Chapter Summaries

Yue Xiaofei challenged Xu Yiming to reconsider his response to the foreigners’ insults, then demonstrated what a soldier should do by punching Park Jeongsang’s bodyguard. His punch struck the giant bodyguard with enough force to make him shudder, and the chapter ended before showing the result.

• Yue Xiaofei’s questions made Xu Yiming feel ashamed that he had planned to let Park Jeongsang leave after only slapping him.
• Park Jeongsang threatened Yue Xiaofei and his family, hoping to provoke a fight between Yue Xiaofei and Xu Yiming.
• Yue Xiaofei told Xu Yiming to watch as he demonstrated how a soldier should respond to foreign insults.
• Park Jeongsang’s bodyguard tried to block Yue Xiaofei’s punch after recognizing its terrifying power and shoving Park Jeongsang aside.
• Yue Xiaofei’s fist slammed into the bodyguard’s crossed arms, making the giant shudder violently.

Plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei strikes the massive Goryeo bodyguard with one punch, breaking his arms and sending him flying into the banquet hall’s marble wall, where he remains stuck like a painting.
• The crowd is stunned by the display. Xu Yiming, a special-assault-team captain, recognizes the punch’s extraordinary speed and force and suspects Yue may be one of the legendary superhuman figures hidden from ordinary society.
• Yue calmly approaches Park Jeongsang. Park panics, tries to crawl away, and invokes his family’s wealth, corporate power, and police connections.
• After Park wets himself, Yue stomps beside his head rather than on it. The blow shatters the marble floor and terrifies Park into a complete breakdown.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei is revealed as far more powerful than those around him expected. He remains controlled and almost casual, using overwhelming force to intimidate rather than directly strike Park.
• Su Wanning is shaken as the “good-for-nothing” she looked down on proves capable of astonishing feats, overturning her assumptions about him.
• Su Guohua and Gao Yi are left speechless, recognizing that their wealth and connections mean little beside Yue’s strength.
• Xu Yiming shifts from disdain to shock, concern, and even reverence after witnessing Yue’s punch.
• Park Jeongsang loses all his earlier arrogance, becoming helpless and terrified despite his threats and privileged background.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and overturned assumptions: Yue’s sudden display forces the onlookers to reconsider who he is.
• Power versus status: Park’s family connections and wealth offer no protection against Yue’s physical dominance.
• Fear as a reversal of control: The characters who once seemed confident or dismissive are now reduced to silence and panic.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei’s devastating kick leaves Park Jeongsang terrified and the banquet guests stunned.
• Park offers to crawl between Yue’s legs to save himself, but Yue rejects the apology. He says Park must answer to the people he injured and insulted: Su Guohua, Gao Yi, Su Wanning, and Gao Yuanyuan.
• Park kneels before them and repeatedly kowtows, begging for mercy. The guests relish the reversal after his earlier arrogance and abuse.
• Yue confronts Major Xu Yiming, arguing that a single slap followed by letting Park go was not strength, but cowardice. He calls for a forceful response to foreign aggression, invoking the sacrifices of earlier generations.
• Xu is shaken by Yue’s words, and the other guests begin to reconsider their own earlier admiration for Xu’s response.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei asserts control over the room. He is not satisfied with personal revenge: he insists Park apologize to those he harmed and presents his actions as defending national dignity.
• Park Jeongsang falls from arrogant aggressor to desperate, humiliated supplicant, abandoning his pride to survive.
• Xu Yiming moves from confidence in his slap as a heroic act to shame and self-doubt. He compares his response with Yue’s and questions whether he has lived up to his family’s legacy.
• Su Wanning is frightened by Yue’s strength and recognizes how misplaced her earlier contempt for him was. Su Guohua, Gao Yi, and Gao Yuanyuan watch Park’s apology with shock and complicated feelings.
• Yue’s confrontation with Xu shifts the scene from Park’s punishment to a broader argument about how one should respond to insults and attacks.

Significant themes

• Power and humiliation: Park’s dramatic fall illustrates how quickly an aggressor can become powerless.
• Justice and accountability: Yue insists that Park answer to the people he targeted, not merely to Yue himself.
• National dignity and retaliation: Yue equates restraint with weakness and argues that aggression must be met decisively to deter future attacks.
• Courage and inherited legacy: Xu must reconsider whether his actions reflect the bravery associated with his family.
• Reassessment: The guests—and especially Su Wanning and Xu—are forced to rethink their judgments of Yue and of what constitutes strength.

Plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei forces Park Jeongsang, the Four Star Group heir, to apologize and promise not to target people from the Dragon Kingdom again. He then orders Park to “roll” out of the banquet hall.
• Park initially misunderstands, but when the translator explains, he submits rather than risk further punishment. He rolls across the floor and out the doors while the guests laugh and film him.
• Yue turns to leave with the stunned Jiang Lan and Su Guohua. Xu Yiming stops him, admitting that his response to the insult against their country was inadequate, but demanding to know who Yue is and what gives him the right to lecture him.
• Yue replies that Xu’s failure to recognize him suggests he is not doing well in the Xu Family.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei remains controlled and unapologetic, using intimidation to make Park submit. His final remark hints that he has a notable connection to the Xu Family or a reputation Xu should know.
• Park Jeongsang shifts from arrogance to terror and accepts public humiliation to escape further harm.
• Xu Yiming moves from confident, commanding pride to public self-criticism and uncertainty. He challenges Yue but also seems unsettled by him.
• Su Wanning is increasingly conflicted and astonished, struggling to reconcile Yue’s apparent status with her belief that he is merely a poor country boy.
• Jiang Lan and Su Guohua are stunned by Yue’s actions and curious about his hidden background; the crowd, meanwhile, shifts from fear to admiration.

Significant themes

• National pride and resistance to disrespect: Yue insists that insults against his country demand a firm response.
• Power and humiliation: Park’s forced exit reverses the hierarchy he expected to command.
• Identity and hidden status: Xu’s inability to recognize Yue raises questions about Yue’s background and standing.
• Pride and self-correction: Xu’s admission that he handled the situation badly contrasts with his lingering need to understand Yue’s authority.

Yue Xiaofei dismissed Xu Yiming as insignificant, then told Gao Yi and Gao Yuanyuan to meet him at the Reviewing Stand entrance during the Dragon Kingdom Day Military Parade. After Yue left, Gao Yi decided to keep the invitation and convinced himself that Park Jeongsang and the Four Star Group would eliminate Yue before the parade.

• Yue Xiaofei told Xu Yiming that he was not doing well in the Xu Family, and Xu Yiming reacted with awe rather than anger and proposed they become sworn brothers.
• Yue Xiaofei declined Xu Yiming’s proposal, said they would meet again soon, and left with Su Guohua and Jiang Lan.
• Yue Xiaofei told Gao Yi and Gao Yuanyuan to meet him at the Reviewing Stand entrance on the day of the Dragon Kingdom Day Military Parade.
• Gao Yuanyuan feared that Yue Xiaofei would expose their possession of the invitation, and Gao Yi realized the military identity check could reveal their deception.
• Gao Yi refused to give up the invitation and reassured Gao Yuanyuan that Yue Xiaofei was bluffing, claiming Park Jeongsang and the Four Star Group would kill him before the parade.

Plot points and events

• The Gao family concludes that Yue Xiaofei is doomed after attacking Park Jeongsang and decides to wait for the invitation to come to them.
• In the car afterward, the Su family rides home in tense silence. Jiang Lan asks how Xiaofei learned to fight; he claims his construction work made him strong, and she accepts the explanation sympathetically.
• Jiang Lan thanks Xiaofei for protecting her family and makes Su Wanning and Su Guohua thank him. Wanning grudgingly says “thanks.”
• Su Guohua instead berates Xiaofei for attacking Park, arguing that he endangered the Su family’s business by making a powerful enemy.
• Xiaofei challenges him: staying out of it would have meant watching Su Guohua and Gao Yi be humiliated and Park assault the women. His sarcasm leaves Su Guohua furious.
• Su Guohua then reproaches Xiaofei for rebuffing Xu Yiming’s offer of friendship, believing Xu’s influence could have protected the Su family. Wanning agrees.
• Xiaofei dismisses their assumptions, declaring that Xu—not he—is the one who should feel fortunate to have a connection with him.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei remains composed and self-assured. He is protective of the Su family, but openly contemptuous of their fearfulness and their focus on status and advantage. His final boast hints that he holds far greater power or standing than they realize.
• Su Guohua is grateful for the protection in principle but prioritizes the danger to his company and lost political opportunities. He sees Xu’s attention as a valuable alliance and treats Xiaofei’s independence as foolishness.
• Su Wanning gives Xiaofei a reluctant, quiet thanks, yet sides with her father’s view that he squandered Xu’s favor.
• Jiang Lan is the most openly compassionate: she worries about Xiaofei, believes his humble explanation, and insists that her family acknowledge his help.
• The car ride becomes a confrontation between Xiaofei’s moral instinct to protect people and the Su family’s pragmatic concern with consequences, reputation, and powerful connections.

