"Of all my various crimes, invented and real. Lan Zhan would be able to tell you more of them; the ones I knew of were... largely ones of being accused of casting curses, of being overly cruel in self defense, and in not meekly handing over the Tiger Seal to the Jins when they demanded. For not allowing the Wens to be killed in that labour camp."

For having taken them away, and for laying low and destitute, for having done nothing to harm others until he was targeted, harmed, himself. For not being able to keep Wen Ning from outside manipulation... but oh, they assigned him others, and he wasn't innocent of having lost control that second time in Nightless City, but he was not the one who had killed there, either.

Jin Guangyao had so many, many longstanding crimes to answer for, but death, and Nie Mingjue's resentful spirit, had already seen to it.