Wang Yuan immediately staggered forward a few steps, and even with soldiers pulling her back, she still fell to her knees.
Zhang Tieguai stared coldly and ruthlessly at Wang Yuan, raised his hand to cock the gun, and was about to fire.
"Stop!" A man outside the courtyard shouted, halting Zhang Tieguai's actions.
Everyone in the courtyard turned around. The man strode up to Wang Yuan, pushed away the soldiers who were holding her, gently stroked her disheveled hair with a tender expression, and helped her up.
Han Qingmo frowned upon seeing his actions, her sharp eyes immediately darkening as intense dissatisfaction rose within her.
Zhang Tieguai immediately shouted, "Nephew, are you still protecting her? She killed your father. How can you do this to your father?"
The only person he could call his nephew was Zhu Yan, who was Zhu Boyan's only son.
Zhu Yan didn't speak, but looked at Wang Yuan with pity.
Seeing this, Shi Lan smiled coldly, but thought to herself, "Who knows who might have killed his father?"
Zhu Boyan was controlling and extremely competitive. Unfortunately, Zhu Yan was disappointing. He managed to lead an army independently but was defeated and forced to retreat in a sorry state. Coupled with the Wang Yuan incident, Zhu Boyan was very dissatisfied with Zhu Yan. If he didn't only have this one son, he would probably have considered changing his heir.
Zhu Yan wasn't stupid; he must have sensed something from Zhu Boyan's words, which is why he took advantage of Wang Yuan's desire to rise in rank and orchestrated this whole thing.
Shi Lan simply wanted to follow the original path; the only difference was that she didn't want to be blamed and directly shifted the blame to the source.
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