"Actually... whatever the case, now that things have come this far, Your Majesty ought to give Huating an answer..."
As conflicting thoughts churned in Xiao Ying's mind, Huan Empress Qi Ji suddenly interjected.
"Hmm?"
Zhi Ji froze, looking at Qi Ji in surprise, then sighed inwardly.
Perhaps this was the greatest difference between her and Qi Ji. Judged purely as the matriarch of the Great Huan Dynasty, Zhi Ji admitted that she truly lacked Qi Ji's generosity and understanding!
"Surely things aren't that bleak?! Would the one emperor unrivaled through the ages have earned his name for nothing?"
Xiao Ying worked his lips and replied hesitantly, then turned to Qi Ji. "As for matters of the heart, we still have to leave them to fate! They must come naturally, like water flowing into a channel, or resentment will inevitably linger!"
Beyond every heaven lay another heaven; beyond every great person stood someone greater!
Xiao Ying understood that better than anyone, but he believed in strength even more.
With cultivation and power at the level of Xiao Ying and Qin Shi Huang, neither would be so arrogant as to consider himself invincible beneath heaven, but protecting himself was well within his capabilities!
Even Xiao Ying himself, despite appearing utterly confident of overcoming the immortal-god calamity, with victory already in his grasp, actually had little confidence. Yet he was certain he could protect himself. Even if he ultimately lost, he remained fully confident of preserving his own life!
Could Qin Shi Huang, the one emperor unrivaled through the ages, possibly be inferior to Xiao Ying?
Even if this Qin Shi Huang was not the true Qin Shi Huang, he possessed every means the true Qin Shi Huang had at his disposal!
As for Princess Huating, she was too devoted and too gentle,