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In the Imperial Palace.
At that moment, there was utter chaos.
After calculating in his heart, King Zhao felt confident, convinced that he had everything in the palace under his control. Thus, he ordered Tie Zhenyi and others to remain at the entrance of the grand hall while he himself, accompanied by Ouyang Sha who was "both a father-in-law and a sworn brother," entered the grand hall.
As the doors of the grand hall closed, the eunuchs inside shouted, "Why haven't you paid your respects to His Majesty?"
At this code word, a secret door beside the hall suddenly flung open, and a group of simply dressed assassins, brandishing weapons, charged in from nowhere.
A rotten ship still has three pounds of nails; no matter how decayed the Dashang Dynasty was, no matter how unreliable the armored warriors under the Grand Tutor became, Ji Qin still had truly loyal desperados willing to die for the Emperor.
