Lu Ze whispered, "Have you ever thought about this: if you really become a princess one day, will there still be a future between you and me? If I weren't the grandson of the Zhao royal family, it wouldn't matter to me, but I am of the Zhao royal family bloodline.

Yuning, when you said you wanted to be a princess, you didn't consider our future at all."

Qi Yuning said, "We have Lingling in our future. Besides, my brother wouldn't agree. Besides, we'll both know that it was Xiao Zhaojie who became the emperor. I just thought so, and you're angry with me..."

Lu Ze pinched Qi Yuning's nose and said helplessly, "You, you clearly never considered me at first, and now you say I'm angry with you."

Qi Yuning asked: "Then can you stop being angry?"

Lu Ze said calmly, "Don't be angry anymore. As you said, the throne will eventually belong to Xiao Zhaojie. You won't have the chance to be a princess anymore. But Yuning, I hope you can consider me when you think about the future. We will eventually be husband and wife."

Qi Yuning smiled and said, "Okay."

On the seventh day of August, the troops, who had rested in Chang'an for three days, set out again.

When they arrived outside Shangzhou City, it was the ninth day of August. At the gate of Shangzhou City, the Qin army had already made preparations. As soon as the Qi army arrived, they were surrounded by the army from Gyeonggi Province.

On the wall of Shangzhou, Qin Zhen looked down and shouted, "Qi Yu'an, if you leave your sister, Princess Qi, to warm my bed and serve me, I will spare your lives!"

Qi Yuning, who was with the army, frowned when he heard Qin Zhen's dirty words at the city gate.

Lu Ze beside her drew his bow and arrow, and the arrow, shining in the sun, shot through the wind towards Qin Zhen's eyes on the city wall.

Qin Zhen didn't expect a sharp arrow to shoot at him, and he didn't dodge at all. The arrow hit Qin Zhen's eye.

Lu Ze handed Qi Yuning a sword and told the secret guards around him to take good care of Qi Yuning. Then he rode forward to kill the soldiers on Gyeonggi Road.

Qin Zhen, with an arrow in his eye, shouted angrily, "Kill them, kill them quickly!"

"It's Lu Ze!"

"It's Prince Lu!"

"Shouldn't Prince Lu be dead? Why is he still alive?!"

Qin Zhen listened to his men's words. He had an arrow in his eye and couldn't open one of his eyes. He couldn't see Lu Ze's appearance clearly, but he could only hear the sound of fighting below.

Qi Yuning had been with the army for many days, but had never seen such a scene. Although she was wearing armor, she did not dare to act rashly. She held the sword in her hand and was well protected by several secret guards of Lu Ze.

Her eyes were fixed on Lu Ze, who was slashing the enemies in front of her. Lu Ze was riding on a horse, brandishing his spear.

The fully armed Qi family army broke through the siege and hit the city gate with a huge log. When the city gate was broken, Qi Yuning saw the soldiers on both sides making way for them, with dust flying and horses' hooves clattering like thunder.

It turned out that Zhu Yang and Zhu Feng led 5,000 soldiers and rode into the city with great momentum. As soon as the cavalry entered the city, the Qi family army broke into Shangzhou city like a hot knife through butter. Many soldiers from Jingji Province raised their hands and surrendered when they saw the Qi family army cavalry.

Seeing this, Lu Ze sneered. What kind of troops could Qin Zhen bring with him? He didn't expect that Qin Zhen would leave the troops from Gyeonggi Province to resist the Qi family army.

After Qi Yuning entered Shangzhou with the large army, Shangzhou City was a vast plain. From afar, Longhua Mountain could be vaguely seen in the clouds...

It is only one step away from Shengjing.