Shen Zhao tore up the ban and went out alone to fight, using the women's camp fires as beacons and the enemy corpses as road signs, fighting bloody battles in seventy-nine cities, and actually forced the enemy to kneel down to negotiate peace. Pei Yan chased her with a military order in hand, but found on the battlefield that the complete tactical map she left behind was three points better than the empire's century-old military strategy. Bai Zhuo's assassination arrows, Cui Huai's secret messages in the account books, and Su Ling's ears and ears, all reshaped the definition of war in her turmoil. When the covenant of peace for a hundred years was signed under the blood moon, no one knew that what she tore to pieces was not the military regulations, but the iron shackles that had been pressing on women's shoulders for thousands of years.
