Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 448 - 255: Ten-Year Plan_2

Chapter 448: Chapter 255: Ten-Year Plan_2

After all, they both knew that the matter stank so much that they would have to carry an eternal infamy.

Thus, everything seemed to continue along the preplanned route.

...

December 29th.

At the Ministry of Justice Fengbo Pavilion, inside the prison.

Wei Shun’s life had changed dramatically these past few days.

Originally a prison guard here, he was diligent in his duties and loyal by nature.

Hearing that General Han Fuyue had made great achievements in the northern frontier, continuously reclaiming lost territories, Wei Shun was greatly exhilarated. He even went home each day and happily drank with a few close friends.

But then, the situation in the court suddenly worsened, and he became increasingly confused.

General Han Fuyue, who had achieved tremendous victories at the front, was summoned back to court and imprisoned within a few months.

The news from within the prison suggested that General Han Fuyue was constantly being framed. Although he wasn’t tortured, the intention of the traitorous party led by Li Hao to put him to death was crystal clear.

Wei Shun felt a suffocating rage that had nowhere to vent.

Why?

Why was His Majesty turning a blind eye to these traitorous scoundrels? Why did he harbor suspicions about General Han Fuyue, a pillar of the nation, for no apparent reason? Could the minor personal interests of these court officials really be more significant than the ancestral hatred against Jin?

Yet, he was just a low-ranking guard.

Even though he had cursed the traitorous party led by Li Hao ten thousand times in his heart, and even knowing that General Han Fuyue was imprisoned in the Fengbo Pavilion, what could a mere guard like him possibly do?

If history unfolded as it truly happened,

after General Han Fuyue was murdered, Wei Shun, risking execution, secretly exhumed and whisked away the general’s body from the prison to bury him properly outside the city.

Years later when General Han Fuyue’s innocence was posthumously reinstated, Wei Shun had already passed away. However, before dying, he had told his son everything, thus allowing General Han Fuyue’s remains to be properly relocated and buried by the bank of West Lake.

Without Wei Shun, General Han Fuyue’s remains might have been destroyed, leaving nothing to be enshrined in a tomb for future generations.

As a lowly guard taking such risks, Wei Shun could indeed be described as unmatched in loyalty and righteousness.

However, what Wei Shun did not anticipate was that none of this would happen.

Because a few days earlier, he was inexplicably promoted to the position of a prison officer.

This appointment, it was rumored, had been personally directed by the very Li Hao whom he had reviled countless times.

This move changed the way his colleagues looked at him.

There was flattery, and there was contempt.

Almost all his fellow prison workers thought he had colluded with Li Hao, becoming an accomplice in the murder of General Han Fuyue.

Wei Shun was puzzled since he had absolutely no acquaintanceship with the current Chief Minister Li Hao and often privately cursed Li Hao for betraying the country.

And today, as a prison officer, Wei Shun received orders to kill General Han Fuyue.

The Chief Minister Li Hao, a complete schemer, dismissed everyone and personally waited outside the prison to ensure that General Han Fuyue was dead before leaving.

No third party knew of the day’s events.

It was said afterward that in the prison, there remained an eight-character blood letter written by General Han Fuyue, "Heaven’s eyes are clear, Heaven’s eyes are clear!", while Li Hao left in triumph upon confirming General Han Fuyue’s death.

True to his experience, Wei Shun remained deeply secretive and soon resigned from his post, retreating to live quietly in the countryside.

Li Hao reported the matter to Emperor Gaozong of Qi, who was relieved by the news.

When news of General Han Fuyue’s death spread, the common people wept, while the ministers of Jin Country celebrated with wine, joyously tossing their hats.

Everything seemed to continue along the original historical trajectory.

Only, no one noticed that some minor details had shifted.

...

In an unassuming manor on the outskirts of the capital.

Li Hao, played by Chu Ge, traveled light, accompanied only by a servant who was most trusted and undisturbing, arriving at the manor’s gate and gently knocked thrice with a specific rhythm.

A moment later, the gate cracked open slightly.

Wei Shun looked around to ensure no one else was present and then welcomed in Chu Ge, who was playing Li Hao.

"Minister Li, please come in."

Meanwhile, the servant brought by Li Hao loyally waited outside the estate.

Inside the manor, Chu Ge finally came face to face again with the most significant historical figure in this slice of history, General Han Fuyue.

When players had previously watched the cinematic in the game, they took note.

Unlike the greatest historical slice of the Great Sheng Dynasty belonging to Emperor Taizu of Sheng, the greatest historical slice of the Qi Dynasty belongs to General Han Fuyue.

A farmer by birth, yet in a mere twenty years, he led the repeatedly defeated Qi Army to reclaim the Central Plains, establishing formidable renown and transforming an army that once crumbled at the slightest touch into the pinnacle of cold-weapon forces, one that "would rather freeze than dismantle a single house, would rather starve than plunder." The greatness of General Han Fuyue needs no further words.

At this moment, General Han Fuyue was sitting in the courtyard leafing through a book.

The scene made Chu Ge think back to another great general from many years ago, General Qin Kaiyun.

Perhaps, there are many similarities between them at this moment?

Upon seeing Chu Ge, who was playing Li Hao, General Han Fuyue stood up, "Minister Li."

Prior to this, had General Han Fuyue encountered Chu Ge playing as Li Hao, he might have only had two possible reactions.

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