Benefits? No, Threats

Under Ashan's leadership, after the voices opposing resistance erupted for a time, they all fell silent. Everyone cooperated fully with the Radiance Society's work.

Zhi Peng had previously worried that the remaining Royal Family members would come out and cause trouble. In the end, they did not dare utter a peep, wishing only to run into some mountain ravine and hide themselves away.

These Royal Family members had been scared out of their wits. They did not dare show their faces at all, much less go out and make trouble for the Radiance Society.

Only someone who thought they had not died fast enough would dare go out, right? To be honest, they had not lived enough yet! Having luckily escaped with their lives, if they did not hide farther away, what were they planning to do? Even when former interest groups approached them, hoping to install them as new emperors to resist the Radiance Society, they simply ignored them—agreeing on the surface, then slipping away quietly in the night.

They had resolved to find a place where nobody knew them, conceal their identities and names, and live happily.

While Ashan handled all sorts of affairs, Feng Cheng assisted him throughout, learning how to manage the Radiance Society's internal affairs with great relish.

He kept praising him. "Worthy of Boss Ashan—your actions strike straight at the heart of the matter, clean and decisive. I've learned it, I've learned it! For example, this technique of 'slapping them three times before saying hello' can actually bring about an ideological consensus with the other party in the fastest possible time. Truly amazing. And then there's this method of 'calling a deer a horse, and burying anyone who objects.' It can weed out obedient, useful helpers in the shortest time possible. Tsk, tsk, tsk..."