Chapter 143: Shadow War
These days, the Imperial Palace was steeped in a suffocating tension. Or perhaps it was that everywhere one set foot felt sharp as a knife's edge.
Whether the Emperor was aware of the brutal political strife unfolding was anyone's guess.
No, he surely knew.
It was just that the Shadow Wars of the Imperial Palace had always concluded in the Emperor's favor, so he would no doubt remain a serene spectator this time as well.
The nobles of the Imperial Palace no longer met with one another. Because they could not tell whom to trust and whom not to.
Reutern I had likewise been refraining from meetings and audiences, though for him, it carried a somewhat different meaning.
This incident had escalated into the attempted murder of his one and only child.
And so he was straining to hold himself back, lest his boiling rage erupt.......
That much had been certain, but today an even more outrageous rumor reached him.