Before long, the inside story of Zhuang Mohan's private meeting with the Crown Prince was unearthed.
Soon, following the vine to the melon, the Overwatch Council also found evidence of the Crown Prince's secret dealings with Northern Qi.
With a breakthrough secured, the Overwatch Council continued investigating. Before long, Yan Bingyun led a team of secret agents and successfully captured the covert intermediary connecting the Crown Prince and Northern Qi.
Of course, the process was not entirely smooth sailing.
In fact, halfway through the Overwatch Council's investigation, the Crown Prince realized something was wrong.
Only then did he belatedly discover, to his horror, that the hemp-clad assassin who had tried to kill Emperor Qing at the Hanging Temple that day was actually one of his men!
Only then did it dawn on him why the assassin had suddenly pulled back, only to be killed by him in turn.
Then the Crown Prince's sky all but collapsed!
He discovered that, without realizing it, he had been saddled with an enormous pot of blame. There was no dodging or escaping it; it had been clamped firmly over his head.
Quite a few people had noticed the assassin's strange behavior that day.
He could not explain it.
Searching his own conscience, he knew that, in their place, he would not believe any explanation either. He would even relish the chaos, wishing he could add a few more armfuls of fuel to the fire!
With no other choice, the only thing he could do was silence them! Silence them! Silence them!
Everyone involved in his dealings with Northern Qi, whether they knew anything or not, had to be silenced!
The Crown Prince had been driven to desperation. He knew this pot of blame was too enormous, too heavy even for him, the Crown Prince