Originally, she had not known a single one of these people.
It was purely by chance that she had copied this list of names from the Second Prince. These were the officials who, like Marquis Fu, supported him. Now that the Marquis had vanished, these men were like lips without teeth—cold, exposed, and thrown into a panic. Some served in the court, some in the military, and others had already retired to a life of seclusion. Some were long-time soldiers of little renown, while others were influential figures in the capital. At first glance, they seemed entirely unconnected.
None of this originally had anything to do with Jiang Yue, but the great fire at Wuyue Town was inextricably linked to them. When she had handed the list to the Crown Prince, he had told her that the day the Second Prince fell, these people would vanish along with his crumbling empire.
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