Overnight, rumors about State Protector Deng Zheng murdering his own elder brother by pushing him off a cliff at the age of seven spread like wildfire.
Just days earlier, the bandit-suppression general who carried the hopes of the entire city had overnight become a universally reviled murderer. Combining this with recent events involving the Deng family, people whispered that when the beam at the top is crooked, the lower beams will follow suit.
Rumors even began to circulate that Deng Zheng wasn't even of Deng blood, having been swapped with another child at birth.
Chapter 102