A Matter

After Chen Changsheng said those two words, it was naturally impossible for the reading of the decree to continue.

Eunuch Lin calmly gazed at him, asking, "Do you think I won't dare kill you?"

Chen Changsheng replied, "Three days after the new emperor took the throne, he sent someone to kill the future Pope. Such a deed will go down in history."

Eunuch Lin still calmly gazed at him, speaking in a composed voice. "You are His Majesty's cherished junior, and you also have many supporters in the Orthodoxy. Just as you said, if I really do kill you, His Majesty will be aggrieved and the capital in chaos. In order to pacify the situation, to give an explanation to history, presumably I will also be ordered to commit suicide."

Chen Changsheng replied, "But you will still kill me."