Chapter 166 (One hundred and sixty-six) Personal grudges
Sun Guye heard Hong Mian and Cui Cong tell all his secrets in public. He was furious and couldn't understand why Cui Cong, such a reliable person, would betray him. With both physical and human evidence, he had no choice but to kowtow and beg for mercy: "Your Majesty, please spare my life! Please spare my life!"
"First, let Sun Guye, Lu Juefeng, Hong Mian and Cui Cong kneel in a row and tie them up!" King Jingyin said.
The guards quickly complied.
"Lü Juefeng, are you in cahoots with Sun Guye? Did you betray the Jingyin Kingdom with him?" King Jingyin asked Lü Juefeng who had been tied up.
"No! Absolutely not! He actually had an affair with the Hongluo Kingdom? I really didn't know! How could he be so presumptuous! As an official of the Jingyin Kingdom, if I knew that he had an affair with the Hongluo Kingdom, I would definitely report it to Your Majesty!" Lu Juefeng defended anxiously. In fact, he really didn't know that Sun Guye had an affair with the Hongluo Kingdom.
Sun Guye felt that his current situation was extremely bad and he was doomed to die. He thought that since Lü Juefeng was taking advantage of his misfortune, he might as well drag Lü Juefeng down with him. So Sun Guye said, "He clearly knew everything I did. Not only that, but he also proposed many things! Take yesterday's incident for example. If his men hadn't informed me, how could I have arrested Yin Ruchen?"
"Sun Guye, you have fallen to this point and you still slander and frame me!" Lu Juefeng said gritting his teeth.
"What do you mean by slander and frame-up? What I said was clearly the truth! If you want to talk about 'frame-up', it was you who framed me! I've already said that you and I are in the same boat. If I die, you can't live either!" said Sun Guye.
"Your Majesty, I will confess now. It was indeed me who sent someone to inform Sun Guye to arrest Yin Ruchen, but that was entirely because both I and Sun Guye had personal grudges with Yin Ruchen, and it had nothing to do with Sun Guye's betrayal of Jingyin State. I really didn't expect that Sun Guye was a traitor. If I knew, even if I temporarily put aside my personal grudge with Yin Ruchen, I would not have anything to do with Sun Guye." Lu Juefeng immediately defended himself. He understood that if he told the truth, it would be equivalent to exposing his past evil deeds, but no matter what other crimes he committed, they were not as serious as treason. Lu Juefeng never had the idea of treason. Rather than being wrongly accused of being a traitor and being punished, it would be better to tell the truth.
Liu Qimei thought: It seems that my feeling was right. It turned out that Lu Juefeng did not target Yin Ruchen just to do things for me so that I could speak well of him in front of His Majesty and help him get promoted.
"What personal grudge? I did those things based on your advice!" Sun Guye continued to involve Lu Juefeng in the matter.
"You know you are guilty of treason and will surely die, so you deliberately implicate me as well, right? Don't dream on! I, Lu Juefeng, have always been loyal to the Jingyin Kingdom. Only someone like you can do such a thing as treason!" Lu Juefeng said.
"Personal grudge?" King Jingyin looked at Yin Ruchen and asked, "Miss Yin, have you ever had any personal grudges?"
"Your Majesty, I have no idea what he meant by 'personal grudges'. I had never seen them before coming to the palace." Yin Ruchen replied.
"Tell me, what 'personal grudge' does Miss Yin have with you?" King Jingyin asked Lu Juefeng.
(End of this chapter)
