Luo Yi entered the palace with the identity of the mastermind and the evidence. Liu Yang had not expected him to catch these people so quickly, and his face filled with delighted surprise. "Long'er is my heart, and the Grand Chancellor is my brain."
The corner of Luo Yi's mouth twitched at that, but he did not take it too seriously. After all, Liu Yang was about to suffer a heavy blow. He would consider this a little sympathy in advance.
Just as Luo Yi had expected, Liu Yang's smile soon froze on his face, then slowly vanished.
He stared at the document in his hands in disbelief, raising it and lowering it, then reading it over and over.
Finally, as though holding a scorching hot potato, he hurriedly tossed the document back to Luo Yi.
He turned to leave, only to turn back again.
Luo Yi immediately saw tears suddenly spill from Liu Yang's eyes.
It was grief of the deepest kind, and Luo Yi knew why. Liu Yang sobbed, "Have I ever mistreated them?
"I treated them generously!
"My own younger brothers.
"My own younger brothers!
"They were actually the masterminds behind the Witchcraft and Gu Poison affair. They actually wanted me dead, and not just one of them. Have I truly been such a failure as their elder brother?"
He paused after speaking, and a surge of vicious fury rose from the depths of his heart. He took several steps forward, then turned and snapped, "Since they have betrayed my trust and goodwill, let them die.
"Grand Chancellor, deal harshly with these traitors. I never want to see them again. Exile them all, just as we did when purging the Powerful Gentry.
"They do not deserve to go to Lingnan or the Western Regions. Drive them to