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A month rolled by.
In Cloudpeak Province, November snows sealed the roads; carts and horses bogged down. Li Yuan’s network of scout birds could not reach the region, so they scattered across Silkfloss Province instead, bringing him a clear picture of the brewing storm.
He pieced the truth together in moments. His earlier suspicion that Gu Xuejian had sided with Qing Hancheng evaporated.
“Not bad,” he murmured in praise.
In fact, he had arranged a similar smokescreen. If Gu Xuejian hadn’t acted, his own agents were ready to plant near-identical rumors, turning every eye southward and buying his party time to slip away. His people, though lower ranked, might have been caught. Yet even that failure would have bought him hours.
Gu Xuejian’s strike wiped out those worries entirely. In Li Yuan’s ledger, she had done him a grand favor.
Now, however, travel was nearly impossible. The horses stumbled, and the carriage refused to...
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