“What are you looking at me for? Have you never seen someone so handsome before?” Zu An immediately brandished the whip Guo Zhi gave him, making him swallow his words right back down.
Then, he said to the jailer next to him. “You all should head out. I’m going to talk to them in private.”
“Understood!” Those jailers already received their orders. They passed down the orders and quickly withdrew.
When those jailers left, Solitary Fire spat out a mouthful of bloody spit. “Pah! Dammit all! I didn’t expect fortunes to rise and fall like this, that I’ll end up dying under your hands. If you want to kill or torture me, then do what you will!”
You have successfully trolled Solitary Fire for +999 Rage points!
It was obvious that he thought that Zu An was now getting revenge for what happened on the way to the capital.
Gu Yueyi quickly said, “Sir Fire has misunderstood! He is not an enemy, but rather someone sent by the saintess!”
He immediately recognized that the jade pendant Zu An carried belonged to Qiu Honglei. That was why he changed his mind on the spot.
“The saintess?” Solitary Fire was stunned. He recalled that the saintess was indeed friendly with this man. He became momentarily confused.
Sun Luzhen, who was bound to the wooden stake, glared at Gu Yueyi in fury. “Stupid brat, what kind of nonsense are you spouting? What saintess? I’ve never heard of her.”
Zu An couldn’t help but chuckle. “Elder Sun is a fierce character after all. You aren’t willing to let anything go even in this type of situation.”
Sun Luzhen’s breathing stopped when he heard his name called. He looked at Zu An. “Who are you exactly?”
Solitary Fire said, “Zu An, that kid with the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra.”
Sun Luzhen suddenly understood. He had heard a bit about this matter.
Zu An leisurely sat down on a nearby stool. “It was indeed Honglei who begged me to come. Since we’re friends, I came to bring some of her words.”
Gu Yueyi felt a bit of jealousy when he heard how intimate Zu An referred to Qiu Honglei. After all, this was a junior he admired for a long time, yet she always treated him coldly. Now, she even gave her jade pendant to this person.
But when he thought about how he had to depend on this person in the future, he suppressed his unhappy thoughts.
“What did she want to tell us?” Sun Luzhen asked out of curiosity.
Zu An said, “Do you all know why you have to insist that it was King Qi who incited you, yet these people refuse to believe it? It is because you all only know how to attack King Qi, yet you didn’t talk about any of the details. How could these people dare to report something unreliable like this upwards? I came to teach you how to properly take care of this matter…”
“So this was it!” Sun Luzhen sighed. “No wonder they didn’t believe us no matter what we said and continued to beat us day after day. No matter how tough my bones are, I am about to break down too.”
Solitary Fire gave him a curious look. “Then what are these details? What should we say?”
Zu An thus explained to them how Cheng Xiong used his son Cheng Gang, sending him to the government brothel to contact Shuangyue. He explained everything to them carefully in detail.
The others nodded inwardly. Gu Yueyi alone asked a vital question. “Young master Zu, we can say these things, but once we say them, we’ll be worthless. The palace might just execute us. Do you have any way of saving us?”
His eyes burned fiercely as he looked at Zu An.
1. Two characters were used for the word discipline in the last paragraph. When split apart, the first character means fuck