Recaps

Shen Tang questioned Zhang He about the Gu Worm plagues and learned that he claimed to have left the experiments before they caused the outbreaks, while Gongxi Chou warned him not to investigate the Gongxi Clan further. Shen Tang negotiated to buy medicinal herbs from Zhang He, who set an exorbitant price, and she ended the chapter wondering about the clan’s connection to ancient Wu State after Gu Chi asked who had founded it.

• Gongxi Chou accused Zhang He of complicity in the Gongxi Clan’s destruction and warned him against probing the clan’s secrets, while Zhang He denied causing the Gu Worm plagues.
• Zhang He explained that he had opposed using commoners as Gu Mother hosts, fled an assassination attempt, and later treated Lingzhou’s plague partly to restore his reputation.
• Shen Tang asked Zhang He to sell her medicinal herbs for Heyin, and he named a price that left her feeling robbed.
• Gongxi Chou left to search for the Gongxi Clan’s Sacred Object, which Shen Tang described to Gu Chi as a coffin.
• Shen Tang and Gu Chi dismissed the idea that she was the body buried in the coffin, then Gu Chi asked about Wu State’s founder and the royal family’s clan emblem.

Shen Tang and Gu Chi traced the Gongxi Clan’s connection to the fallen Wu State, while Zhang He agreed to trade medicinal herbs for Heyin’s spirit liquor and secretly ordered Shao Chong eliminated. At a farewell banquet, Gongxi Chou revealed the origins of his clan’s Sacred Object, and Shen Tang realized its buried coffin might still contain a preserved corpse.

• Gu Chi explained why the Gongxi Clan might be connected to the Wu State’s royal line, and Shen Tang concluded that the connection had helped doom the clan.
• Gu Chi suggested bartering spirit liquor for medicinal herbs, and Shen Tang sent Zhang He a proposal that evening.
• Zhang He accepted the trade to use it as a chance to improve relations with Yiru’s Lineages, then ordered his adviser to quietly deal with Shao Chong and discussed using Gongxi Chou against Geng Country.
• Shen Tang held a farewell banquet for Gongxi Chou and asked why he was searching for the clan’s Sacred Object.
• Gongxi Chou said an immortal benefactor had entrusted his ancestors with the coffin and promised to return, and he revealed that the Wu State’s founder had been a clan traitor who stole the Gu books.
• Shen Tang learned the coffin had been buried for over two hundred years and questioned how the corpse inside could still be fresh, while Gongxi Chou insisted the Sacred Object could preserve it.

Shen Tang realized her identity might belong to the Gongxi Clan’s centuries-old Sacred Object, then left Gongxi Chou behind after their drunken farewell. On the road, Gu Chi explained how Zhang Yongqing and Wu Zhaode had used them to strengthen their positions among powerful families, and Shen Tang wondered whether she had any clans left to challenge.

• Shen Tang connected the clues and feared that the identity she was wearing belonged to the Gongxi Clan’s resurrected Sacred Object, but she kept her suspicions from Gongxi Chou.
• Gongxi Chou and Shen Tang drank and wept together while Gu Chi and the others watched; Gu Chi reflected on how Shen Tang and her followers might change over time.
• Gongxi Chou woke at the inn and learned Shen Tang had left, then decided she had departed early to spare him a painful goodbye.
• Shen Tang admitted she had rushed away to avoid Gongxi Chou catching up and confronting her after she dragged him back to the inn.
• Gu Chi explained that Zhang Yongqing had used the spirit-wine and medicinal-herb deal to build ties with Lingzhou’s powerful families, just as Wu Zhaode had gained advantages through similar dealings.
• Shen Tang considered whether to imitate their political maneuvering, but noted she had already stripped Heyin’s prominent families of their estates.

Shen Tang and Gu Chi debated how a ruler should balance competing factions, and Shen Tang argued for expanding opportunities and resolving disputes openly rather than suppressing loyal ministers. Back in Fugu City, Xianyu Jian learned Shen Tang’s identity and was unexpectedly put to work farming before he stayed to train with Gongshu Wu.

