Incarnation Of Gods: Endless War - Chapter 225

Third-person POV

The atmosphere in today’s morning court was very heavy because they had heard that the Royal Palace was attacked by Bei Zhou. At first, they were shocked to see Weisheng appeared at the main hall and wanted to ask him about his sudden appearance. But after seeing a sinister aura around Weisheng, they decided to shut their lips and stood silently.

Wei Yunru was acting as usual during the whole morning court. Weisheng gripped the armrest as he tried to hold himself back from killing Wei Yunru. After reading the letters that Hong er had kept for months, his blood boiled even more than before.

Pieces started to come together, the real reason why Wei Yunru did all of these was that he wanted to rob the throne from Weisheng. But he was aware of his powerlessness if it has to be compared to Weisheng’s.

A few years ago, when Weisheng was still fighting with his paternal uncle for the throne, the Wei family supported his paternal uncle in the dark. The Wei family helped him by gaining allies from the old-fashioned ministers that disagreed with Weisheng’s ideas to change the slavery system.

The old-fashioned ministers kneeled days and nights in front of the Royal Palace’s main hall, begging for the (previous) emperor to change the crown prince from Weisheng to his paternal uncle.

But the previous emperor was not a fool, he knew that his own brother fed him a slow-reacting poison, therefore, the time the poison consumed his whole organs, it would be too late to find the cure.

And the one to provide him the poison was Wei family. They were considered as the third most powerful family in Da Qi after Liu Royal Family and Lu family. The Lu family had half of the power in the court and needless to say, the Lu family was on Weisheng’s side as Lu Cixi is Weisheng’s birth mother.

Since Lu Cixi married the previous emperor when he was still a crown prince, she had noticed her husband’s elder brother’s thirst for power. She had put up a guard against him for decades and assisted his husband with every power she had for him to ascend the throne.

The previous emperor’s elder brother’s mother was a concubine therefore he instantly lost his position as a crown prince the moment Weisheng’s father was born. He hated him to the core, he tried to kill his own younger brother even before his younger brother could walk with his own feet.

And after the previous emperor ascended to the throne, he immediately wrote an imperial decree and announced that the 2-month-old baby in Lu Cixi’s stomach will be the crown prince.

It goes without saying, his elder brother was enraged by this sudden announcement but he couldn’t do anything to him because it would be considered as rebellion. The previous emperor also couldn’t eliminate his elder brother as he was gifted the First Rank Prince from their father.

(A/N: I’m sorry if it is confusing but I run out of name ideas.)

The elder brother attempted numerous assassinations on the unborn baby but always ended up in failure because of Lu Cixi’s overprotective tendency. 7 months later, Weisheng was born. It became more difficult for him to kill Weisheng after he was born.

There was an unknown shadow that protected the baby Weisheng from any harm. And to add it, Weisheng emitted such a strong killing aura even as a baby.

At that time, the Wei family was known to be neutral. They didn’t take anyone’s side, that’s why Lu Cixi let down her guard for a bit by having Lu Ping, Weisheng, and Wei Yunru became friends as they were close in age.

The Wei family had taught Wei Yunru to report Weisheng’s every move to them. Despite him was still very young, he understood his family’s hidden motive. They were just using the previous emperor’s elder brother to rob the throne, with that it would be easier for them to rob the throne from him compared to the previous emperor.

If by chance he lost the fight, the public would only suspect him and the family that sided him except the Wei family. But it would be Wei Yunru’s father that would sit on the throne if the Wei family’s plan succeed.

Wei Yunru secretly planned how to prevent his father to take the throne and then he started to his hid true potential. Wei Yunru purposely made mistakes in his studies and exams so everyone would underestimate him. With that in one’s mind, the Wei family would think that he was an easy chess piece to be used. But no matter what he, Lu Ping and Weisheng always saw through the mask that he worked hard to build.

Weisheng thought that Wei Yunru purposely lower himself because of the pressure that his family put on his shoulder as the heir of Wei family, therefore, Weisheng pitied him and let Wei Yunru stay by his side as his aide. The pity that Weisheng showed him only made Wei Yunru began to hate Weisheng.

On the other side, Lu Ping never trusted Wei Yunru even once although Lu Ping treated him like a friend in front of the public or even when they were alone. But in actual, it was to watch over Wei Yunru so he would stay in his lane.

Lu Deng Xin entrusted the task to support Weisheng to Lu Ping therefore he vowed in front of the Goddess of Light’s statue to always be a loyal subject to Weisheng. Decade passed by, the previous emperor died because of poisoning, the fight between Weisheng and his uncle grew tenser.

But in the end, Weisheng won the fight and his uncle was executed for poisoning the previous emperor together with the ministers that supported him. Although Wei Yunru had stolen many secret information from Weisheng, he still lost. Apparently, Lu Ping often discussed discreetly with Weisheng which brought him to not knowing some important information or changes of plans.

However, he found Weisheng’s greatest weakness, Hong er. But as soon as he met her golden eyes, he immediately knew that it would be extremely hard for him to defeat her. He manipulated Murong Qing to gain help from Bataar and made Lu Ping think that his objective is to take Murong Qing from Weisheng.

With that, he successfully brought a dark guild that obsessed with Weisheng’s dark power to his side. If Weisheng killed the civilian because of his unstable power, his position as a ruler could be threatened.

With his heir killed, no one could inherit his throne. Leaving the Liu family no choice. Even if he didn’t abdicate his throne, in the eye of the public, his prestige has been destroyed.

But one thing that caused his carefully made plan to fail, Meiyun. He never knew that Meiyun could summon Weisheng and moreover, he didn’t expect that she would be back that soon because he had distracted Di family to solve the ice tsunami accident.

He went rampage when he knew that all of Weisheng’s descendants were safe. He was throwing a tantrum when a piece of news from the Royal Palace came to his residence saying the morning court would be lead by Weisheng himself.

(Back to present)

Wei Yunru was surprised to see Weisheng was behaving like usual but the dark circles under his eyes clearly shown that he was very tired and didn’t sleep a wink at the night. His appearance also changed a lot, with more tattoo on half of his face.

He did his job as usual but he put on a wretched face as a sign that he was distressed by the attack on the Royal Palace. None of the ministers brought up the topic of the attack. The morning court went on like usual until the ministers left the main hall except Lu Deng Xin, Wei Yunru, and Weisheng.

Weisheng glanced at Wei Yunru and parted his lips, “Arrest him.”