Summary
It has been three months since Ma Chao has been recruited by Zhuge Liang into Shu and he cannot help the inner conflict between what is justified and what feels right when a young Cao haunts his thoughts. "I tried to hate her because of what her father was, because she was the spawn of a murderer. Perhaps it is because she was not my enemy, she never was…" One-sided Ma Chao/OC