Zu An didn’t panic in the slightest. He looked at King Qi with a smile on his face even as a group of vicious guards stormed in to arrest him.

King Qi frowned. In the end, he gestured for his guards to withdraw, remarking, “You don’t seem to be scared at all.”

Zu An chuckled and replied, “What is there to be scared of? I’m investigating this case on imperial orders. If the king has me executed, you’ll be publicly going against the emperor. If that happens, even the officials who support your respected self will have no choice but to cut ties with you.”

King Qi harrumphed, saying, “I have more than enough ways to kill you if I want to. If I told my brother emperor what you just said, if I said that you were trying to incite disharmony between us brothers, he would kill you.”

Zu An sighed as he said, “I’ll definitely refute it if we aren’t in this room. I’ll tell his majesty that it was because...