• Gu Chi questioned Shen Tang about balance between rulers and subjects, and she argued that rulers should create more positions, judge people by ability, and mediate conflicts instead of suppressing factions.
• Shen Tang told Gu Chi that she would never use Heart Peeking’s countermeasure on him, and Gu Chi silenced her after she teased him about being moved.
• Shen Tang and Gu Chi returned to Fugu City with Xianyu Jian, who learned that Shen Tang was the lord he had been recruited to meet.
• Gongshu Wu took Xianyu Jian to the fields, where Zhao Feng recruited him to help puppet soldiers and other troops farm.
• Xianyu Jian stayed in Fugu and trained at dawn, and Gongshu Wu challenged him to a spar.

A charcoal seller traveling through Heyin encountered prosperous fields, generous villagers, and policies credited to Lord Shen, leaving him considering moving there. At the market, he misunderstood a bamboo tally for payment and learned that outsiders were treated differently from locals.

• A teahouse helper gave the exhausted charcoal seller warm water, food, and directions, then helped water his old mule.
• The charcoal seller saw Heyin’s smooth roads and abundant millet fields, where tenant farmers praised Lord Shen and offered him sandals.
• A villager hosted the charcoal seller overnight and explained Heyin’s boiled-water rules, charcoal-buying program, and rewards for cats that caught mice.
• The charcoal seller traveled on through welcoming villages, where people fed his mule because they admired Lord Shen’s white mule, Motorcycle.
• At the market, the charcoal seller grabbed a customer who tried to pay with a bamboo tally, and a clerk explained that tallies could not be used to pay outsiders.
• A neighboring vendor reassured the charcoal seller that outsiders often faced confusing market customs and would learn them over time.

As Heyin’s millet ripened early and abundantly, Shen Tang recalled Gu Chi to help manage the autumn harvest and began planning ways to improve food security. The chapter ends as Shen Tang prepares to begin the Autumn Equinox sacrifice.

• Gu Chi returned to Fugu and learned that the early millet harvest had overwhelmed the commandery office, so Shen Tang assigned him harvest work.
• Shen Tang discussed the shortage of grain and proposed expanding wheat cultivation, asking Xu Wenzhu to find suitable seeds.
• Shen Tang inspected her papermaking workshop and told Gu Chi she planned to publish an art book.
• Shen Tang gathered her officials for the Autumn Equinox sacrifice and prepared to offer thanks before harvesting the first sheaf of millet.
• Shen Tang brought Zhao Feng and the others back to Heyin to help with the harvest.

Shen Tang led a harvest ceremony and oversaw the weighing of the millet, which yielded far more than anyone expected and gave the people of Heyin hope for a comfortable year. As she prepared to share the grain with her companions, everyone began bleeding from the nose and Heaven-and-Earth qi surged.

• Shen Tang offered prayers over the grain while the people of Heyin prayed for a good harvest.
• Shen Tang and the others harvested millet as clerks recorded and weighed the yields.
• The measured fields produced around four shi per mu, while fields outside Fugu City yielded roughly three shi per mu, prompting the commoners to cheer and weep with joy.
• Kang Shi reminded Shen Tang that Heyin still owed provisions to the Alliance Army, and Shen Tang said she would repay them once the granaries were full.
• Shen Tang decided to share the harvested millet with Qi Shan, Chu Yao, Gongshu Wu, Zhao Feng, and the others, but everyone suddenly got nosebleeds as Heaven-and-Earth qi surged.

Lin Feng formed her Literary Heart after drawing golden lights from the sacrificial fields and crossing a bridge of visions toward a distant palace marked Agriculture. She celebrated her success with Shen Tang, while the others wondered what rank her Literary Heart would be.

• Lin Feng began forming her Literary Heart, and Bai Su recognized the breakthrough as the others gathered to watch.
• Shen Tang saw golden lights rise from the fields and converge on Lin Feng, while Lin Feng heard a voice and entered a vision of a palace marked Agriculture.
• Lin Feng crossed visions of abundance, famine, and war before a fierce wind returned her to the sacrificial fields.
• Lin Feng realized that a Literary Heart had formed in her Dantian and tearfully celebrated her success with Shen Tang.
• Qi Shan, Chu Yao, and Kang Shi speculated about Lin Feng's Literary Heart rank.

Lin Feng formed a Second Rank Upper-Middle Literary Heart, which Qi Shan disguised as Ninth Rank Lower-Lower, and described seeing a mysterious hall that might be connected to an Agricultural Academy. After Shen Tang and her staff discussed literary and martial cultivation, the autumn harvest finished quickly, and Xu Xie arrived while Shen Tang was working in a foul-smelling workshop.

