Could he really have made it to Ye City alive if he had been hunted down?
That fellow Fu De normally looked like a thick-browed, wide-eyed fool. Who would have thought he harbored such deep schemes?
To think he had devised such a way to win sympathy from His Majesty and the court officials. You truly could not judge a man by his appearance!
The transition was over. Next came a hundred thousand words of climactic action. My beloved ministers, have your Monthly Passes ready!
Chapter 213: Send an Edict to Xu County; Deliver the Empress to Ye City at Once
Hearing Fu De's utterly heartbroken, tearful account,
Liu Xie wore a very strange expression.
Those phrases he used... why did they sound so familiar?
Why did everyone like sleeping in ruined temples and fighting stray dogs for food?
Couldn't you come up with your own lines!
Liu Xie suppressed the twitching at the corners of his mouth and resisted the powerful urge to ridicule him.
He seized on the news Fu De had brought to further cement his identity as the Son of Heaven.
He abruptly rose and thundered, "That Cao Thief and the Pretender Emperor are so audacious! How dare they depose the empress without authority!"
"Fu De, the Imperial Father-in-Law and the empress refused to submit to the Cao Thief and the Pretender Emperor. How are they now? Are their lives in danger?"
Anxiety colored Liu Xie's voice, and concern filled his face.
At this moment, his acting had not reached perfection, but he was performing beyond his usual standard.
"Your Majesty... I do not know." Fu De shook his head dejectedly and sobbed. "I evaded the Cao Thief's pursuit all along the way and have been out of contact with my father for a long time."