Strange Tales: You're an Official, but you're raising a bunch of Demonessess? - Chapter 43

Chapter 43: I’m too angry! The so-called loyalty and filial piety

“You…”

“You…”

“You…”

“You…”

…

“The millennium king city, blood flows like a river!”

“The hundred-year-old state will be cut off today!”

“Your name will be engraved on the pillar of shame in history!”

“Your kingdom is hereby destroyed!”

“Your ethnic group will be slaughtered!”

“Everyone must be buried with the grass-roots parents and relatives!”

The young man’s cold words seemed like a curse, embedding themselves into Lan Su’s mind. It became unforgettable. Anger, fear, despair, regret… a mix of emotions overwhelmed Lan Su. His eyes widened, and he slammed the table, standing up. His face turned red, his body trembling, his lips moving but unable to form words.

“Bold!”

“You!”

“You dare!”

Even if it was just hearing about it, just thinking about it was enough to drive Lan Su insane. His worst nightmares had never touched on anything remotely related to this.

How absurd, how terrifying, how treacherous…

He was just a young man in the prime of his life!

Turning to another country, returning for revenge, drenching the royal city in blood, and toppling the kingdom…

How can he speak such words?

“If His Majesty wants to take this most foolish step!”

“Then Your Majesty can try it, to see if the grass people dare, to see if the grass people can do it!”

Bai Yu’s gaze was intense, facing the enraged king without any retreat.

“You!”

“It kills me too!”

Somehow, looking into the young man’s clear black-and-white eyes, he saw another scene. Crumbling walls, billowing smoke, iron cavalry entering the imperial city, chaos, burning, killing, looting, and rivers of blood.

The thousand-year-old capital collapsed in a single day. The hundred-year statehood was severed. The royal family was slaughtered, hung in the most humiliating manner above the city gate, and exposed to the elements.

Madman!

Lan Su was shocked and furious, trembling uncontrollably and shouting angrily.

When had he encountered someone like this since he became king?

If what he said happened!

After his demise, how will he present himself to the late emperor and his ancestors? How should future generations describe him, the ruler responsible for the downfall?

Don’t call it a gamble; he didn’t even dare to consider it!

Just the thought alone is enough to shake him to the core.

“Swoosh!”

Seeing the emperor’s unusual state, the hidden guards swiftly unsheathed their knives, ready to apprehend Bai Yu, the troublemaker who angered the emperor.

“Roll!”

“Step back, all of you!”

However, Lan Su’s eyes flared up unexpectedly, slamming the table fiercely. Without berating Bai Yu further, he surveyed the surroundings with hawk-like eyes, roaring angrily.

“…”

The guards fell silent in an instant, sheathing their swords and concealing themselves in the shadows again.

“Do you realise what you just said? Destroying your own country, killing your parents! That’s disloyalty and rebellion!” Lan Su questioned Bai Yu.

Regardless of the emperor’s emotions, Lan Su looked at Bai Yu and inquired, “A twenty-year-old speaking of destroying a nation sounds absurd, almost laughable.”

However, to his surprise, the furious emperor didn’t question this. The remarkable exam paper already hinted at a lot. Now, bidding farewell to this brilliant figure. He knew the youth was extraordinary!

Lan Su understood well!

Though reluctant to believe it, subconsciously, he knew this young man could achieve anything he set his mind to!

“Unfaithful and unfilial?”

“Hey!”

Upon hearing this, Bai Yu seemed to find it amusing and chuckled, “Your Majesty, I pursued fame to serve the country. How is that disloyal?”

“If my parents meet an untimely death, seeking revenge is not unfilial.”

“If the country, the king, and my family reject me, betray me, should I repay them with death? That’s not loyalty; it’s foolish!”

“Parents gave life and raised me; respecting them is right. But blindly following them in every aspect, even in the prime of life, is not filial. That’s being without one’s principles!”

Bai Yu’s words were sharp, dismantling Lan Su’s attempts to confuse right and wrong. While sounding deviant, he spoke coherently, challenging the traditional principles of serving the emperor and being filial.

Ultimately, many of the nation’s ideas might have some validity. However, some were promoted by the emperor to maintain control.

“I’ve heard that governing with filial piety doesn’t harm one’s relatives.”

“Your Majesty, don’t you consider if it leads to such results, whose fault it is?”