• Lin Feng formed a Second Rank Upper-Middle Literary Heart, and Shen Tang praised her achievement.
• Qi Shan warned that Lin Feng's rank could attract danger, so Shen Tang asked him to disguise it as Ninth Rank Lower-Lower.
• Lin Feng told Chu Yao about a towering hall marked with the character for Agriculture, and the group wondered whether it was a Literary Heart Palace or an Agricultural Academy.
• Shen Tang learned that Martial Gall Warriors had a Martial Gall Hall, then argued with her staff after realizing they had forgotten she cultivated both civil and martial arts.
• Zhao Feng and the Martial Gall Warriors helped finish Heyin Commandery's autumn harvest in five or six days, and Shen Tang ate millet porridge made from the harvest.
• Xu Xie arrived at Shen Tang's workshop, where the smell drove him outside before Shen Tang came out to greet him.

Shen Tang told Xu Xie about her plans to make paper and build irrigation works to support wheat farming, while Xu Xie brought her wheat seeds and struggled to grasp the scale of her ambitions. He then warned her that Zheng Qiao’s forces were driving more than two hundred thousand starving rebels toward King Zhi, leaving Shen Tang furious.

• Shen Tang explained that she was making paper from bamboo and other materials because she needed hundreds of thousands of sheets for her planned books.
• Xu Xie delivered wheat seeds and learned Shen Tang planned to build a reservoir and irrigation system with Martial Gall Warriors and Literary Scholars rather than corvée labor.
• Xu Xie warned Shen Tang that Zheng Qiao’s generals were pushing rebels from Gan and Yan Provinces toward King Zhi’s territory in Kunzhou.
• Xu Xie estimated that more than two hundred thousand starving commoners were being driven toward Kunzhou, and Shen Tang smashed the table in anger.

Shen Tang learned that more than two hundred thousand displaced people and bandits were being driven toward Kunzhou, along a route dangerously close to Heyin. She and her advisers discussed how to prepare and seek help, and the chapter ended with a request for aid arriving sooner than expected.

• Xu Xie warned Shen Tang that over two hundred thousand starving refugees and bandits had been driven out of Ganzhou and might reach Heyin in a little over a month.
• Shen Tang summoned Qi Shan and her other advisers, who weighed redirecting the refugees, borrowing troops, and preparing Heyin for an attack.
• Kang Shi estimated that only thirty to fifty thousand might reach Heyin, while Chu Yao warned that looting along the route could swell their numbers as local people joined them.
• Chu Yao mapped the refugees' likely route through territories of Shen Tang's former allies and predicted those allies would request help.
• Shen Tang's group began preparing defenses and seeking cooperation with other powers, and a request for help arrived sooner than expected.

Shen Tang learned that refugees and bandits had overrun towns in Luxia Prefecture and were besieging Lord Lu with a force that included more than a thousand elite soldiers. She agreed to help but asked the messenger to wait two days while she sought reinforcements from Tianhai, Shang Nan, and Yiru.

• Shen Tang rejected the people’s food and clothing donations and confirmed that Heyin’s former bandit strongholds could shelter them if needed.
• A messenger arrived with Lord Lu’s plea for help after refugees and bandits captured towns and surrounded Luxia Prefecture.
• Bai Su and Xianyu Jian captured the messenger after he fought Bai Su in the mountains, then brought him to Shen Tang.
• The messenger told Shen Tang that the enemy included an Eighth-Rank Gongcheng and more than a thousand Second-Class Shangzao soldiers.
• Shen Tang agreed that she could not leave Lord Lu unaided, but asked the messenger to wait no more than two days while she awaited replies to requests for troops from Tianhai, Shang Nan, and Yiru.

Shen Tang promised to send troops to help Lu repel the tens of thousands of refugees and bandits in Luxia, while her allies debated who should lead the expedition and who would defend Heyin. The chapter ended with Wu Xian receiving Shen Tang’s letter and wondering whether she was an idiot.

