Yang Zong's face was blank with bewilderment.
He could not believe what he had heard.
"What did you say?"
Yin Damu merely cupped his hands toward him. "That friend of mine told me that you knew each other in the past and got along quite well."
"He knows you are not a man who betrays trust and loyalty. If you still remember the wine he bought you back then, please do not interfere in this matter. Victory and defeat have their own destined course."
With that, Yin Damu turned and left.
Yin Damu was not afraid that Yang Zong would betray him. If Yang Zong chose to do so, Yin Damu and the others would adopt their second approach: sacrificing him to protect Cheng Cui and leaving Cheng Cui to accomplish the great undertaking.
In fact, they had more than just two sets of tactics. They had a full five ways to respond.
Yin Damu was merely the first approach.
Moreover, Yin Damu had met Liu Lu several times and learned from him that the emperor thought highly of Yang Zong. The emperor believed he was not a treacherous scoundrel, and that his decision to submit to Sima Zhao back then had partly been intended to protect the emperor.
Even if Yang Zong would not help him deal with Sima Zhao, he would not help Sima Zhao deal with him either.
Yin Damu was a household servant of the Cao Family and extremely loyal to Cao Rui. All he wanted was to wash away his bad name and kill Sima Shi for revenge.
Now that Sima Shi was dead, his goal had become helping the emperor reclaim power.
To achieve that goal, he had no fear of sacrificing himself.
Yang Zong, however, felt the world spinning around him.
He finally