Empress Dowager Yan was burning with anger. The thought that her son, due to the trust her late husband placed in Xiao Rongyan, had absolute faith in him, yet Xiao Rongyan was using this trust to gift the Yan Kingdom's throne to his own woman... to his own child!
She said that human nature is selfish. How could Xiao Rongyan truly abandon his own flesh and blood in favor of a nephew like Ah Li!
Talk of betting the nation, this support for Ah Li, it all seemed to be the conspiracy of Xiao Rongyan and Bai Qingyan.
If Xiao Rongyan were here now, Empress Dowager Yan feared her gaze could bore a hole through him. She had entirely forgotten... in the beginning, at least on the surface, Xiao Rongyan was against the betting of the nation. It was Murong Li who insisted on it, and she even went to the Regent Prince's residence late at night to persuade Xiao Rongyan with the memory of the late Empress Ji, begging for Murong Li to agree to Murong Li's strategy of betting the nation.
