Spring had arrived, and the mountains and waters were turning lush. The weather was slowly warming up, yet in Qingzhou, closer to the north, the world remained wrapped in a blanket of silver.
At the Qingzhou military camp, in the Crown Prince's tent, an urgent eight-hundred-mile express dispatch from the Wu family had just arrived.
Upon hearing the news that his maternal grandmother, mother, and sister were all dead, the Crown Prince nearly lost his mind. He smashed everything in the tent and drew his sword to strike down a dozen soldiers of the Han Family Army. It wasn't until Old General Han and the Second Master of the Han family arrived that he finally calmed down. The Han family had long since learned of the Empress’s fate, but they felt it was merely reaping the consequences of her own evil deeds.
Chapter 174