Fang Zheng merely glanced at Yi Xiaochuan before looking away. He had noticed that the man had a bad habit of running his mouth. Well... it did not matter. When the time came, he would learn that this habit of his would not end well.
"Anyway, let's leave this troublesome place first."
Fang Zheng waved his hand and led the others away from the scene. Xiang Yu hurriedly followed and began talking with Fang Zheng. During their conversation, Fang Zheng learned of Xiang Yu's circumstances.
In the original history, Xiang Yu had been a descendant of Chu nobility. But things were naturally different in A Step into the Past. Xiang Yu was actually the child of Xiang Shaolong's elder brother and his wife. Since Xiang Shaolong had lost his fertility after traveling through time, the couple had adopted their own child out to him. His childhood name had been Bao'er, but it was later changed to Xiang Yu.
The reason this Xiang Yu had left the grasslands and returned to Great Qin was naturally different from that of the historical Xiang Yu, though he similarly disliked Qin Shi Huang. When Xiang Shaolong and the others had been driven beyond the frontier by Ying Zheng, Xiang Yu had already begun to understand things. Naturally, he bore resentment toward the man who had forced his "father," his benefactor, to flee his homeland under threat.
Although Xiang Shaolong himself surely knew that history had to unfold this way and could not be changed, Xiang Yu clearly did not know the truth of his father's origins. To him, Ying Zheng was merely a cruel and tyrannical villain who would mercilessly hunt down even a father who had served him loyally.
After arriving in Great Qin and witnessing Qin Shi Huang's tyranny, Xiang Yu became