How could a person not feel angry upon discovering being played?
Especially when that person is the Emperor. Every Emperor is innately blindly confident. Even Emperor Chu, despite being a wise ruler, has bad habits typical of Emperors: believing only in oneself.
But unexpectedly, this self-assured person was made a fool by a young rascal for a year and a half.
Indeed, in Emperor Chu's eyes, the thirty-year-old Xia Houzhe is just a young rascal, while he himself was played like a monkey.
Whenever Emperor Chu imagined Xia Houzhe in a place he couldn't see, sneering at his futile efforts, he felt murderous.
No one wants to be a clown, especially someone like him, the Emperor.
Emperor Chu glared at Xia Houzhe, eyes slicing sharply.
