Faced with that question, Han Xiao smiled.
"Because he needed a scapegoat!"
"He needed someone to take the blame for all of it! Someone whose conviction would put the perfect finishing touch on his record as the Black Emperor!"
"Someone had to answer for a massacre that killed more than a hundred top agents, didn't they?"
"I was Han Xiao, the third-ranking member of the Night Watchers. I knew how to contact everyone and had the means to gather them all in one place. Who better to take the fall?"
"He didn't kill me. He only crippled my arms and legs, then left me there for the reinforcements to find."
"With Skull and Bones and traitors inside the Dragon Kingdom backing him, he could pin every crime on me!"
"And Yue Changlong could go on living free as the Black Emperor!"
"That is the whole truth behind the Nanshan Massacre five years ago!"
"A hero turned into a monster and buried everything he once stood for with his own hands!"
"Now do you still think he's a hero?!"
That last question struck like a vicious curse.
"No! You're lying! I don't believe a word you've said!"
Yue Xiaofei's eyes burned red as he ground his teeth.
"Xiaofei! Calm down! Don't let him get inside your head!"
Outside the cell, Jin Dapao was sweating profusely. "Company Commander Yue wasn't that kind of man!" he roared. "He could never have done something like that! You bastard, you're making it all up to drag his name through the mud!"
"That's right! We don't believe you!"
Ouyang Jian, Xiao Tian Ce, and the others all joined in.
They could never believe that a hero like Yue Changlong had become a madman who slaughtered his comrades and sought to become a god!
"Heh."
Han Xiao