Chapter 1022: Darkness Rising

Long Chen was about to attack Lu Wang, but he stopped as he heard Mingyu's words which stabbed in his heart line pins. 

Turning back, he asked, "What did you say?"

"What did I say? I said, you're really trying to kill my brother because you're angry at him?" Mingyu asked in return. "Isn't that why you're angry? Because it's the truth? Why does it hurt you so much if it's a lie?"

"Mingyu... Did you really just accuse me of forcing a girl against her will?" Long Chen asked, taken aback. He had never felt like he did now. 

He was angry when no one trusted him last time. But that didn't hurt him as much since they weren't the ones who knew him. But even Mingyu was doubting him now?

"Leave," Mingyu said. 

Long Chen stood unmoving, not doing anything as he gazed at Mingyu. The Emperor also gazed at what was happening. He was trying to wait for the right moment to attack Long Chen, but it didn't seem like the right time. 

"What did you say?"