"Where would that leave all the heroes under heaven in the eyes of your imperial family?"
"But if your family's girl were made the principal consort, tell me, which of the nation's great, long-established Lineages would accept it? Which would willingly submit?"
"Under those circumstances, once this news got out, what else could happen? How could those Lineages that had long since made their plans simply stand by and watch? They would never allow your family's girls any chance of survival!"
"Even disfiguring them wouldn't be enough to put those people's minds at ease!"
Zuo Xiaoduo's words were cold, blunt, and exceedingly harsh!
Yet Vice Principal Cheng suddenly lost every last trace of his spirit.
He seemed to age a hundred years in an instant.
He had been filled with hatred, sworn to seek revenge, but now, upon being told that he had been swept into an affair reaching all the way to the heavens, he suddenly felt lost.
The wind and waves within it were so immense that even if the whole of Hidden Dragon High Martial were swept inside, the splash it raised would be insignificant, scarcely stirring a ripple!
"The imperial family's grudges have always been difficult to bring into the light. This time will most likely be no exception."
Zuo Xiaoduo said, "I even suspect that, in this matter... although you've been devoting yourself to tracking down the killers, Vice Principal Cheng, I reckon... those at the top have actually long since quietly settled matters concerning many of the people, affairs, and things involved..."
"Vice Principal Cheng, avenging this grudge... will be difficult."
Zuo Xiaoduo sighed softly.
Chapter 147: Shrouded in mystery
After hearing this, Vice Principal Cheng looked utterly dispirited and even older.
He looked at Ye Changqing, his lips trembling, his whole body