Xia Chujian felt awful. Her temper flared, and her tone gradually turned icy. "Why are you blaming me?"
"Do you know that Maze Yellow Springs came looking for me on its own!"
"I was forced to hand it over, then the Dog Emperor lost it and set his sights on my family because of it. And that's still my fault?!"
"So the Dog Emperor can murder, set fires, commit every crime imaginable, and do every evil thing under the sun, and it's all fine! You can all understand him! Sympathize with him! But I was forced to do something I didn't even want to do, so now my entire family deserves to be slaughtered?!"
"Why?!"
"If the Dog Emperor uses Maze Yellow Springs to kill someone, will you blame me too? Say it was all my fault?—Because I brought Maze Yellow Springs back?!"
"It's like there's been a shooting, and instead of blaming the murderer, you blame the person who made the gun, right?!"
"What kind of bullshit logic is that!"
"You really are worthy of being the Dog Emperor's most loyal dogs!"
Xia Chujian sprang to her feet in fury and kicked over the coffee table between the two sofas.
Huo Yushen and Quan Yuxun were both stunned for an instant.
Su Buyan, however, stood up with his face flushed red and apologized to Xia Chujian. "Chujian, Master was wrong..."
"Master shouldn't have said that, much less thought that."
"It isn't your fault, and it isn't Maze Yellow Springs' fault. It's that Dog Emperor's fault!"
"He's gone mad. All he knows is how to torment others!"
"If he weren't the emperor, he would've been beaten to death countless times already!"
Xia Chujian sneered. "But he is the emperor!"
Her gaze grew even colder as it moved from Su Buyan's