Chen Zhaoli didn’t say anything. He shook his head, his eyes filled with an expression of pain, disappointment and frustration. The wrinkles on his face suddenly seemed to have increased.

“You’ve gone mad.” Hu Chenfu looked at the emperor, slowly saying this.

“I was forced to go mad by you all.” The emperor laughed. Right now, there was no blood on his teeth, so they looked exceptionally white, exceptionally cold.

Hu Chenfu also smiled, his smiling expression became extremely complicated. “They didn’t rebel, they were forced to rebel by you.”

The emperor said with cold mockery, “If you all truly carry the hearts of subjects, there is completely no need for me to say these following words. This Yunqin is this emperor’s, the lives of everyone in Yunqin also belong to this emperor.”

“You are mistaken.” Hu Chenfu said with a smile of ridicule. “This Yunqin was established by the combined effort of both the late emperor, and ourselves. Establishing an empire is easy, carrying on the good work of one’s predecessors difficult. We cannot bear to see this Central Continent City become chaotic, but this Central Continent City, this Yunqin is still going to become chaotic.”

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