"Then proceed," he said before walking away. It was then that Mingxia realised what sort of situation she was in. She couldn't accept that so she decided to confess everything then maybe she would be spared.
"Sect leader Qie, I did it for us. I did it for you! If he didn't leave we would be under siege. I just did what everyone was thinking.... he had to go. He had to go," she said and to her surprise, it worked. Qie Ranzhe stopped walking away. She attempted to crawl over to him to plead for mercy but Machu held her in place.
"What is our sect rule on those who commit treason?" asked Qie Ranzhe clenching his fist tightly.
Machu placed his index finger on his bottom lip as though thinking. It had been a long time since he went through the rule book and he normally recalled the interesting ones because he used them to scare Qie Xieling when he was naughty as a kid.
