Qi Shan sneered and added, "Are you saying that all that died was an insignificant, lowborn ant? So you took it for granted that 'Qi Shan' should be just as unconcerned as you? It was only an ant, after all. In a few years, everyone would forget..."
The governor was cornered into silence. After a long while, he muttered awkwardly, "Believe it or not, I never meant to hurt anyone. I just..."
He just what?
He had only wanted to secure a promising future.
Wasn't that why everyone had taken that special examination?
All that talk about serving the Sovereign, benefiting the people, and bringing clarity to the land... Those lofty, empty words were just rhetoric for fooling others and making themselves look good. Admit it: who entered officialdom without hoping to bring honor to their family and win wealth and glory?
What was wrong with working hard for his own future?
Who didn't rack their brains and strive for a better future?
Even if someone really had died because of him, had that been his intention?
At most, it was a case of "I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me"!
In front of anyone else, he could have argued his case with confidence: he was in the right! If others mocked him as a petty man, he could laugh at them for never getting anywhere in life. Their "mockery" was nothing but a comfort weaklings offered themselves. Why should he care what useless people said?
But facing the Qi Shan before him, whose killing intent was so thick it seemed almost tangible, he knew that if he said it, Qi Shan would take his head!
Even if he said nothing, Qi Shan could see right through him.
His fury erupted. "Eight years—it's been eight years, and