His Crimes Were Beyond Redemption (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Bili Eight Teeth Exposed! 37)

You yourself, you in your friends' eyes, you in your enemies' eyes, and you as people talked about you.

Sometimes, they were four entirely different people.

Strangely, Jiang Wang felt no anger.

He listened to the tale of "Jiang Wang," a man whose crimes were beyond redemption, as though it had nothing to do with him—as though he were hearing about a complete stranger.

Whether that man was evil or good, whether people loved or hated him—

Jiang Wang looked at himself with such detachment, from another perspective: the perspective Zhuang Gaoxian, Du Ruhui, and the others had constructed.

It was a novel perspective, and its logic was perfectly sound.

The timeline was crystal clear, and every plot point led neatly into the next. The villain in the storyteller's tale was so vivid that listeners seethed with indignation, itching to spit in his face, flay him alive, and kill him.

And Jiang Wang, for some reason, found himself thinking—

Someone like that could really exist.

He stopped at nothing and committed every kind of evil. His sole purpose was to grow stronger. He deceived gods and ghosts alike, treating everyone as a pawn. He killed for treasure at the slightest provocation, wiped out entire families over a disagreement, and trampled over his companions' corpses to get ahead.

He betrayed his friends, murdered his master, and turned against his country.

He feared nothing in life and had nothing to lose in death.

A person like that would have no weaknesses.

A person like that would be powerful, and grow powerful even faster.

Jiang Wang had eaten his fill. He poured himself a cup of wine and drank it slowly.

A small kingdom was, after all, a small kingdom, and this tavern was only so-so. Though he had spent quite a bit