[Empress-Contends-for-the-Throne Story]
[Founder of Han in Hanzhong]
Many years later, when Zhang Yan, the "Black Mountain Bandit," peacefully closed his eyes, ennobled as a Marquis Within the Passes and surrounded by a hall full of filial children and grandchildren, he would still involuntarily recall that young lord of his, drenched in blood and strikingly alluring amid the blazing flames.
When she picked up a ring-pommeled saber and killed her first person with her own hands, she resolved to make all under heaven submit to her will and become the kind of person she liked.
Theme: The Great Han spirit never dies.
