All Chapters of He Did Exactly What They Said: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

The royal physicians fussed around me for the entire night before the wound on my throat finally stopped bleeding.Seeing the king's and queen's ashen faces, Cedric Ainsley could no longer keep pretending to be sick."Your Majesties, this has nothing to do with me. I don't know why Elias suddenly hurt himself..."He hurried to distance himself, so anxious he nearly dropped to his knees.When my elder sister, Helena Ainsley, saw that, she grabbed him and pulled him firmly behind her."Father, Mother, don't let Elias fool you! This is obviously a sympathy ploy!"He deliberately used a rusty blade on his own neck because he knew he could still be saved, didn't he?"Seeing my parents' expressions loosen, she decisively dragged me straight out of bed and threw a sharp dagger in front of me."Elias, you might be able to trick Father and Mother with this attention-seeking act, but you can't trick me!"Don't you love threatening to die? Fine. I'll give you the chance right now!"Use

Mother's tears struck my face and dragged my memories back to the past.I had once believed I was the luckiest person in the world.I had a father and mother who loved me, an elder sister who protected me, and a princess consort, Vivienne Calder, who loved me as deeply as I loved her.So when the number on the panel reached 60, I chose to stay without hesitation.But after Cedric entered the palace, everything changed.Whenever my parents passed by, he would suddenly drop to his knees and prostrate himself before me.Whenever Helena approached, he would throw himself into the water and claim I had pushed him.At first, Father and Mother would still speak for me, and Helena would still come forward to explain.But as time passed, all of them began to look at me with an indescribable suspicion.Until the final time.To frame me, Cedric knelt under the blazing sun in the royal garden for twelve full hours, until he fainted.When Father and Mother arrived, his face was pale and

Father caught me, pressing trembling hands hard against the wound on my throat. Even his voice changed."Physicians! Hurry and call the physicians! It'll be all right. It'll be all right. My Elias will be all right..."But blood kept seeping through his fingers. No matter what he did, it would not stop.Mother knelt on my other side, tears falling in large drops onto my face.She suddenly turned her head and stared at Vivienne. Her voice was sharp enough to break."What did you do to my Elias? What did you do to him? He finally came back to life..."Before she could finish, she was sobbing too hard to speak.Vivienne stood where she was, her face white as paper.It was as if all the strength had been drained from her. She only stared at me covered in blood and kept trying to move closer."Elias... Elias, I..."She muttered incoherently, lunging toward me again and again, only to be held back by the guards every time.Helena also rushed in. When she saw the scene, she froze i

On the day of my funeral, the men Father sent out finally caught the beggars from the slums.In fact, as early as my third failed attempt to destroy myself, the royal physician had reported in fear that my condition was not physical weakness, but sickness of the heart.He said my self-destructive tendencies were so severe that I must have experienced something terrifying to become this numb and obedient.Helena had sneered at the time.She said those beggars had all been paid off, that they would not even short me on food and water. To me, it was nothing more than moving somewhere else to keep being crown prince.She also advised Father and Mother not to be fooled by my sympathy ploy. Father and Mother hesitated again and again, and in the end, they believed her.Looking back now, the warning signs had been everywhere, glaringly obvious. But they had refused to see a single one.The Royal Inquisition's punishments were naturally not something ordinary people could withstand.Th