Wen Zhongyuan was actually a proud man. In the past, he always appeared gentle and smiling, leading others to believe he was not one to get angry, and that was because he hadn't yet met a true rival or found his opponents particularly irritating. However, Tang Ye was both a capable opponent and an annoying presence to him because he had lost to Tang Ye three times already.
The first time he lost to Tang Ye was when he wanted to eliminate Wu Xiang's teacher, Guan Tiexi, who was in the military hospital due to an infectious virus outbreak, only to have Tang Ye save Guan Tiexi. The second time, he attempted to have Mu Caisang kill Tang Ye while Tang Ye was investigating the military hospital's infection, but Mu Caisang failed to succeed. The third was this recent strategy at the Extreme Northern Frontier, where he was unable to destroy the troops stationed in the Extreme North or kill Tang Ye.