Significant themes

• Courage versus self-preservation: Xiaofei intervenes to stop abuse, while Su Guohua sees intervention as reckless.
• Moral gratitude versus transactional thinking: Jiang Lan values Xiaofei’s protection; Su Guohua focuses on the costs and potential alliances.
• Misjudged status and hidden strength: The Su family assumes Xiaofei needs Xu Yiming’s patronage, while Xiaofei’s final remark suggests the opposite.

After Yue Xiaofei claimed he knew Elder Xu, the Su Family found a threatening message painted on their villa gate. Meanwhile, Park Jeongsang vowed revenge and his adviser proposed using media and online trolls to attack Yue and the Xu Family through public opinion.

• Yue Xiaofei told Su Guohua that his military parade invitation was his and that he knew Elder Xu Anbang, while Su Guohua refused to believe him.
• The Su Family returned to their villa and found “Blood debts must be paid in blood!” spray-painted across the gate.
• Park Jeongsang raged over his humiliation at the banquet and vowed to make Yue Xiaofei, Xu Yiming, and everyone who laughed at him pay.
• Park Jeongsang’s adviser warned against a direct confrontation with the Xu Family and proposed portraying Yue Xiaofei and the Chang'an Club as xenophobic thugs through media outlets and paid online trolls.

Key plot points and events

• Park Jeongsang approves his aide’s plan to weaponize the earlier footage of his humiliation: post it out of context, frame the incident as anti-Goryeo abuse, and use paid media and influencers to provoke international outrage. He also orders the Four Star Group to destroy the Su Family’s business.
• The online campaign begins with inflammatory posts and paid comments, while the Four Star Group launches a coordinated business attack.
• The Su Family returns home to find its villa vandalized with red “Blood for blood” graffiti, garbage, dead rats, and red paint. Su Guohua blames Yue Xiaofei for provoking Park; Yue stays outwardly calm.
• Su Guohua’s company vice president reports that Four Star has blacklisted the firm: partners are canceling contracts, a major project has been halted, banks are demanding repayment, and the company is being attacked online.
• Convinced Yue caused the family’s ruin, Su Guohua demands that he kneel to Park and beg for mercy, threatening to fight him if he refuses.

Character developments and interactions

• Park Jeongsang turns from anger to vengeful enthusiasm, seeking not only Yue’s death but public disgrace and the destruction of the Su Family.
• Su Guohua is overwhelmed by fear and financial disaster, shifting from anger at Yue to desperation and pleading that Yue undo the damage.
• Su Wanning and Jiang Lan are frightened by the vandalism and cling to one another; Wanning also tries to calm her father.
• Yue Xiaofei remains composed amid the threats and humiliation, judging Park’s tactics as contemptible rather than showing concern for the villa.
• Park’s subordinates carry out his orders, while the Su Family’s vice president delivers the news that the company is being targeted.

Significant themes

• Manipulation of public opinion: edited footage, paid voices, and inflammatory framing are used to turn a private conflict into an international controversy.
• Retaliation and power: Park uses corporate influence to punish both individuals and their associates.
• Fear and blame: as the Su Family faces ruin, Su Guohua directs his panic toward Yue, demanding submission rather than seeking another solution.

Yue Xiaofei refused to apologize to Park Jeongsang despite Su Guohua and Su Wanning begging him to save the Su Family from bankruptcy. After walking into the villa, he called Han Duoduo and ordered the Four Star Group to go bankrupt.

