"How would I know?"
"I'm already annoyed enough as it is."
Li Sang calmed down slightly. "Being annoyed won't help. Prime Minister Shang looks neutral, but he's already made his choice."
"Also, Shang Shuheng can't be trusted. He's gone out of his way to curry favor with Prince Rui several times, which shows that he doesn't care about you at all. All he cares about is who can make him the Phoenix Monarch of a kingdom."
He knew exactly what kind of thoughts such a man harbored.
Because he had once been just like Shang Shuheng was now, with ambitions higher than the heavens.
"Ying'er, feelings are the least reliable thing in the world. You're the Emperor, so you mustn't lose your bearings over romantic attachments. Do you understand?"
By now, Li Sang no longer believed in that bullshit called love.
Not even a little.
Huang Ying sneered. "Heh, just like your feelings for the Imperial Uncle, right?"
"Didn't you say she would listen to you? Didn't you say she truly loved you and wouldn't cling to the reins of government?"
"But look at her. She appeared to relinquish control of the government, yet behind the scenes, she's pressing us at every turn. She simply wants to pull me down and become Emperor herself!"
"Father, look carefully. This is your so-called 'devotion to you until death.'"
"Ying'er, you..." Li Sang had never expected that, at a time like this, even the daughter he had raised with his own hands would mock him and rub salt in his wounds.
Huang Ying paid him no attention. Perhaps she had suffered too many blows recently, for she suddenly began laughing wildly in an utterly uncharacteristic manner.
"Hahahaha, the foolish ones are you and me! She didn't seize the throne directly back then only