"Over the course of the following millennium, our Mu Family kept our oath and did not relentlessly pursue and slaughter the descendants of the Zhao Family. However, without the support of their clan, the survival of those orphans and widows was anything but easy. Most of them died in wars and plagues or lived in extreme poverty. Even if some managed to leave descendants behind, who would remember the former glory of the Zhao Family? Some people even lost their own surnames.
By the time the first millennium had concluded, our ancestors in the Mu Family were on high alert, carefully on guard while sending people everywhere in search of the descendants of the Zhao Family, only to end up finding none, merely a false alarm.
