I'm a villain, not a devil

"Deprive Bai Si of his title as the Prince of Bai Si, and detain him in prison—execute him at a later date."

Once the emperor spoke, it was settled.

Bai Si was about to say something else, but in the eyes of everyone's fear, the emperor's Silent Men appeared in the main hall at some point.

"No! No! No!"

A dull roar came from Bai Si's face, but at some point, his upper and lower lips grew together.

This made it impossible for the Fourth Prince to make a final rebuttal. The tall Silent Ones calmly stepped forward, held Bai Si's arms tightly, and escorted him out.

"The court meeting is over, please disperse, everyone—" The emperor had already left, and the Prime Minister Covens said with his head down.

Everyone looked at each other, but since Covens had already spoken, they immediately touched their chests in greeting and left the main hall.

The third prince Bai You, who was responsible for all this, just stood there, quietly watching everyone else leave.

Seeing that he did not move, Covens said again: "Third Palace... His Majesty said that you should go back as well."

Bai You then turned around and touched his chest in greeting towards the throne: "Bai You understands. Father, please... take care of yourself."

After saying this, he left the palace with his head held high.

Behind Bai You, the distraught Lan Youshan staggered.

After leaving the palace, Lan Youshan finally couldn't help it. He quickened his pace to catch up with Bai You.

"White worry! White worry!" he couldn't help shouting.

Bai You stopped and turned around, looking at Lan Youshan as if they were meeting for the first time. After a moment, he bowed and said, "Grandpa, what's the matter?"

Lan Youshan's face was gray, and the few remaining black hairs on his beard had turned pale.

His lips moved, and then he shook his head, his voice full of bitterness: "Why...why..."

Bai You looked puzzled. "Grandpa, the current imperial law has not been amended for twelve years. As the speaker, you have participated in the formulation of the founding laws and regulations to the last version. Now, the lawbreakers have been dealt with accordingly. Why are you still asking me?"

Lan Youshan seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant. He hunched his back and said in a hoarse voice, "Your mother's matter is irreversible... In order not to have to put on a show in front of His Majesty, Bai Si couldn't do anything. You should understand that..."

Bai You interrupted his grandfather directly: "Grandpa, the Queen Mother's death also violated the rules. You were there, weren't you? You violated the law first, so you should be punished. And as the Queen Mother's father, it is only natural for me to plead for her. Since your plea was denied, it is only natural that she died in the end."

He opened his hands and smiled: "Just like today, Bai Si broke the law, and someone also pleaded for him, but the evidence was there, so it was natural for him to be triggered today."

Lan Youshan sighed deeply: "You are the blood of my Lan family after all, and he is your brother after all... I can't bear to see this, how can you bear it?"

Bai You continued to smile. He tidied up Lan Youshan's messy clothes and then said softly, "Grandpa, you pleaded for mother and Bai Si, so why didn't you plead for me?"

Lan Youshan's body suddenly froze in place.

Bai You took a step back and touched his chest in greeting: "Grandpa, I, as your grandson, am not blaming you for being partial, but your words and deeds have taught me a truth - power must be held in one's own hands, just like when the emperor's uncle overpowered everyone else because he was strong."

"If I don't have enough strength, then what I should do is to follow the general trend."

Lan Youshan was extremely depressed: "Why bother...why bother..."

Bai You shook his head: "Whether it's for the Lan family, for the empire, or for the throne, these are your trends, I can understand. But, I also have my trends, not to mention, how many idiots in this world can repay kindness with enmity? People in the world can't do it, let alone a royal family member like me?"

He patted Lan Youshan's shoulder, and his smile gradually grew: "Grandpa, it's time for the Lan family to make a choice."

……

"The emperor is so straightforward?" Sean turned his head with a look of surprise.

Bai Ye, who had just returned from the palace, nodded. She had told Sean everything that had happened at the court meeting today.

Bai You's actions had long been part of Sean's plan. On the one hand, he helped Bai Ye clear the obstacles, and on the other hand, he also had to make judgments based on the emperor's reaction.

The nanny who had been turned against by Elisa Lam was not dead. Originally, according to Bai Youming's temper, the old nanny would have died. However, when Sean was resurrected, the prince immediately reacted and secretly kept him.

