At this moment, in the imperial palace of Lin'an City a thousand miles away, Emperor Zhao Gou stared gloomily at the secret memorial on the table. Suddenly, he flew into a thunderous rage. "His heart deserves condemnation, deserves condemnation! In such a short time, the Wu family's influence in the Three Offices has been completely uprooted. Now the truth comes to light: Wu Xi was framed. Then Jia Sidao offers the Wu family some token compensation, gains all the benefits again, and leaves me to take the blame!"
"Please calm your anger, Your Majesty." A vague figure stood in the shadows behind him, with a trace of mockery in his voice. "Wasn't the order to purge the Wu family issued by you, Emperor?"
"Uh..." Zhao Gou was left speechless. He knew his own temperament well. Most of the time, he was highly restrained, but in certain moments, he simply could not control his emotions and would do things that shocked the world.
The only person who could mock a capricious sovereign to his face without provoking his fury was someone like Huang Shang, a being half man and half immortal.
"I was deceived by treacherous villains! The Murong Family has always followed the Jia family's lead, and Murong Fu himself was recommended by Jia Sidao. The entire Xichuan rebellion was orchestrated by him behind the scenes!" Zhao Gou said hatefully. "What I cannot tolerate most is that he actually killed Han Tuozhou—killed Han Tuozhou!"
"Come to think of it, this was also because this old man was careless and fell for their scheme to lure the tiger from the mountain. I never expected them to dare act openly within the palace." Huang Shang knew that the emperor before him had been angered to the extreme, because Jia Sidao had sent