Nightmare Apostle

"I don’t wish to leave you!" Ling Yanyu cried.

Yang Xiao patted Ling Yanyu’s head and said earnestly, "You think this way now, but you may not think the same in the future. Yanyu, people change, but remember, as long as your master is here, you will always have a choice."

The conflicts and dangers in the Apostle World are something ordinary people can never understand. Ling Yanyu does not belong to this world, and Yang Xiao does not want to watch him get entangled in it bit by bit.

From the day they became Angel Envoys, their destinies were no longer within their own control. This is a road of no return.

Great power comes at a price. Stripped of the glamorous veneer of Angel Envoys, beneath it they are merely pitiable creatures living between dawn and dusk, never knowing whether tomorrow or an accident will come first after they go to sleep tonight.

Tong Han said something very accurate: Angel Envoys are not high and mighty, they are merely prisoners of nightmares.

As dawn approached, Yang Xiao received a message from Daoist Qingfeng saying that the Peace Hotel wanted to invite him for discussions.

Daoist Qingfeng also subtly reminded him that his influence in Xiang Ma Town was expanding too quickly, already causing dissatisfaction among the hotel’s higher-ups, and he must act low-key during this period.

Yang Xiao had long anticipated this and was not surprised at all. Now that Marquis Zhengdong and An Nan Marquis had been killed by him, and the position of Marquis Zhenbei remained vacant,

Now his Pingxi Marquis stood as the sole power in Xiang Ma Town, which surely would provoke dissatisfaction among the hotel’s executives.

After all, what they want is a balance of power among the factions, as it aids in their management, not to breed trouble.

Daoist Qingfeng also revealed that this time the hotel would definitely not allow him to annex the territories of Marquis Zhengdong and An Nan Marquis but had already started looking for suitable candidates to replace them.

These newly appointed puppets would balance Yang Xiao’s power, once again restoring equilibrium among the forces in Xiang Ma Town.

However, considering his contributions during this period, the Peace Hotel made some compromises.

They allowed Yang Xiao’s side to appoint one person to take over the long-vacant position of Marquis Zhenbei, which effectively gave Yang Xiao’s side another position and more influence.

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiao coldly chuckled internally. The Peace Hotel’s move was clever, giving only a position but not land, essentially making him carve up his own territory with a knife and give a portion to this so-called Marquis Zhenbei.

After all, the original land of Marquis Zhenbei no longer existed. After his death, his land was divided among Yang Xiao and the other two parties, which the hotel tacitly approved, and as the victor, Yang Xiao naturally took the largest share.

Now, the Peace Hotel demands that all parties restore the original land boundaries and redistribute the territories that the three had annexed from Marquis Zhenbei. This would actually result in the greatest loss for Yang Xiao.

For the time being, Yang Xiao was unwilling to clash with the Peace Hotel; his ambitions did not lie here, he didn’t care much for a small town like Xiang Ma Town.

He needed this place more as a rear base to provide stable support for himself.

Yang Xiao was unsure if this move by the hotel was orchestrated by Chi Dan or Mo Daidai, but it didn’t matter either way.

Both of these guys were businessmen, consistently prioritizing profit, making them reassuring partners. They absolutely valued commitments; as long as the price was right, anything could be negotiated, but such people were not suitable for friendship.

Yang Xiao had already clearly grasped the sense of boundaries and skills in dealing with Chi Dan, which was to only discuss business, not feelings.

Nalan Shuo once proposed a theory: if you can’t eliminate someone nor escape from them, you can only accept them.

Yang Xiao also accepted the existence of Chi Dan as a fact. It was a double-edged sword; in the future, if utilized well, it might bring him greater surprises.

He didn’t seek active contact because this guy was like his shadow, tightly clinging to him and would always appear before him at specific moments.

Speaking of which, he hadn’t seen Mo Daidai for a long time, unaware of what this guy was busy with.

The meeting was scheduled for noon. After daybreak, Yang Xiao found Sui Chengguo to discuss the candidate for Marquis Zhenbei.

Actually, Yang Xiao’s most favored candidate was naturally Sui, no one was more suitable than him, but Sui directly declined as he didn’t like being in the spotlight.

Now with Tong Han absent and Ling Yanyu being reliable, but not an Angel Envoy, Yang Xiao found himself at a loss for the candidate.

The candidate must share their heart and also have reasonable strength, combining these conditions made it very difficult.

"It’s not necessarily required to select someone from Xiang Ma Town, right?" Sui Chengguo suddenly said.

Yang Xiao seemed to have an epiphany, "That’s right, there’s no requirement that the candidate must be limited to Xiang Ma Town. We could find someone reliable from outside; I wasn’t originally from Xiang Ma Town either."

"Fu Qingzhu!" Yang Xiao’s eyes lit up, knowing whom to call upon. Who could be more reliable than a good brother?

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