After the Jin Kingdom’s army failed too many times, even Meng Jingzhou spiraled into despondence, thinking that victory was just a pipe dream.

“Can I really win?” Meng Jingzhou asked himself in the mountain cave, but he found the answer in his heart too bitter to utter it out loud. 

“Hmm, a spider?” Meng Jingzhou noticed a spider weaving a web.

Watching the spider fail repeatedly but never stop trying greatly astonished him.

“The spider rises again after every failure. I can’t be worse than a spider, right?”

Meng Jingzhou’s morale was boosted, and he planned to rally his forces again to battle the Liang Kingdom once more! 

“The Liang Kingdom’s army is stronger than ours, but it is not an insurmountable gulf between us. Besides, how could I give up just because of a few defeats? If I give up, what is the Jin Kingdom behind me supposed to do? I believe that with the appropriate stratagem this time,...