"I didn't, I didn't charge into the Princess's Mansion Guard Camp! It was only a dispute between brothers—we were merely sparring and roughhousing!" The moment Ye Zhen slapped him with the huge charge of assaulting the Princess's Mansion Guard Camp, Marquis Chiping Gu Chunzhi's face went deathly pale, and he immediately cried out his injustice to the heavens.
"You didn't assault the Princess's Mansion Guard Camp? Who can prove it?"
A faint, unreadable smile curved Ye Zhen's lips. He turned toward the more than one thousand Princess's Mansion guards gathered behind him. "Marquis Chiping Gu Chunzhi assaulted the Princess's Mansion Guard Camp. Who can testify?"
Perhaps these soldiers had never played such schemes of intrigue and manipulation before. For a moment, they had yet to react and did not understand what Ye Zhen meant.
But one soldier, who was being held kneeling on the ground as he awaited punishment under military law, suddenly howled, "Reporting to the Commander, this subordinate personally saw Marquis Chiping lead men in assaulting the Princess's Mansion Guard Camp, and he even crossed blades with us!"
Marquis Chiping Gu Chunzhi was dumbfounded. This had never happened. His eyes widened as he roared furiously, "Nonsense! How dare you falsely accuse this Marquis?"
The kneeling soldier slammed his head violently against the ground again and again. Blood immediately streamed down, yet he lifted his bloodied head and said, "Sir, this is the evidence. This subordinate was injured during the fight!"
Clap, clap, clap!
Ye Zhen applauded approvingly. "Good. This man rendered merit in resisting Marquis Chiping's assault on the camp. Release him!"
It would have been one thing if Ye Zhen had not said that, but the moment he did, the guards being held on the ground awaiting judgment began mutilating themselves as though their lives were worth