Overnight, the illustrious Mu family was wiped out. After killing them, the culprit set the place on fire, and the blaze burned for three days and three nights.
Everyone lamented the loss of the Mu family's exceptionally talented legitimate daughter. They wondered how the Tang family would react, since the Mu family's daughter and the Tang family's eldest son had long been betrothed.
"A Li, trust me." The man reached out to her.
She sat limp and hopeless on the ground, as if she had not heard him. The man wasn't annoyed; he sat down beside her.
"Whoever did this, I'll see that you get justice."
At that, she finally reacted. "What if it was the person in the imperial palace?"
The man smiled nonchalantly and pulled her into his arms. "Whoever it was."
Six months later, Western Wu won a great victory. Mu Li returned with the army stationed at the frontier. By then, her identity had changed beyond recognition. She had left as the sole surviving daughter of the massacred Mu family, but returned as the meritorious young military strategist Mu. She would get justice for her family.
