One Billion Azure Coins

General Scarlet Flame was left dumbfounded by Lin Ming's words. She opened her mouth, only to find herself unable to refute him, unable to find a single flaw in his argument.

That was right. Who could prove Lin Ming had done it deliberately?

Everything had happened far too quickly, so quickly that most people had not even seen what had occurred, as swift as a flash of lightning.

To everyone else, Tuoba Ying had suddenly erupted into action, killing with a single decisive blow before swiftly withdrawing with the heavily injured Tuoba Xiong, without the slightest hesitation.

And Lin Ming truly had not tried to stop him. He had merely stood there "dazed," as though he had genuinely been frightened stiff.

But... General Scarlet Flame knew that things were absolutely not that simple!

Though she was weaker than Lin Ming and Tuoba Ying, she was no fool. She possessed extensive battlefield experience and sharp instincts.

She had personally witnessed that brief yet meaningful exchange of glances between Lin Ming and Tuoba Ying. She had keenly sensed the strange, tacit understanding between them.

She was almost certain that Feng Wu's death had been tacitly approved by Lin Ming—perhaps even orchestrated by him from the start!

But she had no evidence. She could not produce any compelling proof.

Besides, when all was said and done, the root of it all was that Feng Wu had brought this upon herself.

If she had not offended Lin Ming from the outset and acted so arrogantly, if she had not failed to assess the situation and recognize the circumstances even then—

If she had not insisted on jumping out like a clown and shouting for Lin Ming to kill the two princes, how would she have brought about her own death? An innocent man was