TPITWOHEF 2

Chapter 220

"What about you, Duke of National Defense," Xiao Yunzhou fell silent for a moment before continuing, "You're not quite in King Yuan's good graces, right?"

Yuan Kaizhi was completely stupefied.

He swore that he had never shared these innermost secrets with Princess Ronghua!

He never treated Princess Ronghua as someone close to him, and the remaining concubines, for Yuan Kaizhi, were nothing more than women for his amusement!

What would they understand?

Yuan Kaizhi never discussed these military affairs or political matters with any of his bedmates, let alone his own secrets!

So Princess Ronghua wouldn't know, she wouldn't know, she wouldn't tell King Jing or King Zhou yesterday or today!

So, how did the Emperor of Jing Country find out?

Yuan Kaizhi was scared witless!

"Did you...buy off my housekeeper?" Yuan Kaizhi trembled from head to toe. Nothing was scarier than being completely exposed in front of the enemy.

"No, even the housekeeper doesn't know these things!" Yuan Kaizhi bribed Commander Lu with 100,000 taels of gold to get news from King Yuan and the court. Even his personal stewards were kept in the dark!

Because when Commander Lu revealed the big secret that King Yuan was impotent and killed three consecutive Queens, Yuan Kaizhi was terrified.

The matter pertained to King Yuan's manly dignity, which was linked to the imperial throne…

Yuan Kaizhi didn’t dare to think about it. If King Yuan was impotent, how did the current Crown Prince come to be, how did the other princes come to be, and the suspicion that the imperial lineage might've been muddled freaked him out!

He was afraid that King Yuan would find out that he knew the secret and would kill him to silence him. Yuan Kaizhi regretted bribing Commander Lu.

That Commander Lu deliberately roped him into this, tethered him to this sinking ship, told him this utterly useless secret that only brought potential disaster!

Yuan Kaizhi resented Commander Lu to his core. To save himself, he later took care of the accountants who managed the 100,000 taels of gold, the stewards, and the servants who accompanied him out that day one after another.

"All those who could possibly know are dead!"

Yuan Kaizhi bulged his eyes out, looking at Xiao Yunzhou as though he had seen a ghost.

"I dealt with them within the six months of returning to my fiefdom..." Making it look like 'going home', 'visiting relatives and not returning', 'absconding with stolen silver'...

Dead people tell no tales!

Moreover, Yuan Kaizhi killed those people just to be safe. In fact, on the day when Commander Lu revealed King Yuan's secret, the stewards and servants were left outside the room!

Most probably didn't hear anything.

So how did the Emperor of Jing Country find out?

Yuan Kaizhi's eyes widened in shock, "Did you, Jing Country, also buy off Commander Lu Nan!?"

That was the only explanation. Yes, it must have been that!

The look of horror on Yuan Kaizhi's face dissipated by a significant margin. There were no ghosts or deities in this world, only traitors.

He blathered on and on without context, but the King of Zhou and King Chu standing by were very clever and managed to deduce most of the conversation's content.