[Dragging his whole family to the grave for his love—now that was a phrase you didn't hear every day!]
After hearing Guagua say that, Jiang Nuan dug at her ear, wondering whether she had misheard.
[Wait, dragging his whole family to the grave wouldn't be easy. Don't tell me he's planning to...]
As if something had suddenly occurred to her, Jiang Nuan asked in disbelief.
[Exactly, host. It's just what you're thinking. He knows he could never kill off his entire family with his own abilities, so he's planning to assassinate your imperial father at this farewell banquet.]
Guagua immediately replied.
Jiang Yunsheng: ?
No, he had been sitting here minding his own business. Wanting to drag his whole family to the grave was bad enough, but why did he have to try to assassinate him? Did he think being emperor was easy?
Upon hearing this, Yu Xianzhi lost his balance and fell off his chair.
His son, Yu Henan, merely glanced at him when he saw this. Never mind asking whether he was all right; he could not even be bothered to spare him another look.
Yu Xianzhi gave a self-mocking smile. He had considered himself fairly successful, yet he had made such a catastrophic mistake in raising his son.
For someone of no real importance, his son actually wanted to take the family who had loved and protected him since childhood to their deaths.
Who would dare keep a son like that?
[Should I praise him for being clever? He actually came up with something like this. One failed assassination attempt, and all nine branches of his clan would be exterminated. He wouldn't even have to trouble himself coming up with a way to do it.]
Jiang Nuan was truly speechless.
*[But he'd die too after the assassination