Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"That's…"

"Do you still have any other objection?" Long Qian Xing asked in a low tone. He looked at the officials with a calm gaze, yet a dangerous aura emanated from his body. This kind of gaze caused other people to be unwilling to get close to him.

"Which tree didn't have some bad apples falling from a good tree? Since there are some bad ones, there are naturally good ones too. Fei Yang Kingdom has decided to be open-minded and fair in its judgement. Would you be able to represent the Fei Yang Kingdom with your words?" Long Qian Xing asked in a low voice.

Even though he was only 18 years old, the aura around her was truly not one to be trifled with. Those who looked at him were holding their breath. They were all afraid of this seemingly ordinary youth.

He was supposed to be only a mere young commander.

Yet, the pressure he exuded didn't lose even compared to the Emperor or even those generals.

"Yes, I mean no." the official lowered his head.

Long Qian Xing stared at him then swept his gaze across the hall as if asking if other people still had some objection. If they still had one, they could raise it to him because he would be ready to answer it all.

Beside Long Qian Xing, Nan Hua watched his action and blinked her clear eyes. She wanted to say something, but in the end, she decided not to.

It was weird.

She didn't have any problem when she was asking questions of others, but she didn't seem to be able to speak about this to Long Qian Xing? His action confused her. His gaze made her feel strange.

Nan Hua didn't know what she should think of her fiancé.

"Since there's no other objection, I'll leave first." Old Master Nan cupped his fist. He felt really tired of this farce and drama in front of him. Perhaps he would have been calmer if he could forget the blood connection between him and Nan Shu Cheng.

But Old Master Nan knew that it was impossible. How could he possibly erase those decades when he was with his son and had high expectations of that brat?

Only for him to trample everything on the ground.

At this moment, Old Master Nan just wanted to forget everything. He couldn't control his son's actions and could only try his best to put him on the right path. Now that his son had passed away, Old Master Nan didn't know what he should feel anymore.

Happy?

He couldn't be happy that his only son had died.

Sad?

He couldn't be completely sad because of what his son had done to his daughter in law and also his grandchildren.

Thus, Old Master Nan was still in this complicated mood.

But even with those thoughts swirling inside his mind, Old Master Nan kept his etiquette as he said to the Emperor, "This subject thanks Your Majesty for your benevolence."

Emperor Yang Zhou nodded and waved his hand. He looked at the departing back of the two people before dismissing the others. He would naturally restore Old Master Nan's title when there was a chance.

He never had any intention of punishing the twins and him.

But in front of other officials, he still had to put on a show as if he was giving them some punishment in exchange for their lives. It was in order to show that the Emperor was impartial.

In the first place, it was impossible for a human to be completely impartial.

After all, they were all human beings with emotions and also personal judgement. They were not just objects that could fully judge everything as the outsiders.

Emperor Yang Zhou himself had long become part of the Imperial Family and didn't have much emotion. But even if it was not much, it was still there, affecting him from time to time.

However, trying to do things as impartial as possible was still necessary.

This was only the beginning.

There might be more cases in the future that Emperor Yang Zhou had to face.

The officials, guards, and others slowly walked out of the bloody hall. The servants were busy cleaning up everything while Emperor Yang Zhou sat there, watching them. With the emperor watching them, these servants felt nervous and their movements become faster.

Soon, it was clean.

Once it was empty, Emperor Yang Zhou walked to the side hall and looked at Long Qian Xing, who was already waiting there. The young man was looking at the city in front of him with an unknown gaze. "Are you satisfied with this ending?"

"Not exactly."

Emperor Yang Zhou was speechless.

Looking at how Long Qian Xing was speaking, one would think that he was the master of this place. Though, his action still seemed as if he was being very respectful toward Emperor Yang Zhou.

This could easily confuse others.

Rather than being confused, they might be baffled as Emperor Yang Zhou allowed this young man to act like that around him.

"What do you exactly want?" Emperor Yang Zhou looked at Long Qian Xing while he sat down. "You have already pranked him over and over for the past two months. Even more so, you destroyed their properties and forced him to sell many of his things to avoid bankruptcy before switching their names to your fiancée."

Long Qian Xing looked at Emperor Yang Zhou silently. He had the feeling that this friend of his was also monitoring his movement.

"When there are dozens of property transfer agreements appearing, my men are naturally notified." Emperor Yang Zhou snorted.

Even if he didn't want to pay attention to Long Qian Xing, there was no way that he wouldn't be alarmed when there were many transfer agreements. The officials below him were confused and eventually reported the matter to Emperor Yang Zhou.

After all, this matter involved too many properties.

What if it was not handled well?

"Those belong to her."

"…I won't stop you."

"Thanks."

"So, what do you want with the other three? Let me tell you first that Nan Hou Xiang is still a talent that might be useful for the Fei Yang Kingdom. The other officials will never agree to execute him.

Even if you can find some pieces of evidence of him colluding with his father, they can chalk it up to his young age. It'll be hard to find fault with him." Emperor Yang Zhou glanced at Long Qian Xing.

In fact, Nan Hou Xiang's performance in the academy was what made others unwilling to just execute him. They had already lost a lot of people because of this cleanup. Some people who were completely eliminated also included some promising young generation.

Thus, these people have heartache when they decide on the matter.

And the rest of the few younger generations with good talent naturally included Nan Hou Xiang. This time, the officials might not want him to be executed and instead reeducated so he could work for the Fei Yang Kingdom.

"There's no need. I have my own arrangement for Nan Hou Xiang." Long Qian Xing was calm and composed. "You only need to deal with the other women. I'm too lazy to deal with them."

Since the others didn't really harm his girl, he didn't really care. Even if Nan Xin did try, she always failed. They were not important people, so Long Qian Xing would not care too much about how Emperor Yang Zhou planned to take care of them.

"They might be sent back to their maternal family or if the maternal family is also involved, probably exile." Emperor Yang Zhou knew very well that these people would only end up being exiled for some minor offense.

Fei Yang Kingdom is a large kingdom. There were still many wastelands without people working on them, so these unfortunate people would be the ones who would be sent there. They could work on the wasteland while doing their punishment.

It was a good thing for Emperor Yang Zhou.

At the very least, they had their own use.

As for whether they could truly farm and open wasteland or not, it was not within Emperor Yang Zhou's consideration. These proud nobles and young masters used to be pampered at home and never faced those lands.

But now that they were exiled, they would have no other choice but to farm.

If they didn't, they wouldn't be able to eat.

Thus, it could be said that their status had fallen to the rank of peasant and farmers. Whether they could make a comeback in the future was still unknown, but some people with strong will might truly want to come back.

After all, not everyone could stand living in that place after living a pampered life for so many years.

And they had already read a lot of things in their lives during the time when they were still pampered young masters.