Under the threat of a feather duster, the Young Emperor indeed figured the matter out within two hours.
"I think, to divide the relationship between several people, you have to give them a good thing, but this thing must only be enough for two people to share. Naturally, it will cause a dispute, only... I don't understand why those people in your story, Grand Tutor, would slit their own throats."
Fang Zhiyi sighed, "That is a noble character. You are still young, so it's normal that you don't understand."
He stood up, frowning as he pondered a countermeasure. Behind him, the Young Emperor remained silent for a moment.
"But I think there is a problem with that ruler."
"Hmm?"
"Using such a scheme to kill three of his own great generals is not a good thing for the country, and if word gets out, his reputation will also suffer."
Fang Zhiyi turned his head, looking at the child with great interest.
"Not bad, you're starting to look a bit like an emperor."
"Grand Tutor, do you mean..."
Fang Zhiyi gave him a meaningful look. "What did you hear at the court assembly today?"
The Young Emperor tried hard to recall. To be honest, he had been daydreaming most of the time, only hearing something about managing a canal...
"Grand Tutor, are you saying we should sow discord between Commander Guo and Chancellor Huang?"
"No, does their relationship even need sowing discord? If you handed them swords right then and there, they'd hack each other to pieces!"
The Young Emperor shrank his neck back. "Then why did you tell me that story..."
"That story was to teach you the principles of being a ruler, and also to see if you have the potential to be one. Most people focus on the scheme itself, and very few notice the impact such an event brings. Obviously, you have some promise."
"Hehe." The Young Emperor scratched his head.
"What are you laughing at? You weren't even listening properly during court. It might seem like they were discussing managing the canal, but in reality, they were fighting for the interests of the noble families backing them. To put it bluntly, even though you are the emperor and I am the Grand Tutor, the two of us amount to nothing." Fang Zhiyi paced in a circle. "But if you want to increase your own weight, you can only speak up when they are keeping each other in check, understand?"
The Young Emperor looked a bit bewildered.
Fang Zhiyi also felt helpless; after all, this emperor was just a child.
"From today onwards, you do exactly as I say. This concerns our very lives, understand?"
The Young Emperor understood this sentence perfectly: "Understood, Grand Tutor!"
"Originally, I could have just walked away and not gotten involved... Forget it, I have to live up to you calling me Grand Tutor." Fang Zhiyi had already come up with seven or eight ways to flee the capital just moments ago.
"Then, Grand Tutor, what should we do next?"
"Do nothing, let's find food." Fang Zhiyi was already hungry. But because the Young Emperor had no real authority and no one cared for them, he had to take the emperor to the imperial kitchen to get food himself. When the cooks in the imperial kitchen saw the Young Emperor and Fang Zhiyi enter, they froze for a moment before remembering to bow.
"Forget the formalities, hurry up and make something to eat."
Meanwhile, the little eunuch who discovered the two were missing was frantic. He searched a large area before finally finding them in the imperial kitchen. He immediately complained, "Your Majesty, Grand Tutor, how could you leave without saying a word? I was worried to death!"
Fang Zhiyi looked at him coldly without speaking. If this were a world where he was the emperor, this eunuch would have been chopped into minced meat on the spot. But there was no helping it; he could only endure it.
Fortunately, after the eunuch finished nagging, he didn't say anything else and just kept a close eye on the two.
After all, he still had to report to the Commander at any given moment.
The next day at court, they continued the unresolved agenda from yesterday. This time, the Young Emperor remembered Fang Zhiyi's words. He listened hard to the debate between the Commander and the Chancellor. Both men seemed to want to secure the oversight rights for their own subordinates.
Just as the two sides were locked in a stalemate, Fang Zhiyi coughed softly.
The Young Emperor immediately became a little nervous, but looking at Fang Zhiyi's eyes, he gathered his courage: "Commander Guo, Chancellor Huang."
The two men below stopped arguing at the same time and turned to look at him.
"Um... um..."
Although they knew he was just a figurehead, they couldn't outright disrespect him. Huang Huaili and Guo Qianyue both stared straight at him, making the Young Emperor's hair stand on end.
"I think."
"Ahem." Fang Zhiyi coughed again.
"I think what Chancellor Huang said is more appropriate. The supervisor of Yun City is his student, so naturally, he would understand the situation better than an official sent from the capital..." He swallowed hard. "How about we let Chancellor Huang take charge of this matter?"
As soon as these words came out, Guo Qianyue's face darkened, and his eyes stared fixedly at the Young Emperor like a venomous snake.
The Young Emperor panicked a little. The Grand Tutor had told him before that if he offended Commander Guo, he certainly wouldn't live long.
But to his surprise, Huang Huaili shouted loudly, "This old minister thanks Your Majesty for your trust! Lord Guo, why are you glaring at His Majesty? Do you have some objection against His Majesty?"
Guo Qianyue snapped back to his senses and bowed with a face full of indignation. "This old minister does not!"
"Hmph, Guo Qianyue, His Majesty has spoken. Are you going to defy an imperial decree?"
Guo Qianyue gritted his teeth so hard they nearly shattered. "I wouldn't dare!"
Huang Huaili's face was full of triumph, and the gaze he directed at the Young Emperor was full of approval.
The Young Emperor was struck by a sudden realization. Is this what the Grand Tutor meant by breaking the balance? But why did he feel so panicked?
After court, Fang Zhiyi still followed behind him. But before he had time to ask anything, a eunuch suddenly ran over in a hurry, saying there was a matter requiring Fang Zhiyi's presence. Fang Zhiyi gave the Young Emperor a meaningful look, turned around, and left with the eunuch.
The Young Emperor felt inexplicably uneasy.
At this moment, two eunuchs followed behind him. The two eunuchs exchanged a glance and nodded secretly.
As the Young Emperor walked onto an arched bridge, one of the eunuchs suddenly lunged forward.
He had already received Commander Guo's orders to teach this Young Emperor a lesson and make him stop speaking out of turn. But just as his hand was about to touch the Young Emperor, a loud shout rang out.
"Audacious! How dare you attack His Majesty!"
The two eunuchs froze in shock as they saw a patrol of Black Armor Guards rushing over. Without a word, they pinned the two eunuchs down.
"Do not panic, Your Majesty! The Black Armor Guards are here!"
The Young Emperor was completely bewildered; he didn't understand what was happening.
"You two castrates actually tried to push His Majesty into the water. What are your intentions? Come with us!" With that said, without waiting for the Young Emperor to react, the squad of Black Armor Guards escorted the two eunuchs away.
The Young Emperor was in a state of confusion the entire time. Did he just narrowly escape with his life? What was the deal with those Black Armor Guards? Usually, they wouldn't even spare him a glance when they saw him.
"Surprised? If I'm not mistaken, this squad of Black Armor Guards was sent by your Chancellor Huang." Fang Zhiyi slowly walked over. When he was called away by the eunuch earlier, he knew something was going to happen.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
