"Elder Yuan was a Chess Piece the imperial family planted in the Elder Council from the start. Otherwise, what merit or ability did a mere Yuan Fangping have to climb this high?"
"But that's unconstitutional..."
"How is it unconstitutional? Has Emperor Mingde ever interfered in state affairs? He's only keeping a few proxies. Where does the constitution forbid that? Go read it, then ask a few top lawyers..."
Gai Xiaolong finally had nothing to say. The world was too complicated, far more complicated than anything he could see.
Seeing Gai Xiaolong so dispirited, Gai Longwang felt both heartache and anger. So be it. If you truly can't get past this on your own, there's no point expecting you to amount to anything...
While Gai Longwang wrestled with how to educate his son and deal with his own predicament, Tang Changsheng had already searched Jinghong Temple from top to bottom, again and again.
"Li Qinghe couldn't have missed the fact that I'd gone out. If he wanted to deal with me, why not intercept and kill me on the road? Why force his way into Jinghong Temple, where the Brocade Guard is protecting me?
"That means I wasn't his real target when he broke in. So what was?"
Tang Changsheng muttered to himself as he inspected the whole temple. Gradually, one thought grew clearer: there was something strange about Jinghong Temple!
The temple and its surroundings were quiet. Soldiers guarded its peace from a distance. After the recent attack, their numbers had doubled, and they had even deployed high-tech weapons usually heard of only in street rumors,
such as Exoskeleton Armor and Gauss Guns. Satellites and Unmanned Reconnaissance Drones watched the entire hill from every angle. The defenses might not be an impregnable fortress, but Li Qinghe would no longer find