Everyone loved beauty. Whoever could capture this great beauty's heart would really have made it. Even the Marquis Champion would have to call him brother-in-law, and once Jiang Hao married Her Highness the Princess, even she would have to call him brother-in-law. Just thinking about it was exciting!
Amid the clinking of cups, Wen Ruxue slowly approached Liao Yunxiao. Watching Jiang Hao surrounded by people offering him toast after toast, she felt something she could not put into words. It seemed she could no longer see through this man. Sometimes he was cold and merciless, yet at other times he opened his heart to others, all gentleness, treating even the soldiers who came to toast him with courtesy.
"Teacher, do you feel that Jiang Hao has become a different person?"
Liao Yunxiao raised an eyebrow, not understanding what she meant.
"When we took Wumeng City, he ordered every male killed, young and old alike. The elderly and children posed no threat to us at all, so why slaughter the innocent? I tried to dissuade him once, and he distanced himself from me afterward. I don't know what I did wrong. Teacher, you're his second sister, so you should understand him better than I do. Do you know what he's really thinking?"
After hearing this, Liao Yunxiao did not answer immediately. Instead, she analyzed the issue from another angle.
"Perhaps he only wants to stop killing through killing. Such is human nature. When people's survival is threatened, they rise up and fight back. The people of the North Sea Kingdom choose to invade neighboring countries to survive, while we resist so that they cannot threaten us. Both sides are trying to survive, and thus war arises. The ones who suffer in war are always the ordinary people of both countries.
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