"Zhou Yuan was right. He did it for his own selfish desires. It was never for the Zhou Family."
"The Old Family Head trusted you so much. How could you bear to join forces with people from Junxin Pavilion to murder him?"
"You are utterly unforgivable, a traitor who defied all that was right. Killing you would be letting you off easy."
"Zhou Shengqian, you are not only unworthy of becoming the Zhou Family's Family Head, you are not even worthy of being a member of the Zhou Family."
"How did the Zhou Family produce a spineless coward like you, afraid of death?"
"You are a disgrace to humanity!"
Faced with the furious accusations of the Zhou Family members, Zhou Shengqian's eyes showed no regret, only panic.
Zhou Shengqian had never thought he was in the wrong. He was simply afraid—afraid of losing his life.
"There's something I'm still rather curious about."
"You, the Zhou Family's Family Head, are Junxin Pavilion's branch's biggest informant."
"Why have the people from Junxin Pavilion's branch continued infiltrating the Zhou Family all these years?"
"And why haven't they succeeded?"
"Was it to make your position as Family Head more secure and win you greater support?"
"So they deliberately played along with you, putting on an act?" Chen Changan asked with a smile.
Hearing Chen Changan's words, Zhou Shengqian hurriedly said, "If I answer, can I..."
"No. You don't get to choose."
"I..."
Zhou Shengqian had been about to say that he would rather keep quiet, but when he saw Chen Changan's gaze, he gave up on that suicidal idea.
Death was terrifying, and it wasn't something he wanted to face. But dying horribly was even more terrifying.
"You guessed right. They were helping secure my position in the Zhou Family, so they kept playing