The banquet passed by quickly in high spirits.

In the evening, Willie sent the guests away. Finally, the room quieted down.

Isabelle could no longer hold all her questions in. She pulled Willie aside and hurriedly asked, "Willie, how have you been these years?"

"Also, how did you get here? And how did you get to know those guests? Why were they all talking about launching an attack on Yoraland?"

Willie smelled of alcohol. Hearing Isabelle's series of questions, he seemed a little impatient. He waved his hand and snapped back, "Why are you bringing up all this as soon as you get here? Aren't you tired of it?" "Willie, I'm just concerned about you. That's why-" Isabelle explained. At the same time, she stepped forward and tried to hold Willie.

However, Willie simply shoved Isabelle until she almost fell.

Fortunately, Fade managed to catch her in time to prevent her from falling.

Fade's face instantly darkened.

Seeing this, Isabelle hurriedly said to Fade, "Mr. Chen, I'm fine. I just had too much to drink..."

"I'll talk to him tomorrow instead!"

Seeing her attitude, Fade nodded. He waved a servant over to take Willie to go rest.

Isabelle and Fade did not leave. Instead, they decided to ask the servants inside An Mansion about Willie.

After asking around, the two of them had a better understanding of the situation.

Willie himself had not been in imperial city for very long. In fact, he had just got here three months ago.

Willie was acquainted with many high ranking officials. Notably, Jose, the Duke of Pingling. That was why he managed to meet so many influential people in imperial city so quickly and also get such a nice house.

As for how he survived before coming to imperial city, they had no idea. Neither did they know what happened to the right hand man of An family who escaped together with Willie.

Hence, they had no choice but to wait to ask Willie the next day when he woke up.

The An Mansion was very large and there were many guest rooms. Fade and Isabelle decided to rest there for the night.

The next morning, Isabelle woke up early. Before even having breakfast, she came straight to see Willie.

"Willie, you're awake. Are you feeling better?"

"Are you free to talk to me now?"

Willie was currently being washed by a beautiful looking servant. "Ugh, you're so chatty as usual."

"Fine, let's talk over breakfast."

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the dining room," Isabelle said.

In the dining room, there were over thirty dishes laid out on the table for their breakfast.

Willie sat at the head of the table and dug in. Isabelle and Fade each sat on opposite ends. Obviously, Isabelle was not in the mood to have breakfast. She asked, "Willie, how has your life been? What happened to Uncle An?" Willie's expression was not particularly kind to her questions. He set down his cutleries and replied, "Uncle An brought me here and there. We remained mostly in hiding for about 6 months before we made it out of Yoraland.

That's when we came to Southern Forest."

"After reaching here, we were afraid people might find out about my identity. Hence, we used fake names and stayed in a small city for about a year."

"Since we were afraid, we had to keep it low profile. We barely earned any money since we couldn't do much. I had to eat very frugally. Mostly potatoes, cabbage and the such. I never had nice meals, let alone food with spiritual energy. I was literally dying in those living conditions."

Hearing this, Fade couldn't help frowning.

Willie was coming off as rather spoiled. After all, he was an escaped convict. He should be grateful that he had any good to eat at all.

It seemed like he had never really experienced true hardship before.

Isabelle felt the same way. She glanced at Fade and pinched his hand lightly. "My father adored Willie as a child, so he's a little..." Fade nodded slightly to show his understanding.

Isabelle turned her head and looked at Willie. She continued to ask, "What happened after that?"

Willie pouted and said, "Well, I

couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to go back to Yoraland. My plan was to look for Dad's old subordinates.

didn't believe they would rese

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betray him, and I thought they would take me in for sure to continue Dad's legacy."

"However, Uncle An refused to let me go. He insisted that it was too dangerous."

"I didn't believe him at that time, so I secretly wrote to one of the subordinates in Yoraland and told him to contact me."

"In the end..."

Speaking of this, Willie paused for a moment. His expression twitched as he gritted his teeth.

"To my surprise, Uncle An had been right. Those subordinates had betrayed Dad. After receiving my letter, they wrote back saying they were willing to support me."

"But when I went to meet up with them, only did I know that they had already contacted An roe, that b*stard."

"Uncle An tried my best to rescue me and bring me away. Unfortunately, his injuries were too serious. He could not recover."

"Huh? So Uncle An is dead?!" Isabelle covered her mouth. Grief overwhelmed her eyes.

Fade's frown deepened.

Earlier, he had just assumed Willie was a little spoiled since he had never experienced hardship before However, right now, Willie was coming off as naive. In fact, one

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could even say he was plain stupid.

How could he fall into such an obvious trap?

He was nothing more than an idiot.

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"After Uncle An died, how did you survive on your own?" Isabelle continued to ask.

Speaking of this, Willie's face flashed with pain. "I almost went crazy. I had nothing to eat or wear. I could barely sleep..."

"That's when I met Jose. He was the one who saved me. He fed me good food and treated me like royalty."

"Eventually, I told Jose who I really

was. He respected me even more after that. He also promised me that he would persuade his father to provide military support to attack Yoraland. We must kill An roe and take revenge for Dad."

"Jose told me we needed to come to imperial city to get more help. That is how I ended up here."

"With Jose's introductions, I met all the guests you guys saw yesterday. They are all also on my side about attacking Yoraland." After the end of his speech, he let out a confident smile as he stared at Isabelle.

"Don't you think I've done a fine job?"

"It won't be long before I can lead the troops to Yoraland and take out Anroe. I will avenge our father."

"Once that's done, I will be the new King of Yoraland. You will be the Princess."

After that, Willie stood up, looked into the distance heroically, and started to laugh.

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