Chapter 259: Crossdressing Girl (1/2)

Feng Li made the best inscrutable face he could muster after he was done speaking and tried to sit down, but the three seats available were already occupied. Having no other recourse available, he remained standing with both hands behind his back, looking both proud and a little miffed.

The gasps of expected shock didn’t come; Lu Yun and Qing Han were entirely unmoved, while Yuchi Hanxing was as dispassionate as ever. The Nephrite celestial emperor seemed to have nothing to do with her at all.

“His Majesty has been swapped out! The emperor right now isn’t Zhao Shenguang!” Feng Li paused a moment before placing renewed emphasis on the former. “The emperor is an impostor!”

“And?” Qing Han tilted his head in apparent puzzlement. “The Nephrite emperor is an impostor. So what?”

Feng Li didn’t know what to say in his utter bafflement. The things he talked about were enough to astound the entire world. The recently-crowned Nephrite emperor was a fake?! Yet these two… no, these three had barely reacted to the shocking revelation. They seemed to consider it no more interesting than idle mortal gossip!

“This was to be expected,” Lu Yun nodded. “Chen Xiao and Qing Buyi pretty much beat Zhao Shenguang into submission, didn’t they? After being their sidekick for so many years, he wouldn’t possibly dare make any moves against the Chen clan, not to mention so quickly and ruthlessly. He should know how terrifying Chen Xiao truly is.

“Nothing about any of this has been right from the start. If he’s an impostor, well, that makes a lot more sense.”

“Exactly so.” Qing Han gave a long exhale. Zhao Shenguang was a friend of his as well; he would’ve been unhappy to see his kin come to blows with him.

Feng Li nearly fell flat on his face.

“As for you? You don’t have a tenth of the gall needed to betray your own clan.” Lu Yun scrutinized the Feng youth more closely. “Out with it. Who sent you here?”

Feng Li was dazed for quite a while before he managed to recover himself. “A… a girl in men’s clothes tossed me over here. She said it wasn’t a good time for her to show up anywhere, so she wanted me to come invite you to Dusk Province.”

He chuckled helplessly as he said this. He certainly wasn’t here of his own volition! He would much rather have sat comfortably on his throne as the Dusk Lord, even if it was only as a puppet. The province was destined to become a sacred land of cultivation, after all.

Alas, Lu Yun had seen right through him.

“A girl in men’s clothes?” Qing Han’s expression looked a little unnatural.

“Mo Yi? So she’s back, huh?” Lu Yun immediately realized who it was—that unbelievably beautiful girl who had a preference for men’s clothes. Well, she did cut a handsome figure in them!

Li Youcai had said before that the Dusk Lord had deemed her a traitor, to be arrested on sight within Nephrite’s borders. Perhaps some sort of rule was preventing her from appearing regardless?

Feng Li continued to laugh feebly. Who else could it be? Coming back by herself was one thing, but she’d brought along the fake Nephrite emperor to boot!

The capital city was pretty much hers, now, the Feng experts here having been single handedly crushed on her way back. They hadn’t managed to get the news out, either. In fact, Feng Li was here only as an involuntary messenger. The matter of his ‘cooperation’ had been entirely a fabrication to help him save face.

The other three in the room were finally struck speechless by the latest developments. Feng Li was truly thick-skinned, but he was also very good at dealing with people. Someone of his blood and position wouldn’t have survived so long in his clan otherwise.

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