Bitter Laugh

"I was a normal woman, who wished to make the country I lived in better. My talents were appreciated by the late queen and eventually, she persuaded her husband to hire me as an aide. He gradually started to rely on me in governing civil affairs as well..."

Cao Xiang started to narrate as she turned to the sea again, with a distant look that returned her to the past.

"When the king was poisoned, the queen was drinking the same wine, so she passed away too. I could not forgive that disgusting son of hers when I found out he was behind the assassination... it was not hard to figure out anyway... who would like losing the position of the crown prince..."

As she talked she sipped on the wine, and Wu Long was ponderingly listening to her.