Zhulan waited until her eldest had left, her heart steadfast yet she still stood and paced back and forth. The Crown Prince had been searching for secret passages everywhere these past few days, and the sudden sealing of the city gates indicated that a passage had been found and was now under control.
There must be quite a few hidden forces lurking in the capital, and now it was time to "close the doors and beat the dogs."
The potential of people faced with death is immense, and those shadowy figures are among the most desperate—caught meant death, so why not fight back? Hence, the district of the Zhou family was the prime candidate to bear the brunt.