Wei Yuan perked up. Had the guy finally realized his mistake and written a letter of surrender?

Alas, his reward for opening and reading the letter was anger. It wasn’t a letter of surrender; it was a letter urging him to surrender. Yuan Qingyan had calculated that Wei Yuan must have run out of supplies at this point, so he wrote a letter to him persuading him to submit to the imperial court. He claimed that, if Wei Yuan was willing to hand over Qingming, he would gladly cede the position of commandery administrator to him.

The letter’s tone was earnest, but given Wei Yuan’s temperament, it came off as less of a plea for surrender and more of a declaration of war. Yuan Qingyan surely knew this—was he deliberately provoking him because he was confident in his victory?

However, Wei Yuan was no longer the man he once was. As a prominent general of the consort kins, he believed he could eventually deal with Yuan Qingyan...