After the celebration banquet, Pei Zhiyuan sent a team of black-armored wolf cavalry to escort the envoys of the North Sea Kingdom and the deposit of 10 million taels to the border.
The welcoming team sent by the North Sea Kingdom was overjoyed when they saw their envoys bringing back a silver convoy that stretched for dozens of miles.
"Didn't we tell you to bring more men? How are we going to escort so much silver back with so few people?" The envoy from the North Sea Kingdom blamed the welcoming team for not being well prepared and was worried about how to transport the silver.
Xue Yu stood aside and replied in fluent Beihai dialect: "Dear envoy of the friendly country, our team can help you escort the money to Beihai Kingdom to avoid attacks by pirates."
The envoy hesitated for a moment and agreed to Xue Yu's request.
The generals of the Black-Armored Wolf Cavalry finally entered the capital of the North Sea Kingdom on the pretext of escorting silver.
Xue Yu also sneaked in secretly and after making inquiries from many sources, he finally confirmed the news about Xue Yan.
He was trapped in the residence of Princess Bailidai of the North Sea Kingdom.
Baili Dai is the most beloved daughter of the Monkey King. She is spoiled, willful, difficult and arrogant.
After Xue Yan was captured, the Beihai Kingdom originally planned to exchange him for a gold mine, but the vicious princess saw that he was handsome and insisted on forcing him to marry her.
Xue Yan refused, so he was locked up.
Although he was a hostage of Haoyue Kingdom, he suffered inhuman abuse. The princess used every means to make him surrender.
Whipping, starvation, insults and abuse were commonplace.
But Xue Yan still maintained the appearance of a gentleman as gentle as jade. Even when he was beaten and covered in blood, even when he fainted from hunger, he still maintained his demeanor as calm as a chrysanthemum.
“Don’t act like you’re not going to die, I’m not going to let you go.
You know, the Haoyue Kingdom has sent people to redeem you again. This time, they brought a full 10 million taels of silver.
Prince Consort Xue, you are truly a cash cow."
Bailidai glared, pinched Xue Yan's cheeks hard, and poured the medicine into his mouth.
Xue Yan tried hard to break free from her hand, but someone roughly held his shoulders and grabbed his head, and forced the life-saving medicine into his mouth.
He stopped talking and resisting, and let them force-feed him the medicine.
Bailidai slapped him angrily, "Talk to me, look at me!"
Xue Yan didn't move, like a puppet that had lost its soul.
"If you don't want to talk, give me my whip!" Bailidai was furious and angry. She became frustrated because she couldn't get the love she wanted.
"The prince consort is already very weak. If he is whipped again, he will die."
The attendants beside her hurriedly whispered to dissuade her, saying that the princess was violent and domineering and would punish and execute her servants and slaves at any time.
After Xue Yan came to the princess's mansion, Baili Dai fell in love with him and had already executed many of his concubines.
Because of his stubbornness, the servants in the yard were replaced one after another.
If anything happens to Xue Yan again, all these slaves will suffer.
"Okay, then you take the beating for him." Sure enough, the princess pointed a whip as thick as her knuckles at the stammering servant.
The servant was quickly dragged out. From outside the courtyard came wailing and the servant's voice crying, "Prince Consort Xue, please speak to the princess and beg her to save me."
The man obviously didn't speak Beihai dialect. I don't know if he was from Yanyang or Haoyue.
Xue Yan sat upright in front of the couch, his face pale and silent.
Baili Dai was very unhappy with Xue Yan's reaction, but she had no other choice, so she ordered the guards: "Listen carefully to this princess, if your husband doesn't speak for a day, I will beat one of my servants to death.
Until the Prince Consort is willing to speak!"
She turned to look at Xue Yan, narrowed her eyes and threatened: "Don't worry, my dear husband, that all the slaves in the mansion will be killed. There are plenty of slaves in the princess's mansion anyway. Yang Chonghu, the servant from Haoyue, has sent a thousand prisoners of war."
Xue Yan's expression finally showed some sign of reaction. His pale lips moved slightly as he asked in Beihai dialect, "Yang Chonghu, have you surrendered?"
Bailidai pinched his jaw and said proudly: "You finally spoke. If you didn't speak, I would have thought you were mute."
Xue Yan said weakly, "I can be your consort, serve you, and obey you... I want you, Beihai Kingdom, to hand Yang Chonghu over to Pei Zhiyuan."
"Are you trying to avenge your female prime minister?" Bailidai's grip on his jaw suddenly tightened, and she threatened, "Who do you think you are?"
Xue Yan lowered his eyes and hid the light in them. "If the princess doesn't want to, I won't force her. Pei Zhiyuan is just like me, he won't give up."
"Okay, considering Haoyue Nation's sincerity, I will go and ask my father to bring Yang Chonghu over."
Bailidai released his jaw and sat down in front of him. "Prince Consort Xue, are you really willing to serve me?"
Xue Yan raised his lips and smiled. His voice was very soft, but full of temptation. "Princess, neither you nor I have any bargaining chips. Yang Chonghu is your only bargaining chip that can drive me.
But you must seize the opportunity."
Bailidai really liked his smile. She raised her hand to touch his sunken face, and stroked his eyebrows with her fingers. "When I first met you, I saw the stars in your eyes, deep and sharp, like a wolf galloping on the grassland.
I know you are a rebellious man.
Gentleness, elegance and grace are just a disguise of the body.
Just like now, with a smile on his lips, but a hunting gleam in his eyes.
Even if it is skinny, the wolf still retains its wildness.
But why are you unwilling to accept me? How can I tame you?"
Xue Yan's tone was gentle and calm, without a trace of emotion. "Princess, don't you understand that only dogs can be tamed?"
"Then why are you willing to be tamed like a dog just to avenge your female prime minister?"
"A wolf will always be a wolf and will never be tamed into a dog. Even if you tie me up with a leash for my entire life, I will never become a dog."
"Since you are a lone wolf, why are you willing to work for your female prime minister? She is dead, and you even want to avenge her. What on earth did she use to deceive you?"
Xue Yan looked at Bailidai, his dim eyes filled with a trace of pitiful mockery, and he sneered, "She won't tie me up with a dog leash, nor will she use a whip to force me to submit.
She told me that I am who I am and whatever I am.
Princess, you use a leash and a whip to tame a wolf, but you will only get a dog."
Bailidai put her arms around his neck and her tone became gentler. "Then tell me, how can I tame you?"
Xue Yan said nothing more, lowered his eyelids, and hid the murderous intent in his eyes.
The female minister said that a lone wolf will never regret pursuing freedom until death.
The reason why he was holding on now was simply to wait for the moment of revenge.
A lone wolf may bow his head and surrender in order to seek revenge, but that does not mean that he will lose his wolf nature and completely become a dog.
Wait until Yang Chonghu dies.
Maybe he can go pursue his freedom.
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