A Smile in the Snow

In the spring of the forty-second year of the Luan Dynasty, Zhao Kai, who had suddenly emerged, led General Wang Fulou and an army of 200,000 to attack Tai'an City. In the spring of the forty-third year of the Luan Dynasty, Tai'an City was captured, and the old dynasty came to the new dynasty! In the winter of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, Tai'an City encountered a rare heavy snowfall in a century. The snowflakes in the sky were as big as the palm of a child. The treasury of Tai'an City, which had just experienced the war, was empty and the granary was bottomed out. In the winter of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Kai died of illness. In the spring of the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, the young prince Zhao Shu ascended the throne and took over the stall. Prime Minister Duan Wenjie assisted the young prince in running the government. In the summer of the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Duan Wenjie ordered the young emperor to issue an edict, granting Wang Fulou the title of King with a different surname, enfeoffing the land of Tianjizhou City, and the 20,000 Wang family troops in Tai'an City to accompany Wang Fulou to Jizhou City. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.