“What is it this time? Do you need to be so flustered?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord asked as his brows creased together. He had seldom been involved with the Shadow Moon Palace’s affairs the past few years and most of it had been handed over to Elder Yue and Elder Ying. Now that he was taking over once again, although he was exhilarated, but wanting to get a complete grasp of everything still took quite a lot out of him.
“My Lord….. Elder Yue brought some men here, and they said that the matter concerns Chang Huan.”
“It’s Elder Yue again?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord furrowed his brows slightly. Elder Yue had been with the Shadow Moon Palace a longer time than he had. It could even be said that Elder Yue had watched him grow up and even after he became the Palace Lord, he was still highly respectful to Elder Yue. But he was no fool and he could naturally see that Elder Yue had repeatedly tried to pick on Jun Wu Xie.
With Jun Wu Xie, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord was highly satisfied with her. A youth that was highly gifted and unwaveringly loyal, which was just what the Shadow Moon Palace needed the most. Additionally, the Melted Snow Elixir that Jun Wu Xie presented to him had been extremely helpful to him and the Shadow Moon Palace Lord was very fond of this young disciple in his heart.
With Elder Yue trying to make things difficult for Jun Wu Xie, it had more or less made the Shadow Moon Palace Lord think it unsuitable.
“Alright, let them come in.” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord gave a wave of his hand, and then put the scroll he was holding aside.
Very soon, Elder Yue came striding into the palace hall, and at his side, with a pale and ashen looking Yue Ye, her clothes in a state of disarray.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord had been smiling, but when he saw the wrecked state that Yue Ye was in, the smile at the corners of his mouth immediately disappeared without a trace left.
“My Lord!” Elder Yue knelt down and howled.
Yue Ye then followed suit and knelt, trembling slightly.
And stepping into the palace hall right behind, Jun Wu Xie who was lined by a bunch of disciples watching over her then peacefully knelt in the middle of the hall.
“Elder Yue, what is going on here?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord asked, a tinge of impatience shrouding over his heart, as the situation before his eyes made him feel that something was wrong.
“My Lord! I beg for you to address this for Little Ye! Although Little Ye is not your subordinate’s biological granddaughter, but I have brought her up by my side from when she was still very young, and I treat her no differently than if she was of my blood. Your subordinate has always doted on Little Ye very much and had never thought that Little Ye would come to suffer such humiliation today. I implore for my Lord to right the wrong done upon Little Ye!” Without a word about anything else, Elder Yue had immediately howled for justice to be done for the aggrievement suffered before the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, the highly rueful and mournful cry in desperate plea, sounding very emotionally moving.
“What kind of humiliation did Little Ye suffer?” As expected, after the Shadow Moon Palace Lord heard that Yue Ye had suffered humiliation, his face had changed drastically, his eyes filling up with rage.
Elder Yue made a grand gesture of raising up a hand, to point it straight at Jun Wu Xie who was kneeling on one side of him, and his voice filled with raging hatred, he said: “It’s Chang Huan! Chang Huan took advantage of the fact that he enjoyed the favour my Lord bestowed upon him, and grew so arrogant that thinks everyone has to bow down to him, that he actually attempted to take liberties with Little Ye! If your subordinate had not managed to rush there in time, I’m afraid…..”
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Chapter 1828: “Flagrant Framing (4)”
“What did you say! ?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord glared with his eyes widened, his shocked gaze sweeping between Yue Ye and Jun Wu Xie.