• Shen Tang assured the messenger from Luxia that she would send troops, and he accepted her offer with gratitude.
• The messenger watched Tu Rong defeat a grown soldier, then met Lin Feng and learned that Luxia faced tens of thousands of bandits and refugees.
• Lin Feng delivered the military budget documents to Gongshu Wu, while Zhao Feng wondered whether he would join the expedition and who would guard Heyin.
• Gongshu Wu proposed leaving a contingent from the Tianhai Sect to defend Heyin while he and Zhao Feng went to Luxia.
• Wu Xian read Shen Tang’s letter and asked Qin Li whether Shen Youli could be an idiot.

Wu Xian agreed to send troops to help Shen Tang guard Heyin, and Gu Ren and Zhang He sent reinforcements as well. Shen Tang gathered the three contingents for a banquet, then revealed that only about 2,500 of her own troops would join their 7,500 elite soldiers in reinforcing Luxia Prefecture, leaving the three families to provide most of Heyin’s defense.

• Qin Li warned Wu Xian that Shen Tang’s request to guard Heyin was a public ploy that would force him to protect the commandery or risk his reputation.
• Wu Xian agreed to help Shen Tang and appointed Qin Li to command the troops, while Gu Ren and Zhang He also sent contingents after receiving the same request.
• Chao Lian, Shao Chong, and their sixth brother arrived with Gu Ren’s forces, and the three contingents gathered in Heyin alongside Qin Li’s troops.
• At Shen Tang’s welcoming feast, Qin Li considered asking her to cover the troops’ expenses, but Shao Chong offered to share the provisions he had brought.
• Shen Tang announced that more than ten thousand elite troops would reinforce Luxia Prefecture, and the three families realized that their 7,500 troops would do most of the fighting and leave them responsible for defending Heyin.

Shen Tang led an eleven-thousand-five-hundred-strong coalition toward Luxia Commandery after arranging for the other factions’ troops to defend Heyin and help with public works. She reached a devastated Luxia Prefecture as its seat neared collapse, while a bandit force prepared to attack the coalition.

• Shen Tang tactfully raised the issue of supplying provisions, then arranged a force of three thousand five hundred to march to Luxia while Qi Shan and Gu Chi stayed behind in Heyin.
• Shen Tang instructed Qi Shan and Gu Chi to persuade the allied forces left in Heyin to help build waterways and reservoirs in exchange for spiritual wine.
• Shen Tang became provisional commander of the eleven thousand five hundred allied troops, and they marched toward Luxia Commandery.
• The bandit chief, believing the coalition was weak and outnumbered, sent a hardcase with thirty thousand men to meet them while preparing to assault the commandery seat.
• Shen Tang’s army reached Luxia Prefecture and found it burned and devastated; the messenger feared for his relatives inside the still-standing but endangered city.

Shen Tang questioned whether the refugees branded as bandits were driven to rebellion by Zheng Qiao’s tyranny, while Chu Yao urged her to defeat them before she could help them. After the army discovered the enemy had trained scouts, the bandits surrounded them, and the four allied forces prepared to fight on separate fronts.

• Shen Tang told Chu Yao she sympathized with the refugees and blamed corrupt nobles and Zheng Qiao’s rule for driving them from their land, but Chu Yao reminded her that armed attackers were still enemies.
• Shao Chong brought down a hawk that Chu Yao suspected was a scout, and the strategists concluded the bandit force had trained personnel and hidden resources.
• Chu Yao and Gongshu Wu rallied the allied army, and Shen Tang assigned each of the four families a separate side to defend when the bandits surrounded them at dusk.
• The allied forces clashed with the bandits, and two swift swordsmen cut through the enemy’s front ranks before Kang Shi spread a battlefield chessboard and Chu Yao began a Word Spirit.

Shen Tang’s forces fought the bandits while Chu Yao, Kang Shi, and Xianyu Jian used their abilities to support the battle. Back in Heyin, Qi Shan argued with Qin Li over whether Qin’s soldiers should help build waterways and reservoirs.

• Chu Yao weakened the enemy with ominous literary qi, while Gongshu Wu and Zhao Feng charged through the enemy ranks under the Five Virtues of the General.
• Kang Shi ordered Xianyu Jian to lead troops into the formation as Chu Yao’s snow-like Word Spirit spread despair across the battlefield.
• Bai Su and Lü Jue fought through the enemy ranks, while Shen Tang targeted the scar-faced bandit leader and mocked him as a filial son.
• Qi Shan summoned Qin Li and asked him to lend his soldiers for waterway and reservoir construction, but Qin Li rejected the demand.
• Qi Shan argued that the projects would benefit both Heyin and Tianhai and told Qin Li that pride meant nothing to the starving.

