The Hidden Guard panicked and rushed to explain, "Your Highness, I assure you! This was not my doing! The reports say it seems Han Tong suffered a sudden heart ailment. He was gone before a doctor could reach him..."
CRASH—!
Xiao Chengxuan swept everything off the desk in a single motion, the pent-up frustration he'd felt all day finally reaching its peak.
"Useless fool!"
'Of all the times for that Han Tong to die, he had to pick now. Even if I had a hundred mouths, I wouldn't be able to explain my way out of this!'
'He betrayed me, put me in this predicament, and now he's taken the easy way out!'
'And I don't even know who to take this anger out on!'
The Hidden Guard lowered his head even further. "Your Highness, please quell your anger!"
'Quell my anger?'
'Easy for you to say!'
"Han Tong has always been a cautious man. He would never have betrayed me so suddenly. There has to be something else going on here!"
'But now he's dead, and there's no way to investigate!'