“My Lord! Your subordinate has also been helpless against it! Chang Huan had prided himself to have won credit by presenting my Lord with the medicine and had been getting more brazen and wilful with his actions over the recent period. Your subordinate knows that he is highly valued by my Lord and the fact that he is also a disciple groomed by Elder Ying made me not dare to exert any control upon him. But today, as Little Ye thought to go thank Chang Huan on her elder brother’s behalf, no one could have expected that when she had just reached Chang Huan’s residence, Chang Huan had immediately lost his sensibilities and set his claws all over Little Ye, seeking to take liberties with her. It was fortunate that the disciple that escorted Little Ye there noticed that something was amiss and he was injured by Chang Huan when he stepped up to stop him. Your subordinate had then immediately rushed over upon hearing of the news.” Elder Yue harshly criticised Jun Wu Xie’s wilful impudence. And at the moment his voice dropped, a highly battered and badly bruised youth came walking into the palace hall to kneel down, timelily corroborating with Elder Yue’s words.
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze over to look at the youth kneeling there with his shining bruises and a chill rose inside her eyes. From the moment Yue Ye had come into her little courtyard till the time she was “invited” to come to the main palace hall, she had not ever met this disciple, but Elder Yue was forcibly pinning the responsibility for this person’s injuries, right onto her head.
In order to bring her down, Elder Yue had really gone to great lengths.
To have arranged everything so appropriately for every single crime she was being accused of.
“Reporting to my Lord….. your disciple wanted to stop Chang Huan, but was not a match for him at all, and hence had…..” The injured disciple was shaking as he knelt there on the floor, not daring to even raise up his head, looking like he had been overcome with terror from the beating that Jun Wu Xie had given him.
The words of that disciple had been filled with trembles and it was not merely due to him being too heavily injured, but it was also from fear.
A green vein throbbed violently on the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s forehead, his eyes imbued with rage as he stared at Jun Wu Xie kneeling in the palace hall.
Elder Yue’s words, the disciple’s words, and the pitiful state that Yue Ye was in all seemed to be pinning the crime dead set upon Jun Wu Xie, not giving her the slightest chance to retaliate in the slightest.
“Chang Huan, is what they are all saying true?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord asked through gritted teeth as he stared at Jun Wu Xie. If the incident today had fallen upon any other disciple, he would not have even asked a single word but would have immediately have the person executed.
But even then, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s rage was already clearly evident in his tone.
Jun Wu Xie raised her head slowly, her gaze calm as she looked at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord who was trying very hard to suppress his rage.
“What does my Lord think?” Jun Wu Xie queried instead of answering.
The expression on the face of the Shadow Moon Palace Lord then became uglier.
Was Chang Huan turning around and questioning him instead! ?
Elder Yue snickered inside his heart. If Jun Wu Xie was to weep and cry for mercy, pleading for a redress of the grievance he was suffering, it must be able to appease the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s rage a little. But with such direct and candid words being used, it was as good as her questioning the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s judgement, which would not only serve no effect in helping herself, but cause the fire in the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s heart to burn more intensely!
“Chang Huan! Even when you’re before the Palace Lord you still dare to be so impetuous! ? When the Palace Lord asks you a question, you will just need to answer it properly! Could you have forgotten your own identity? How dare you question the Palace Lord!” Elder Yue’s face was cold and hard as he berated Jun Wu Xie, his heart wishing that Jun Wu Xie would become even more audacious, to make the Shadow Moon Palace Lord completely vexed with him.
Jun Wu Xie could not even be bothered to look at Elder Yue at all but
just fixed her gaze upon the Shadow Moon Palace Lord and said in a tone that was neither servile nor hostile: “Is there even anything that I need to explain for? My Lord is both brilliant and wise and would naturally have your own judgement. For things that I have never done, I am of the belief that my Lord would declare me innocent.”
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Chapter 1829: “Flagrant Framing (5)”
Jun Wu Xie could not even be bothered to look at Elder Yue at all but just fixed her gaze upon the Shadow Moon Palace Lord and said in a tone that was neither servile nor hostile: “Is there even anything that I need to explain for? My Lord is both brilliant and wise and would naturally have your own judgement. For things that I have never done, I am of the belief that my Lord would declare me innocent.”
“…..” Elder Yue’s eyes flared wide to stare incredulously at Jun Wu Xie. Things have already reached such a stage and Jun Wu Xie could still say such words so calmly, which was truly beyond what he could have expected.
