Bound by Love, Breaking the Domain

After hearing my explanation, Ye Jinghong seemed to understand.

"So all of this stemmed from Guiguzi. He was the one who set everything in motion and left you tangled up like this," she said.

Princess Jinshu glanced at Ye Jinghong. "His original intentions were good. It was only later generations who complicated things and gradually strayed from what he had intended."

Ye Jinghong seemed dissatisfied and wanted to argue.

I knew Ye Jinghong too well. When it came to people she disliked, especially women connected to me, she would never pass up a chance to tear into them.

But Princess Jinshu continued before she could speak. "Take him, for example. Was he wrong to propose the Administration Bureau? In order to save the apocalypse, such an Administration Bureau was certainly necessary. But in the end, it became a tool for certain people. Under its banner, they did nothing but seek profit for themselves. Can you really say that was Jiang Xiaobai's fault?"

That left Ye Jinghong speechless. She had always been eloquent, but this time, she could not find a word to say. Perhaps Princess Jinshu had a point, or perhaps it involved me as well, and Ye Jinghong did not want to drag me into the argument.

"Enough, stop arguing. Princess, you said we could leave after killing him. But although he is dead, his domain remains. We still have not been able to leave this place. How do you explain that?" I could only step in to smooth things over. I did not want two women debating and bickering endlessly at a time like this.

Princess Jinshu rolled her eyes at me. It seemed she had seen through my real intention.

Still, I was not wrong. Wasn't our most urgent task figuring out how to get out of