Chapter 104: The Traitor's Fall, The Dust Settles

The capital city of the Yue Country, a place of supposed peace and imperial authority, awoke to the brazen clang of war bells. It was not a distant alarm from the borders, but a frantic, chaotic tolling from within the city walls themselves. Smoke clawed at the dawn sky, rising from the direction of the city gates and the Royal Armory. The screams of men and the clash of steel echoed through the grand boulevards, a symphony of treason. Jinjun, the man who had once stood a breath away from the...