All sides couldn't help but look nervous, all with different reasons and variations of it.
Fan Cai was scared and nervous. For a while now, even though he was the instigator of today's proceedings, he didn't feel like it. It went away from him at some point and now he just felt like someone who got in way over his head.
Having experienced what he is feeling now he would still go through with it but that did not make it any easier.
He cast a pleading look at Yang Qing whilst also looking partly aggrieved.
I'm already struggling to maintain my sanity as it is, why are you throwing the limelight at me?
Screw it! Since things have already reached the point of no return I met as well ride this dragon even If it leads me to the abyss. If that old man can be crazy so can I," thought Fan Cai as he looked toward Meng Jiayi trying to raise his spirits.