That had also been his only way of learning whether the woman was safe.
It had indeed been a deeply tempting offer. Pei Ye had not been entirely unmoved.
Yong Ji truly understood him very well. He coveted neither the Western Court nor the Shenxing authority, nor did he have any fixed views about them. In some circumstances, he would trade them for someone's life-even a stranger's. In others, he would not let go even if threatened with an entire city.
A friend was a factor Pei Ye would consider.
Li Xizhou was one of the important people he had met after leaving Fenghuai alone. If she died, he would certainly take utterly frenzied revenge on the King of Yan's Residence. Old wrongs could be nursed; new blood debts demanded mercilessness.
Yong Ji said her life now hung by a thread.
In terms of the overall situation, Yong Ji holding both the Heart of the Western Court and the Zui Star authority was not so difficult to accept, either. Without the Immortal Platform's investiture as an immortal, what he could achieve would fall far short of what Pei Ye could now. So long as Pei Ye killed him afterward, he could take everything back.
But Pei Ye had still refused.
Precisely because he had truly felt fear and cowardice within himself the moment Yong Ji threatened him with her life, he had suddenly, inexplicably felt that yielding would be a kind of betrayal.
...The man of Wuyang's dead ashes-how could one achieve success with him?
The woman had recited that line of poetry to him countless times. She had never been Qin Wuyang, so neither would he.
If Jing Ke really had been killed, he would carry on the attempt to assassinate the King of Qin.
But that was only