1064 sections, fight to the end

Sometimes the answer is written all over the face; there's no need to say it out loud.

The panic on Sakata Yokio's face indicated that Lai Liu's guess was not wrong.

Shen Yue had already made a judgment about the ending in his heart—he had seen too many stories like this, where people conspired together and then split due to an uneven distribution of the spoils.

Sakata Yokio had won Fujiwara Norika's favor, and his path in life henceforth seemed bright. Many people were like that—longing to possess when they have nothing, and after they possess, feeling ashamed for using unscrupulous means to acquire it.

This is why "whitewashing" emerged. Some people successfully whitewashed themselves, claiming they were always pure and never tainted, but some fell on the road to whitewashing!