Before he could finish speaking, Ye Zeyu stood up from his chair and bowed to him.
"Your Highness! What do you mean by this?! You are making me extremely uncomfortable!"
As he spoke, Zhang Peng hurriedly bowed in return.
Ye Zeyu looked guilty and recounted in a deep voice the incident of kicking Zhang Tong into the water that night at the palace banquet.
"General Zhang, I had no other choice but to cause Consort Zhang to fall into the water and lose her memory. I have felt guilty for a long time, and after much thought, I still feel that I must apologize to you in person. Therefore, please accept my bow!"
After speaking, Ye Zeyu bowed to Zhang Peng again.
Zhang Peng never expected that his daughter's drowning that day was because of Ye Zeyu, but after a moment of stunned silence, he understood.
Ultimately, the people who wanted to harm his daughter and Prince Yong'an were from the Bai family!
Unexpectedly, he had only served in the Xuanwu Army, yet he was labeled as a member of the First Prince's faction by the Bai family.
It seems we'll have to be careful of the Bai family from now on!
"Your Highness, please rise. I understand that you had no choice but to do what you did that day, otherwise my daughter would probably have lost her life."
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Ye Ziyu stayed at General Huai De's mansion for nearly two hours before coming out. Looking at Zhang Peng, who personally saw him off, Ye Ziyu felt truly guilty.
He knew that if Zhang Tong were even slightly smarter, she would have gone to the Empress after he left.
That's why he rushed to find Zhang Peng, in order to make the Empress suspicious of Zhang Tong.
Otherwise, if the Empress really protected Zhang Tong, it would be inconvenient for him to have someone take action.
But this ruthless scene was something he didn't want Xi'er to see.
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