Whose Web of Nets (2)

Thus, Lü Buwei's identities and influence were completely inversely proportional.

The identity with the greatest deterrent power had the lowest social status.

The identity with the weakest deterrent power had the highest social status.

But no matter what, the Web of Nets in Lü Buwei's hands was universally acknowledged as flawless. Otherwise, he would have been assassinated long ago. Whether it was the Black Ice Platform of the Qin Kingdom, the Qi Skillful Strike of the Qi Kingdom, or the Shadow Secret Guard, these were all professional intelligence and assassination organizations. Even assassinating a Monarch was not impossible for them. What was a Prime Minister like Lü Buwei worth?

This was also why Ying Zheng, the First Emperor, had never moved against Lü Buwei. It was not until Zhao Gao took over the Web of Nets Lü Buwei had left behind that the matter was considered settled. Only then did Ying Zheng truly reclaim his authority, rule personally, and begin his path toward unification.

But that was merely how the original story had developed.

Reality was different. Because of Ye Qingcang's involvement, the plot had completely gone off the rails.

Web of Nets?

Whose was it, exactly? That remained to be seen!

Although the first area of the Web of Nets to fall had been the Han Kingdom where Han Fei was located—especially Xin Zheng, where Ye Qingcang had swept through the Web of Nets' strongholds one by one and replaced their members with Faceless Men, utterly crushing Jing Ni's will to resist after she witnessed it firsthand—as time passed, batch after batch of Web of Nets members had been replaced on their own. Combined with the Mother Nest's steady supply, roughly one-third of the Web of Nets had now been replaced.

This was an extremely terrifying figure.

Even though