Once the arrangements for the Star Sea Band were settled, Mei Ning suddenly asked, "Strategist, I remember you were called Mo Caihuan in the Chaotic Star Sea. Why do you go by Mo Zhenxiu in the Heavenly South?" On the production crew, Mo Caihuan always called herself Mo Zhenxiu.
As soon as she said it, realization dawned without anyone having to explain. She muttered to herself, "Mo Caihuan, Mo Caihuan? Could the Strategist be the founding Empress of the Mo Kingdom?!" Her eyes nearly popped out of her head, and disbelief covered her face.
Zi Ling also connected the Strategist of the Chaotic Star Sea with the Empress of the Heavenly South. She looked just as astonished. Either identity alone was enough to inspire awe, yet Mo Caihuan had two.
They had never been to Great Jin, where Mo Caihuan had yet another identity as a great scholar-the founding patriarch of Mohism. She had made a name for herself in three places at once.
Mo Caihuan said modestly, "That's all in the past. If I stood up now and said, 'I'm the Empress,' they'd be doing me a courtesy just by not throwing rotten eggs."
"Don't say that. My sister and I heard your great name as soon as we entered the mortal world. Every city had a statue of you, and your portraits were everywhere. But we never imagined the Tianxing Strategist and the Empress of the Mo Kingdom were the same person. We thought their names just sounded alike," Mei Ning said. "You're incredible. Our band is bound to become wildly popular. We'll rake in so much money our hands will cramp."
Mo Caihuan urged them to keep a low profile, a low profile.
And so the Star Sea Band was founded. Mo Caihuan handled all the composing,