Qi Shan clashed with Qin Li over whether Martial Gall Warriors should help commoners farm, accusing Qin Li of ignoring the suffering that had helped destroy his homeland. After leaving Qin Li furious, Qi Shan met Gu Chi and prepared to seek help from Shang Nan and Yiru.

• Qin Li refused to lend Qi Shan his people, arguing that Martial Gall Warriors farming would undermine commoners and destabilize society.
• Qi Shan challenged Qin Li's assumptions by recounting the royal court's abuses and the suffering of commoners in Qin Li's fallen homeland.
• Qi Shan accused Qin Li of complicity in the deaths of commoners, then left after making Qin Li cough up blood.
• Gu Chi met Qi Shan outside and said he had come to collect his corpse, then reported that Qin Li was in a terrible mood.
• Qi Shan insisted he could persuade Shang Nan and Yiru after Gu Chi questioned whether he could handle the task.

Qi Shan sought Yiru’s support for Heyin’s labor plans while Qin Li unexpectedly agreed to lend Tianhai’s manpower. Gu Chi explained the potential benefits and risks of using Martial Gall Warriors for agricultural labor, leaving Qin Li considering how the system might work and be kept in check.

• Gu Chi explained why Yiru would be the easiest faction to persuade and questioned Qi Shan about his grudge against Qin Li.
• Qi Shan visited the Yiru camp, while Qin Li arrived at the government offices looking for him.
• Qin Li told Gu Chi that Tianhai agreed to provide manpower for Heyin’s waterways and reservoirs, then asked about the consequences of the plan.
• Gu Chi argued that Martial Gall Warriors could reduce corvée labor and make grain plentiful, while Qin Li raised concerns about powerful clans controlling land and warriors challenging the state.
• Gu Chi said rulers could develop ways to restrain Martial Gall Warriors and argued that prosperous warriors would have little reason to rebel.

Qin Li weighed the risks of Shen Jun’s reforms, while Gu Chi defended their urgent benefits to Heyin and later learned more about Qi Shan’s past with Qin Li. During a battle against bandits, the four families encountered eerie Heavy Shield Warriors, and Chu Yao and Xianyu Jian began countering them as Shao Chong lost control and attacked the enemy.

• Qin Li warned Gu Chi that Shen Jun’s reforms could threaten powerful interests, though he acknowledged their benefits to Heyin’s commoners.
• Gu Chi and Qin Li discussed labor, reservoirs, and irrigation before Qi Shan returned and revealed that he had served the hostile faction that conquered Qin Li’s homeland after Qin Li’s late lord died.
• Shen Tang and the three Tianhai families fought off a bandit ambush until the scar-faced bandit deployed five hundred seemingly numb, pain-insensitive Heavy Shield Warriors.
• Chu Yao discovered that his Word Spirit had no effect on the Heavy Shield Warriors and sent a literary-energy crow to investigate, but they destroyed it.
• Shao Chong was stirred into a violent episode and charged into the bandit ranks, slaughtering enemies while retaining enough reason to spare his own troops.
• Chu Yao ordered Xianyu Jian to coordinate an attack, using Landslide and Collapse to bog down the Heavy Shield Warriors while the Martial Qi Soldiers’ shields began to corrode.

Shen Tang’s forces defeated the bandit army after Chu Yao’s Literary Qi tactics broke through its Heavy Shield Warriors, then halted to recover before continuing toward the Lu Xia Commandery Seat. They arrived to find the battered city still holding, while questions remained about the enemy’s strange warriors and Literary Scholar.

• Chu Yao used [The Plum Replaces the Peach] and [When They Are Exhausted, We Are Abundant] to turn the Heavy Shield Warriors’ weakening against them, helping the allied troops win the battle.
• Shen Tang killed the scar-faced bandit chief, and the allied forces let the remaining enemy troops retreat before clearing the battlefield.
• Shen Tang helped Shao Chong suppress his Gu Mother after he said the Heavy Shield Warriors’ shouting had triggered its agitation.
• The four houses rested and recovered instead of immediately advancing, while Kang Shi warned that the enemy’s Literary Scholar might be planning something.
• Shen Tang and the other commanders led their forces to the Lu Xia Commandery Seat and found its damaged walls and gates still defended beneath a standing flag.

