Amidst the reeds so lush and green, morning dew turns into frost so keen. The fair one I seek, across the water she lies, beyond reach yet ever close in my thoughts.
As Chu Mo gazed at the delicate and lovely woman before him, these verses suddenly surfaced in his mind.
The person before him was not the imagined Zhou Yuanyuan, but Zhou Weimin's only daughter, Zhou Ruyi, a woman who had never drawn Chu Mo's attention and seemed utterly inconsequential.
It took but a moment for Chu Mo to guess the purpose behind her seeking this turnabout.
Due to the interference from Chu Mo and the eight major families, the Zhou family was now in chaos, in complete disarray. The Zhou family no longer possessed the nobility of one of the four great families of Magic Capital, all that remained was ruin, open to being butchered and manipulated by others.