• Su Guohua and Su Wanning pressured Yue Xiaofei to beg Park Jeongsang to spare the Su Family.
• Yue Xiaofei rejected their pleas and said he would not kneel to a man from Goryeo.
• Su Guohua knelt and offered Yue Xiaofei up to ten million, but Yue Xiaofei pulled away and entered the villa.
• Su Guohua cursed Yue Xiaofei, while Su Wanning watched him leave with despair and hatred.
• Yue Xiaofei called Han Duoduo and ordered her to make the Four Star Group go bankrupt.

Yue Xiaofei set Han Duoduo to undermine Four Star Group and called Xu Yiming to clean up Jiang Lan’s wrecked villa and investigate who attacked it. As Su Guohua rushed off to beg Park Jeongsang, Yue Xiaofei learned the culprit had been detained and said they should wait and watch what happened.

• Yue Xiaofei told Han Duoduo to swiftly drive down Four Star Group’s share price and refused to counter Park Jeongsang’s online smear campaign.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Jiang Lan to wait in the car, then called Xu Yiming to clear the wreckage at the Su Family villa and find the attackers.
• A board member told Su Guohua that Four Star Group’s shares had plunged and that an emergency meeting would remove him as chairman.
• After seeing Park Jeongsang’s announcement of a press conference, Su Guohua drove away with Jiang Lan and Su Wanning to beg Park and protect the Su Family company.
• Xu Yiming arrived with soldiers, who cleaned the villa and reported that Park Jeongsang’s security supervisor Jin Debiao had been detained.
• Yue Xiaofei dismissed Xu Yiming’s concerns about confronting Park Jeongsang and told him to sit back and watch.

Park Jeongsang used a press conference to accuse Yue Xiaofei of attacking him and threaten to withdraw Four Star Group’s investments unless Yue publicly apologized. As Su Guohua and Su Wanning tried to enter, Yue Xiaofei broke through the hall’s doors and confronted Park.

• Park Jeongsang held a press conference at the Goryeo Embassy while media coverage and online opinion largely favored him.
• Park Jeongsang claimed Yue Xiaofei had beaten and humiliated him, framing the dispute as discrimination against Goryeo people.
• Park Jeongsang demanded that Yue Xiaofei kneel and apologize, threatening to pull Four Star Group’s investments and artists from the Dragon Kingdom.
• Su Guohua and Su Wanning tried to push through the reporters, with Su Guohua announcing that he had come to apologize to Park Jeongsang.
• Yue Xiaofei burst through the hall’s doors and asked Park Jeongsang if he had been looking for him.

Key plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei makes a dramatic entrance at the Goryeo embassy press conference, having broken through the doors.
• Park Jeongsang, initially frightened, regains confidence because he is surrounded by reporters and armed embassy guards. He mocks Yue and expects him to apologize.
• Yue calmly says he came to “take out the trash,” then approaches the stage. Guards block his way.
• Addressing the reporters, Yue says he has evidence to show them. With a snap of his fingers, he takes control of the large screen.
• Security footage from the Chang’an Club plays, showing Park humiliating Su Guohua and Gao Yi, making them slap each other, and behaving cruelly toward them.
• The footage also shows Yue defeating Park’s bodyguard and Park himself, then forcing Park to kneel and apologize. Park’s earlier public claims are exposed as false, and the press and livestream audience turn against him.

Character developments

• Yue Xiaofei remains composed under public hostility and uses evidence rather than reacting to Park’s provocations.
• Park Jeongsang shifts from fear to smug confidence, then grows visibly enraged as the footage reveals his conduct and cowardly pleas.
• Su Wanning watches Yue with conflicting feelings: resentment, concern, and an unfamiliar emotion she cannot explain.
• Su Guohua is angry and alarmed that Yue has come, fearing he is making the situation worse.

Significant themes

• Truth versus public manipulation: The footage challenges Park’s staged narrative and exposes the gap between his claims and his actions.
• Power and hypocrisy: Park bullies people he considers weaker, but begs for mercy when overpowered.
• Public image and accountability: The press conference meant to condemn Yue instead becomes a platform for revealing Park’s behavior.

