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Academy rules forbade anyone from casually fighting or injuring others within the academy. If the Academy Head had not mentioned it, no one would have known that this rule had originally not been intended to restrain the students, but the teachers.
In the pavilion, the Academy Head and Hong Wulei spoke for a long time. Mist rose from the water, blurring their vision. The days of old had passed too long ago, and the descendants of old friends had already grown up.
Wulei City, foremost among kings, had died fourteen years ago at the hands of the foremost swordsman of the Tuoluo Extinction Gate. Yet the Red King had been a Half-Venerable infinitely close to the Human Sovereign. How could he have been so easily killed?
Everyone knew there was an unknown conspiracy behind it. Yet after the Red King's death, when the wall fell, everyone gave it a push. No one cared anymore what the truth had been.
More than a decade had passed. The truth buried beneath the years was difficult to uncover, but nothing was absolute. There was no perfection in this world—not in people, and not in conspiracies.
Hong Wulei had only just turned ten when the Red King met with disaster. She had not understood many things then, and only gradually came to understand them more than ten years later.
To seek revenge, one needed corresponding strength and cunning. Among her peers, the Red King's daughter already stood head and shoulders above the rest in both