Dongfang Xiao had quite a good impression of Tang Shuang.
This was actually rather interesting—though her attitude toward Cheng Gujian was complicated, as if she wanted nothing to do with him for the rest of her life, she felt more or less the same way about Xu Shi.
Why? Naturally, because her own feelings were conflicted as well.
Looking at the outcome, she now knew that even if she did nothing, everything in this empire would eventually fall into her hands.
Which meant that all her previous compromises with Xu Shi had been completely unnecessary.
But because Cheng Gujian had refused to say anything, Xu Shi had been given an opening, creating the current situation.
Who could be blamed for that? It seemed everyone had their own issues—Cheng Gujian had his reasons for concealing the truth. In the end, it had been to temper the little empress. Otherwise, had she known she had always been protected, she would most likely have turned out even more useless than she was now.
Yes, from Xu Shi's perspective, she was indeed rather useless even now. At best, she met the standard of being competent, and with a few others assisting her, things would not fall apart the moment he was gone.
But the consequences of his actions were obvious as well. In the end, Boss Xu had still won.
Did Dongfang Xiao have problems too? Of course she did. Her temperament was simply too weak. Even if Xu Shi had been digging pits for her the whole time, she had still willingly jumped into them herself.
It was too late for regret now. The effects of Malice Entropy could not be reversed. At least, once someone had reached her stage, reversal was nearly impossible. All that remained was to see when the mark