Chapter 481: Failure (2/2)
It was too bad there had been a hiccup on Feng Wan’er’s side. No matter how many letters she sent out, no one replied. If the reinforcements from the Phoenix King Valley failed to reply, they would be in deep trouble.
Having said that, no one felt that it was a surprise that their plot had failed. It was a last minute idea, and they hadn’t prepared any countermeasures in case anything went wrong.
In the throne room, a stalemate formed as Pei Rumo had control of the death warriors and Pei Wuchen held the imperial seal in his hand.
If Pei Rumo wanted to get rid of Pei Wuchen, it would be as easy as snapping his fingers. However, he wanted to preserve Pei Wuchen’s reputation.
Pei Rumo felt that his brother was muddled and only participated in the plot because someone deliberately fanned the flames. As long as Pei Wuchen admitted his mistakes, Pei Rumo was willing to spare his life.
Pei Wuchen was full of confidence, but he slowly started to panic as the people from the Phoenix King Valley showed no signs of appearing. He had already discussed this with Feng Wan’er earlier and he didn’t understand how his backup hadn’t arrived.
Seeing that he still had no intention to repent, Pei Rumo finally gave a command to execute Pei Wuchen.
“Please stay your hands!” Feng Wan’er voice resounded from the main hall. When she saw that her reinforcements from the Phoenix King Valley had yet to arrive, she knew that things were going south. Though she had planned to escape by herself, she wasn’t able to abandon Pei Wuchen in the end.
“I was the one who instigated the rebellion. I am willing to bear the punishment in his stead!” Feng Wan’er hardened her resolve as she took one last look at him.
However, Pei Rumo knew that Pei Wuchen wasn’t as innocent as she had claimed. If those thoughts didn’t appear in his mind, he wouldn’t have followed through with her plan. He knew that Feng Wan’er was trying to take the fall for him.
As for Pei Wuchen, he didn’t know what to say. Even though the plot had already failed, Feng Wan’er was still willing to take the fall for him.
A trace of guilt appeared in his heart. Before they ended up in the state they were in today, there had been a time where the two of them had been innocent playmates.
“I cannot escape from what has to come. If the intention of usurping the throne didn’t exist in my mind, things won’t degenerate to this state.” When he angered his father to death, Pei Wuchen had already started to regret his actions. However, he knew that there was no pill for regret in this world. Now that Feng Wan’er had pleaded guilty, he felt that it wouldn’t be too bad if he managed to lessen her punishment.
“Third Prince's action of killing his father for the throne will be charged under treason. Feng Wan’er will be charged under the same crime for instigating the rebellion. Lock them in the prison. Without my order, no one is allowed to visit them.”
The chaos that had lasted an entire day, had finally reached a conclusion.
While the Cloud Water Nation was in chaos, Bai Luochu and Pei Qingfeng enjoyed the scenery around them as they walked towards the place Pei Qingfeng wanted to bring her.