Emperor Yan and Han Huang were having quite a headache.
Lu Fan was a very serious problem that they did not know how to handle.
The rules could not bind him and it had become apparent that he did not fear their military force.
I mean, the guy had the nerve to threaten the government, and he did so casually as if he was talking about the weather. Who does that?
Emperor Yan might have not been present, but he heard the whole thing on the record. Han Huang had recorded the meeting and he had played it for the emperor.
It was not that he was so loyal that he was acting as a spy for the Emperor, but he was showing the emperor the true nature of their relationship.
Han Huang had seen how careful the Emperor had started being and he knew that he had to come clean before the emperor's imagination started running wild.
And with the Dowager giving him pillow talks at night, who knew what crazy shit the Yan family might pull.