"I just don't want to die in a foreign land. I thought that even if I had to crawl, I would crawl back to Great Zhou. It was with this determination that I finally returned.
"And just a few days ago, the remnants of the fallen Dayue pursued me all the way to the capital city, attempting to stop me from meeting my mother and from delivering messages to the Great Zhou Court.
"If that time in Huzhou you had no choice, then why, after that every time, were you never by my side?"
"But that battle in Huzhou was indeed crucial! If we had lost that time, there would be no Great Zhou now. Whether you and I could still be alive is also unknown!"
"I know it was crucial," Yang Yi looked at him through the lamplight, "so to win that battle, the key was to send me to the altar."
The words 'altar' were like two knives, stabbing straight into the Emperor's heart. He staggered back two steps, his body hunching down.
