Protect Our Chief

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Even if Prince Dexin guessed a hundred times, he wouldn’t have predicted the current situation.

The unbreakable Sanctuary Space of their ancestors was actually breached by a plant. And as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the ancestor he feared the most.

The look in the ancestor’s eyes was as if he was ready to devour someone.

Beside him, Xiao Limo’s face merely changed slightly, a complex expression flashed in his eyes, filled with pain, despair, yet also a hint of relief.

"Ancestor, this is a misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding." Prince Dexin, sweating profusely, urgently tried to struggle for survival, "I received intelligence accusing the Wang Family of being spies for the Red Moon Demon Dynasty... Perhaps, perhaps my intelligence was wrong."

Emperor Longchang didn’t speak, he just quietly looked at him.

The soldiers of the Personal Guard Camp also silently watched him, but their eyes were filled with intense anger and hatred.

They all understood that the old thief Dexin had seized the Grand Marshal’s weak point, forcing him to participate in the plot against Prince Hao.

Then, using this as leverage, he planned to plot against Emperor’s Son An again.

On the other side, Emperor’s Son An and Wang Shouzhe, who had completed their task, silently retreated a bit, looking at all this with solemn expressions.

For a moment, besides Prince Dexin’s voice of justification, there was no other sound in the arena, the atmosphere was frighteningly oppressive.

"Ancestor..."

As Prince Dexin was speaking, he gradually felt something was wrong, closed his mouth, and his face turned ashen.

Even if he didn’t know exactly what happened outside the Sanctuary Space, just by looking at Emperor Longchang’s gaze, he understood that Emperor Longchang knew everything.

He was completely finished!

Emperor Longchang no longer looked at him, but slowly raised his head to look at Xiao Limo.

In his aged eyes, besides anger, there were many complex emotions.

Compared to his own descendant Dexin, he valued Xiao Limo even more, and his trust in him surpassed anyone else.

Yet to think, Xiao Limo had hidden so deeply.

"Your Majesty." Xiao Limo bowed deeply, a complete sense of relief flashing in his eyes, "I deserve to die a thousand times!"

"Death is not enough to regret."

Emperor Longchang’s teeth were clenched in hatred.

After a pause, the Emperor said, "Personal Guard Camp, heed my order, arrest the two rebels Xiao Limo and Dexin, and escort them back to the military camp to await my punishment."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Personal Guard Camp received the order and immediately stepped forward to apprehend Xiao Limo and Prince Dexin, placing the God-locking Shackles on them.

Just as the soldiers of the Personal Guard Camp were about to escort them back to the main camp, Prince Dexin suddenly shouted, "Wait! Ancestor, I still have something to say."

"You unfilial descendant! You admitted everything with your own mouth, what else is there to argue?" Emperor Longchang shouted in fury.

"Wang Shouzhe, it turns out this was all your scheme," Prince Dexin didn’t look at him but glared at Wang Shouzhe with fury, like a salted fish that couldn’t die in peace, "I don’t understand! Why, why would you know I was going to act against you today?"

Upon hearing these words, even Emperor Longchang couldn’t help but look at Wang Shouzhe, as if wanting to hear Wang Shouzhe’s explanation.

The fact that Prince Dexin and Xiao Limo deserved to die was unquestionable, but Wang Shouzhe’s calculations seemed too clever. In such a complex situation, he could still predict and set up a thorough trap for Dexin to fall into.

"Alas~"

Facing the complex gazes of everyone, Wang Shouzhe sighed deeply, "Tianyan, why don’t you explain first?"

As soon as he finished speaking.

A person from Emperor’s Son An’s personal guards stepped forward.

In front of everyone, she removed her helmet, revealing a waterfall of hair and a stunningly beautiful face.

This woman was Tianyan.

She gave a respectful salute to His Majesty, but it was a military salute, not the usual etiquette of a commoner meeting the emperor.

Facing Emperor Longchang’s puzzled gaze, she suppressed her excitement and began to speak, "Your Majesty, my real name is Zhou Hongye, my father’s surname is Zhou, his name is Bowen, and he was an officer under Prince Hao."

Zhou Bowen?

Emperor Longchang thought for a moment and vaguely recalled, "I remember now. He was one of the children of the Zhou family from Military Command. When he was young, I even met him. At that time, he was listed as one of the ’Top Ten Outstanding Youths in Military Command’, and later became Prince Hao’s right-hand man."

"Yes, that’s him."

Tianyan didn’t expect that after so many years, Emperor Longchang still remembered her father, and her nose almost twitched in emotion.

She took a deep breath to compose herself, then began to tell the whole story.

It turned out that her father was Prince Hao’s adjutant back then, responsible for dividing the troops to support Prince Hao. As a result, due to a delayed battle opportunity, Prince Hao fell, and later he was sentenced into the Cannon Fodder Camp to redeem his sins and eventually died there.

However, back then, Tianyan secretly went to the Cannon Fodder Camp and saw her father once. Zhou Bowen told her that he was wronged, set up with false intelligence and fake orders to delay and trap him.

Zhou Bowen achieving the position of Prince Hao’s adjutant showed that his insight, capability, and methods were not comparable to ordinary soldiers. It was no easy task to deceive him with false intelligence and orders. Moreover, military intelligence naturally had its own set of rules for transmission; if not familiar with the military, rashly transmitting false information would easily be exposed.