Everyone's Choice

Over the years, the Crown Prince and the Old King had worked together perfectly, one in the shadows and the other in the open. No one had imagined that the Youth Party Leader of the Nagaril Youth Party, who had attacked the royal palace, was actually the King's eldest son.

No one could have imagined it. Only the father and son knew the truth. Even the "New King" currently inside the royal palace had no idea what the Crown Prince was doing or why he had kept his stand-in in the public eye all this time.

The father and son's plan had been excellent. They had assumed that once the Federal Government arrived, it would contact the local "opposition" and support them in opposing the local privileged class.

That way, the Crown Prince could become a puppet supported by the Federal Government.

But whether he was a puppet or not, as a puppet of the Federal Government, his interests would effectively be tied to theirs.

If the Federal Government was unwilling to abandon its interests here, then the best course of action was to preserve the Crown Prince as its puppet, have him crowned, and make him the New King.

There was nothing seriously wrong with the plan. They had even made all kinds of signals extremely obvious: the Youth Party's many conflicts with the domestic ruling class, for example, as well as its longing for the Federation and for freedom, fairness, and justice.

From the moment the plan was conceived, the Crown Prince and the others had already transformed the Youth Party into a group built according to the Federal Spirit, eagerly waiting for the Federal Government to contact them.

The plan was also highly favorable to the Federal Government.

It would not need to tear off the hypocritical