The enormous change in Yang Ling'er's state of mind had also presented the Little Human Emperor with an incredibly difficult problem.
Should he choose her?
If he chose her, how should he deal with the Vengeful Ghost Sect, which had slaughtered the entire Yang Family and fanned the flames behind the scenes? How should the endings of the Demoness and Wu Meng be written?
If he chose her, what should become of the Four Cities City Lord Families, who had buried twenty thousand soldiers at Fallen Divine Mountain and plotted Old Master Yang's death?
Could the Little Bad King count on Yang Ling'er to "magnanimously" resolve these blood feuds and let bygones be bygones after she took power?
That was impossible. It went against human nature.
Most importantly, he had no right to ask Yang Ling'er to do that.
These aristocratic families and ancient clans, deeply rooted in the Immortal Wave Five Cities, some for as long as a thousand years, and the Dragon Family's private troops in the Vengeful Ghost Sect could never coexist with Yang Ling'er.
Should he root them all out in one stroke for the future of the Five Cities?
But how would that differ from Long Yuqing's way of doing things? Just how much "rooting out" did it take to qualify as the supposed decisiveness and wisdom of a ruthless ruler?
If he did not eradicate them, but merely used forceful measures to disperse the Four Great Families and exile the Vengeful Ghost Sect, these people would leave either filled with hatred or stripped of all their wealth and privilege. Unreconciled to their fate, would they leave trouble brewing everywhere and eventually stage a comeback?
But if he did not choose Yang Ling'er, whom should he choose?
Who was truly an enlightened ruler fit to