Chapter 156 - 114, Just There for the Excitement
"Interrogate now?"
"Interrogate now!"
In the distance, a fierce blaze reddened the dawn sky, while the nearby river flowed like ink.
Lord Jin Zhu, shedding his usually jovial demeanor, stared intensely at Chen Ji in the river and growled fiercely, "Today, the Liu Family suddenly set an ambush to kill me. Had Heavenly Horse not arrived in time, I’m afraid I would have died on the bridge. How can I sleep without figuring out who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes?!"
After speaking, Lord Jin Zhu, ignoring Manager Yuan’s curses, brutally broke the man’s limbs, crushing his neck and radius bones before finally letting out a long breath of relief.
Tonight, he truly thought he was going to die.
Chen Ji stepped on the riverbed’s cobbles and slowly waded ashore. "Lord Jin Zhu wouldn’t suspect me of anything, would he? If I were a Jing Dynasty spy, why would I risk my life to catch up? Without my delaying them, it would not have been so easy for you to capture him."
"What if you two were acting in collusion?" Lord Jin Zhu sneered viciously, "The Liu Family set an ambush on the bridge today, and coincidentally, you switched masks just before crossing the bridge. I have every reason to believe that you knew there would be danger on the Mudan Bridge in advance."
Chen Ji calmly said, "Sir, the idea to change masks was not mine. Moreover, if I were truly a cohort of the Jing Dynasty’s traitors, or of the Liu Family, I should have crossed the bridge with you. They were after you, not me."
Lord Jin Zhu hesitated.
Indeed, if Chen Ji were a Jing Dynasty traitor, there would be no danger for him on the bridge.