Grace Yue's Silent Strength: The Pillar of Henry Yuan's Guar Chapter 276

After years of wandering and following Ethan Feng in conquering cities, Simon Yan had few things he could carry with him for long. The letters he exchanged with Zhu Lanting had long been burned. However, he had a photographic memory and remembered the contents of the letters word for word. Relying on his memory and the copy of the reply letter from Zhu Lanting that he had just received, he copied Zhu Lanting's letter on the yellowed old paper that Ethan Feng found for him.

If all these letters were delivered to the court, it would prove that Zhu Lanting had an affair with Simon Yan, secretly assisted the King of Chu in seizing the throne, and other crimes punishable by the death of all nine generations of his clan. Even if Emperor Zhaowu was unwilling to believe this alienation plot because of his close relationship with the emperor, he would indeed be redundant now that the Zhu family had a prince. Given his suspicious and unwise character, he would at least arrest and investigate Zhu Lanting, and the Zhu family would be in great trouble.

Simon Yan could imagine how furious Zhu Lanting would be when he received this letter. He had already lost Chen Yu's trust. If he lost the trust of the court again, the entire Zhu family would be doomed. As the head of the family, he had to make a choice, even though this choice might go against his wishes.

Zhu Lanting was an upright man and had helped him several times. He felt guilty, but there was no better way at the moment. Moreover, if Zhu Lanting surrendered, tens of thousands of casualties could be avoided.

On the eleventh day of the siege, Chen Yu attempted to launch a surprise attack on the weakly guarded west gate, but Ethan Feng promptly dispatched troops to resist him, preventing him from succeeding.