Of course, to Meng Zhao, the proprietress of Lifeng Trading Company had another identity: she was Dragon City's mistress.
That was right—the very Dragon City whom Shen Tianci had once regarded highly, the one who had killed a Zhuo Family son by Mingxiu Lake.
Yan Xing, chief of the Wuzhu Gang in Lingwu City, had told Meng Zhao this information. At the time, this intelligence broker had informed Meng Zhao and the others of Dragon City's romantic exploits. Besides Widow Xie of Lifeng Trading Company, there were also the pair of daughters of General Huwei in Wei Prefecture, a woman of the Qin Family—a scholarly household for generations—in Yanzhou, Ding Yuqin of the Ding Family in Lingwu itself, and so on.
His luck with women was so flourishing that every man who heard the news at the time could not help but envy him.
Famous in his youth, highly skilled in martial arts, blessed with extraordinary potential, and with countless flower-like beauties who had pledged their lives to him—such a man was practically a living protagonist from a storybook novel.
Though Yan Xing had merely mentioned it in passing, Meng Zhao's memory was astonishing. He had kept it in mind until this very day.
"Lifeng Trading Company should be entirely managed and operated by Widow Xie. Did she really have the nerve to fund a Rebel Army, to rebel and overthrow the Imperial Court?"
Meng Zhao could not help muttering to himself. Whether among the common folk, the martial world, or even the court, this widow was held in no small esteem. She was a true portrait of an independent, self-reliant woman in this high-martial world.
Beyond her exceptional capabilities, this woman was equally decisive in her dealings with others and in declaring her stance.
Take the Jingshan Bandits, for