There was no rebuttal, and no rage. The wasn’t even the kind of indignant fury when one was being falsely accused and Jun Wu Xie was just merely showing her belief in the Shadow Moon Palace Lord in the most calm demeanor.
Elder Yue had thought Jun Wu Xie would dig her own grave but just that one statement had changed the situation completely.
Her calmness and the words she said to the Shadow Moon Palace Lord was imperceptibly telling the Shadow Moon Palace something.
It made the Shadow Moon Palace Lord have no choice but to do everything he could to calm himself down, to seriously reassess the veracity of the entire situation, and not allow himself to be led just by a bellyful of rage.
When faced with a disciple who possessed such high gift and had helped him greatly before to say such words relaying his strong trust, even if the Shadow Moon Palace Lord felt very much like exploding in rage, he would have to think hard about it first.
A disciple who had such a grave accusation pinned onto him was could still be so calm, the Palace Lord just could not help but start to think whether there could have been a misunderstanding within.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord drew in a deep breath and leaned back in his ruling seat, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the cold and indifferent Jun Wu Xie.
If he were to just carelessly declare Jun Wu Xie’s guilt, it would also bring harm upon the trust and authourity he commanded as the Melted Snow Elixir that Jun Wu Xie presented to him before had helped him greatly afterall, and that was no secret throughout the Shadow Moon Palace.
“Chang Huan, since you believe in my judgement and you feel that you are innocent, then shouldn’t you tell me of everything that happened in this incident completely? I am willing to believe in your character, but as so many people are willing to stand as witnesses and if you do not explain a thing or two, basing it just on my trust in you alone will not be able to convince the masses.” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord had taken a great deal of effort before he was willing to suppress the fiery rage he felt in his heart.
Yue Ye’s relationship with him, in the entire Shadow Moon Palace, only Elder Yue alone knew.
Even if the rage was raging in flames in his heart, he could not let it show too obviously.
The flames that had initially been poised to spread, was gradually quenched by just a few words from Jun Wu Xie. The rage that Elder Yue had sought to fan and incite in the Shadow Moon Palace Lord for him to execute Jun Wu Xie in the shortest time possible had gone down the drain.
And all of this, had long been within Jun Wu Xie’s control.
Elder Yue had wanted to use the feelings that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord held towards Yue Ye to frame her. But Elder Yue had forgotten just one point. And that was the guilty conscience and shame that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord felt!
As the Palace Lord of the Shadow Moon Palace, it was very normal that he would have a girl he likes. But when the target of his affections was a little girl that was just twelve years of age, that normality became a strange situation. Even when he was the Palace Lord, he would not dare to reveal his heart’s true desires or how would he be able to uphold his reputation?
The very thing that Elder Yue wanted to use against her, had coincidentally been reversed by Jun Wu Xie to retaliate against him.
And it was because of that layer of relations that made the Shadow Moon Palace Lord still hold certain misgivings despite the raging fury he felt, to have no choice but to look into it completely, before making a decision on it.
“I have never harmed Yue Ye. Yue Ye had indeed come to thank me, but what Elder Yue accused me of just now, I did not do it.” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord calmly. The Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s head had by this time cleared up, awoken from the blinding rage.
And now after this…..
It’s her turn to retaliate!
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Chapter 1830: “Retaliation (1)”
“Chang Huan, you’re still thinking to deny it? Don’t tell me that Little Ye’s clothes were torn by herself? And this person’s injuries were self inflicted? Do you really think that everyone here is blind and were not able to see what you did?” Elder Yue hurried to harp and push the matter further seeing that Jun Wu Xie was bringing stability into the situation.
Jun Wu Xie glanced at Elder Yue, laughing coldly to herself in her heart.
[Isn’t what he said all true?]
[Whether that disciple had inflicted his injuries on himself, she could not be certain, but, for Yue Ye’s clothes, wasn’t it ripped up by herself?]
[Thinking to falsely accuse her like this, you just wait!]
