According to Mada's intelligence,
Ye Hesheng's maternal family wielded considerable influence among the upper echelons of the Purple River Kingdom.
He had a decent chance of ascending to the throne.
People's thoughts were fickle.
Especially as their status and the power in their hands continued to grow, their minds tended to swell along with them.
And that swelling often outpaced the growth of their actual strength!
Ye Hesheng might genuinely be afraid of Wang Dong and the Sky Peng Horizontal.
But Wang Dong didn't believe that after Ye Hesheng ascended the throne and looked back on what had happened today, he'd still feel the same way!
Back in the New Song Kingdom,
when facing Princess Qingluo's biological elder brother, that Young Prince Zhao Mengzhuo,
Wang Dong hadn't resorted to drastic measures.
That was because of Princess Qingluo's relationship with Wang Jujun.
They were truly "relatives."
If he'd used excessive force, that would have been one thing.
It would also have affected how he and Princess Qingluo got along, how Princess Qingluo and Wang Jujun got along, and even how he and Wang Jujun got along in the future.
So he'd chosen a more roundabout approach.
He'd sold Dark Spirit Flower Fruits to one of Zhao Mengzhuo's biggest rivals, his own brother Zhao Mengyue, a relatively mild approach that wouldn't antagonize Princess Qingluo.
That had given Zhao Mengzhuo a painful lesson.
But Ye Hesheng, the man standing before him now,
was on a different level, just in terms of status.
As the Purple River Kingdom's Second Prince and second in line to the throne,
he outranked Zhao Mengzhuo, the son of a prince in the New Song Kingdom, by several levels!
But in Wang Dong's eyes,
what was he?
If Wang Dong hadn't intended to squeeze a hefty "compensation for emotional