Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

Chapter 237: Chapter 170 Lance is Dead! Welcome the General’s Body Back to the Northern Borders!_2

Using you, the second in line, to restrain and suppress his chosen heir, only I remained true to my initial conviction, wholeheartedly carrying out the choice he made back then.

Loyal to his choice of that year. To this extent… do you still think I am a treacherous vassal and a rebel?”

“…”

Princess Elusha was dazed, forced her father to abdicate, letting her elder brother Andre take the throne… to do such a thing… was it because he was loyal and patriotic?

One could say he was making excuses, but upon closer reflection, this man… saying that he is [loyal and patriotic]… seems to have no issues whatsoever…

“When I knew you, you were not yet my elder brother Andre’s teacher. When I returned to the Eternal Capital… why did you refuse to choose to support me? You clearly knew… at that time if you had chosen to support me, your destiny would have been different…”

“There is no difference, choosing you… I would still die, the only difference is that my death would be at your hand…”

“You’re not greedy; I could not possibly have you put to death.”

“As it turns out, I am greedier than you imagined.”

“Come back to the Northern Borders with me, I have a way to save your life. You once saved my life and even spared me once; even if you are a corrupt official and a traitorous vassal… I have a way to save your life.

Those rumors and slanders… they were not spread by my order, but by those nobles, ministers, lords, and merchants who sided with me.

From beginning to end, I had only two goals: to become the Queen of Ande Kingdom and to have Andre hand you over to me, to make you regret not choosing me back then… instead of Andre.

I have thought of everything, the only thing I never contemplated was wanting to kill you. With that said… do you believe me?”

Lance smiled and nodded: “I believe you.”

“Then come back to the Northern Borders with me. Your threat just now… is enough to deter those nobles, lords, and ministers, who support me and wish to see me on the throne.”

“Yes, it’s time to return to the Northern Borders, but I wish to be carried back by my comrades from the Northern Borders… I just wonder if they are still willing to deliver me, a treacherous vassal and a major corrupt official, on my last journey.”

Confusion and incomprehension filled Princess Elusha’s eyes. After all she had said… why did this man still insist on seeking death?

Why choose such a fate?

“Why? Why must you choose this path? You can live… I have a way to let you live.”

“It’s impossible, if I don’t die… it will impact Andre’s rule. Now in the Ande Kingdom, everyone knows that the current King’s teacher is a treacherous vassal, a major corrupt official, a dog official who accepted bribes and caused countless families to be torn apart…

Those nobles, ministers, lords, and merchants who want me dead won’t feel safe; they’ll continue to create chaos…

Only with my death will they feel at ease, and the people within the Ande Kingdom won’t be misled by them.”

Princess Elusha understood, indeed it was so. Even as Royal Family… one could not ignore the overwhelming public sentiment.

But she felt… that Lance’s insistence on death was not solely because of these reasons; there must be a deeper cause.

What is it?

What deeper reason… led Lance so resolutely to embrace death willingly?

When Princess Elusha’s eyes unintentionally swept over her elder brother Andre on the city wall, in that instant, she realized… and knew why Lance so willingly faced death.

For Andre!!!

It was for her elder brother Andre!!!

He intended to use his own death to hasten Andre’s maturation, to make Elder Brother Andre a true and qualified King!

A qualified King… shouldn’t only be merciful… but must also possess severity and a bit of iron-blood…

Lance’s dying in front of him… would surely shock Andre and greatly change his temperament.

Once Lance was dead, and she withdrew her troops to the Northern Borders…

Those nobles, ministers, lords… and merchants who caused Lance’s death…

They would surely face retribution; they would not survive.

Andre would make them pay with their lives for their teacher’s death!

In Andre’s heart, his teacher was greedy, but he never thought to put them to death.@@novelbin@@

Yet those who initially willingly paid money to buy peace and avert disaster now held a grudge in their hearts and sought an opportunity to kill him…

If he didn’t execute them… it would be hard to quell his deep-seated resentment.

Princess Elusha clenched her teeth, with a look of envy and hatred in her eyes. Unwilling to use his own life to accelerate Andre’s growth, wasn’t he afraid that Andre would become a tyrant?!!

Hatred.

She felt such intense hatred.

Why did she let Lance return to the Eternal Capital that year?

Why didn’t she reveal her identity to Lance in time?

Why didn’t she go back to the Eternal Capital with Lance?

If… if she had just chosen any possibility that year… would the person Lance was now willing to die protecting… be her?

Jealousy!

She was jealous of her elder brother Andre. Why did Andre encounter someone like Lance!!!

Her talents surpassed those of Elder Brother Andre; why did Lance, at the risk of his own life, stubbornly choose to support Elder Brother Andre back then!

“Do you want to make Andre a monarch who kills the innocent?!”

“Shh…” Lance placed his finger on his lips, signaling Elusha to lower her voice: “Andre will not become a monarch who kills the innocent. After I die… those whom he will execute… they will all be deserving of their fate.

A qualified Ruler should not only possess ‘benevolence’ but also ‘majesty’, and a bit of ‘iron-bloodedness’…

Back then, those people eagerly offered me money, I took it, I did their bidding, but afterward… they held a grudge, seeking opportunities to kill me…

In fact… I am not a very magnanimous person, not only lacking magnanimity… but even a bit petty… They wanted me dead…

I won’t kill them; I leave them for my student… to help my student… become a qualified King.

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