The real purpose of letting the Bright Mountain Sect group go was to let Wu Jinliang go. Everyone knew he was on good terms with Young Master Nan.
That was indeed the case. Young Master Nan had no real friendship with the people from the Bright Mountain Sect, Shen Moming and the rest, and would hardly care whether they lived or died.
By declaring the other members of the Bright Mountain Sect uninvolved in the case, they had swept Wu Jinliang out of it along with them.
Young Master Nan only had to turn it over in his mind to understand what they meant. Though he still wanted to plead for Shi Chun, he could no longer bring himself to ask.
Those several hundred Royal Court guards, of ranks both high and low-who among them had no friends or relatives in the Royal Court? If Shi Chun had been wronged, had the others not been wronged too? If they released Shi Chun because someone pleaded for him, what would they do when people of higher standing than Young Master Nan came forward to plead for the others?
The Royal Court's reason for killing those guards was plain as well. No matter which of them was guilty, everyone present bore a responsibility they could not escape. They guarded the heart of the Royal Court, yet had not even known someone had slipped into the Queen's room to steal. Could that possibly be a minor matter when it came to their duties?
If they did not kill a batch of people this time and jolt all the palace guards awake, were they supposed to wait for something similar to happen again?
Of course, the reason Young Master Nan could think of was only part of the truth. Someone like Jia Huan, who