"Huan Emperor!!!"
A name, a furious roar, rang out like a great bell, echoing endlessly with Hojo Ujiyasu's boundless resentment, anger, regret, and terror...
This time, he had truly failed to steal the chicken and lost his handful of rice instead. To avoid fighting the Huan Emperor, Hojo Ujiyasu had even pressured the empress of the Eastern Isles, the army supervisor, and the True Immortals into temporarily "loaning" him the dancer Shizuka Gozen, who had yet to be sent to the Great Chu Imperial Capital.
Hojo Ujiyasu had thought that if the Huan Emperor accepted Shizuka Gozen, he naturally would not go to war with the Hojo Clan. At most, he would use threats and inducements to win them over. If the Hojo Clan submitted to the Great Huan Dynasty, they naturally would not need to worry about how Chu Emperor Xiang Yu reacted. If the Huan Emperor ignored Shizuka Gozen, they could send her back afterward. The Hojo Clan would suffer little loss and would instead avoid massive casualties.
Now disaster had struck. The Huan Emperor had accepted Shizuka Gozen but still attacked, bypassing the losses of a siege to strike directly inside the city. When Chu Emperor Xiang Yu erupted in fury later, Hojo Ujiyasu had no idea how he would handle it. Even the Hojo Clan would probably have to bear the Chu Emperor's wrath. When that happened, the various lineages of Yingzhou, bound together like branches of the same tree, would likely have no grounds to speak up for the Hojo Clan!
Rumor had it that the Huan Emperor placed immense value on his word, each promise carrying the weight of nine tripods.
Who could have known he would behave so shamelessly? Not only had he swindled two peerless beauties, he had also slipped past the