Stupid woman... I have a bottom-rung mentality?
Doesn't Yang Fan have one too?
He and I are fundamentally the same kind of person.
Given the chance, he would strike at me without hesitation too.
I merely made the first move.
Ma Huainan roared inwardly.
In truth, Ma Huainan and Yang Fan had remarkably similar backgrounds.
Both had come from remote planets.
Both had been discovered by top-tier powers because of their talents, then worked their way step by step to where they were today.
People of the same kind could often see through one another most easily.
On the surface, Ma Huainan had merely lost a War God Codex in that wager back then.
He admitted that he resented Yang Fan because of it.
But he also knew that Yang Fan must have seen through his resentment.
Later, Sima Yurou had offered to smooth things over for him.
Although Ma Huainan had agreed, his true aim had been to lower Yang Fan's guard and make him believe their conflict had already been resolved.
That evening, after hearing Sima Yurou recount everything that had happened at the banquet, he had reached his conclusion.
Ma Huainan had become absolutely certain that Yang Fan had only offered polite words, without a shred of sincerity.
That was how this world worked.
So-called peace was merely an illusion that existed while interests did not clash.
Once enmity had been formed, it was better to seize the initiative than wait for someone else to strike first.
Because losers had no right to regret.
Ma Huainan was supremely confident in his SS-Class War God Physique talent.
But he also understood that, ultimately, developing a Divine Kingdom came down to resources.
When he learned that Yang Fan had founded the Yang Group and even injected 200 trillion