o to the city gate I can fight those soldiers to the death, buying you time to escape.'"The Saintess peered through the gaps in the dilapidated window, watching the howling wind and swirling snow outs...eld power and intimidate before his own people, flaunting the authority of a high-ranking official like himself, even daring to threaten me with palace rebellion! Yet, when facing the Liao people, he...