She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 169: Unknowingly, Quite the Temper

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Unknowingly, Quite the Temper

The procession returning to the Capital City had picked up a little tail.

Someone had reported this to Yan Wanqing early on.

"Just let her be," Yan Wanqing pretended not to know and even instructed her subordinates to not interfere with her.

It wasn’t until dusk, while everyone was halting to regroup, that Yan Wanqing from inside the carriage curtain saw Li Chengyuan boarding the carriage of the Seventh Prince and her smile deepened.

Some people, she didn’t even need to stir the waters; they were doomed to ruin by their actions.

Meanwhile, Xiao Hongshen was originally meditating.

Suddenly, a shadow darted into the carriage, and he automatically seized the intruder by the neck.

He nearly strangled Li Chengyuan, who had intended to surprise Xiao Hongshen.

"It’s, it’s me, Your Highness!" Li Chengyuan used all her strength to pry his fingers off.

Upon hearing her voice, Xiao Hongshen retracted his hand, and simultaneously spoke in a displeased tone, "Shouldn’t you still be at the manor? How did you end up here?"

"I, I wanted to be with Your Highness all the time," Li Chengyuan’s face flushed with shyness.

To disguise herself as a maid, she had applied thick makeup on her face, and now her timid expression looked rather frightening.

Xiao Hongshen, suppressing his disgust, said, "Nonsense, I’ll have someone send you back now."

"No, Turquoise Pool won’t go!" Li Chengyuan, upon hearing Xiao Hongshen intended to send her back, immediately protested, "Turquoise Pool can help Your Highness."

"You?" Xiao Hongshen sized up Li Chengyuan, his eyes filled with derisive laughter. He purposely leaned forward, clasping her chin with one hand, "Help me with what? The journey is long, and military life is tedious. Are you thinking of helping me relieve some stress?"

Li Chengyuan blushed deeply at his husky tone, her voice as soft as a kitten’s, "No, it’s not that."

"Then what is it?" Xiao Hongshen chuckled softly, "With women in the army, there is only one use."

Li Chengyuan, feeling small, was displeased.

She pushed Xiao Hongshen away and turned cold.

"After being with Your Highness for so long, am I just an ordinary woman in your eyes?"

Seeing her thus, Xiao Hongshen felt very impatient, but still tried to placate her.

"I know you are talented, but leading troops and waging wars is no child’s play. If someone discovers a woman like you with me, what would people say?!"

"Then why can Yan Wanqing go?!" Li Chengyuan bit her lower lip in defiance.

She didn’t think she was inferior to Yan Wanqing.

She had read Sun Tzu’s Art of War, historical records, and had taken examinations.

Being a highly educated person, she was more than capable of being a military strategist.

Seeing Li Chengyuan bring up Yan Wanqing again, Xiao Hongshen’s eyes flashed with annoyance.

"That’s the Emperor’s personally appointed general, which has nothing to do with me. If you think you can do it, you might as well go back now and ask Father Emperor for permission to join the fight."

Li Chengyuan pouted, her expression very aggrieved, "Are you scolding me, Your Highness?"

Feeling cornered, Xiao Hongshen pulled her into his arms, "When have I scolded you? It’s the truth. I forbid you from going because I’m worried about you. Once we return to the Capital City, you should go back to your residence first, and don’t get involved in this chaos, alright?"

Li Chengyuan knew she could not convince Xiao Hongshen at this moment.

But her reluctance had been completely ignited.

After returning to the Capital City, she planned to dress as a man and join the military camp directly.

Starting from the bottom, when the time came to fight in the battles and earn military merits, she would see if Xiao Hongshen still dared to underestimate her!

Li Chengyuan had made up her mind.

She had read many novels where the female leads started their rise from the military, earning merits with their own strength and compelling the male leads to see them in a new light, making them indispensable eventually.

After making up her mind, Li Chengyuan stopped causing trouble.

Xiao Hongshen thought that she had listened to what he had said, so he held her and lay inside the carriage, which soon began to sway...

During the half-month journey back to the Capital City, Xiao Hongshen and Li Chengyuan lived very comfortably, hardly ever leaving the carriage.

Every night, the sound of a woman’s sobs could be heard from outside Xiao Hongshen’s carriage.

Wanqing, feeling disgusted, directly made her way to the very front of the procession.

When they finally returned to the Capital City, she didn’t even return home but immediately began to ready the troops for deployment, and to this, Xiao Hongshen surprisingly raised no objections.

The Imperial Edict and Marshal’s Seal were both in Wanqing’s hands, and the soldiers looked at her—someone they couldn’t best with a single punch—on the stage with full of suspicion.

Is Dawei doomed?

To have assigned a woman as the Great Marshal to lead troops into battle.

The voices of doubt were like waves, one louder than the last.

Wanqing, her expression unreadable, looked down upon the soldiers below her.

So many years had passed, the generals had been replaced time and again.

Very few knew her, Wanqing, and being questioned was expected under the circumstances.

"Everyone be quiet!" Xiao Hongshen yelled, then laughed looking at Wanqing, "Princess Anping shouldn’t be afraid. This military camp is like this; everyone respects those who are stronger than themselves. You, a woman, being entrusted with such responsibility, this situation is to be expected. But no worries, if there’s anything the Princess can’t handle, feel free to let me deal with it. We can forget the past grievances when it comes to deploying troops for battle."

This talk made Wanqing seem like a delicate woman who could only cry when faced with problems.

But it’s no wonder the soldiers doubted.

So beautiful and frail she was, wearing a long dress standing upon the high platform, while below her were uniformly sun-darkened men, a striking contrast indeed.

Wanqing gave Xiao Hongshen a glance.

"Your Highness may question me, but you cannot question the Emperor," she stated.

Xiao Hongshen sneered, "Stubborn, are you? Fine, I will hold my tongue and see how you deal with this!"

He, with his entourage, swept away their sleeves and left.

Leaving Wanqing alone to face the many fierce and rebellious soldiers who still did not accept her.

Xiao Hongshen had walked far when he turned around and saw Wanqing still standing on the high platform. "Let’s see how your silver-tongued skills will convince these soldiers who only respect true strength," he said.

Nearly as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Wanqing leap down from the high platform and walk directly into the crowd.

What did she mean by that?!

Xiao Hongshen frowned slightly and began to walk back.

The pace of his walk quickened.

At that moment, Wanqing wrapped her sleeves around her wrists and, expressionless, knocked out a fat soldier who had spoken rudely to her.

She stood on the belly of the fat soldier, looked around gravely and announced, "The situation is urgent. I’ll give you half a day to get ready. At sunset, we march. Anyone who dares to slack will be executed immediately!"

She withdrew her foot and, without a glance at the soldiers’ reactions, swept her sleeves and left.

These were Dawei’s soldiers, strictly disciplined.

She didn’t believe these men trained by their forefathers would fail to understand the importance of military orders.

If that was the case, she wouldn’t mind executing a few to set an example before marching.

Wanqing had moved so quickly that no one had time to clearly see her strike before the fat man had hit the ground.

"Was it her who struck, or someone near her?"

"Don’t know, didn’t see clearly, but she sure has a temper," they murmured.

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