At night on the 12th day of the tenth lunar month, inside the study room of the Zhu Clan Head at the Zhu Residence in Guang'en County, Yulin Prefecture of Yin Province...
"What to do…? What to do…?" The Zhu Clan Head, Zhu Changyun, paced around in his study room anxiously with beads of sweat on his forehead. In his trembling hands was a letter. "Qiyun Protectorate General Yan Liqiang has sent us an ultimatum. Second Brother, didn't you say that this would be properly done and be untraceable? What should we do now? Yan Liqiang openly wrote a letter and had the manager of Yulin Prefecture's Datong Monetary House deliver it to us today. He's only giving us three days to send the perpetrator and Xue Cao to Qiyun Prefecture. What should we do…?!"
