Chongxuan Sheng was making a fuss over there.
Jiang Wang nearly slipped and stepped right into the pool.
With his cultivation, he should never have lost control like that. The problem was that Chongxuan Sheng's mind worked just a little too fast!
He'd only just started, talking about Commander of the Northern Office. They hadn't even finished discussing it, and Chongxuan Sheng had already pieced together nearly the entire story behind the Changsheng Palace incident.
That made all the effort he'd put into thinking things through at Changsheng Palace look downright sluggish.
He'd had to fish for one clue here, pry out another bit of information there, and piece things together through two separate lines of voice transmission before he'd managed to sort out even a few details...
"You guessed right." Jiang Wang showed no surprise at all. Wearing an expression that said, 'Good, my pupil has learned well,' he calmly said, "Lin Youxie judged that Feng Gu's death was a suicide. She believes he chose to kill himself to bring the Imperial Concubine Lei Case to light."
"Suicide?" Chongxuan Sheng thought it over. "That makes sense..."
...What made sense?
"Which part do you mean?" Jiang Wang calmly asked, ready to analyze it with him.
"What kind of person would be stupid enough to silence someone so many years later? Who would be stupid enough to provoke the Son of Heaven at a time like this?" Chongxuan Sheng said. "I've been thinking about those questions for a long time!"
"What if Feng Gu had been secretly investigating all these years, and only just now found a clue about that old case?" Jiang Wang said, unconvinced.
"Feng Gu died right after the funeral ended. That proves none of this was a coincidence. The timing was so precise that his death must