The miserable past

The next day.

The sun rose in the sky, and shone on the earth with the gentle morning rays, with dewdrops on the roofs of buildings and green trees.

The people of the Shu Kingdom woke up early in the morning to practice immortality cultivation, but in the mold most of them had to work and find sustenance in this bitter life.

Unlike the previous world, in this world, due to the lack of many distractions, most people fell asleep quickly, and rose early.

At this early hour, the roads, streets, and markets of the royal capital were crowded with people.

Which made the royal capital bustling with vitality

Meanwhile, the royal palace, unlike the empty palace of yesterday, was full of people, or rather, the throne hall palace was full of people.

Because the royal palace was a group of palaces built close together, the throne palace was the palace closest to the main door of the royal palace.

In the throne hall.

At this time, the throne hall was illuminated, showing its full magnificence.

In the middle of the hall, there was a red carpet decorated with lines made of pure gold, extending from the edge of the throne room door to the bottom of the throne chair platform stairs.

 On both sides, the walls were made of unknown but luxurious materials, with some spiritual energy radiating from them, showing that they were extremely precious.

The walls were painted with bright colors of purple, gold, and white, mixed together in an artistic and elegant manner.

At this time, Su Lin sat on the throne casually, resting his expressionless face on his right hand that was resting on the armrest of the chair.

Su Lin looked at the group of people standing on both sides of the hall, who were at this moment full of respect and did not dare to make a sound in his presence.

At least on the surface, as for what they were thinking deep down, no one knew.

As for these rebellious people, Su Lin did not care much, because he knew that no matter where the place was, interests were always the most important.

Now that the former emperor was dead, and the power and foundation of the royal family had completely disappeared, and there was nothing that could deter them, it was only natural that these extra thoughts would arise.

On the contrary, if these ministers did not have any treacherous thoughts, after all that remained was the Seventh Prince who did not understand anything related to political matters,But they were still loyal to him، then Su Lin would feel cautious.

Su Lin was not foolish to think that they might be good officials who put loyalty above all else and would not betray him, but he might think that they were planning something deeper.

It is true that there might be many loyal people, but everything has a price in this world.

They might be loyal to the previous emperor because he paid the price for this loyalty with wealth and status, or with his charisma.

But that did not mean that the Seventh Prince would inherit this loyalty, especially if it was the first reason.

But Su Lin did not really care whether they were loyal or traitors, unlike the previous world where one needed intelligence and cunning, in this world the big fist was the truth.

And for these officials who were the strongest among them in the world of building the perfect foundation, Su Lin did not take them seriously.

 This situation might have been dangerous for his previous self.

But at this time, he could pinch them all to death.

As for the fear that he would one day surpass his strength, this situation was literally impossible, because from the moment his golden finger was activated, these people were destined to live in his shadow forever!

Su Lin looked at the officials who remained silent and no one came forward to speak, after he no longer wanted to continue this farce, he opened his mouth and said slowly.

"I think you all know what happened, and I don't think I need to explain any more."

"Now that the former emperor is dead, and none of the other princes are alive, there is no one else to inherit the throne except me," Su Lin said this indifferently, because there was nothing wrong with this matter.

Su Lin then stopped talking and looked at the faces of all the officials who even after listening to his words, did not change at all.

Su Lin raised his eyebrows in annoyance but maintained his calm and added, "What do you think?"

But even after Su Lin waited for a while, they didn't speak and no one responded to him at all.

Su Lin looked at them at this moment, some of the officials kept looking down at their fingers, others were looking at their fingers with interest and cleaning their nails, completely ignoring his order.

The corner of Su Lin's mouth twitched constantly and he felt speechless from this embarrassing situation, at the same time, memories of that dark summer came back to his mind.

It was a very hot day, under the shade of a tree in an unknown middle school, a boy and a girl of eight years old stood opposite each other.

The boy was seriously and passionately expressing his love for the girl opposite him, saliva and sweat flying everywhere from the boy.

Finally, after the boy explained 192 reasons why he loved her, he stopped to take a breath, then asked her with hope in his small eyes what she thought.

 But the response he got was, "Huh?" How obvious it was that she wasn't listening to him at all, because all his attention was on the new phone her father had bought her.

"…"

Su Lin shook his head forcefully to regain consciousness and felt a shiver run through his entire body. He adjusted his sitting position and sat up straight.

He forcefully brought his thoughts back to the people in front of him.

Although he had expected this situation to happen, he didn't think that they wouldn't even try to be hypocritical and go along with it.

Did they really think that they could simply isolate him like this and make him a puppet emperor in such a rough manner?

Su Lin's eyes were filled with disbelief, were they that stupid or was he the simpleton here!!

The next moment, under Su Lin's gaze, an old man with no wrinkles on his face and an erect body walked with easy steps down the throne platform.

 He had a long white beard that reached his chest and long black and white mixed hair tied in an elegant way, his entire appearance was wonderfully arranged.

The first impression he gave was that of a respected scholar.

At this moment, he raised his head and met Su Lin's eyes and gave him a smile that said I am good written all over his face, and said with fake flattery.

"This humble minister has met His Highness the Prince."