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Qianfeng's brain whirred rapidly.

The noble's method of Fusion tier promotion?

To tell the truth... there wasn't an Awakener family that didn't want to get their hands on this.

Indeed, it was precisely to learn these secrets that many powerful Awakener families had remained attached to the nobility for the past fifty years, wasn't it?

But... for that very reason, if any Awakener family dared declare this as their goal, they'd immediately be suppressed jointly by the nobles.

So when Fang Ze raised this question, Qianfeng immediately sensed something was amiss.

He glanced at Fang Ze.

After a moment, he couldn't help but laugh, "Are you trying to frame me and my son?"

"Dream on. We wouldn't be fooled by such tricks."

Upon hearing Qianfeng's words, Fang Ze neither confirmed nor denied.

He simply continued acting like a mere recorder, writing a few lines on the document before asking the next question.

"Then, Minister Qianfeng, have you obtained any 'Qin 28' in recent years?"

Since he was to shoulder all the blame, naturally the matter of "Qin 28" must also be shouldered by him.

Thus, Qianfeng nodded without hesitation.

Fang Ze asked, "Now, do you still have any stock of 'Qin 28'?"

Qianfeng shook his head.

Fang Ze continued to inquire, "Who are your downliners?"

Qianfeng replied, "Qiu Yue, Kai Shi."

These were two people who had been caught even before him.

The pen in Fang Ze's hand tapped the document, "No Hua Jian and Qin Fen?"

When Qianfeng heard Fang Ze's inquiry, he feigned hesitation for a moment, then said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Fang Ze smiled and asked again, "How much do you know about the Flower Morning Festival?"

Qianfeng shook his head, "I don't know anything."

Fang Ze uttered an "Oh," and then spoke again, "Then what have you been doing by Jiang Cheng's side?"

Perhaps as Fang Ze questioned more specifically, Qianfeng didn't know to what extent his father had confessed or what responsibilities he had assumed.

So, he simply shut his mouth, no longer cooperating.

Fang Ze was not annoyed and continued to throw out question after question.

After dozens of questions were asked, Fang Ze looked over the document and then shook his head at Qianfeng, "Minister Qianfeng, it seems you're not very honest."

With that, he gazed at the document and then said, "First off, the mastermind behind your organization isn't your father, but Jiang Cheng, of the Jiang Family."

"Your father is actually... innocent. He doesn't even know what happened."

"Yet, when I casually mentioned it, you directly pinned the blame on him."@@novelbin@@

"What a great filial son you are."

Upon hearing Fang Ze's words, Qianfeng was momentarily stunned.

Then, he saw Fang Ze looking deeply at him and saying, "That's right. The information I came to tell you tonight is fake."

"Your father hasn't been caught, nor has he come forward to take the blame."

"It's all made up by me."

"I am an interrogator, not a member of your organization, why would I disclose the progress of the case to you?"

Hearing Fang Ze's words, Qianfeng, truly panicked this time.

Because there weren't any insiders in the Judicial Department, and given the gravity of this case, no news had come through in these few days.

So he could only speculate on the current development based on some simple information.

He believed that given the Jiang Family's clout and the status of the Yang Transformation tier in the entire Eastern Region, Jiang Cheng was unlikely to be significantly impacted.

And as a trusted confidant of Jiang Cheng, privy to many of his secrets, Jiang Cheng would certainly save him once he had the chance.

Now that several days had passed without him being rescued, he felt this signified one thing: the Jiang Family couldn't save him, he had been abandoned.

And the blame... was all to be shouldered by him.

He didn't feel disheartened, though.

Because, when he followed Jiang Cheng, he had anticipated this day might come.

Isn't the deputy always there to take the fall?

And he knew that he couldn't afford to offend the Jiang Family; if he didn't take the fall, he would end up just as miserably.

But once he took the fall, the heavier the blame he shouldered, the more compensation the Jiang Family would provide for his family.

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So, he wasn't too surprised by this development.

In fact, he continued to analyze the situation along these lines.

He felt that his own weight was too light to fully shoulder the blame by himself, it was unlikely that he could do it.

As such, the Jiang Family would probably negotiate with his father, implicating him as well.

This way, a big shot from the Provincial Government plus the head of Emerald City's Supervisory Department would just about manage to carry the burden.

Therefore, when Fang Ze told him that his father had turned himself in, he believed it on the spot.

But now... Fang Ze had overturned everything.

He was genuinely baffled.

Could it be that his father hadn't taken the blame?

Did the Jiang Family manage to smooth over the whole affair?

Then why wasn't he out yet?

Surely... the Jiang Family didn't manage to save Jiang Cheng, right?

That's impossible...

Could it be... that this Commissioner was conning him?

While he was pondering this, Fang Ze spoke again.

He flipped through the document as he said, "Stop guessing. Your case has been taken over by the higher district authority. Jiang Cheng was also taken directly to the higher district."

"The Jiang Family didn't save him."

Seeing that Qianfeng still looked incredulous, Fang Ze smiled, then continued, "According to Jiang Cheng's confession, there are many members in your organization."

"Moreover, they are spread throughout every department in Emerald City."