Today's first update: Chapter 3157! 1/4!
Exiling his biological father and forcibly keeping his legal mother by his side as a plaything—the coup Erh launched today to seize power had been ruthlessly brutal and decisively executed. It could already be called a complete success.
No matter how unwilling and humiliated the Eight Wise Kings felt, with everyone turning against him and the tide irreversibly lost, he could only tremblingly take out the Tortoise Lord's Great Seal, symbol of the Blue Star Black Tortoise Race's supreme authority.
He staggered over to the table. Spread out before him were the edict declaring his abdication and the edict appointing Erh as Acting Tortoise Lord.
Every gaze in the council hall was fixed on the hand clutching the Imperial Seal, veins bulging across it. The air had frozen so solid it seemed water could drip from it.
"Does Father still have any unanswered questions?" Erh narrowed his eyes slightly. His tone sounded calm, yet he raised a hand to stop several princes behind him, who could no longer hold themselves back and wanted to step forward and force the Eight Wise Kings to stamp the edict at once.
He wanted to thoroughly crush this once-arrogant father of his in spirit.
The Eight Wise Kings raised his clouded eyes, filled with bone-deep hatred, and stared fixedly at Erh—and at Ting Sha Piaoliang, who was nestled against Erh's side, somehow wearing a flirtatious, charming expression as though she had returned to her youth.
That sight hurt him even more than death.
Bitch. So cold-hearted. The crocodile race... truly was a pack of cold-blooded creatures!
"After I abdicate... what exactly do you plan to do to settle this utterly rotten mess before us?" The Eight Wise Kings' voice was hoarse as he voiced his final concern,