In the end, the King of Wu was not paraded before the Cangqiong People. This was a great disappointment to the many who had hoped to glimpse the vanquished monarch.
The main event they had been waiting for never happened...
But neither Xu Ji nor the Cangqiong Emperor, Huangfu Haoran, would ever do such a thing. Leaving one's opponent a final shred of dignity was a principle every person in power understood.
To have the monarch of a nation locked in a prisoner's cart, for all to gawk at... Unless there was some unforgettable, deep-seated hatred, almost no one would ever do such a thing.
Although the Cangqiong Empire and the Wu Kingdom could be described as generational enemies, Huangfu Haoran himself had no real personal animosity toward the King of Wu. The two had never even met.
This historic meeting was a perfect illustration of the saying: the victor is crowned king, the loser branded a bandit.
