Everyone was watching the announcement on the government office's podium, waiting to see who would come out to take the fall this time. Whether it was Butler Qian or someone else, their coming forward to take the blame or to bribe someone was on behalf of their masters, doing their bidding. Now that trouble had arisen, they were using a servant to take the fall.
Qian Changdong knew that Butler Qian absolutely could not admit to the crime. If he did, Mo Heng would target him next as the mastermind. The key to this affair was in Pei Wenli's hands, as long as Lady Chen's death was ruled a suicide, Butler Qian, even if having ordered a follow, was not silencing a witness!
Seeing the look in his master's eyes, Butler Qian cried out that Lady Chen's death was either a suicide or someone else's attempt to smear him, and thereby taint the master and young mistress's son-in-law.
