Chapter 86 - The Truth Is Meaningless
“Lord Ye, I have underestimated you.” The Crown Prince sighed.
Unexpectedly, after Ye Xiao’s speech, the Crown Prince didn’t get angry. His first reaction was actually to sigh.
“Maybe because there has never been anyone who has thought highly of me. It was reasonable that you would never think highly of me.” Ye Xiao spoke calmly.
“It was my fault after all.” The Crown Prince was a bit upset when he spoke.
Yes, he was regretting.
Now he could finally confirm that Ye Xiao… was never the foppish fool described in the rumors.
He had been right. Ye Xiao wasn’t stupid at all, instead, he was too smart!
While his actions seemed to be a gangster’s willful behavior, in fact, every move was made to approach his goal.
Every move and every word was extremely sharp!
Such an able person who was the son of the second most influential character in the military area, from the General’s House, was now standing opposite the Crown Prince.
Step by step, in the Crown Prince’s Palace, he was finally turning hostile towards the Crown Prince himself!
There was no other choice but to collide against each other until the winner and loser were determined.
The Crown Prince just realized that since Ye Xiao had arrived, he had indicated his purpose by showing no respect to anyone and talking like a wild man. His attitude had shown that ‘I am here to break it down to you’!
Earlier, it had been possible to turn the situation around. It had been more harmonious.
If the Crown Prince could have given up his original plan, he could have mitigated the situation.
Yet he hadn’t realized it at all.
Step by step, his men obliviously aimed at Ye Xiao, while at the same time, it made Ye Xiao point his sword at the Crown Prince.
At this moment, there was no chance to turn the situation around!
Guan Zheng-Wen sighed. He could understand the regret in the Crown Prince’s heart!
There was an extreme sense of loss.
The Crown Prince had once told him a story of the time he had been drinking with his father, the King. the King was happy that day and said something meaningful, “Nan-Tian guarding the north can ensure me twenty years of peace!”
Who was Nan-Tian?
Ye Nan-Tian!
Who was Ye Nan-Tian? Ye Xiao’s father!
When the King said that, Ye Nan-Tian had been guarding the north for eight years and it was at peace the whole time.
At that time, the Crown Prince didn’t understand the true meaning behind his father’s words.
Yet now he knew.
Before Ye Nan-Tian took the north, the north was constantly at conflict with its neighbour. It endured attacks from the Kingdom of Lan-Feng all the time and it had become rather difficult to defend the border. The whole kingdom was in an extremely fragile situation because of the northern affair…
Most of the kingdom’s finance resources were used for the war in the north. They were in a terrible situation!
When Ye Nan-Tian took charge of the north, he showed up like a huge mountain that no one could climb over.
From then on, there had been no more suspense to the result of the war in the north!
Those years, the northern affair which had suppressed the King had turned into something he was most proud of!
Ye Nan-Tian could make that happen, but what about Ye Xiao?
The only son of Ye Nan-Tian!
Ye Nan-Tian was knightly, fair and straightforward with formal title and formal flag in his life. Even though he was a typical peerless hero, he could have been framed because of carelessness.
Yet, to them, Ye Xiao seemed invulnerable!
Invulnerable. It was a word which only existed in some compliments or lines of a novel, yet the Crown Prince had related it with Ye Xiao!
Ye Xiao didn’t have a heroic complex like his father.
He could act shamelessly, cheekily, wretchedly or dirty. He could be tough, and he could…
All in all, he could use anything to create positive situations for himself!
That was the Crown Prince’s new assessment of Ye Xiao right now.
Ye Xiao was an extremely dangerous man!
The Crown Prince even had the feeling, [Father said that ‘Nan-Tian guarding the north can ensure me twenty years peace’. If I can recruit Ye Xiao, maybe… there will be no trouble in my future!
What a pity. We have already turned against each other.
The most piteous and annoying thing is that…
I realized the true value of Ye Xiao way after we started fighting against each other!
Becoming an enemy of someone like him is never a wise thing to do. Yet such a stupid thing is exactly what I have just done!]
He looked at Ye Xiao. His heart was completely shaken. Finally, he sighed.
Guan Zheng-Wen also sighed.