Die If I Cannot Succeed

"Back then, from the intelligence I gathered, the Dragon Lord's relationship with Emperor Shizu of Great Wei was anything but simple. But once the struggle for the throne began, even if the contender was a Demon Dragon, the two grew distant."

"I still don't know whether it happened before or after Emperor Shizu's death. Either way, the records show that Great Wei's relations with the Dragon Lord turned cold across the board."

"The Dragon Lord fell soon afterward. At the cost of his life, he left the Young Dragon only the Sealing Recess, where the Young Dragon slept for three hundred years."

A Dragon Lord capable of opening three thousand paths had died under murky circumstances. If not for Su Ziji, the Young Dragon might still be under someone's control, or even have been killed. Everything could have been wiped away.

"I should have realized it long ago. The moment I chose to present myself as the crown prince's descendant, I stepped onto the road of the struggle for the throne. If I don't become the rightful Imperial Grandson, whether Prince Shu or Prince Qi takes the throne, he'll send me poisoned wine at once. Then it won't just be me who dies. Ye Buhui, my future children, and everyone who follows me will die too."

"Just like what happened to the crown prince back then. Not only were all his wives and concubines ordered to die, even an Imperial Grandson only a few years old was dashed to death."

At the thought, Su Ziji's face turned pale, and a faint light flickered in his eyes. He sank into thought. I knew what I was getting into. But after I met Qi Hongxin in Shunan Prefecture, looking like an ordinary farmer, things went a little off course.

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