Anos

Ryan didn’t feel anger or resentment.

Because he had encountered similar situations more than once.

If he wasn’t mistaken, someone would soon stand up.

“Your Majesty, please reconsider! His Highness only mobilized the troops in violation of the rules to protect his own safety.

The fact is that there were indeed assassins present. Please be lenient!”

And while Ryan was helping him speak, he was actually establishing his guilt first, and then asking for leniency… That’s right, these people were all arranged by the old guy.

The punishment the old guy initially mentioned was just a bluff.

Once there were enough people from the Ming faction, the old guy would pretend to be an enlightened monarch who listens to his ministers’ advice, slightly retracting part of the punishment to show his benevolence.

To put it bluntly, the old guy was determined to use this incident to suppress him and weaken his power.

But performing it once was one thing, doing it the same way for eleven years, Ryan not only wouldn’t fall for it, he even wanted to yawn.

As for the scene the old guy wanted to see, him kowtowing three times and nine bows, feeling apprehensive and grateful… he could forget about it.

He wouldn’t say anything, what could they do to him?

“I understand… then change it to: without special circumstances, you are not allowed to mobilize the personnel of the Black Dragon Knight Order’s branch!”

Sure enough, just as Ryan was about to fall asleep, the old guy finally stopped acting with that group of clowns.

‘The goal is to strip him of his authority to handle government affairs? No, it should be more than that…’

He won’t stand idly by and watch him be wrongly killed.

But every time, the old guy would come up with some actions that he couldn’t understand at all.

He didn’t think this time would be an exception… Wait.

Ryan suddenly thought of the information Flora had provided in the morning.

‘I see, as expected of what that old guy would do.’

He understood.

This old guy wanted to secretly and slowly eliminate those who colluded with the Renaissance organization without further provoking the nobles and officials.

After spending half his life suppressing and dealing with the various ancient families, the common people were already faintly calling him a tyrant.

This old guy was ultimately playing the villain, aiming for infamy for all eternity.

But anyone who dared to hinder the old guy’s strengthening of imperial power would only meet a dead end.

So the old guy ultimately chose to act secretly.

He wouldn’t outwardly respond to anything involving the Renaissance, only acting in secret.

Of course, the middle and upper-level nobles should all know.

They weren’t all in favor of the Renaissance; there must also be some pro-imperial and neutral factions among them.

The situation was very complicated… but what was certain was that they wouldn’t reveal things to Ryan, who valued and heavily used lower-level nobles and commoners.

That’s why there was the bizarre situation where Flora knew, but Ryan didn’t.

The old guy was testing him, as he had predicted, waiting for him to discover the situation himself…

Then let his subordinates be schemed against in their own homes, how disgusting.

Ryan was starting to detest this unclean old guy.

And the result was as he expected, very laughable…

No, Ryan would rather be confined to his mansion than carry out the old guy’s order.

“As you command!”

But the most disgusting thing about this old guy was that after he unilaterally planned everything for you, he wouldn’t allow you to refuse.

No.

Ryan didn’t plan to refuse either.

And knowing that Ryan didn’t want to talk, the old guy left him kneeling on the ground until the end.

After the old guy left, Ryan silently got up, not even glancing at those ministers and nobles who had spoken for him earlier, seemingly supporting him, and walked out of the hall.

“Hey, older brother, how have you been?”

As a result, as soon as Ryan got outside, he saw a face he least wanted to see, second only to his father.

A youth with a similar appearance to him, but who appeared more feminine and frail, was waving at him.

Unlike Ryan, who often wore a black military uniform with gold trim, appearing domineering.

The youth was wearing a white ceremonial dress with gold trim, and beneath his black hair were a pair of slightly bewitching purple eyes.

His face was adorned with a cynical expression, looking like a playboy who was about to attend a ball.

Arnos Roland.

One year younger than him and also the biological son of the current empress.

“Older brother, why aren’t you talking? Were you scared by Father? That’s right, it’s the first time I’ve seen Father so angry.

He’s usually so kind… But older brother doesn’t need to worry.

I’ll go plead with Father later. He loves me the most and will definitely forgive you.”

Seeing that Ryan wasn’t talking, he quickly came over, chattering non-stop.

“Older brother, it’s rare for you to come to the palace. How about we go greet Mother later? Mother misses you!”

And every sentence was at an extremely irritating level.

“Oh, right, older brother, why don’t you move into the palace and live with us?

That way, you can see Father and Mother every day.”

And Ryan was very clear that this kid was deliberately saying this.

When he was little, he had really been shamelessly played by this kid.

He had also been played by this kid.

But that was all in the past.

Now, no matter what this kid said, he would just pretend not to hear it.

Other than a single “scram,” he wouldn’t say anything.

“Older brother, do you dislike me that much? But I just want to have a good relationship with you. I have no ulterior motives!”

“Isn’t there a saying, ‘Brothers united, their strength can break gold?’

Your military strength plus my wisdom will definitely be invincible and unstoppable.”

Ryan stopped walking out of the palace, this guy continued to chase after him,

“If older brother is willing to talk to me, then I’ll have teacher give you guidance for a day, how about it?”

Despite the fact that Arnos couldn’t match the person he called “teacher”, there had only ever been one.

However

“Haha, older brother, you finally took the bait!”

The black-haired, purple-eyed youth laughed triumphantly. The officials and nobles not far away quickly avoided or detoured upon seeing this. “Older brother, you’re still the same, so worshipful and reverent of teacher, yet you never talk to teacher…”

“What do you call this, let me think… Ah, that’s right, unrequited love! Older brother, you’re secretly in love with teacher, aren’t you!”

“Hey!”

Ryan said coldly.

“You’re triggered! You’re triggered!” Arnos was amused, even dancing.

He tiptoed lightly, “Older brother, you can’t do that. You can’t satisfy Father if you get angry so easily.”

“Why should I satisfy that old guy!”

Ryan roared in his heart.

But he quickly adjusted his mentality.

He had already seen that Arnos, this psychologically twisted kid, just wanted to amuse himself with him.

As long as he remained calm, this kid would be the one who got anxious.

“Older brother, you’ve regained your composure so quickly?

Not bad, you’ve improved a lot compared to before… Ah, don’t leave, I still have something important to say!”

Ryan had already decided that no matter what this kid said, he wouldn’t turn around or stop.

However

“Older brother, she’s performing quite well, right?”

Ryan stopped in his tracks.