Shen Tang and reinforcements from four prefectures reached Luxia after the city survived a fierce siege, but the Prefect of Luxia’s strange behavior made her suspect a hidden threat. At the banquet, she tested him and watched his deputy governor, leaving her wary as she asked the man’s name.

• Shou Xing announced that reinforcements from Heyin, Tianhai, Shang Nan, and Yiru had arrived, and the Prefect of Luxia came out to meet them.
• The Prefect of Luxia greeted Shen Tang coldly, then invited her troops into the city after his aide rebuked him for his discourtesy.
• Shen Tang saw the bodies and damage left by the battle, then ordered Bai Su to check the soldiers’ food and warned the other houses to stay vigilant.
• At the banquet, Shen Tang described a fabricated strategist to test the Prefect of Luxia; he denied knowing anyone matching the description.
• Shen Tang noticed that Luxia’s deputy governor did not fit the Prefect’s stated preferences, alerted Chu Yao and Zhao Feng, and asked the man his name.

At the welcoming banquet, Shen Tang discovered that Prefect Lu’s commandery seat had fallen and that the apparent allies had walked into a trap. As the ambush erupted, Prefect Lu stayed behind to hold off the attackers while Shen Tang led the others toward the main force to retake Lu Xia Commandery Seat.

• Shen Tang questioned Jiang Sheng and teased Prefect Lu during the banquet, then prepared to perform for the guests.
• Bai Su burst into the hall carrying Prefect Lu’s wounded daughter and warned that Lu Xia Commandery Seat had fallen after its people were massacred.
• Armed attackers surrounded the hall as fires broke out, and Prefect Lu killed a subordinate he suspected of colluding with the enemy.
• Shen Tang and her companions fought through the ambush, while Prefect Lu furiously accused Jiang Sheng of betrayal.
• Shen Tang used Steal the Peach to pull Prefect Lu away from the attackers and urged him to regroup with the main force.
• Prefect Lu sent Shen Tang and the others ahead, then stayed behind to fight the attackers as Jiang Sheng left for the true battlefield.

Shen Tang’s forces repelled a fire-bull attack with Kang Shi’s [Water Drowns Seven Armies], then drove the enemy into retreat. Shen Tang found the dying Prefect Lu, who learned that the city was safe and heard his daughter call to him before he died.

• Shao Chong’s camp repelled an ambush while Kang Shi and the other groups prepared to face the approaching fire-bull formation.
• Kang Shi combined the Literary Qi of the four groups’ scholars and the strength of their soldiers to unleash [Water Drowns Seven Armies], drowning the fire bulls and scattering the enemy.
• Jiang Sheng rescued many people in Literary Qi boats, and Shen Tang arrived as the fighting continued against the few fire bulls that broke through.
• The refugee-bandit leaders retreated, leaving commoners and puppets behind, while Shen Tang ordered her troops to secure the prisoners and search for Prefect Lu.
• Shen Tang found Prefect Lu mortally wounded beneath a broken wall; he asked about the bandits, the city’s people, and his daughter before she called to him and he died.

Shen Tang comforted the dying Prefect Lu and promised to protect his surviving daughter, then learned how Luxia Prefecture had fallen through betrayal and corruption. She exposed the disguised Jiang Sheng, who explained his shifting loyalties and offered to join her, leaving Shen Tang startled when he called the National Seal a prize worth pursuing.

• Bai Su used the rescued girl's voice so Prefect Lu could hear his daughter's words before he died, and Shen Tang promised to care for the girl and restore peace to the land.
• Shen Tang ordered Prefect Lu's remains gathered and questioned the few officials left in Luxia Prefecture about the city's fall.
• An official revealed that Prefect Lu's brother-in-law embezzled treasury funds, secretly aided the attackers, and helped arrange the slaughter of Prefect Lu's family; Shen Tang ordered his youngest son properly buried.
• Shen Tang recognized the official as Jiang Sheng and challenged him over his ties to Prefect Lu and the refugee-bandit army.
• Jiang Sheng explained that he had warned Prefect Lu about the attack, feigned cooperation with the bandits, and decided to approach Shen Tang after events took an unexpected turn.
• When Shen Tang questioned why he had come, Jiang Sheng said the National Seal was a catch, leaving her visibly flustered.