Several days passed very quickly in Falling Star City, the capital of the Southern Star Province that now stood under the banner of the First Princess Hua Zhaoyue's rule.
At first, Sylvia had assumed that the lightning-fast massacre and public execution of the former mayor, along with the corrupt officials, would trigger a harsh chain reaction. She had expected the remaining elite factions in the capital, or the noble groups who had lost their illegal funding sources on the border, to recklessly send hired assassins or declare a retaliatory attack on this city. Yet the reality on the ground unfolded far differently from her expectations.
Falling Star City rested in an extraordinarily peaceful silence, or more precisely, a peace grounded in an extremely profound sense of dread.
