Ha. [ he will try. ] I'm not sure if His Majesty, if given the option, would rather fling me out to the farthest borders of Great Liang or keep me in his pocket.
[ gu yun's relationship with the royalty is #complicated. he still, occasionally, thinks about his little adventure off through white's brain and then represses it very, very hard. ]
...He's been trying to dissolve my camp, the emperor. Much like his father before him, and in as many underhanded ways as possible. Politics, and such.
[ though the dry, idle way he says so seems to fade a bit, when mentioning the emperor before li feng. ]
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Mm. Military camps tend to be more honest.
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[ despite his own tricks and game playing - really, gu yun's a pretty honest guy. ] It's a life I wouldn't trade.
... Though. Mollymauk did point out to me, should I successfully achieve my desire here, I'll be out of those. Quite out of a job, actually.
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Guess so. What would you do otherwise?
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into the middle distance ]
Honestly? I have no idea.
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Whatever you do, don't discover you're secretly royalty.
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Well. It wasn't a secret, I've long known that much.
[ ha ha... ]
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I meant more in the way of don't get roped into it. [god]
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[ gu yun's relationship with the royalty is #complicated. he still, occasionally, thinks about his little adventure off through white's brain and then represses it very, very hard. ]
...He's been trying to dissolve my camp, the emperor. Much like his father before him, and in as many underhanded ways as possible. Politics, and such.
[ though the dry, idle way he says so seems to fade a bit, when mentioning the emperor before li feng. ]