"Your Majesty, I have come to pay my respects. I wonder what I have done to incur Your Majesty's wrath?"
“Even on the verge of death, you still won’t admit it. Li Fugui, present the evidence.”
Beside him, the chief eunuch carried a tray with a bright yellow dragon robe on it, and presented it to Emperor Xiu with small, quick steps.
"What does Your Majesty mean by this?"
The chief eunuch whispered a reminder: "Young Master Wei, this was found in your room at the Wei residence."
Emperor Xiu's eyes widened slightly, and he said repeatedly, "This is impossible. Someone must have framed me. I beg Your Majesty to see the truth."
001 coughed lightly: "Your acting is terrible, stop forcing it."
"Wei Zixiao, the evidence is irrefutable, and you still want to deny it!"
The other ministers exchanged glances silently.
The stitching is so rough. Who makes such an ugly dragon robe? If the emperor wanted to frame someone, he wouldn't have asked someone to make a nicer one.
Emperor Xiu glanced at it briefly, frowned slightly, abandoned his acting skills, and said with a blank face, "Your Majesty, may I take a closer look?"
The emperor snorted heavily: "Are you refusing to admit your guilt and refusing to submit to the law?"
The white-haired courtier beside him advised, "Your Majesty, there are many doubts in this matter. Wei Shaofu is a pillar of the nation. Please let him defend himself, so as not to misunderstand a loyal and virtuous person, causing pain to his loved ones and joy to his enemies."
The Chamberlain had served as the Emperor's tutor and concurrently as the Grand Tutor, so the Emperor would still listen to his words to some extent.
Emperor Xiu glanced at the attendant, then reached out and unfolded his dragon robe. He immediately smelled a faint fragrance. Looking at the size, he realized that all the preparations he had made were simply putting his brain on Mu Ruoling's level.
He placed the dragon robe back on the tray and said to the emperor, "I beg Your Majesty to summon the imperial physician, lest my one-sided account fail to convince the people."
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