Overnight, everything changed!
By the time the sun rose the next day, it felt as though the whole world had turned upside down.
Goryeo launched an all-out media offensive with an almost frenzied intensity.
Every major outlet—television, newspapers, and the internet—was flooded with reports about the "KING incident."
They took a national humiliation from ten years ago, buried until now, and after careful "artistic embellishment," repackaged it as "a long-planned act of aggression by the Dragon Kingdom against Goryeo."
In those reports, the man codenamed "KING" was portrayed as a fanged, monstrous demon who slaughtered without mercy.
Goryeo, meanwhile, was cast as an innocent victim bullied by its wicked neighbor.
These inflammatory reports turned the truth on its head and instantly ignited nationalist fervor across Goryeo.
Countless Goryeo citizens who knew nothing of the truth took to the streets. They gathered outside the Dragon Kingdom's Embassy, shouting themselves hoarse as they demanded that the Dragon Kingdom hand over the killer and pay for blood with blood!
Next, Goryeo's Embassy in Longdu formally delivered a strongly worded diplomatic note to the Dragon Kingdom, demanding that it immediately arrest and hand over the "thug" who had assaulted someone inside the Embassy. Though the note did not name Yue Xiaofei, everyone knew who it meant.
It also demanded a public apology and enormous compensation over the "KING incident."
Goryeo even held large-scale military exercises along the border. Several fighter jets came close to entering the Dragon Kingdom's airspace.
For a time, tensions across East Asia reached an unprecedented high.
War seemed ready to erupt at any moment!
This overwhelming storm of public opinion quickly swept through the Dragon Kingdom as well.
Ordinary citizens had no idea who the so-called "KING" was. All they saw was Goryeo throwing the weight of its entire country