Baya sharply eyed her elderly father as she laid down her argument. Her expression was as if she would hurt her father if she had the chance. Jaejun scrunched his face.

“Do you have something in mind?”

“Before the empire has a chance to operate under its new reform, we need to shake the place up. We need chaos rather than order right now.”

“Chaos?”

“A large-scale chaos,” Baya quietly corrected.

Jaejun closed his eyes. His mouth filled with bitter saliva. He never wanted to see this side of his daughter. How did things become like this? She was still his daughter, right?

She was no longer the daughter he knew. She was willing to throw away her father and the entire family. She had become a monster… Jaejun had used her to get to the next prospective emperor, but she had turned into an uncontrollable monster instead. However, she was just one of the many people who were spreading throughout their family like poison…

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[Note: Rain’s reform and its process]

What tension and discomfort did Rain’s reform present to those in power within the Damun Empire, and how were the reforms implemented?

Rain suggested reform in the following stages.

To persuade the imperial courts on the need for reform, Rain summarized the empire’s problems into three points:

First, the empire’s financial insolvency was getting worse. The Imperial courts mainly created revenue from three sources: revenue directly given to the emperor from his lands, the revenue from the monopoly businesses operated by the imperial courts, and the large amount of money each principality and powerful family paid three times a year.

The amount of...