"Why? Why!"
He knelt in the ruins of Humen and shouted angrily at the retreating fleet.
"Isn't our Qing Dynasty the Celestial Empire! Isn't our China the Great Kingdom! But why are we defeated... Why are we unable to win!!"
Tears streamed down his face, and he kept hitting the ground with his fists, crying uncontrollably.
"No one can defeat us, and no country can shake our British Empire. We, the British Empire, will definitely be the greatest existence in the world!"
Edmund stood on the high tower of the Royal Navy Port in Portsmouth, speaking grandly and high-spiritedly in front of the 47 British naval warships that were about to go to the ocean.
"I don't know why I like him. Maybe it's because of my preference for China? I don't know. I fell in love with him when I first met him. Maybe it's love at first sight..."
She lay on his lap, listening to him playing the guzheng, and looking lovingly at the Chinese man she wanted to entrust to her life.
