Chapter 58: Five Battles to Set the Heavens, The Blazing Sun (Part 2)

Bianliang City, the Imperial Palace Garden.

Two days ago, a sudden and fierce rainstorm had battered the delicate and competing blooms of the imperial garden into splinters and fragments. Despite the disarray, Zhao Ye's mood was rather good.

A man's spirit soars on joyful occasions, as if he had found a satisfactory suitor for his own cherished daughter. These past couple of days, Zhao Ye would often burst into laughter, whether he was reviewing petitions or awoken midway through his sleep.

The two people accompanying him in the garden to appreciate the remaining blossoms were, needless to mention, an old eunuch who did not need to be summoned and was the emperor's long-standing companion, accompanying the monarch's side throughout most of his life, never straying far. The other was the Grand Marshal of the Song kingdom, reverently known as the Battle Lion, Xu Batian.