Chapter 283

On the last episode of Rising Phoenix:

Kereyid lied to Medora. The medicine he gave her included aphrodisiac. It is not yet clear the medicine actually causes bruises.

Kereyid knows about a secret relationship between Medora's husband-to-be and the Grain Official of Yu Zhou City, the man principally in charge of the military grain shipments to the steppes. Kereyid rapes Medora so that her future husband will be unhappy with Helian Zheng and FZW for disrespecting him. Kereyid is gleeful at the chaos that will follow.

Back home in the Steppes, HLZ and FZW have easily put down Gadd's Rebellion now that the King has obviously not been murdered by the Queen. The ambitious relatives of HLZ are wrangled, and Patriach Kereyid is deposed in absentia. Fire Fox suffers land confiscation, with the precious Dark-Gold Mine seized by HLZ.