“It’s Feng Wu’s sword! It’s her! Hers!” Zuo Qingyu suddenly yelled.
Instantly, everyone began to give her strange looks.
So, it really was Feng Wu’s sword!
“Didn’t you say that it’s yours?” Lord Mu had been waiting for Feng Wu’s downfall as well, so he tried to urge Zuo Qingyu, “Kiddo, don’t you worry. Just tell us the truth. No one can threaten you! I’ve got your back!”
Zuo Qingyu smiled bitterly. Master Rong Yang had shown up, and the Fallen Star Sword had flown back to Feng Wu. Nothing she said would be able to change the situation. Compared with telling more lies, she would rather…
“Feng Wu is right. It really is her sword. I made a mistake…” Zuo Qingyu told the truth.
Zuo Ming immediately flushed!
His head spun, and he wanted to pass out right at that moment.
He had mentioned his family’s formidable weapon in court, which was why the emperor and the others had come here with him. He had wanted to show off, only to be humiliated!
Zuo Ming felt like killing Zuo Qingyu.
“You! You defiant girl! I’m going to kill you!” Zuo Ming raised a hand, trying to hit Zuo Qingyu.
Zuo Qingyu burst into tears and bawled.
Instead of running away, she took Zuo Qingyu’s arm and said, “She… She took the dragon scale gold from me. It was her…”
Zuo Ming’s face turned livid.
He then stared at Feng Wu. “Is that true?”
Feng Wu was so weak that she had to lean on the sword to stop herself from falling over.
A smile emerged on her pale face when she saw how aggressive Zuo Ming was being. “Are you all against me because I have no one else?”
Zuo Ming was infuriated.
The crown prince stood proudly in the crowd, but felt a throbbing pain in his chest when he heard those words. Involuntarily, he looked in Feng Wu’s direction, and there was concern in his eyes which even he wasn’t aware of.
Feng Wu acted as though Jun Linyuan wasn’t there. Staring at Zuo Ming, she took out a piece of paper and threw it at his face.
“Here’s the bet I made with Zuo Qingyu. It says that if I lose, I’ll do one thing for her, but if she loses, I’ll have the dragon scale gold. All the members of the Rong manor are my witnesses!”
The paper drifted down in front of Zuo Ming.
Zuo Qingyu panicked.
“That’s impossible! We never signed anything!” Zuo Qingyu lost her head in her panic, and she yelled at Feng Wu, “We never wrote our bet down!”
Feng Wu suddenly chuckled. “So, are you saying that you’re going to deny it just because our bet was a verbal one?”
Zuo Qingyu was speechless.
Immediately, everyone gave Zuo Qingyu strange looks.
When Zuo Ming caught the paper, he saw that it was blank.
However…
Everyone realized that Zuo Qingyu had lost.
The things she blurted out were proof enough of Feng Wu’s claim.
“I… I…” Zuo Qingyu still wanted to make more excuses, but —
Just then, Master Rong Yang smirked. “Zuo Qingyu, have you forgotten about me? Do you think I’m blind?!”