As for the reason, it was because he had once been betrothed to the daughter of the No.3 big shot in that eastern rebel faction.
Empress Qian listened to her younger brother complaining about this engagement; he couldn't make the decision himself, and he had never even seen that big shot's daughter.
Unfortunately, the political situation was complicated; even the slightest flaw could change the outcome.
Empress Qian soothed her younger brother a bit, and after sending him away, she sat alone in silence for a long time.
Things had changed again, and even the reasons behind them had changed.
She even began to wonder whether what she remembered, what she thought, was truly her own—or if that, too, had been arranged.
She began to enter the next stage, the stage of doubting her whole life.
Still, she remembered why, today, her brother could return safely, and why the maid who had grown up serving him could come back alive.
