"Liu Peng once promised me that he would also send the families of the Twelve Golden Phoenixes to me. During the last few days in Zhongzhou, I didn't want to create additional problems, so I didn't bring it up. Now that we're back in Modu, this is our turf, we don't need to look to the Liu family anymore. Jiang Tao, originally, it would have been more appropriate to send Fan Gao on this trip to Zhongzhou since he was the one who brought up the bet in the first place. However, with his injuries, we have no choice but to ask you to make the trip."
At the end of January, the sunshine in Modu was bright and warm. With less than a month until the New Year, the daytime temperatures could maintain in the teens Celsius, and even without the air conditioning on, the villa at Emperor's Mansion was not too cold.
