Is “The manner and circumstances of Wang Yun's death.” true?

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The novel describes that after Li Jue and Guo Si attacked Chang'an, Wang Yun jumped from the Xuanping Gate tower, shouted his name, and was then killed by the two rebels below the tower (Chapter 9 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Wang Yun jumped down from the Xuanping Gate tower, shouting: 'Wang Yun is here!' ... The two rebels raised their hands and killed Wang Yun below the tower."). In the official history, it is only briefly recorded that Li Jue and others breached Chang'an, Wang Yun was killed, and his corpse was exposed in the market, with no mention of jumping from the tower or angrily rebuking the rebels face-to-face (Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biographies of Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Liu Yan: "Those who killed Zhuo, the corpse of Wang Yun was exposed in the market.").

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