Life Is Like a Play, Who Is the Lead?

Soren's situation was indeed far from optimistic.

During his years as head butler, he had mainly worked for Yangjin, so no one knew how many people in the Tumba Family he had offended, openly or in secret.

To say nothing of the distant past, just these past few days, he had ordered Zaxi to be given twenty lashes. Zaxi was a vindictive man. Though I was the reason he had been whipped, Soren was the one who had carried it out.

Zaxi hated me to the bone, but he would hate Soren just as much. He would vent all his resentment toward me on Soren.

Both Zaxi and Dewang disliked Soren. They were the guard captain and deputy guard captain. Could Soren possibly have an easy time after falling into their hands?

I asked Maru whether he knew the background of those two sisters. He shook his head, indicating that he had not known before.

"They told you this secret because they wanted us to fight your Mother from within. They didn't dare seek revenge against your Mother directly, so they could only resort to this."

"Then will you fall out with my Mother?" he asked me.

I looked at him. "Do you want the truth or a lie?"

"The truth," he said.

"I will. And it won't just be falling out with your Mother. It may even come down to a fight to the death. As for why, I can't tell you."

I spoke very seriously and earnestly.

His face filled with shock. He had not expected me to use the words "fight to the death."

"If that day really comes, what will you do?"

He did not speak. Though he and Yangjin had all sorts of conflicts, and he resented her strength and dominance, she was still his