Although Bai Youming's whereabouts are still unknown, as the prince, Sean is still qualified to go to his residence to take him out.

As for the Golden Dawn's device, of course it was Sean who had obtained it during the raid. The device was indeed an abandoned project, but after hearing related rumors, he immediately linked it to the Rainbow Nest clan.

With Endely's help, constructing the device was not a difficult task, and Luo Xi's return made the device completely completed - in the original plan, Sean was going to use his deceitful heart, and Luo Xi's return saved him a lot of effort. After all, no one was killed, and he still had to bear the price paid for the deceitful heart.

As for the snake king that attacked Sean, he was naturally imprisoned early, just waiting for this day.

However, the various situations and changes during this period of time have made things a little tricky - the most important thing is that the emperor who is not the emperor himself may directly suppress everything with the emperor's majesty.

Sean thought the matter would drag on for a long time, but he didn't expect the verdict to be made in court.

"Do you know where Bai Si was taken by the Silent One?" Sean asked.

Bai Ye shook his head. "I inquired about it after I left the palace, but my spies in the palace didn't see the specific situation, and the pawns in the Imperial Guards didn't know either. Normally, if they were to choose a day for the execution, they would probably be held in several prisons in the imperial capital. However, I didn't see Bai Si's men in those prisons, so I guess he's being held somewhere in the palace."

Sean thought thoughtfully: "The emperor gave up on your fourth brother so quickly? What about the statue of the founding father? No one is continuing to build it?"

Bai Ye showed a bit of strangeness on his face: "I pretended to cooperate with my second brother and the others. Now that this job is vacant, I simply proposed to the palace that my second brother should continue to supervise it. Father rejected my suggestion, which was expected, but I didn't expect that he would let me take over temporarily..."

Sean was surprised and asked, "You're going to supervise the establishment of the statue of the founding fathers?"

Bai Ye nodded: "I received it after I left the palace. Covens asked me to take care of it for a while - my second brother was very worried."

Sean sneered, "How can you not be anxious? I guess he wants you to be a puppet."

Bai Ye shrugged, "That's what he said. My second brother wants me to take the position, but he and Grand Duke Yuantie will be in charge of everything behind the scenes. He also said that if I agree, the truth about my mother's death and the Ye family's inheritance will be handed over to me in batches."

Sean turned around again: "Then give it to him, so you don't have to work."

Bai Ye asked curiously, "Give it to him directly? Second brother and Grand Duke Yuantie must be planning something. There are many things behind this statue of the founder. Now they want to invest half of the power of the imperial capital into it. Why don't you go and take a look first?"

Sean said indifferently, "I have a vague guess about the statue, and the key points can't be found by just looking at it. Why don't you take it and exchange it for something else?"

"Okay then—" Bai Ye nodded, and then looked in front of Xiao En. Her tone unconsciously became more serious, "Then where is Lan Fei now?"

In front of Sean was the sleeping Elisa Lam.

She has been in this state ever since she faked her death, was swapped and sent underground, and then was brought back by Luo Xi.

The Rainbow Nest clan's suspended animation drug had expired, but Elisa Lam had shown no signs of waking up - what was even stranger was that her body was becoming increasingly stiff, and she had completely lost the ability to breathe through her lips and nose.

If Sean and Luo Xi had not been able to sense the existence of her life breath through their own methods, Elisa Lam would be no different from a corpse now.

After hearing Bai Ye's words, Sean held his chin and said, "The situation is not good. I have made a record of what Elisa Lam will encounter. Normally, she should have woken up by now - so, maybe I didn't take certain situations into consideration in my record..."

Bai Ye frowned and said, "Maybe Lan Keer took a wrong step?"

Sean shook his head: "Impossible, I left something for her, she won't go wrong--"

Elisa Lam is different from them. She is only slightly stronger than ordinary people. Even Xiao Ci can crush her to death with one finger. In order to ensure that nothing unexpected happens, before she faked her death, Sean implanted some memories into her with the heart of fraud. Moreover, Sean also took into account the situation of the etheric layer. Those memories are rooted deep in Elisa Lam's subconscious.

