Chapter 431 - , Most Dangerous Ally (1/2)

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“Sir Leng, any updates?”

In a quiet little room, Leng Wuchang was sitting at a desk deep in thought when Huangpu Tianyuan came in laughing, “With Drifting Flowers Edifices under siege for three months now, small fries keep on coming. It’s so boring. When will a big fish bite anyway? Sir Leng, what do you reckon that big fish is planning right now?”

After a bow, Leng Wuchang sighed, “Estate Lord, our plan and reality do not match, I’m afraid.”

“Where exactly?” Huangpu Tianyuan asked.

Leng Wuchang spoke, “Our main plan to bait the aid involved faking an attack on Drifting Flowers Edifices to draw Zhuo Fan out. With Estate Lord’s Nine Dragons Diamond Body, we’d catch Zhuo Fan by surprise and finish him off in one swift blow. However…”

“What?” Huangpu Tianyuan asked impatiently.

Leng Wuchang shook his head, “The way it has played out is that we’ve fallen for it.”

“What, how?” Huangpu Tianyuan jerked.

Leng Wuchang said, “By being a borrowed knife.”

Unsettled, Huangpu Tianyuan eyed him.

Leng Wuchang explained, “It may be that we predicted Zhuo Fan’s aim all wrong. His vision is far wider. We thought he would protect his allies to secure his power. But with Drifting Flowers Edifices under siege for months yet there being no sign of Luo clan, it goes to show that he has abandoned them. If anything, he was counting on us to destroy Drifting Flowers Edifices for him!”

“What?”

Huangpu Tianyuan trembled, “To what end? What does he get from this?”

“Humph, plenty.”

Leng Wuchang snickered, “A man without roots is the easiest to sway. Even if Drifting Flowers Edifices survived and he won in the end, Drifting Flowers Edifices, being who it is, will remain only an ally. But when Drifting Flowers Edifices falls, he’d accept the women with open arms, getting them on his side and leaving only the world for the taking. Such a cunning plan, what a twisted mind. Even I could only deduce this from the current state. Zhuo Fan is a truly diabolical mastermind.

“By my calculations, he not only wants us to destroy Drifting Flowers Edifices, but all his allies. He will then take them in like a good samaritan and they, in their moment of gratitude and weakness, will accept the conversion wholeheartedly.”

Even Leng Wuchang felt cold sweat on his brow at this point.

Zhuo Fan’s insidious ploys never left room for errors, using cloak and daggers to stab at his own allies through his enemies.

Even Leng Wuchang had fallen for such a mastermind’s devious schemes.

[Zhuo Fan is the most dangerous ally so far!]

Huangpu Tianyuan panicked inside, “Veiled Dragon Pavilion was the first to care for the Luo clan and Zhuo Fan once had close ties with Chu Qingcheng. Is he that dead inside to throw everything aside and plot against them?”

“That’s what makes Zhuo Fan such an abomination.”

Leng Wuchang sighed, “A man of ambition only looks at things from a perspective and never lets some platonic relationships drag him down.”

Huangpu Tianyuan nodded, “But how did he know we’d attack Drifting Flowers Edifices with the three houses?”

“Ha-ha-ha, Estate Lord, do you remember when we planned to divide our forces into three and take them all down at the same time? Who was it that proposed we attack one house at a time and bait the aid?” Leng Wuchang’s eyes glinted.

Huangpu Tianyuan shouted, “Fang Qiubai!”

“Him indeed.”

Leng Wuchang nodded, “I didn’t think much of it at the time, figuring flushing Zhuo Fan out and removing him from the picture at the earliest was better. But now, ha-ha-ha, it has been the imperial family playing us all along.”