Du Shu, Zi Yun, Yu Juechen.
Of the three, the power behind any one of them was enough to reverse the Imperial Family's flourishing momentum.
So, even if the Imperial Family did not want to accept their threats, it had to endure them!
And all these threats stemmed from a single person: Tang Yan!
The Crown Prince and Qing Xuan wore especially bitter expressions.
In an attic in the distance, the emperor's aged figure was also gazing at this little courtyard. From a horn-shaped jade artifact beside him, every sound in Tang Yan's courtyard came through, without a single word missing.
The emperor could not help shaking his head with a bitter smile. Here in the Imperial Palace, on the Imperial Family's own territory, the Imperial Family had been threatened into not daring to talk back!
Yet he felt little anger, only boundless emotion. Just how outstanding did someone's personal charm have to be to make this group of people, who ought to have been proud and unruly, follow that young man with such unwavering devotion?
The excellence of his followers only reflected all the more how rare a talent Tang Yan was.
Thinking also of what Tang Yan had accomplished over these past days, the emperor sighed and calmly instructed, "Keep an eye on them. Don't let any of our people clash with Tang Yan's camp.
"Cooperate with all their demands.
"Mobilize all of the Imperial Family's intelligence resources to investigate today's incident!"
"Yes." A brief, firm voice suddenly came from the shadows.
Inside Tang Yan's courtyard.
Qing Xuan commanded, "Young Master Tang has bent his back and exhausted himself in service to our Imperial Family, and Father has praised him as a pillar of the nation.
"If anything happens to Young Master Tang, it will be an immeasurable