The matter came too suddenly, so much so that Wang Zhanting did not take any measures before watching the power slip away from his grasp. He looked at the person in front of him with an untrusting gaze, while those who once followed him, offering advice or pretending to obey, had vanished without a trace.
Those loyal subordinates were either found guilty after investigation in just a few days or were transferred to other regions for some reason, ostensibly as a promotion but actually stripping the city's power. The seemingly valid reasons and the documents issued by the central government left Wang Zhanting speechless, without even an excuse to refute.
