"But I have nothing left. What are we going to do?" Lan Ran no longer cared about the image she had in Qingyang Qili's or Sun Hanxi's eyes. Apart from being their senior sister, she had no identity left.
"We have nothing now, but do they really have anything? We're all far away in the Far Eastern Lands, while Tianxuan Dihuang is in the Tian City region, acting on command. Without an order, how did Tianxuan Dihuang become your master's and Shang Jun's?" I countered.
Lan Ran had always been excessively and blindly afraid of Ji Dongshengtian, believing him to be an invincible existence. Thus, when she heard Shang Jun say that her authority over Tianxuan Dihuang had been stripped away, she lost momentum first. How could she still have the mind to find loopholes?
"But... but Zhou Chen and Ren Zihe..." Lan Ran perked up as well.
"Heh, with every new emperor comes a new court. People show their loyalty according to whose interests are at stake, even if what Shang Jun said was true. Your master has already decided to send troops against Tian City, but that's surely because Tian City is still within your master's jurisdiction. If they were currently in Tian City's territory, would they still dare say they wanted to overthrow Tian City?" I countered.
"So you mean..." Lan Ran understood as well. Zhou Chen had followed her for so many years and had never betrayed her, no matter what kind of predicament she had fallen into. There had to be something strange about the decision he had made now. Perhaps he had also considered what would be best for her. Thus, following my line of thought, this was merely a matter of changing conditions, not a dead end.
"Lan Ran, what was your purpose