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Chapter 586: Chapter 181 Nan Batian: What? I’m the Villain? (10,000 Words for Monthly Votes)

“When did I ever collude with Sun Tiechui? This is a blatant frame-up, a slander!”

Nan Batian realized what was going on, unable to contain his rage. Chen Jiusi was unequivocally framing him!

But Tang Ziyue’s expression grew ugly. Beside him, Qin Ying said, “Yes, gang leader, Chen Jiusi is deliberately slinging mud at you. If it’s not acceptable, let’s go to Darugachi and report him. Accuse Chen Jiusi of setting us up, for planting a fake secret letter in Sun Tiechui’s blacksmith shop. If we haven’t done anything, what do we have to fear?”

Qin Ying said this strongly. He hadn’t done anything, so what was there to fear? Nowadays, it’s always him framing others, not being framed himself.

Whether you, Chen Jiusi, want to frame someone, even now when we know your intent to frame us, do you think we will be scared of you? Report it, go directly to Darugachi and report. I’ll make sure you, Chen Jiusi, won’t be able to walk away from this.

After hearing Qin Ying’s words, Tang Ziyue frowned and said, “Report? What are you going to report?”

“Report Chen Jiusi for using a fake secret letter to frame us. We haven’t colluded with any Sun Tiechui. When we are upright, we have no fear of our shadows. Why should we be afraid of his framing and slander?”

Qin Ying answered.

“Framing and slander? Ha, Master Qin, who told you this is a frame-up?”

“This, isn’t it obviously a frame-up?”

Qin Ying looked at Tang Ziyue as the latter spoke, “Tell Darugachi that we got the news through a spy that Chen Jiusi colluded with Sun Tiechui and placed a secret letter in the blacksmith’s furnace to frame us?”

“Exactly! That’s what we should do!”

“Ha, Master Qin, tell me, if you do this, won’t Darugachi think you are doing it on purpose? The affairs of our East Gate are a bit murky, and Darugachi already has suspicions about us. Now, you say the evidence of a letter intended to frame us by Chen Jiusi is in Sun Tiechui’s blacksmith’s furnace?”

“Do you think Yelu will believe it?”

Qin Ying frowned slightly and said, “Why wouldn’t he believe it?”

“Because our actions right now are much more suspicious than Chen Jiusi’s, we are already marked with a crime. At this moment, coming across such an incident, it’s like getting mud in your pants—it’s shit no matter how you look at it!”

Tang Ziyue said.

“But we’ve indeed been wronged!”

Qin Ying said unconvinced, “How can Chen Jiusi get away with framing us? Can he simply make the black white, with no place for us to seek justice?”

Tang Ziyue smiled bitterly and shook his head, “If you want to prove that Chen Jiusi is framing us, we must first find evidence of Chen Jiusi’s collusion with Sun Tiechui. Only then can we say that Chen Jie managed to forge evidence through Sun Tiechui to set us up.”

“But now, we can’t prove that Chen Jiusi has colluded with the Zoroastrian Sect, and from the current situation, we seem like the ones who might be in collusion with the Zoroastrian Sect!”

Tang Ziyue laughed bitterly.

Qin Ying widened his eyes and said, “What, we’ve become rebels now? Are there no more rights in this world?”

Nan Batian frowned as well. As such an upright person and as the leader of a faction, being called a rebel was a joke, right?

From any angle, it seemed like Chen Jiusi was the villain: he aimed to usurp, showed disrespect to his superiors, acted recklessly, and attempted to frame the gang leader. Any one of these accusations would be enough to have him executed brutally.

And now, I was the one being accused of being the villain, of being a rebel. This was a blatant frame-up.

And all he ever wanted was to cleanse the sect. Was there a fault in that too?

It was as if good men did not live long, while troubles lingered for a thousand years.

Thinking of this, Nan Batian looked at Tang Ziyue and said, “Ziyue, you are my Sleeping Dragon. In such a difficult situation, what should we do?”

Upon hearing this, Tang Ziyue looked at Nan Batian, “Gang leader, what Chen Jiusi has employed here is an open strategy. One wrong move and we could lose everything.”

Thinking on this, Nan Batian looked at Tang Ziyue and said, “So how do we break this move?”

Tang Ziyue said, “I think I understand the message. It was certainly Chen Jiusi’s intention for us to hear it.”

“Hmm?”

Qin Ying looked at Tang Ziyue and said, “Mr. Tang, don’t talk nonsense. Did Chen Jiusi lose his mind to tell us such confidential news?”

Was he afraid we wouldn’t know he was trying to frame us?

Tang Ziyue said, “What Master Qin said is very true.”

Qin Ying frowned and said, “What do you mean?”

Tang Ziyue said, “Chen Jiusi deliberately passed on this message to us, with the aim of making us receive it early and cause chaos in desperation.”

“Confusion from desperation?”

Qin Ying still did not understand, and Nan Batian also frowned. Tang Ziyue continued, “He wants to see us become the laughingstock. He’s provoking us.”

“That damned fool, I knew he had no good intentions.”

Qin Ying slammed the table, and Nan Batian said, “Let Mr. Tang finish his words.”

Tang Ziyue continued, “I was wondering how such important information could have been revealed by Chen Jiusi. Now I’ve completely understood, he actually wants us to make a choice.”

“What choice?”

Nan Batian asked, looking at Tang Ziyue.

Tang Ziyue said, “His purpose is clear. He informed us about the fake secret letter in Sun Tiechui’s blacksmith shop. If this letter gets out, it poses a great threat to us. But we have a chance, which is to retrieve the secret letter before it reaches Darugachi, and then everything will be fine.”

“But if we get caught by people from Darugachi Mansion while retrieving the letter…”

Tang Ziyue said, “Then it would only add credibility to that secret letter.”