Morning mist shrouded the wilderness outside the Divine Capital like gauze.
The Heavenly Queen stood beneath an old tree, gently stroking the Flying Eagle's feathers, lost in thought.
"Gong Yuyi had her threads of love severed by Qi Shiyun's sword and is now sitting in the Nine Heavens prison. The Gong Yuyi in Miao Prefecture City should be Shiyun, then. The one with Shiyun should be Lianshan Xin. To disguise himself so perfectly-Lianshan Xin actually got involved with Thousand Faces. Does His Majesty know? He probably does. His Majesty has always been clever."
At this thought, the Heavenly Queen's expression grew somewhat strange.
Like Emperor Yongchang, she loathed Thousand Faces. After all, Thousand Faces had ruined their happiness.
Fortunately, Lianshan Jingcheng's medical skills had turned back the raging tide. Otherwise, the Heavenly Queen would have considered hunting Thousand Faces down herself.
Now that Emperor Yongchang had successfully reattached his dragon, the Heavenly Queen's attitude toward Thousand Faces had softened somewhat. But she was not the actual victim, after all. Emperor Yongchang was.
The Heavenly Queen wondered how Emperor Yongchang would react if he knew Lianshan Xin had ties to Thousand Faces.
Putting herself in his shoes, she reached a conclusion. "His Majesty would probably pretend not to know. He has always been exceptionally good at keeping one eye open and the other shut."
Without the skill of knowing when to play the fool, one could never be a good emperor.
Some people always assumed an emperor could do whatever he pleased. That assumption ignored Great Yu's fundamental circumstances-Great Yu had immortals and Great Grandmasters.
Whether in power or punching power, if one could not beat someone else, it made no difference whether one was an emperor or an aristocratic clan. Those destined to have someone ride their faces would still