The golden boat crossed the heavens, accompanied by the heavy snow and fierce winds of the northern lands.
And by Bi Xuanji's infinitely complicated journey of the heart.
Youdu drew nearer, and the gloom grew thicker.
Were they really going to pierce straight into the enemy's heart like a sharp knife?
She was not a vase, never had been. She had ravines within her breast, always had.
After Great Jin fell, as a member of its imperial clan, she had hidden herself in foreign lands. Her mission was to avenge old wrongs, and her way of revenge was to damage Great Yu however she could. She killed Great Yu envoys! She killed Great Yu princes! So long as an important figure from Great Yu arrived in the Great Cang Capital City, she would attempt an assassination!
For a time, she had thought herself something extraordinary amid the vast sea of humanity, because every move she made could shake the Great Yu high command.
But she had never imagined that one day, she would enter Great Yu's capital in such a manner.
She had never visited the Great Yu capital. To her, this was a land of shame!
Because her four elder sisters, dozens of aunts, and hundreds of Great Jin imperial consorts had been sold into the Jiaofangsi in this very land, enduring the greatest humiliation under heaven.
They were humiliated every day, and even now, that humiliation continued!
Perhaps their beauty had already faded.
Perhaps life no longer remained within them.
Perhaps their minds had been lost beneath the day-after-day torment.
Perhaps they had long since forgotten what the Former Great Jin Imperial Dynasty had looked like.
But Bi Xuanji still remembered.
The Dark Fragrance agents she had dispatched had investigated their whereabouts. Three of her four elder sisters