Chapter 1150: All Shady Ways Should Die

Sun Daoning's originally muddled head instantly became incomparably clear.

He was truly stunned by Chen Guanlou's thick-skinned shamelessness, to the point that his muddled head became clear in reverse.

He pointed at the other party, "You, you, you, how can you have the face to praise yourself?"

"I did a good deed and shared the Minister's worries; I can't even praise myself twice? Old Sun, you are too shameless."

"Presumptuous! Is this the attitude of a subordinate? It's simply preposterous, more and more without rules. In short, hurry up and handle the matter well; you must make Xiao Changsheng shut up. You don't need

"Don't worry, Old Sun, I guarantee the mission will be accomplished."

Sun Daoning left in a hurry.

If he didn't leave now, he suspected he would be swindled into becoming a cripple.

Chen Guanlou could be called a master of crooked ways; with his glib tongue, he could spin the dead into the living. There was nothing he dared not say or think. Once an honest man fell into his hands, he would be kneaded and molded at will.

Sun Daoning considered himself an honest man; he couldn't afford to provoke him, truly couldn't afford to provoke him.

He didn't have a quick-witted mind; he only knew how to handle cases strictly according to the law. Any occasional flexible operation was always within the scope permitted by the law. Who was like Chen Guanlou, daring to dabble in all sorts of crooked and evil paths?

With Medical Official Mu present, Xiao Changsheng drifted in and out of consciousness, waking intermittently. Each time he woke, he would eat and drink a little before falling back into a stupor. With the intake of food and drink, his body received nutritional replenishment, and Xiao Changsheng's sleeping time grew shorter while his waking time grew longer, shedding his skeletal appearance and finally putting on a bit of flesh. He was not far from the state he was in when he first entered the prison.

Chen Guanlou finally seized the opportunity to have a chat with Xiao Changsheng.

"You really are unlucky; a perfectly fine person ends up in prison and gets targeted. You generally understand the course of events, so do you have any thoughts? Do you have any idea who wants to harm you?"

Xiao Changsheng leaned against the head of the bed; his body was still very weak, but his complexion was decent. After all, he had been supplemented for some time; top-tier medicinal herbs and top-tier ingredients were flowing in like water—it was all money.

He gasped for air, "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't even know I had been plotted against and in a coma for so long. But the body doesn't lie; it's clear that I haven't been able to eat on time for a very long time. If it weren't for the state of my body, I would still be dazed, not daring to believe all this happened to me."

"Are you still dazed now?" Chen Guanlou asked patiently.

Xiao Changsheng shook his head slowly, "I've been thinking these past few days about who exactly wants to harm me. Sigh, I have too many enemies; those who want to harm me could line up from the Imperial Palace to the city gate—I can't count them all. But to think of using a body double, honestly, I have no clue at all."

"I heard from the prison guards that when they inspected my body at the time, every mole on my body corresponded. If you hadn't been so knowledgeable and seen through the other party's disguise, I would have died silently."

"Then have you thought about who could clearly understand your physical features, even replicating the features of your private parts one-to-one? This has already surpassed the art of disguise as understood by ordinary people. This is a higher-level art of restoration! I dare say I couldn't do it!"

Chen Guanlou admired the counterfeit product from the bottom of his heart; they understood arrays, understood the art of disguise and replication, not to mention their martial arts cultivation. Such a formidable figure was certainly no nobody. Hiding their head and showing their tail—could it be that he knew the person?

However, after filtering through everyone, he couldn't think of anyone around him with such ability.

Xiao Changsheng was left speechless, his brows tightly furrowed.

"Are the people around you reliable?" Chen Guanlou guided the other party to think.

"The people around me? Is Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen suspecting that the people around me betrayed me?"

"That possibility isn't non-existent. Think carefully: if you were dead and the imposter succeeded, successfully replacing your identity and your status, what would the consequences be?"

Xiao Changsheng followed the question and thought it through, his body shivering instantly; he was clearly afraid.

Seeing this, Chen Guanlou continued to guide him, "If people outside learned that you were almost replaced, that there was an imposter assuming your identity, have you thought about the consequences? At that time, how would people outside speculate about you, how would they ponder you? Could His Majesty still trust you? If His Majesty ever had even the slightest accident, you, Xiao Changsheng, would be the culprit!"

"Impossible! I wouldn't harm His Majesty, no matter who I harmed. The Xiao family has today because of His Majesty. To put it bluntly, the Xiao family's greatest backer is His Majesty. What benefit would I get from plotting against His Majesty?"

"That may be so, but who would believe you?"

Chen Guanlou looked at the other party with a half-smile, "No one will believe you. Why would an imposter choose to impersonate you instead of someone else? It must be because there is something wrong with you."

"As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs. It must be that you harbored evil intentions, which is why someone found an opening. It must be that you had shady dealings, which is why you were targeted by the imposter. Besides, who would dare believe the imposter has nothing to do with you? Perhaps you were the one who found the imposter yourself; only you know best what you intended to do."

"Nonsense, it's all gibberish. This official is innocent; this official is the victim. Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, stop trying to frame me."

"Hahaha..."

He's anxious, he's anxious!

Chen Guanlou laughed triumphantly.

He sneered, "Are there few cases of a thief crying 'stop thief'? These days, it's not uncommon for a murderer to claim innocence. You harbored evil intentions and feared being implicated yourself, so you pretended to be a victim, hired someone to impersonate you and commit evil deeds to achieve your goals. Afterward, you expose the imposter's identity and re-emerge in the world as a perfectly innocent person. I have to say, this scheme is truly imaginative—daring to think and daring to act!"

Xiao Changsheng's beautiful face became ferocious at this moment.

"Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, I have no grudge against you; why do you want to frame me? I am clearly the victim; I almost lost my life, so why do you suspect me of being the mastermind behind the scenes? If you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have even thought of such a method. Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, are you trying to report me and then kill me?"

Chen Guanlou smiled half-heartedly and tapped the prison gate bars lightly, "If I wanted to report you, I wouldn't be chatting with you here. I'm just kindly reminding Magistrate Xiao that there are certainly many people who think like me, especially those in officialdom."

"Don't forget, the Imperial Consort has three sons. If His Majesty were to have any mishap, tsk tsk... So, Magistrate Xiao, you now know that if this matter spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable. Not only you, but your Imperial Consort sister will also step into an abyss of no return! Can you bear such consequences?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Changsheng understood everything.

He was furious and desperate, dragging his weak body off the bed and walking to the prison gate, gripping the bars tightly.

"You, you, you... Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, what do you want to do? Or rather, what do you want to get from this official? Name your price; everything is negotiable!"