Fan Li trained Shi Yiguang into a double agent.
She would deploy her beauty, her figure, and her arts of dance to entice the King of Wu, and then by retreating to advance, refuse to become his bedchamber guest.
King Fuchai of Wu was utterly bewitched by Xi Shi, spinning round and round her—because the beauty one cannot have is forever the most desirable.
King Fuchai of Wu quickly grew tired of the obedient consorts at his side. All day long he gave no thought to affairs of state, circling only around Shi Yiguang. Under her stratagems, he undertook grand construction projects, building terraces and pavilions, all just to coax a smile from his beauty.
Little did he know, he had already stepped into the trap that the Beauty Trap had constructed, and the economic strength of the State of Wu was rapidly being weakened.
His ministers exhausted themselves remonstrating with him, but under the offensive of the beauty and the submission of King Goujian of Yue, King Fuchai of Wu was already in a daze of intoxication, and accepted none of their counsel.
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