Yixuan was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen. His second brother had woken up but, deterred by the cold, hadn’t gotten out of bed yet, while his fifth brother was still sound asleep. He caught sight of his eldest brother returning to the room for a moment, then taking a piece of clothing to the riverside. Looking towards his eldest brother, carried by the wind, his long hair flew, but he saw that his eldest brother’s back was covered with spreading ink stains. His eyebrows furrowed slightly, a strange feeling beginning to rise in his heart. Before he could ponder further, the sound of horse hooves came from outside the courtyard. Soon after, a figure, covered in dust, dismounted from the horse. Liang Haoming—he had returned from Jun City! As he dismounted, he saw his eldest brother about to head towards the river and quickly strode towards him. "You’re back," his eldest brother said, turning to Haoming, who then pulled out a scroll of paper from his bosom: "This, Shen Qiuyang!" It was Shen Qiuyang who had asked him to bring it to his eldest brother. The eldest brother took it, glanced over it, and then his thin lips formed a cold, hard curve. "Indeed, it confirms..." All that he had foreseen in his dreams. Shen Qiuyang had put a lot of effort into obtaining these pieces of information. The leader of the Tribe of the Outside was a woman, who was also a prince of Dayuan. She commanded a mighty force of a hundred thousand, and although this force couldn’t compare with Dayuan’s million-strong Iron Cavalry, each of them were fierce and excellent warriors with daunting reputations beyond The Outside. This female leader had visited the inland in her earlier years. She was fickle-hearted and once had a romantic liaison with Pei Yu’s father. However, she soon grew tired of the affair and abandoned Father Pei. Pei Yu, though, was left behind. After all, he was not lacking in heirs, so he did not place much importance on the matter. However, in Zhi Chen’s dream, the leader’s children had died one after another, and just as she was worrying about the lack of a successor, she suddenly remembered Pei Yu, the child she had abandoned at Father Pei’s all those years ago, and decided to bring Pei Yu to her side... Zhi Chen gave Haoming a hearty pat on the shoulder, "You’ve worked hard!" Haoming looked at his eldest brother, blinked, "...You’ve lost weight." His voice was muffled; he had been away from home for many days, but it was precisely for this reason that he could tell at a glance that his eldest brother had, indeed, lost a lot of weight compared to before his departure. Afterwards, Haoming kept silent. His eldest brother went to the riverside, changed into a clean set of clothes, and then diligently washed the ink stains off the dirty clothes. Only after that did he pick up the wet clothes and head back home. The kang bed was very warm, and Dong Huiying was sleeping lightly when she had a very frightening nightmare. She dreamt that Shujun was tied to the back of a horse by Aunt Zhao, then they encountered a pack of wolves, countless wild wolves pounced toward Shujun. In the dream, she was shouting and screaming, trying to prevent all this from happening. She even rushed forward, hoping to shield Shujun from the wolves, but her body was like a ghost shadow, passing right through Shujun in an instant. When in the realm of the dream she saw a vicious wolf leap towards Shujun, biting her neck in one bite, her own screaming woke her up. She opened her eyes suddenly, her vision blurry and unclear; she dumbly touched her face, which was wet with tears. She blinked, looking up at the wooden beams of her room, and was lost in thought for a long time. Then suddenly, a large hand reached over, awkwardly wiping her face. She looked towards the owner of the hand and saw Haoming standing by the kang bed, silent, with a stony face. "Liang Haoming..." she breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded vigorously, as if to comfort her, cursing his own clumsy tongue. After struggling for quite some time, he finally managed to eke out a sentence: "It’s alright, don’t worry!"