After many years, Shang Nan's great clans once again experienced Fang Yan's thunderous methods.
The various families were caught completely off guard.
In the span of a single night, they were thrown into utter chaos.
If they had been given half a day to recover, they could have at least exchanged information and stalled for three to five days, never mind launching a counterattack. Unfortunately, Fang Yan gave them no time at all. They did not even learn that the man had returned until he had reached their gates. Faced with the threat of force pressed against their throats, their minds were a buzzing mess, leaving them no second choice.
They could, of course, stubbornly refuse to lend a single person.
Fang Yan sneered. "My sword has never been unsharp, nor has my medicine ever been nontoxic. Since you honorable gentlemen hold your own lives in contempt and do not cherish them, I, Fang, am willing to do you a favor this once and send you on your way to bliss!"
Fang Yan truly dared to kill.
He truly dared to poison people, too.
Had Gu Ren not subdued Fang Yan and kept him by his side as a physician all those years, he might well have become a second Zhang Yongqing.
The various families swallowed the bitter fruit with dark expressions.
"Tell me, is this really Old Sixth Fang's idea, or his new master's?" Several families with close ties gathered together to discuss countermeasures as soon as the incident occurred. "...Does that woman surnamed Shen really distrust us this much, afraid that we'll betray her if the two countries go to war?"
It was true that they would certainly stab her in the back if given the chance, but that was still something that had not happened. Coming to