Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 14: Lu Ting’s Words

Chapter 14: Lu Ting’s Words

The cold wind assaulted Wang Yan as he walked out of King Song Residence. Just like the wind, his heart wasn’t calm at all.

Wang Chong’s words had caused a great storm in his mind.

Wang Yan had to admit that he had wronged his third son, Wang Chong, on this matter. ‘Dynasties changed faster than a person’s nature’, Wang Yan had always thought that his unfilial son had never changed and that he was still causing trouble for him all around.

Yet, if not for Wang Chong’s reminder, Wang Yan would not have known that King Song was already dissatisfied with his contact with Yao Guang Yi.

Wang Yan was a typical military man, but this didn’t mean that he didn’t know anything at all. As a subordinate, the greatest taboo one could commit was to misspeak before his superior.

If the several generations of goodwill between the Song and Wang Clan were to be destroyed from a single wrong phrase that he said, he would have truly sinned.

Even so, Wang Yan still found it hard to believe what Wang Chong said.

“How is that possible? Yao Guang Yi was scheming against me?”

Wang Yan lifted his head to stare at the sky and sighed. Wang Chong had claimed that Yao Guang Yi wanted to harm him, but Wang Yan still found it hard to believe his words.

All he and Yao Guang Yi did was to have a casual meeting and drink together. They didn’t even speak of anything during the gathering, so how could Yao Guang Yi have harmed him?

Could meeting one another and drinking wine be his way of harming him?

——Wasn’t this way too easy and ridiculous then?

Wang Yan shook his head, perplexed over the situation. Just as he was contemplating over the matter, didada, the sound of the trotting of a horse echoed from the streets.

Wang Yan looked up and saw a majestic black steed rushing toward him.

“Is this General Wang Yan?”

On the back of the steed, a general with a flag behind him bellowed from afar.

“Indeed! What’s wrong?”

Wang Yan narrowed his eyes and an austere look appeared on his face.

“The Bureau of Military Personn

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