"Are you from the Hojo Clan? Are you also a member of the Hojo Clan? What is your name?"
Xiao Ying sized up the scantily clad, ravishing woman, whose beauty blazed in every direction, and asked with considerable interest.
It was not her beauty or identity that interested him, but her composure amid panic and her calm intelligence.
On this brutal, bloody battlefield, with Tamatsuna Castle on the verge of destruction and herself about to become a captive, she could still remain so composed. She had even dared to make a request of the Huan Emperor—first laying out the Hojo Clan's innocence, then calmly and concisely pointing out the benefits of sparing them. Her final temptation was even more compelling: even if the Huan Emperor did not accept the Hojo Clan, he would not kill Hojo Ujiyasu for the sake of Edo, the foremost city of Kanto!
Could such an outstanding woman be Hojo Masako, Yingzhou's most famous empress, renowned for both talent and beauty?!
Though one could not tell a person's true age from appearance in this world, Hojo Masako was known as an empress devoted to one love, jealous and disdainful of seductive charms. Why would she dress so revealingly? Even if she had been forced, Hojo Masako likely would never have done this.
Hojo Ujiyasu's daughter, Hayakawa-dono?!
Their ages and generations did not match, but Japan's history was immensely chaotic, its relationships tangled beyond measure. Setting aside its disregard for propriety, its records were also vague and incomplete. The same person could have many names and titles, and there was no certainty that Hayakawa-dono had truly been born to the present Hojo Ujiyasu!
"This humble woman is Mizuhime, originally named Imagawa Mizuko, daughter of Imagawa Ujichika, the seventh head of the Imagawa Clan!"
The woman bowed and