Character interactions

• Park taunts Yue and tries to frame him as an arrogant thug; Yue refuses to engage verbally and answers with evidence.
• Embassy guards form a barrier between Yue and the stage.
• Reporters and viewers shift from sympathy for Park to disgust as they watch the footage.
• Yue’s appearance intensifies Su Wanning’s and Su Guohua’s differing reactions to him.

Key plot points and events

• Surveillance footage reveals Park Jeongsang had fabricated his story of being mistreated: it shows him acting aggressively and being beaten by Yue Xiaofei. The reporters and livestream audience abruptly turn against Park and praise Yue.
• Park claims the video was edited, but Yue challenges him to let cybersecurity experts authenticate it. Park cannot accept, since he knows the footage is genuine.
• As Yue prepares to leave, Park, enraged and humiliated, calls on Brigadier General Kim Daehwan to arrest him.
• Kim and his guards surround Yue. Kim invokes the embassy’s supposed extraterritorial status and accuses Yue of violating Goryeo’s sovereignty, turning the confrontation into a potential diplomatic crisis. He orders Yue to surrender and threatens to kill him if he resists.

Character developments

• Yue Xiaofei remains composed and confident, using evidence to expose Park’s deception and refusing to be intimidated.
• Park Jeongsang shifts from playing the victim to making desperate, furious accusations once his lies are exposed.
• Kim Daehwan emerges as a stern, powerful military figure. Rather than investigate the footage, he uses his authority and diplomatic arguments to protect Park and threaten Yue.

Significant themes

• Truth versus manipulation: Evidence overturns a false public narrative, while Park’s credibility collapses.
• Media and public opinion: The crowd’s judgment changes rapidly as new information emerges.
• Abuse of authority and nationalism: Kim frames a personal confrontation as a matter of national sovereignty, escalating it to shield Park.
• Composure under pressure: Yue’s calm contrasts with Park’s panic and Kim’s forceful intimidation.

Character interactions

• Yue confronts Park with the footage and publicly challenges him to prove it false.
• Reporters and viewers initially sympathize with Park, then condemn him and support Yue after seeing the evidence.
• Park appeals to Kim for protection and urges him to seize Yue.
• Kim’s guards encircle Yue while Kim orders him to surrender, setting up a direct clash.

Plot points and events

• Kim Daehwan threatens to arrest Yue Xiaofei, but Yue dismisses him as unqualified.
• Enraged, Kim orders his guards back and challenges Yue to hand-to-hand combat, boasting of his Taekwondo record and reputation as a “human weapon.”
• Kim launches a powerful axe kick. Yue stops it effortlessly with two fingers, breaks Kim’s ankle, and throws him hard onto the marble floor.
• The hall is left stunned. Park Jeongsang, who had confidently predicted Yue’s defeat, collapses in fear.
• Yue insults Kim and Goryeo martial arts, claiming they are derivative of Dragon Kingdom traditions. Humiliated and injured, Kim orders the guards to shoot Yue.

Character developments

• Yue Xiaofei remains calm and seemingly unimpressed throughout, then demonstrates overwhelming strength. His confidence turns openly contemptuous after defeating Kim.
• Kim Daehwan shifts from threatening authority to shock, pain, and humiliation after his signature attack is effortlessly stopped. He responds by demanding that Yue be killed.
• Park Jeongsang moves from gleeful confidence in Kim’s victory to abject terror when Kim is defeated.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Kim’s titles, boasts, and fearsome reputation prove no match for Yue’s ability.
• Arrogance and overconfidence: Kim and Park underestimate Yue, while Yue’s taunts frame their challenge as presumptuous.
• National pride and cultural rivalry: Yue’s remarks about martial arts turn the fight into a broader insult against Goryeo’s national identity.
• Escalation and violence: When physical force fails, Kim turns to firearms.

Character interactions

• Yue openly challenges Kim’s authority and dismisses his strength.
• Park acts as Kim’s enthusiastic commentator, praising his achievements and predicting Yue’s defeat.
• After the fight, Yue mocks Kim and rebukes the guards and Park with a dismissive glance.
• Kim’s final order redirects the guards’ weapons toward Yue, setting up the next confrontation.

Yue Xiaofei faced a firing squad of Goryeo guards until Hong Wu and Dragon Kingdom special forces intervened. Hong Wu saluted Yue and reported that he had come on Commander Qin Qianshan’s orders to await Yue’s instructions.