Whenever Elisa Lam needs it, those memories will automatically come out.

Moreover, in order to ensure that he and Elisa Lam could keep in touch, Sean temporarily brought Elisa Lam into the Thinking Hall and asked Noah to locate her at the etheric level.

However, Elisa Lam only appeared once, at the beginning in the Hall of Thought.

She said that she was trapped in the coffin, and there was a swaying sound of water outside, as if she was thrown into the pool with the coffin.

This was contrary to what Luo Xi saw. When Elisa Lam appeared, she had already left the coffin, and there was no underground river in the underground cave of the imperial capital.

So, Sean speculated that Elisa Lam might have entered some strange state.

"The influence of the World Tree's consciousness?" he muttered.

While thinking, Bai Ye suddenly frowned, as she received a message from Shadow.

Not long after leaving quickly, Bai Ye came back. She looked at Xiao En seriously and said, "Third brother was attacked."

Sean turned his head and said, "Bai You? Dead?"

Bai Ye shook his head: "Luckily he survived, but his injuries are serious. According to our information, Bai You should be on his way to the Lan family. It seems that Lan Youshan sent him the message."

Sean nodded: "Normal, I asked Bai You to take down the Lan family's power as much as possible - who attacked him?"

"It should be someone under Fourth Brother's command... at least that's the information we have so far... However, Third Brother has concealed his whereabouts, so it's hard to find him. Moreover, he has the strength of a Crimson level. Although he has been imprisoned in Black Pigeon for so long and is much weaker, with him and his personal guards, ordinary attackers would probably be killed directly."

"However, the attackers not only quickly found the route of Third Brother's movement, but also killed two of his personal guards. If Third Brother had not been so close to the Lan family and the Lan family had noticed something was wrong and come out to investigate, I'm afraid Third Brother would have died as well."

After listening to Bai Ye, Xiao En showed a suspicious expression: "How do you know it's Bai Si's people? And you said it should be his people?"

"Because many people know the attacker. He is indeed a die-hard follower of Bai Si. He was once a colleague of Shadow and was promoted to Crimson three years earlier than Shadow. Logically speaking, he should not be so powerful now..."

Sean nodded thoughtfully: "I see... By the way, you and Yingzi should go pick up Baiyou and hide him with me at night, otherwise his life might be in danger."

Bai Ye asked doubtfully: "Do you know who the attacker is?"

Sean shook his head. "I don't know, but there are only a few people. By the way, quickly hand over the matters concerning the statue of the founding fathers to your second brother. Also, you must be careful when you act during this period."

"Someone is targeting the royal family members?" Bai Ye was not stupid. When Sean said this, she immediately reacted.

Sean smiled mysteriously: "Targeting? I'm afraid there are more than just..."

……

However, at this juncture when Bai Youshang was recuperating, Lan Keer was still in a coma, and Bai Si was about to be executed, bigger news came.

"What did you say?!"

Marshal Wu Xiao, who never showed his emotions, slammed the table hard and glared at the major general opposite him.

The major general looked pale: "Marshal... our army was defeated on the front line..."

Defeat...Wu Xiao's pupils seemed to be shaken.

After obtaining His Majesty's permission, he immediately deployed a new batch of troops to the front line. It was expected that the overall front line of the Imperial Army would advance more than five kilometers toward the coastline.

Immediately afterwards, the remaining troops will advance towards Mount Raya.

Although those tree people are huge in number, they can only unleash powerful combat effectiveness after being baptized by the Raya volcano - except for the first landing of the tree people that caused the eruption of the Raya volcano, after that, the number of tree people's troops crossing the sea was insufficient, and they all quickly advanced to the Raya volcano to complete the unknown evolution process.

Wu Xiao planned to block this route directly. In this way, the tree people's strong combat power could not be replenished quickly. Although the tree people crossing the sea were endless, they could only be regarded as cannon fodder.

To this end, Wu Xiao invested a large number of troops and mobilized the imperial army's most powerful military equipment.

However, a second mass landing of tree people occurred, and Mount Raya erupted for the second time.

The Imperial Army has deployed a new army of over 100,000 men, however, the new combat power of the Tree People is more than three times that of the Imperial Army!