"Sister-in-law, are you planning to..."
Everyone withdrew.
White Mouse looked with a trace of heartache at Xiao Yuan, who sat calmly drinking tea in the seat of honor.
The others might merely have found Xiao Yuan's arrangements strange.
But he could clearly see the risks in her plan.
"You're sending False Eye, Black Mountain Town, and Overlord Stronghold to attack their central army."
"While you bear the Saint Master's wrath and face their vanguard's siege yourself?"
Who was the central figure in the Korean army?
The Saint Master.
As long as he remained at the central army headquarters.
The Lei Zis would struggle to disrupt their deployment, let alone wipe out their headquarters.
Even with Overlord there, if the Saint Master held him up.
Once their army surrounded them, things would be difficult.
Then there could be only one reason for Xiao Yuan's arrangements.
"You're going to sacrifice yourself, lure the Saint Master into the city, and buy everyone time?"
White Mouse trembled slightly.
He even began stumbling over his words.
He had never expected Xiao Yuan to be so ruthless toward herself.
To use herself as bait.
"That's right."
Xiao Yuan did not hide it.
She knew she could not fool the exceedingly shrewd White Mouse.
"I need your help." Xiao Yuan set down her teacup with apparent calm and instructed him, "You were the last to join us, and you feel the least attachment to Chun Prefecture."
"So... I need you to plant explosives throughout the city without telling anyone."
"If... if... I fail, if we can't hold it, I'm taking Chun Prefecture with me."
"Before Little White Tiger went in, he told me to look after our home."
"If... I can't hold it, at least I won't hand the city over to anyone else."
"When you see