"Your Highness should know who I mean! What else do you have to say, Second Prince?"
Fan Xian looked at Li Chengze.
Li Chengze jerked his head up. "Impossible! Fan Xian! You're making wild accusations and fabricating testimony. Deceiving the emperor is a capital offense!"
Fan Xian smiled faintly. "Impossible? Why is it impossible? In his confession, your retainer wrote down every instruction you gave him. Do you still deny it?"
Li Chengze stared fixedly into Fan Xian's eyes. He suspected Fan Xian was bluffing.
Fan Wujiu was already dead!
Fan Wujiu could not possibly have confessed!
Fan Xian claimed that Fan Wujiu had written down all his instructions and had even presented the confession to Emperor Qing...
If Fan Xian had fabricated the confession, then he was deceiving the emperor. Deceiving the emperor in open court was a crime no less serious than his own!
Thoughts tangled in Li Chengze's mind, making his head feel as though it would split.
He could not understand. He could not understand what Fan Xian was doing!
Li Chengze drew a deep breath and said fiercely, "Utter nonsense! Fan Wujiu is indeed my retainer, but that doesn't mean everything he does is on my orders! How can a few wild claims from him be enough to pin everything on me?"
Having said that, he was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw Fan Xian smile.
A violent shudder ran through him!
Fan Xian turned and bowed to Emperor Qing with his hands clasped:
"Your Majesty, the Second Prince has confessed without being pressed!"
Cold sweat instantly broke out over Li Chengze.
"Your Majesty, my subordinates secretly escorted three witnesses into the Overwatch Council's dungeon for questioning. Two freely admitted that the Second Prince had instructed them. Only Fan