure out was that as the eldest disciple of the Azure Sea Villa, he could send out a smoke signal and be quietly picked up, or even slip away on his own.
But why had he stayed in the capital city obediently for these ten years?
And during these ten years, he had even allowed Gu Weifeng to make further inroads.
It's really not wrong to say that Gu Weifeng was the first one. Because Hei Wening, the Lady of Marquis Jing, was from beginning to end an informer that Gu Weifeng had placed beside Yi Junshi.
However, this informer defected.
Hei Wening also fell in love with Yi Junshi.
So, Hei Wening was like a double - agent. She had to help Yi Junshi hide things from Gu Weifeng and also help Gu Weifeng collect intelligence about Yi Junshi.
But from beginning to end, Yi Junshi and Hei Wening never shared a room.
This was also the main reason why Hei Wening didn't like Yi Zhici.
Because Hei Wening was not Yi Zhici's mother at all, and Yi Junshi was not Yi Zhici's biological father.
And adopting Yi Zhici was an accident.