Because She Was Incompetent, She Became Emperor

Lord Eunuch still thought highly of Wan Feiliang, this Brocade Guard Chieftain.

After all, he was the only person Lord Eunuch had managed to place within the Brocade Guard.

The Brocade Guard was the Emperor's own violent arm. Though their official ranks were not particularly high, the power they wielded was far from small.

The Brocade Guard had the authority to intervene in cases throughout the Great Qian Dynasty. So long as the target did not have powerful backing and could not be killed outright, the Brocade Guard even had the right to execute them on the spot.

Otherwise, why would so many factions want to place their own people in the Brocade Guard?

Panicked? That was impossible.

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word? Lu Quan, the Hundred-Household Officer, is dead? What a pity."

Ye Liuyun wore an expression as though he knew absolutely nothing.

He even showed just the right amount of surprise. Yet although his mouth said it was a pity, the smile at the corners of his lips showed no intention of fading.

Seeing that Ye Liuyun refused to admit it.

Guan Bao did not care. Most of the time, whether there was evidence or not did not matter at all.

As long as I believed you did it, that was enough.

"You really are bold. After killing Lu Quan, you did not even bother hiding the body. You just left it exposed in the wilderness. Are you truly not afraid of drawing retaliation?"

Behind him, Shi Sheng's eyes gleamed with ferocity. He had already gathered his inner force, waiting only for Ye Liuyun's command to strike.

Si Nan had also quietly placed a hand behind his back, several hidden weapons pinched between his fingers.

As for Ye Liuyun, the person at the heart of it all.

He remained calm and composed. Naturally, he would not foolishly admit that he had done it just because of Guan Bao's words.

Instead, he brought up something else.

"This is the difference between us!"

"The difference?" Guan Bao was somewhat surprised by what Ye Liuyun meant.

Shrugging, Ye Liuyun said with an easy smile.

"An Acquired Realm martial artist recognizing an old eunuch as his godfather. Looks like you really do crave power."

Though he had never met Lord Eunuch, anyone called by such a nickname was unlikely to be young.

Moreover, in an era like this, eunuchs held low status. Even if this Lord Eunuch possessed wealth, power, and considerable cultivation, many still looked down on him openly and in secret.

For Guan Bao to acknowledge him as his godfather, he would certainly gain benefits from it.

It could not be that he truly wished to care for Lord Eunuch in his old age and bury him after death.

"But unlike you, the Fourteen Prefectures under heaven are not made up of the Great Qian Dynasty alone."

This was why Ye Liuyun had nothing to fear.

Even if he truly encountered an opponent he could not defeat, could he not just run?

As a transmigrator, Ye Liuyun had never felt much attachment to the Great Qian Dynasty. Whether he went to another dynasty or roamed the world with a sword, making the four seas his home, it made no difference.

As long as the green hills remained, there would be no shortage of firewood.

I am weak now, so I leave. Once I am strong, I will not even give you the chance to leave.

"You are so confident that you can escape from my grasp?"

Guan Bao understood the meaning in Ye Liuyun's words, but he smiled confidently. His inner force coursed through his entire body as he narrowed his eyes at Ye Liuyun.

He clearly intended to suppress and kill Ye Liuyun on the spot.

"Then let's try it."

Spreading his hands, Ye Liuyun smiled at Guan Bao.

His posture seemed to say that if Guan Bao wanted to fight, he should simply do it.

Ye Liuyun had never intended to play the pig to eat the tiger. From the beginning, he had not planned to hide his strength. It was merely that nobody had asked; he could hardly go around loudly announcing every breakthrough in his cultivation. That would be too stupid.

Why did every one of them think he was weak now, as if they could defeat him?

"..."

The atmosphere around them suddenly turned far more solemn.

It was as though both sides were waiting for the other to make the first move.

Just then.

"Stop!"

Yan Shuzhu had not expected that, just as she was preparing to return to the palace, she would happen upon such a scene.

She wanted to recruit Ye Liuyun. How could she allow him to be bullied here?

Ye Liuyun and Guan Bao turned at the same time, looking toward the figure approaching from the distance.

It was Yan Shuzhu and Lü Lan.

"Leave it to me!"

When she walked up to Ye Liuyun, Yan Shuzhu deliberately gave him a reassuring look.

"Who are you?"

Guan Bao vaguely felt that the person before him looked familiar. However, Yan Shuzhu had removed her hairpin and was now dressed in a woman's manner, so he did not recognize her.

"Do you know who I am? How dare you stand in my way!"

"Insolence!"

Yan Shuzhu did not even need to say anything. Lü Lan stepped forward directly.

The inner force of the Innate Realm pressed down upon him. Faced with that overwhelming presence, Guan Bao could not help staggering back several steps.

Before he could even recover from his shock at Lü Lan's strength, she took out a token engraved with dragon patterns.

"His Majesty is before you. Kneel!"

"Your Majesty?"

Damn it. No wonder she had looked familiar. He had followed Lord Eunuch and met the Little Emperor once or twice before.

But Yan Shuzhu had always appeared as a man in the past. This was truly the first time he had seen her in a woman's form.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

After hesitating for a moment, Guan Bao still knelt.

In an age where imperial power stood above all else, it did not matter whether this Emperor truly held power in name alone. So long as she possessed that status, everyone had to show respect on the surface.

"The Emperor?"

Ye Liuyun looked in surprise at Yan Shuzhu, who stood before him.

He had previously thought she was a favored princess. He truly had not expected her to be the Emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Ye Liuyun could not help quietly asking Si Nan beside him.

"Our Great Qian Dynasty's Emperor is a woman?"

Si Nan had originally frozen in place upon learning Yan Shuzhu's identity as Emperor.

But after hearing Ye Liuyun's question, his thoughts suddenly returned. Looking at Ye Liuyun's face full of curiosity, Si Nan seemed somewhat at a loss for words.

"My lord, you really never knew?"

Fine, he did not know his father-in-law's name, but he did not even know whether the Emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty was male or female?

"Who would pay attention to that for no reason?"

He had once been a street thug. Even after replacing Ye Liufeng and becoming a Brocade Guard, he had never paid much attention to matters concerning the Emperor. They simply felt too distant.

He truly had not expected the Great Qian Dynasty to have an Empress ascending the throne.

"Uh! My lord, I have heard some rumors."

Seeing that Ye Liuyun truly did not know.

After falling silent in bewilderment for a moment, Si Nan leaned close to Ye Liuyun's ear and whispered.

"This new Emperor ascended the throne not long ago. I heard that the Great Qian Dynasty does not lack capable princes. The reason she was chosen to ascend the throne was mainly because she was not very capable!"

Before the new Emperor ascended the throne, Yan Shuzhu had been an obscure figure among the many princes and princesses.

Unable to cultivate due to her Innate Blocked Meridians, Yan Shuzhu instead conducted herself even more discreetly.

Yet it was precisely because of this 'incompetence' that Yan Shuzhu took the Emperor's throne.

"???"

Ye Liuyun was curious. Since when did choosing an Emperor mean choosing the most incapable one?