Gu Lan and Rong Heng studied Yuan Lang back and forth for quite a while. In the end, Gu Lan still believed this wasn't witchcraft, but hypnosis; Rong Heng reluctantly agreed with her.
Yuan Lang finally sobered up a bit, looking at Yuan Lu, who was still unconscious on the ground, with eyes full of sorrow.
"He is your Imperial Uncle and once supported your Crown Prince Faction," Gu Lan stood up, tied Yuan Lu backward to the pillar in the room, and woke him with a splash of tea, "But now he wants to kill you. Don't you want to know why?"
"You all... are you the Heir of Duke Dingyuan!?" Yuan Lu awakened and, upon seeing Gu Lan's face, cried out hoarsely, "Were you behind the screen all along?"
He looked around the room before saying, "No wonder... I've calculated everything, yet I didn't know that this brothel in Yan Country is an asset of your Dingyuan Marquis Mansion."
Gu Lan: "Hey, don't wrong the innocent. The Magpie Workshop has nothing to do with this Princely Heir."
