Rewind time to a quarter of an hour ago, right when the explosion and fire suddenly broke out at the Shang Family.
Before this, Shang Xuanwen had already split his team, dispatching the Commander-in-Chief Chen Zaiyuan with the Jinwu Guard to the Armory to extinguish the fire, while he himself led people to the Imperial Palace to check the situation. Now that the Shang Family was in trouble, after a momentary hesitation, Shang Xuanwen chose to return to the Shang Family first — apart from him as the Chancellor, many others would head to the Imperial Palace to protect it, but the Shang Family had only him as the Patriarch for protection.
