Chapter 311 : When Two Saints Draw Blades
Before coming to the Wu Kingdom, Fang Kong already clearly understood that among the three Crown Prince contenders with real power, any one of them was far superior to the Eighth Prince. And yet, he had chosen the Eighth Prince.
Why? Because to those three princes, his arrival would've been nothing more than gilding refined gold—at best, he would have become an ordinary strategist with limited influence.
Among the remaining princes, the Eighth Prince was the easiest to control, and his starting position was slightly better than the rest.
So, for Fang Kong, the optimal choice had always been the Eighth Prince.
But the Eighth Prince himself… wasn't a suitable candidate for the throne.
That was precisely what had always worried Fang Kong—that the ancestral elder of the royal family might deem the Eighth Prince unfit and intervene directly, rendering all of Fang Kong's efforts meaningless.
