PS: Wishing everyone a happy Lantern Festival ^0^
As the Great Zhou prince who had once wielded the greatest power, Ji Yancheng had built Prince of Tai's Mansion in utmost splendor. Yet now, the mansion was silent and desolate; including the servants, there were fewer than ten people in the entire estate.
In truth, Ji Haodian had never explicitly said that he would depose Ji Yancheng and the others.
Back then, Ji Haodian had merely said he would have the other princes enter the capital to vie for the position of heir apparent. But everyone could see that Ji Yancheng and the others had thoroughly disgusted Ji Haodian. Continuing to support his ascension to the throne would have been an act of pure idiocy, so their situation had been little different from being deposed.
Thus, after the incident in the Kunlun Secret Realm, Ji Yancheng and the other five princes had been completely cast into the cold palace, left without so much as a ripple of activity, a truly miserable sight.
At this moment, within Prince of Tai's Mansion, Ji Yancheng—once robust, masculine, and martial-looking—now radiated utter dejection. His hair and beard were in disarray, and he sat slumped on the floor, surrounded by empty wine jugs as a heavy stench of alcohol hung in the room.
His personal eunuch, Feng Ying, stood anxiously beside him. He did not try to persuade him of anything, because consolation was simply useless.
Ever since the day Ji Yancheng had been deposed, he had drowned his sorrows in drink. The martial artists of Prince of Tai's Mansion had already suffered considerable losses in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and now every last one of them had fled—even the Xiantian Martial Artists and Houtian Martial Artists.
Anyone with eyes could see that Ji Yancheng was