if launching this subunit was an option all along, I didn’t need to crush my family along with the Palace of Sages. I could’ve scooped them out of the way before destroying everything else with more strategic and controlled damage. “Why didn’t you tell me this was possible?” I grab Qin Zheng in the yīn-yáng realm. “Before I crushed the Palace, you must’ve felt how conflicted I was—why didn’t you stop me?” His gaze roves over me. “Because I wished to see if you would do it.” The corners of his mouth curl ever so slightly upward. “I wished to see what lengths you would go to for power.”
