That night, Chu Yun and Xiao Zai went to bed in their separate rooms after parting on bad terms.
Chu Yun had more important things on his mind than mollifying Xiao Zai's hurt pride. They were in this situation now, and would be idiots not to take advantage of it.
Besides, Xiao Zai couldn't understand everything Chu Yun stood to gain from the position he wanted to carve out for himself.
He might have to endure the scorn of the court for letting himself be subjugated to another alpha, but what Xiao Zai didn't get was that it would happen either way.
He was already the outsider. The fox in the wolves' den.
They wouldn't have tolerated him if he walked around with his head held high, bossing Xiao Zai in public in the same way he did in private.
He would have been scorned for staying quietly in the sidelines and never speaking a word; he would have been scorned for staying in the estate and never showing his face in public.
