On the surface, he appeared to be pleading on behalf of Young Master Qin Lan, but in reality, he was reporting to the Emperor, subtly implying that Qin Lan had behaved unseemly due to drunkenness.
Everyone present was cunning and calculating; how could they not grasp the underlying meaning?
To this, First Emperor Ying Zheng feigned ignorance. He never intervened in the internal power struggles between his sons. As a child of an aristocratic family, fighting for the throne was simply the natural order of things.
Chapter 76