Assassin Alliance

Zhou Ming was fairly confident, but Empress Dowager Garnet, Imperial Uncle Jerome, and the Lucis Family stood before him like three towering mountains. None of them would be easy to deal with.

Not a single noble or minister at court supported him.

Other than a dozen or so maids and servants, he had not a single soldier at his side... and even those maids and servants could not be fully trusted. The bowl of poisoned meat stew last time had been delivered by Sibylla, the maid who had always attended him closely.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Ming still wanted to turn things around. It was almost impossible.

For the protagonist of any book, starting with a situation like this was not much different from "hell difficulty."

Other than exile or a bowl of poisoned meat stew, there was almost no other ending waiting for this body of Zhou Ming's.

Yet Zhou Ming wanted to use this small body of his, with a few insignificant people as his foundation, to create leverage and pry the entire Orunian Empire's situation into motion.

Before the new emperor's coronation ceremony began, he had to accomplish three things.

The first: get rid of Imperial Uncle Jerome!

That was right. This was the most crucial step in breaking the deadlock.

If he failed to accomplish this step, everything else would be empty talk. Unless Jerome was eliminated, Zhou Ming's chances of ascending the Imperial Throne would remain zero.

How would he get rid of him?

First, he had to find Jerome's weaknesses and vulnerabilities, then prescribe the right remedy and crush him in one stroke!

Did Jerome have any weaknesses?

He did.

Of course he did!

He had far too many flaws: greed, lust, alcoholism, cruelty... Any one of them could send him to his death.