Chapter 451: The Problem of Choosing Sides
For a moment, Li Wei admitted, he was truly tempted. Being a Lord was too troublesome. It required considering all aspects and various entanglements of interests; it wasn't something that could be severed just by wanting to sever it.
Besides this, he could also perceive from Li Yue's gaze that her seemingly calm heart-lake actually hid a blazing volcano. Sigh, it was all trouble caused by Tacit Understanding.
But if it weren't for this kind of Tacit Understanding, if it weren't for the trust cultivated between life and death, Li Wei felt he couldn't possibly truly trust Li Yue either. Don't treat her as an ordinary woman; this was an existence with the Codename Poison Scorpion!
Similarly, a ruthless and merciless fellow with a heart like a poisonous scorpion like Li Yue couldn't easily trust others either. But once she trusted, that was her everything.
Therefore, Li Wei had always treated Li Yue with sincerity, not daring to have the slightest ambiguity. But the result was that now it was out of control.
Sighing slightly in his heart, Li Wei smiled bitterly. "Thinking about it now, being a Lord is indeed quite tiring. Alright, for your sakes, I am willing to cooperate with Night Owl and assist her in seizing the position of Duchess of Thorns."
"You don't have to be like this." Li Yue's gaze flickered.
"No, it must be like this. Hathaway only saw our competitors, but she might not have seen that within the Kingdom, people should be frantically choosing sides right now! They are frantically carrying out a game called big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp. The Empire Reconstruction Mission is a large piece of fat meat. Our Blazing Fief is actually not qualified enough to get on the table; Night Owl perhaps has only just barely qualified to get on the table! So there's no need to be conflicted, politics has always been like this. Since we want to be Lords, how could we possibly avoid this kind of filthiness."
"You've been a Baron for a lifetime, could it be you still don't understand this? Did you think being a Lord is just farming and To Develop when free, leading troops to fight when busy, and when there's nothing to do, touring the mountains and playing in the waters, throwing noble group parties? No way, did you think that if we give up everything now to be Mercenaries, we can be truly free? Being a Lord, at least you can choose sides, you can hug a thigh; at least you have a certain right to speak! But being a Mercenary... that's Just a nobody on the roadside! Even eating shit, you wouldn't be able to snatch it hot!"