Hearing this, the Crown Prince and the Two Sages felt much of their earlier anger ebb away. Inexplicably, they even felt a little grateful to Liu Ran.
If he had been able to control the thing in his trousers, Little Six might have come to harm, never mind the Crown Prince.
His merits offset his crimes. At least he could be spared the death penalty.
Huahua: "That wasn't his only precision strike! Recently, the Sixth Prince has been developing new dishes, so the Eastern Palace brought in lots of new ingredients. One young married woman delivering them was very friendly every time she came, and within three days, she'd gotten close to everyone."
"But her true identity was an agent of the Second Prince's Faction. After the Second Prince was punished a while ago, he wanted to vent his anger, so he planned to slip someone into the Crown Prince's Residence and wait for a chance to tamper with things."
"When Xiao Ran approached her, he discovered that she'd actually hooked up with the old gatekeeper. Maybe he thought she had no standards at all, because he threw her out and replaced her with another delivery person. That was how he cut off the Second Prince's eyes and ears."
The Crown Prince: ...
Only Zhou Luming and the Sixth Prince were chatting and laughing in the hall. Everyone else fell silent.
This... was really hard to judge...
Even Liu Ran himself had never imagined that the surge of disgust he'd felt back then would, by a strange twist of fate, cut off a spy.
Huahua: "There's more! He looks pretty good dressed as a woman, doesn't he? Plenty of men wanted to fawn over him, but every one of them had some sort of problem. For example, there was one