The Truth of His Origins Revealed, Journey to the East Sea (8.4k, asking for monthly votes)
At the beginning of this year, Gu Mo killed the Jiang Kingdom Emperor in Jiang Kingdom, then joined forces with Ye Jinglan to wash the Jiang Kingdom Imperial City in blood. Many Jiang Kingdom civil and military officials were among the dead. Of course, the vast majority of those officials had actually been killed when Emperor Jiang ordered his troops to attack indiscriminately.
This directly caused Jiang Kingdom to fall apart. The emperor was gone, the civil and military officials were gone, and most crucially, news of Emperor Jiang colluding with Ye Nantian to slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians had spread. Jiang Kingdom instantly splintered, with regional lords everywhere declaring themselves kings.
Under such circumstances,
Chu Emperor Xiao Zhaolin was "invited" by one branch of the Jiang Kingdom imperial clan to go "help" suppress the internal turmoil. At the same time, by an astonishing coincidence, Gan Country was also invited by another branch of the Jiang Kingdom imperial clan claiming to be the legitimate line, asking it to quell the chaos.
However, there was one difference.
Regarding Emperor Jiang's assassination, Chu Kingdom launched a frenzied propaganda campaign, publicizing Gu Mo's killing of Emperor Jiang in the Jiang Kingdom Imperial City. They did not add fuel to the flames, though; they simply reconstructed what had happened at the time.
As a result, Gu Mo's reputation in Chu Kingdom was rather good. Although many cursed him as the butcher who had opened the war-torn era, just as many believed that he truly deserved to be Number One Under Heaven, truly deserved to be called a great hero. When he saw injustice on the road, he spoke for the people. Even when commoners of an unrelated