Chapter 261, Offering All Prayers for the Governor's Forgiveness

A monarch of a nation, bare-chested and tightly bound, knelt before Gu Hang, painstakingly confessing the nature of his crimes word by word.

Indeed, they were crimes.

Nes Luman had always known that simply binding himself and bringing Gu Ming to confess would be futile.

Was it true remorse?

No, it was due to being driven to desperation with no other recourse.

Even if he didn't come to confess, if he didn't make this gesture, the end result would be much the same.

Better to be thorough, then.

This was humiliating, less glorious than dying in battle within his palace. He had contemplated whether to leave behind a king who died on the battlefield for his country, for the Luman family, as a kind of resolution.

But he wasn't willing to settle for that.

Since he had inherited the throne more than twenty years ago, he vividly remembered taking the crown from his older brother at a time when the Luman family was most vulnerable, when he was merely fourteen years old.