Xiao Lingqiu's compromise undoubtedly cleared the biggest external obstacle on Jiang Shouzhong's path to becoming Emperor.
Though Yanrong thus lost the opportunity to contend for the tempting prize that was Dazhou, incorporating Nanjin Country smoothly into the map also dissolved some of Xiao Lingqiu's long-held grievances.
Once a woman makes up her mind to let go of past obsessions, she often embraces the present with an exceedingly passionate attitude.
In the following days, Jiang Shouzhong and Xiao Lingqiu, along with Yelü Miaomiao, indulged in ongoing entanglements.
Xiao Lingqiu was unwilling to rest for even a moment.
Meanwhile, Miaomiao was either pushing, or amid the process of pushing.
Curiously, however, in the days that followed, the sky remained draped in persistent drizzle, its canopy gloomy, with no sign of the sun appearing.
This made Jiang Shouzhong, endowed with the Heavenly Divine Fortune, keenly perceive some anomalies.
