"The ancients truly did not deceive me."
"I regret listening to Ju Shou, and I regret not listening to Ju Shou!"
Yuan Shao sighed deeply.
He should not have followed Ju Shou's advice to install a false Son of Heaven, and still less should he have ignored Ju Shou's warning, underestimated Liu Xie, and left only Zhang He and Gao Lan, two surrendered generals, to lead the Imperial Guards Army in guarding the Imperial Palace.
Just as Liu Xie had said, he had been too arrogant.
His arrogance had made him utterly disregard Liu Xie, whom he saw as a displaced commoner.
"Since Jia Xu now serves under you, does that mean you and he masterminded the Ye City Incident, when Yuan Xi killed his brother and imprisoned his father?"
Yuan Shao looked desolate as he asked again.
Today, he intended to use this opportunity to get to the bottom of everything and resolve the mysteries in his heart.
Previously, he had thought Jia Xu was simply black-hearted by nature and had chosen to bewitch Yuan Xi into killing his father for the sake of his own prospects. Now, however, he no longer thought so. Liu Xie was inextricably involved.
"Jia Xu and Guo Jia served Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang respectively, sowing discord between the brothers until they turned on each other."
"I originally intended to kill you through Yuan Xi, but he was softhearted and merely imprisoned you."
"Later, when word leaked that Yuan Xi had imprisoned his father and the City Defense Army besieged the Yuan Residence, I again used the Imperial Guards Army to help him deal with you. But Benchu was indeed Benchu. In the end, you still escaped."
"That upheaval was the crucial battle that let my dragon soar into the nine heavens. From