• Kim Daehwan ordered the Goryeo guards to shoot Yue Xiaofei, and one guard prepared to fire.
• Hong Wu arrived with Dragon Kingdom special forces, who secured the hall and aimed their weapons at the Goryeo guards.
• Kim Daehwan invoked Goryeo authority and claimed his guards had the right to deal with Yue.
• Hong Wu ignored Kim Daehwan, saluted Yue Xiaofei, and reported that he had come on Qin Qianshan’s orders to await Yue’s instructions.

Key plot points and events

• Hong Wu, a senior colonel under Commander Qin Qianshan, arrives with special forces and reveals that he came on Qin’s orders to await Yue Xiaofei’s instructions.
• Hong Wu first calls Yue his superior, then formally salutes and addresses him as General Yue, shocking the reporters, Kim Daehwan, and Park Jeongsang.
• Kim realizes Yue outranks him and begs for forgiveness. Park faints from terror; soldiers revive him with water.
• Yue accuses Park of insulting Dragon Kingdom citizens, breaking the law, manipulating public opinion, framing the innocent, stirring up conflict between countries, and ordering an armed attack on a serving general.
• Yue announces three demands: Park must publicly apologize and confess through major media; the Four Star Group must leave the Dragon Kingdom and compensate for the harm caused; and Park’s father must appear in Longdu within three days to kneel and apologize. Otherwise, Yue threatens the company with bankruptcy.

Character developments

• Yue Xiaofei remains calm and controlled as his rank is revealed, then uses his authority to impose severe consequences.
• Hong Wu demonstrates unquestioning respect and obedience, publicly confirming Yue’s status.
• Kim Daehwan shifts from arrogant aggressor to terrified, helpless supplicant after learning Yue is a general.
• Park Jeongsang goes from confidence to collapse and panic, unable to resist Yue’s accusations or demands.

Character interactions

• Hong Wu’s formal salute and address establish Yue’s authority before the assembled reporters and armed forces.
• Yue ignores Kim’s pleas and focuses on Park, directing Hong Wu’s soldiers to wake him so he can hear the charges and consequences.
• Park’s fear contrasts sharply with Yue’s composure, while Kim’s humiliation reinforces the reversal of power.

Significant themes

• Hidden authority and power: Yue’s rank overturns others’ assumptions about him.
• Consequences and accountability: Yue frames Park’s actions as offenses against citizens, law, and national dignity.
• National pride and sovereignty: The chapter presents Yue’s response as defending Dragon Kingdom citizens and resisting foreign intimidation.
• Power reversal: Those who threatened Yue are reduced to fear and pleading once his status is revealed.

After Yue Xiaofei left the Goryeo Embassy, Park Jeongsang and Kim Daehwan tried to learn who he was, but his records were sealed at the highest level. Park Taegyeon arrived to confront Yue Xiaofei, then collapsed when he learned Yue Xiaofei’s father was Yue Changlong, the former King.

• Yue Xiaofei accepted Elder Xu’s invitation to a Centennial Banquet in Longdu and left with Hong Wu’s respect.
• Park Jeongsang ordered an investigation into Yue Xiaofei, but Kim Daehwan learned his records were classified SSS+ and inaccessible.
• Park Jeongsang called his father, Park Taegyeon, and falsely described Yue Xiaofei’s actions while demanding help.
• Park Taegyeon flew to Longdu and learned through unofficial channels that Yue Xiaofei’s father was Yue Changlong.
• Park Taegyeon collapsed in terror and identified Yue Changlong as the former King.

Park Taegyeon told Park Jeongsang that Yue Changlong was the former King, a one-man force who had humiliated Goryeo ten years earlier. He revealed that the young man Park Jeongsang had offended was Yue Changlong’s son.

• Park Jeongsang found Park Taegyeon collapsed and trembling, then asked who Yue Changlong was.
• Park Taegyeon recalled how Goryeo had installed the Sabi missile defense system and provoked the Dragon Kingdom while relying on Eagle Country.
• Park Taegyeon said KING had destroyed three Eagle Country military bases, wrecked the Sabi system, and left bullets beside the pillows of Goryeo’s leaders and conglomerate heads.
• Park Taegyeon explained that Goryeo’s president had secretly agreed to remove Sabi and resign, while he had knelt and promised the Four Star Group would never oppose the Dragon Kingdom.
• Park Taegyeon revealed that KING was Yue Changlong and that the young man Park Jeongsang had offended was his son.

