Yuan Shao slowly bowed toward Liu Xie, touching his forehead to the ground, and said word by word in an utterly hoarse voice, "Your Majesty, I... confess my guilt."
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"You..."
Shock filled Yuan Xi's face. He stared at Yuan Shao, whose head was bowed low before him, and for a moment could not speak.
Yuan Shao's action had caught him completely off guard.
He had never imagined that at this final moment, Yuan Shao would choose to confess his guilt to the Son of Heaven and bow his head!
But when Yuan Xi recovered, he felt no happiness at all. Instead, uncontrollable fury seized him!
That damned old bastard!
Yuan Xi stared at Yuan Shao, intense hatred welling up within him, with an urge to cut off his head with the Son of Heaven Sword in his hand.
What good was confessing now?
The Yuan Clan Entire Family was already dead!
Had he confessed just a little earlier, the Yuan Clan would never have suffered clan extermination, nor would Yuan Xi have been its sole surviving bloodline!
What had he been doing all this time!
At that moment, even Liu Xie could not help being moved.
He understood Yuan Shao's character.
The man was proud to the extreme.
And equally stubborn.
Otherwise, Yuan Shao would not have refused to confess and surrender despite being imprisoned for so long after his defeat, and even hurled abuse at him in the Xuan Room earlier.
Yet how could someone so proud by nature choose to abandon the stand he had maintained for so long, lowering his noble head to confess his guilt as death approached?
Whatever the reason, it certainly was not fear of death.
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