This time, he was finally the most outstanding prince in both nations!
His smug satisfaction did not last long before he heard that his "dear brother" had ascended the throne as emperor of Great Xia.
Jealousy and resentment instantly flooded his heart. With nowhere to vent them, he smashed his own Prince's Manor to pieces.
Why? Why?!
Great Xia had such vast, fertile lands and was such a powerful nation. Why should that "dear brother," who was inferior to him in every way, become its emperor?
The emperor of Great Xia could be any stranger, but absolutely not a close relative or dear friend he knew!
And so, like a madman, he resorted to every means imaginable and killed all his elder and younger brothers who might inherit the throne of Eastern Lin.
He left only one younger sister who posed no threat.
When his Imperial Father discovered that he was behind it all, he tried to have him killed. Refusing to submit, he turned around and killed his Imperial Father instead.
Then he suppressed the unrest with violence and ascended the throne as Sovereign.
Later, his unsuspecting "dear brother" resumed contact with him, sending him great quantities of tea, silk, and porcelain. His jealousy grew, and he coveted Great Xia's lands with ever-redder eyes.
Why could that man possess such a fine nation when he could not?
So he began laying his plans, sending countless people around him to seize the Great Xia Dynasty's territory, one after another, at an incalculable cost.
He even imprisoned the Empress Dowager amid his younger sister's earth-shattering cries, forcing his sister to go to Great Xia and work for him.
Even though she was only fourteen at the time.
Now that his younger sister's descendant had grown so terrifyingly powerful, he naturally would