Key plot points and events

• Park Taegyeon reveals that Yue Xiaofei is the son of KING, the Dragon Kingdom figure who single-handedly forced Goryeo’s leaders and president from office ten years earlier.
• Park Jeongsang collapses as he realizes his earlier insults may have put his family and Four Star Group in danger.
• Taegyeon explains why KING’s name is unknown to the public: Goryeo spent enormous resources hiding the incident, enforcing secrecy, and erasing references to KING to conceal the national humiliation.
• Although Taegyeon admits he once knelt to KING, he refuses to submit again. He argues Goryeo is now stronger and has the support of Eagle Country, and dismisses Yue Xiaofei as an inexperienced young man.
• Taegyeon decides the crisis is beyond Four Star Group and calls the government, demanding to speak with President Yoon and declaring that “the monster from ten years ago” has returned.
• The scene shifts to a fortified underground conference room in Green Wa Dae, where President Yoon Seokjun and the nation’s most powerful military, intelligence, and business leaders gather in alarm.

Character developments and interactions

• Park Jeongsang moves from arrogance to panic and helplessness as he grasps the scale of KING’s power. He asks his father whether they must obey Yue Xiaofei’s demands.
• Park Taegyeon shifts from despair at the prospect of facing KING’s legacy to defiance and risky confidence. He refuses to kneel again and chooses to involve the government.
• Their father-son exchange shows Jeongsang’s fear contrasting with Taegyeon’s pride and willingness to gamble on Goryeo’s increased strength.
• President Yoon Seokjun is introduced as the stern leader at the center of the emergency gathering; the chapter ends before he responds.

Significant themes

• National shame and historical concealment: Goryeo has buried its defeat to preserve its standing, while those who witnessed it remain haunted.
• Pride versus fear: Taegyeon’s refusal to submit clashes with his awareness of KING’s terrifying past.
• Power and inherited reputation: Yue Xiaofei’s identity gives him influence beyond his own actions, making him a target of both fear and resentment.
• Escalation from personal conflict to national crisis: A dispute involving Jeongsang and Yue Xiaofei now threatens to become a confrontation between governments.

Plot points and events

• President Yoon Seokjun tells Goryeo’s leaders that KING—the figure who humiliated the nation ten years earlier—has apparently returned. He stresses that it is KING’s young son, Yue Xiaofei, rather than KING himself.
• Yoon turns the leaders’ fear into anger, invoking Goryeo’s past humiliation and declaring that the era of being bullied is over.
• He orders the government to publicize the old incident, demand that the Dragon Kingdom hand over Yue Xiaofei and apologize, and put airborne forces on heightened readiness near the border.
• The military chief of staff raises the possibility that KING is still alive. Yoon dismisses the danger, claiming KING has been imprisoned for five years and is broken.
• Yoon adds that Eagle Country has promised military support, including SEAL Team Six. Reassured, Goryeo’s state apparatus begins mobilizing against the Dragon Kingdom and Yue Xiaofei.

Character developments and interactions

• Yoon Seokjun presents himself as a confident, forceful nationalist leader. He deliberately uses the memory of national disgrace to rally the room and justify an aggressive response.
• Jin Xiuyan, Goryeo’s first lady, is introduced as a celebrated beauty from a powerful conglomerate family, though she does not speak or act in the meeting.
• The assembled officials move from panic, to hope that KING’s son will be manageable, to renewed fear when the chief of staff voices his concern. Yoon’s assurances and news of Eagle Country’s backing restore their confidence.
• The chief of staff acts as the cautious counterpoint to Yoon, questioning whether the plan has accounted for KING’s possible survival.

Significant themes

• National humiliation and revenge: Yoon frames the past defeat as a wound that must be avenged.
• Political manipulation: He channels public and official anger toward the Dragon Kingdom to consolidate support for escalation.
• Fear versus bravado: Anxiety over KING persists beneath Yoon’s confident rhetoric.
• Militarization and international power: Diplomatic demands, border mobilization, and Eagle Country’s promised support turn the crisis toward possible conflict.