Everyone present was terrified by the sudden turn of events!
"Mother!!!"
Only the child's heart-rending cries from outside the door snapped everyone out of their shock and fear!
Xia Wanwan even used Teleportation to reach her mother's side, staring at the fist-sized, scorched hole in Liu Wan's chest.
Her expression went numb, her entire body so rigid that she felt like a walking corpse.
How could this happen?
She had only arrived a little late. How had things turned out like this?
"Wan'er!"
"Mother!"
"Princess Consort!"
The cries rang out almost simultaneously. Countless people in the hall broke down at once, rushing over and dropping to their knees beside Liu Wan.
People crowded around the injured woman.
They kept pushing Shen Chuanlian, who stood frozen in place, farther out.
Despair and suffocation swept over him, wrapping him so tightly that he could not move. His mind went completely blank.
Only one thought filled his head. It's over!
Liu Wan is finished!
I'm finished too!!!
What will Liu Zimu do? What will Xia Siheng do? What will Xia Wanwan do?
And all the Clan Elders, relatives, parents, and brothers filling this hall!
What will they do?
Large tears rolled down his face, pattering onto the floor. Shen Chuanlian did not even have time to wipe them away as he struggled to move, trying to squeeze into the crowd.
But before he could see Liu Wan's condition, a boy rose and shoved him away hard!
Caught completely off guard, he fell to the floor with a heavy thud!
Gu Ming helped him up, crying. Only then, through his tear-blurred eyes, did he look up and see that the person who had pushed him was Liu Zimu!
"Shen Chuanlian, don't touch my mother! You killed her!" Liu Zimu's eyes widened with fury, his