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"Let's talk in the next room," Fu Hanwen led the way out of the house.
Yang Tai gathered his thoughts and quickly followed.
In the adjacent room, with Fu Hanwen standing by the window with his hands clasped behind his back, Yang Tai approached and knelt on one knee behind him: "Lord Fu, Yang Tai is not a traitor. Please give Yang Tai a chance to prove his innocence."
The four of them had set out from the Northeast together. Now only he and Wang Xiangshan remained, and Wang Xiangshan had sustained serious injuries, barely surviving. Meanwhile, he had escaped unscathed by hiding in the mountains to avoid the assassins. He knew the suspicions against him were the strongest.
He had not known about the attack on Wang Xiangshan and the others until the Yuan Bao Brothers came to him, and only then did he realize he had nearly been branded a "traitor."