The North Qiu Kingdom was very secretive about the countries that had sworn allegiance to them. It was coincidental for one to find out that the Nieyun and Minglan Kingdom were working with the North Qiu Kingdom.

Envoys that had come to the Xia Kingdom to exchange secretive information all stayed at the relay station. It was under coincidental circumstances that they had come across Pan Wen interacting with the envoy from the Nieyun Kingdom. Thus, the Nieyun Kingdom had sworn allegiance to the North Qiu Kingdom even before Rong Yuan and Gu Lingzhi’s wedding had taken place. On their wedding day, they had worked together to undermine the Xia Kingdom. Now that the Minglan Kingdom and the Nieyun Kingdom were working in cahoots, Rong Yuan had to step up to remove such a threat from occurring.

“There’s no need to. The Minglan Kingdom’s defenses are alright for now, but if you send assistance to the Nieyun Kingdom then you may have difficulty defending your front. Why don’t the Sangna Kingdom provide assistance instead? The Xia Kingdom will send assistance to the other two smaller countries. What do you all think?”

Rong Yuan’s decision was exactly what the Sangna Kingdom had...