However, doing this not only failed to solve the problem, but instead plunged him into such an embarrassing predicament that he could truly be described as having lost the entire game.
Now, Zhang Song's choice to temporarily withdraw from the imperial court under the pretext of illness could be seen as a disguised form of surrender and compromise. After all, he had already realized that continuing to entangle himself further would do him no good.
Yet, this did not mean that everything was simply over. Whether Zhang Song would be able to make a comeback in the future, or whether he would bow out in disgrace and fade from the court, would likely depend on the methods Yang Ying and the others would employ next.
Chapter 115