Just as Senior Yingzhao had said, by entering the Heart of the Western Court, he could probably learn something of Xi Zhou's situation.
-If Yong Ji truly had victory in his grasp, he would never have entered the Western Court.
Pei Ye understood Yong Ji better than Yong Ji thought.
It was not that Pei Ye disbelieved his promise. In fact, setting his loathing aside, Yong Ji was, at his core, someone who honored his word.
Pei Ye had already dissected this aspect of his character through the matter of Meng'er and Li Youlong. He rejected no underhanded methods and had almost no bottom line so long as he could achieve his goal. He treated Meng'er's and Li Cannan's lives as tools and bargaining chips without a qualm; naturally, he could lie and break promises just as freely.
But he was not the sort of petty villain who had grown accustomed to vileness, or even took pleasure in it.
He understood his own actions clearly and regarded them as necessary means to some end... Pei Ye even felt that he carried a certain sense of nobility.
That was why Li Xizhou had been willing to entrust Li Youlong and Meng'er to the Northern Frontier... In matters unrelated to his goals, or in transactions where his goals had already been achieved, he would not-or simply disdained to-do anything vile.
What Pei Ye disbelieved was that he held the bargaining chip.
He knew very well that deep in this black-robed heir's character lay a streak of savage violence. Pei Ye could catch that bloody reek with a single sniff.
Yong Ji was not truly accustomed to achieving his goals by blending and leveraging interests. His attitude toward the Divine Capital was one of cold contempt in his very bones, and his political