Prince of Wu, Ji Yanting, was very young. Among the princes, he was the youngest, having just turned twenty this year. His fief was in Jiangnan Circuit, which was a truly miserable place to be assigned.
To be honest, when Su Xin was in Jiangnan Circuit, he hadn't even heard that there was a Prince of Wu there. One could imagine just how utterly invisible this prince was.
Before Su Xin arrived, the Xiao Family had effectively ruled Jiangnan Circuit with an iron fist. It was impossible for Ji Yanting to build up his own power there.
After the Crown Prince and the others were deposed, Jiangnan Circuit became a land divided between Su Xin and the Xiao Family. Ji Yanting still couldn't get a foothold.
Ji Yanting had given up long ago. He believed that his lot in life was to be an idle prince, so when the Xiao Family had approached him and offered to support him in becoming the ruler of Great Zhou, he had immediately refused.
It wasn't that he didn't want the throne. He had simply given up on himself completely and no longer wanted to fight for it.
Unexpectedly, his act of sheer resignation had saved his life. The Xiao Family had turned around and sought out other princes to serve as puppets, and everyone had seen how that ended. Those men's fates were still unknown, locked away in the Imperial Clan Court.
Ji Yanting had taken no small amount of pleasure in their misfortune. Then Sword Washing Pavilion had approached him, and this time, he had truly been tempted.
By then, Ji Xuanyuan and the other powers-that-be in Great Zhou had made it clear: as long as they didn't do anything to harm Great Zhou's interests, joining forces with a martial sect was