Way of Overlord-Chapter 489: Too Generous

"Let her in"

Hearing this Burchu opens the curtain of the tent as Ayera enters the tent, almost rushing into it.

The moment she enters the tent, she falls down to the ground. Plopped to the ground and she wails.

"Kan, my husband, you must help me avenge my father!" she said while sobbing, looking completely dishevelled, messy and distraught.

Aeryon look at Ayera, his eyes narrowed and he sighed

Ayera is still too amateur.

This acting....how could he not see it.

And Ayera probably also knows that Aeryon could see that she is acting.

But Aeryon did not stop it and she knows that since he did not stop it, it means he allowed it.

It means, she still has use to him.

Aeryon knows the little thought that Ayera had. It is not that hard to guess. She feel insecure since her father is dead. And she is here not to mourn her father but to know his feelings

Aeryon is quite sure if he no longer has any feelings for her or wanted to oust her, she would go away alone.

She knows Ayera abilities. Even if Garron is dead, as long as Ayera abandon the title of Utgard she could roam the Steppe freely.

Ayera is here to know his intention.

And he, letting her act like this is showing him his intention.

After all, Aeryon still feel guilty.

He is just worried about matter of the future.

With a few interaction he had with Ayera, this woman is headstrong and stubborn and would hold a grudge.

"I just hope time would solve everything" Aeryon thought in his mind.

"Why is there a need to do this kind of thing, my wife. Sit in front of me" Aeryon sitting in front of a low table.

On the table there is hot water

Aeryon orders the servant to prepare hot water for his wife as Ayera get up slowly, she is still sobbing and her eyes drenched with tears

"She could win an Oscar" Aeryon thought to himself.

Ayera sit in front of him but before he could even offer her a warm water, Ayera said

"Ogura should not stay on the seat of Utgard. My brother killed my father and this is an heinous act"

Aeryon was calm

"Ogura claim that your father wanted to kill him and treat him badly. His revenge he said, is justified"

Ayera snorted

"My father did not treat Ogura like animal, and have been preparing to groom as his heirs. Just because my father changes his mind to support my other brother, there is no reason why Ogura should kill my father just because of this reason"

Aeryon did not say anything. Instead, he seems to be waiting what Ayera would say

"If my husband is willing, humble Ayera would be willing to convince the old people of Utgard to support my husband to save Utgard from Ogura hand."

Aeryon listen to this and his eyes narrows for a moment. He did not think Ayera could say such words.

"What a nice "saving Utgard from Ogura hand"

In her mouth, conquering the region turns into saving the region.

The smarter she is, the more Aeryon is wary.

First, she tries to tugged at his heartstring.

Then she uses benefit to reel him in.

What a woman!

The legacy of the Viper is not inherited by Ogura, not by Sayushi, not even by Barbager but this woman.

"I married a little Viper" he thought to himself.

Aeryon then sighed and shakes his head.

"There is no need to do this"

Ayera look at Aeryon eyes.

Her eyes is full of resolve.

She then said

"I am sincere, husband" Aeryon was silent for a second as he looks at Ayera once again. He looks at her eyes and he sees more than just resolve.

There is words he wanted to say but the words he wanted to say would sound too hypocritical coming from his mouth

In a conversation when there is nothing that could be said, Aeryon could only sigh.

The sigh echoes loudly in this tent.

Then Ayera lower down her head, her head bowed down like a sign of submission but how could Aeryon not know?

That eyes.....that is not the eyes of a person beaten to submission. She has a fight in her.

She is like the Viper, but inexperienced. You either commit to the act or don’t act at all.

Showing submission but the eye is full of defiance.

A woman with a fight in her

And that is not necessarily good.

If she was with any other man, being such a woman is good. In the Steppe, both men and women should try to be strong even if they are not

Because even if you want to take a break, the world would not give you that break

But...she is the Kan woman. She is the woman of a man who has grand ambition and the power to realize that ambition.

This kind of trait is not good at all.

Aeryon for a moment did not know how to deal with this woman

She could hide things with her words, but how could she hides her intention with such eyes

Eyes are the window to the soul.

These words are not false.

If you look at someone eyes and you are a good judge of character you would be able to tell.

And Aeryon has always been a good judge of character.

This is just Ayera biding her time. Biding her time to gather power. And then when the moment is right, she would bite the one she wanted to bite

And Aeryon could guess who she wanted to bite. A smart woman like this must have known who plotted against her father

She knows but she did not say anything. If she had said something, Aeryon would not be so wary of her intention

Precisely because she did not say it, even when she knows it, that Aeryon raise his wariness level of this woman.

There is also a bit of blame that should be levied on him.

And what is his fault....he is too lenient and too generous when he is actually a warlord of the Steppe.

It is easy to try to act like Genghis Khan.

But he could not just turns into beast and act like Genghis Khan and treat women and other people like plaything and tools.

After all, he himself is not like this. If he play the same personality as Genghis Khan than that is not him.

The advantage of this trait of his that is generous is that people sincerely would fight for him and would die for him

It is also easier for him to implement the dynasty he wanted to create that could endure.

The Yuan fell because it is a universal dynasty

What did Aeryon mean by that? It is a universal dynasty ruled like a tribe.

Why did they fall?

There is a hundred reason and looking at it from different people, there would a thousand reason.

But the few true reason why the Yuan dynasty fall is because there is discrimination, overexpansion, corruption, economic mismanagement

As for the natural disaster and the peasant uprising, these could not be said to be the reason

The natural disaster could have been smoothed over if the other problems did not appears and the peasant uprising is nothing more than the failure of the system

Peasant uprising is the result not the reason.

If Yuan dynasty in his original world ruled China and make it prosper, in a hundred years, there would be loyalist even among the people

The scholars and the Han majority emperors like to say Han would never surrender, but that is just slogan they said and hoping people would listen to them

In the end, circumstances always win when it is against the Han Chinese.

They were repeatedly conquered by foreign races because they keep doing the same things hoping for different result.

When in power, they oppress and when that oppression come fighting back, it roared with such ferocity that none of them could bear it.

That is why in the modern world there is all kinds of propaganda that promoted loyalty to the country regardless of personal cost.

Abolishment of religion did not lead to enlightenment.

It only leads to a vacuum . And any ruler would want to fill this vacuum with an idea that would bolster their rule.

In an absence of gods, the ruler would become gods. In an absence of gods, they put laws above all other, even above right and wrong.

After all, laws were never about justice, right and wrong

It is about order.

And order is not always about the right thing. Order does not mean justice.

If Yuan dynasty could have given them a good life for fifty years, then the people hearts would lean onto the Yuan dynasty.

Even if after that fifty years, there is mismanagement, people hearts would not be disappointed that easily and as long as there is virtuous people holding it up, tide over the difficulty, the Yuan dynasty could continue.

This is not just referring to Yuan dynasty, it refers to all dynasty in China.

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