"Auntie, do you know how dangerous the front lines are? It's terrifying. One careless mistake, and you could lose your life."
Ah Yin frowned slightly and said worriedly, "I hope Tang San is all right. I don't want anything else now. I only want him to be safe."
Dai Mubai continued, "Exactly. But war is cruel; no one can say for sure what will happen. Sigh, Auntie, do you know? Before I ascended the throne, I had some friends too. They were all great generals of the Star Luo Empire, powerful enough to hold off a thousand men alone. But who would have thought... sigh."
Ah Yin became interested and asked, "What happened?"
Dai Mubai sighed. "A war took their lives. That's why I hate war. They had been alive and well just days ago—we had even been drinking together. But because of the war, they died without even leaving whole corpses behind!"
"And worse still, he..."
Ah Yin was engrossed in the story. "What happened to him?"
"His... hands and feet were chopped off! His eyes were gouged out! His corpse was hung from the city gates and left under the blazing sun for three days and three nights! His family cried until they went blind."
"Ah!" Ah Yin was startled by Dai Mubai's exaggerated description, and the scissors in her hand fell to the ground.
Ah Yin was about to bend down and pick them up, but Dai Mubai beat her to it, saying with a grin, "Auntie, let me."
Without giving Ah Yin a chance to refuse, Dai Mubai crouched down before her.
Seeing that he did not get back up for a long time, Ah Yin was about to ask him why when, suddenly, at that very moment—
Dai Mubai grabbed the hem of her dress