"Everything I did was according to the rules. Though our two families have ties, your baseless accusations are going a little too far."
Looking at Zhao Ya, Yan Hua's expression carried a trace of chill.
The Xia Kingdom of today was no longer the Xia Kingdom it had once been. Though traditional military families like the Zhang, Zhu, Zhao, and Yan Families still retained their status due to their merits—
—it was no longer the equality of old. It had already become a political system led by the Zhu and Zhang Families.
And those two families no longer followed the Xia Family's lead, but Li Su's.
It was as though this world had been arranged by him. He had saved the entire Mortal Realm and spared the Xia Kingdom from catastrophic destruction.
After all, the Xia Kingdom truly had faced a great crisis at the time, with the demon race pouring forth in full force.
And after they awakened, it had been people from the Zhu and Zhang Families who took charge of everything. They had also found themselves upon an unfamiliar, empty land.
At first, no one had doubted the words of the Zhu and Zhang families.
But as time passed and twenty full years went by, homes were rebuilt upon the barren earth, yet the doubts in everyone's hearts only grew deeper.
To say nothing else, in all those twenty years, apart from members of the Zhu and Zhang Families, the new king Li Su—rumored to have surpassed even the level of a Demon King—had never shown himself even once.
Then there had been the constant probing over the past few years. The result was that almost no one in the entire Xia Kingdom knew anything about the new king. Even the Zhu and Zhang Families were in