Gui Daocheng said, "Third Elder, as you said, he is my own rebellious son. As you are all too aware, he has never taken my advice, having a run of unchecked tyranny all these years. How do you expect me to answer your question?"
Who could forget how his most incompetent son was greatly shocked by the royal power shift ten years ago, turning into someone who killed without blinking? From a wimp everyone could bully, into a character everyone in the empire feared?
Faced with his son's transformation, Gui Daocheng did not know whether to be relieved or indeed, rather relieved?
After all, his son had become more and more capable over the years. Wherever there was a war, his son was there. A handful of the vassal states, emboldened by the absence of a king in the Empire, had become increasingly threatening. Yet they were all subdued by his son's troops, who almost never lost a battle.