“My Lord, Yue Ye’s clothes were not ripped up by herself and it was not done by any of the disciples but was actually by Elder Yue.” Jun Wu Xie threw out that shocking statement all of a sudden.
“What?” With that, even the Shadow Moon Palace Lord was completely stunned.
[What is happening here?]
[Jun Wu Xie was actually claiming that Yue Ye’s clothes were ripped by Elder Yue?]
[Did he hear that correctly?]
Elder Yue’s face flushed a deep red with anger from Jun Wu Xie’s words as he raised a hand to point at Jun Wu Xie and shouted: “What kind of a atrocious lie is this little bastard here spouting! ? Little Ye is my granddaughter so how would I…..”
“Whether you will or not, you have already done it. And you cannot now just turn it around to pin it upon me head only because I stumbled upon you committing such a nefarious deed. Elder Yue, do you know how many people are clearly aware of the kind of things you secretly do in the Shadow Moon Palace? Have you really sincerely treated Yue Ye and Yue Yi as your granddaughter and grandson?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she stared coldly at Elder Yue.
[This time, he came to court his own death, and there was no one else for him to blame.]
“What nonsense are you saying! ?” Elder Yue’s heart was greatly startled. He had never thought that Jun Wu Xie would suddenly point up his unusual inclinations at a time like this.
Elder Yue’s pedophilia was no longer that much of a secret in the Shadow Moon Palace and not only the Palace Lord and the various Elders knew about it, but some of the disciples who had been in the Shadow Moon Palace for a longer period of time have also heard something about it as well.
In the beginning, the victims of Elder Yue’s oppression were all done under the cover of adoption and it was because of Yue Yi’s gifted talent that made Elder Yue reluctant to waste such a good pawn that he then simply turned and set his sight upon the younger disciples within the palace. All these disciples had lost their lives not too long after, unable to endure through Elder Yue’s evil claws. In the Shadow Moon Palace, young disciples often went missing and everyone turned a blind eye to these incidents and they did not dare to even bring it up at all.
But though unspoken of, everyone knew in the hearts just what it really was.
“I’m spouting nonsense? Elder Yue, I would like to ask you one thing. When I went
with Senior Yue Yi to the Pure Grace Palace, why were there so many hidden scars from old wounds on his body?” Jun Wu Xie asked with an eyebrow arched, revealing what she saw when she had treated Yue Yi’s injuries back in the Pure Grace Palace.
“Lies!” Elder Yue was feeling rather flustered.
Jun Wu Xie gave a cold laugh and then raised her head to look at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord.
“My Lord, in regards to Elder Yue’s inclinations and preferences, your disciple should not be commenting on it. But your disciple really just cannot bear to see Elder Yue bullying such a young and innocent little girl and I had not thought that a single moment of your disciple’s nosiness had instead led Elder Yue to exact revenge upon me in such a manner. My Lord can look into the truth of the matter carefully as your disciple’s conscience is clear.” In order to send someone to his doom, one did not need to spell everything out too clearly, but merely to plant the seed of suspicion, and then just wait for it to sprout and grow.
Elder Yue had never in his dreams ever thought that Jun Wu Xie could be so composed in thought, even in a situation that was so highly disadvantageous to her, that she would still able to turn things around to bite back into him, latching tightly right onto Elder Yue’s faults so hard that Elder Yue could not even say a thing in rebuttal.
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Chapter 1831: “Retaliation (2)”
And how could the Shadow Moon Palace Lord not know of Elder Yue’s private inclinations and perverse habits?
The matter with Yue Yi was true, and the Shadow Moon Palace Lord knew about it clearly. With that fact, Jun Wu Xie had turned this incident with Yue Ye right onto Elder Yue’s head, and the credibility of her accusation increased a whole fold!
This caused Elder Yue to be unable to refute it as though the matter with Yue Yi was known to the Palace Lord, even if he did not admit it, it would only make the Palace Lord grow more suspicious.
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