Vermilion Bird, who initially watched Zhao Changhe perform with a cheeky smile, turned chillingly cold in the latter half.
Zhao Changhe swung his hammer here and brandished his club there, catching one in an affair, then confirming another colluding with barbarians, leading and misguiding the crowd to a point where it seemed irrelevant who the real culprit was. Even Yan Lianping let his guard down involuntarily, feeling as though being discovered as the real culprit wouldn't matter much.
However, everyone forgot that Zhao Changhe's true objective was to find who spread the rumors.
Identifying the real culprit only mattered because whoever the culprit was, they were most likely the one spreading the rumors.
Yan Lianping was led astray and hesitated to deny firmly, which undoubtedly allowed Zhao Changhe to confirm that he was the rumor monger.
