"I want... to return to Great Han."
Liu Jieyou said.
Verdant Green Maiden nodded. "All right. I'll take you back to Great Han."
For the first time in decades, Liu Jieyou saw the Han prefectures and counties along the Hexi Corridor. Watching the caravans come and go and the courier horses race past, her eyes grew wet. She murmured, "The Western River, Qilian Commandery... Vast China, Heaven Has Han!"
"Jade Maiden Empress, over these past decades, have I failed the trust Great Han placed in me?"
Verdant Green Maiden was silent. After a long while, she gazed up at the sky and sighed, then looked east and said, "You did very well."
When they returned to Chang'an, Liu Xun welcomed Liu Jieyou in person and cared for her with the honors due a princess.
But Verdant Green Maiden saw the longing for the world in her eyes.
She was old, though. She could no longer walk far.
Verdant Green Maiden sent Jingang on a trip to fetch Chunyu Tiying from Mount Tai. She asked if Chunyu Tiying could look after Liu Jieyou and take her around the world.
Chunyu Tiying had always admired this Han princess, so she agreed at once!
After entrusting Liu Jieyou to Chunyu Tiying, Verdant Green Maiden didn't hurry back to Mount Tai. Instead, she went to Maoling.
Of course, she wasn't there to sweep Liu Che's tomb. That brat wasn't worth it.
She had come to visit Wei Qing and Huo Qu Bing.
Verdant Green Maiden had always claimed she was taking on Han Xin's disciples for him, but there was no way Han Xin could leap out of his grave to teach them. In truth, she was their teacher.
As their teacher, she was certainly negligent to have waited so long to visit her