Chapter 27
Episode 27.
“I’ll take your punishment!”
Hua Tong boiled and ate.
I covered both ears. For a moment, I wondered if I’d brought him along for the ride. I expected it, but it was just one more nag.
After a few days in the cage, he came out half a man, his voice still intact. I was tempted to starve him some more.
“I told you.”
“Did you think that if the Grand Duke did that, I would accept that I was right? How reckless of you. You should be looking ahead, drawing up blueprints and thinking of taking over the maintenance of the Southern Palace and rising to a higher position. How can you be held back by someone like me?”
He vowed to never put the two of them together again.
“You should say it right. I don’t care about black tiger.”
“No, but still.”
“It’s because black tigers are ignorant.”
“……?”
Black Ho was visibly flustered.
“What do you expect me to do after giving you so much loyalty just to save your life?”
Black Ho’s mouth twitched, but he quickly shook his head.
“Don’t shake your head. I’m not saying you’re wrong.”
In my previous life, I was lonely and alone. I traveled the world without anyone to trust.
I had to endure many hardships and grit my teeth to ascend to the position of Captain of the Ten Thousand People.
The world was too harsh for me to consider warm.
My mother died early, my family treated me like a nobody, and everyone watched me from afar, not wanting to touch me lest a spark fall on them.
I needed friends, and I needed people I could trust. Over time, I found a few of them, but the dark memories of my past remained with me like an afterimage, like an imprint.
