The moment Mo Lin brought up the Heaven Dou Empire, Bibi Dong shifted her gaze somewhere she could not see him, while Qian Renxue simply turned her head away.
Everything before had proceeded according to the planned order, and Bibi Dong had not yet launched the Soul Hunting Operation this time, forcing Qian Renxue to move her plans ahead of schedule.
Yet even so, the Heaven Dou Empire still had not been completely brought under their control.
The current situation only proved one thing: their plan had contained many oversights and unsuitable elements from the very beginning.
For the mother and daughter, Qian Renxue had been the one carrying out the seizure of the Heaven Dou Empire, while Bibi Dong had been its proposer. Yet neither of them had noticed that the plan itself was flawed. How embarrassing would that be if word got out?!
"There's no one else here, and everyone who knows what happened already understands it. There's no point in being embarrassed, is there?" As Mo Lin spoke, he pinched Qian Renxue's cheek and turned her face back, then analyzed, "The Heaven Dou Empire was a nation with decentralized power to begin with. Even its most crucial military authority was divided among separate factions. Completely taking control of it from the inside out was always unlikely.
"Besides, you've acted so ruthlessly over the years. You secured your place as the first heir, but naturally, the risks rose right along with it. Whether Prince Xue Xing rebelled or not no longer had much to do with whether you truly were Xue Qinghe."
"Are you trying to comfort me?" No matter how Qian Renxue listened to it, she felt Mo Lin was mocking her. What he meant was that she had undertaken something doomed to fail no matter how