Song Yaoyao: *[This outcome was within my expectations.*
Qi Yanzhen was the emperor of a nation, after all. Bringing him down wouldn't be that easy.
Getting rid of Feiye now would already be like cutting off one of Qi Yanzhen's arms.
*If we want to get rid of Qi Yanzhen, we'll have to wait for opportunities and take it one step at a time.]*
Three more days passed in the blink of an eye, and the day of Feiye's beheading and public display arrived.
Feiye was locked in a prison cart and taken straight to the Vegetable Market.
Along the way, many commoners hurled rotten eggs, spoiled vegetable leaves, and stones at Feiye...
By the time Feiye reached the Vegetable Market, he was covered in filth.
Song Yaoyao and the others had arrived at the Vegetable Market early to wait. Looking at the bedraggled Feiye, she shook her head.
*[The greater Feiye's former glory, the more wretched he looks now!*
*If he'd known it would come to this, why did he do it in the first place?]*
Guagua: [Host, that person isn't Feiye!]
Song Yaoyao's eyes widened at those words, and she asked:
*[What? That person isn't Feiye?*
*Then who is she? And where did Feiye go?]*
Guagua: *[Qi Yanzhen really has worked out a clever scheme.*
This person is a death-row prisoner. Qi Yanzhen has hidden Feiye away.
Qi Yanzhen simply couldn't bear to lose someone as capable as Feiye, but he couldn't openly favor him either.
So Qi Yanzhen came up with this Plum Replaces Peach scheme.
Qi Yanzhen had his men find a female death-row prisoner with a build similar to Feiye's, seal her mute acupoint, and disguise her face. That way, he could deceive everyone and slip her through.
*As for Feiye, Qi Yanzhen has