Finally, success!
Thankfully, Gao Yin and the others were fully preoccupied with saving Zhi Ning and her child, rather than protecting the King.
If Gao Yin, Ashi Liren, and a dozen Shadow Cabinet masters had been guarding the King,
then Li Chenglian would have had virtually no chance of success; he wouldn't have even been able to step into Ziyu Palace, and all twenty-two super-powerful individuals would have perished outside its walls.
But assassinating the King was just the first step!
The second step, Zhi Li captured Zhi Ning and her child, threatening Suo Lun with his own kin, warning him not to act rashly.
The third step, carried out simultaneously with the second, was to widely spread the claim that the King had already passed away, that his death had only been kept secret. Now that Suo Lun had won, he fabricated the assassination of the King in an attempt to defame His Highness Zhi Li.
