"Why?"
He Liancheng looked at the Eldest Young Lady with complicated emotions. Though he knew the answer, he still wanted to ask.
Seeing his emotions, the Eldest Young Lady was somewhat at a loss. The words reached her lips, yet she wanted to speak them but did not dare.
When she did not answer, He Liancheng gave a bitter smile. "So, you think I'll lose too."
"You wanted these people to wear down his strength first, then have me step in at the end to reap the rewards, right?"
"I... I didn't mean that. I just..."
"No need to explain. Everyone knows what you meant."
"But I know even better that if I truly went last, then even if I won, it would be a dishonorable victory."
"Actually, I should have been the first one to step up." He Liancheng laughed at himself.
"No, it wasn't like that."
"You didn't go first because he wasn't worthy. Because the others... the others could..."
Perhaps in the beginning, everyone had thought that way. Chen Changan would be defeated without needing He Liancheng to make a move.
But the moment Chen Changan achieved ten consecutive victories, they should have known that no one here could stop him.
He Liancheng should have stepped forward then, but he had not.
Though the War Alliance Master and the people from the Elder Council had not come over, they knew every detail of what had happened in the Tier-Five Battle Realm.
He Liancheng's choice made the War Alliance Master sigh helplessly.
"I thought he had been tempered enough. After all, he climbed step by step from a Small World and experienced more than enough along the way."
"But now it seems he still needs more tempering."
"Perhaps his path has been too smooth."
"He actually hesitated, and