She unfolded it while staring at the messenger, asking: "Defeated?"
"Your Majesty, King of Hancheng… sacrificed himself for the nation!" The messenger choked on his words.
Bai Qingyan paused in her actions of unfolding the letter, her mind filled once again with the dream of that day, the scene outside the hall as King of Hancheng bowed in farewell.
The messenger who came to deliver the letter was almost sobbing: "King of Hancheng led a few warships to escort fishermen, not expecting Dongyi Kingdom to deploy so many warships to capture our Zhou envoys! Nor did they expect a real fight to break out! Who could imagine that a tiny Dongyi Kingdom would dare to strike our great Zhou!"
Her throat rolled, as a spicy anger surged up to her Baihui acupuncture point. She handed the bamboo tube to Wei Zhong, and carefully examined the parchment…
