"How dare you! How dare you! The Ruler of Eastern Lin actually joined forces with Duke Yan to murder our sovereign and seize the throne!"
"You dared lay hands on the ruler of our Great Xia! Your audacity knows no bounds! You hold our Great Xia in utter contempt!!!"
"The Ruler of Eastern Lin is utterly brazen! He dared stab His Majesty to death before everyone! No one in Great Xia will let you get away with this!"
The court officials pushed open the doors and rushed inside, only to witness this scene. Forgetting all ceremony, they hurried forward.
At that moment, they unanimously concluded that the Ruler of Eastern Lin had stabbed Great Xia's emperor to death!
That meant peace between the two nations had been shattered. Moreover, East Lin was in the wrong, giving Great Xia every justification to march to war!
The Ruler of Eastern Lin had been an emperor for many years, but when he suddenly saw the civil and military officials pour in to demand an accounting, even he began to panic.
What mattered most? What mattered most was that he was still holding the knife! No amount of explaining could clear his name!
"I did not kill the emperor!" He hurriedly tried to pull his hand out of the emperor's grip, only for the emperor to clutch it even tighter as he coughed up blood!
"The Ruler... of Eastern Lin... is killing me. Save... save your emperor!" After spitting out those few words, the emperor drove the knife deeper with another tearing sound!
The civil and military officials: !!!
And you still claim it wasn't you!
"We saw it with our own eyes, and you still dare deny it!" The civil and military officials were frantic.
In the end, the Minister of War, Qian