Chapter 24 (1/2)

T/N: Three for three Woot!

Chapter 24 - First Meeting

Ever since jun wang brought his army back to the capital, everyone in the Fu palace cheered For an entire month, the royal palace had a festive atmosphere, but today there was one place that was not the same

The soleled the palace's hall Only the sound of lashi+ng sounded fro whipped caused one's skin to break out in gooseflesh None of the palace servants dared to go near the h that place

The center of the hall

A person hipped until their flesh was a mess could not endure anyround The bloodied man with disheveled hair looked particularly miserable, but no one sympathized with him

The people standing around the hall looked on blankly at this scene They all exuded a forbidding atlance revealed that they were all soldiers who have fought through bloody battles On the battlefield, what kind oflians were all common occurrences

The bloodiedbreathless on the floor His vision was blurred by blood A lash mark ran vertically down his left eye The uely saw a tall figure co towards him A sense of oppression followed

He opened hisout a haa haa sound, as if he wanted to say so A foot suddenly stepped down on his chest With little effort (frohed up a bit of blood and a few drops of blood spilled over the edge of the man's shoes

”I… aah…” The bloodied man's face scrunched up and he vomited another mouth full of blood

The foot on his chest suddenly exerted h to crush his sternum and drilled into his opened wound His entire face turned paper white

Not only did the man not have any sympathy, but he also continued to exert pressure The person beneath his foot twisted with pain and started to struggle, but that only hurt hi hall was filled with the iron stench of blood If this went on the bloodied man was likely to be trampled to death

Seeing hie of death, the others were still indifferent To them, even if this man were to die a thousand, ten thousand deaths, it would not be enough Because betrayers did not need sympathy!

At this moment, a rush of footsteps came in from outside the hall

The people in the hall finally reacted, but it ith a wrinkling of their brows The general had commanded that no one were to disturb theh to do so

The group of men all i on the traitor That man's eyebrows did not move at all

The other party hesitated for a ather the courage to walk in Seeing the bloody scene within the hall, the newcomer kept his head low and did not look about It was the Fu palace's old Steward Li

Theeyes fell on hiive me a satisfactory answer, I will deal with you' Steward Li couldn't help feeling afraid Although it has been aye's eyes always scared hi so) and penalized

”wang- wang ye, so for an audience,” Steward Li stuttered

At this tiht side, with a black band tied around his forehead, gave Steward Li a cutting glance and said in a cold voice, ”wang ye commanded that no one should be allowed to coainst his order, you sure have guts!”