Chapter 89
Leave.
The meeting had long since ended. The person there was none other than the Grand Duke of the Southern Palace, the one who had taken over the Southern Palace.
It was me.
In my previous life, in this life, and in the gap between them, had I ever encountered anyone like this? I couldn’t think of any.
“Drink.”
The warmth of the black tea enveloped me, the faint aroma of the tea refreshing my nostrils.
“What is it?”
My answer was blunt: a bone of contention is not something that goes away easily.
In my previous life, I had been a man of many colors,
at least since I came of age, when I traveled from battlefield to battlefield, leaving my mother alone.
It was not an ugly hair that would disappear overnight. No matter what anyone said about my feelings, I wasn’t going to let it go.
But he didn’t seem to care about my deep-seated feelings.
“So, are you nearer to the path of the Emperor?”
“……You called me here to ask me that.”
“Arrogance will only lead you farther away. Think of it as building a castle, step by step, based on the teachings of Elder Sun. Find balance in the story of the six. There is only one Emperor.”
“Why do you not ask?”
“What do you mean?”
I was asking why he had summoned me here and not reprimanded me for what I had done, and yet, unlike Namgung Mubai’s impassive expression, the words that came out of his mouth were not cold.
Why.
“Why don’t you ask me about that ambition of yours, to open the Fengyun Branch with the Huang Family, it wouldn’t have cleared up any doubts.”
