"Hmph, you better behave. Get up and hide under this seat." The man opened the box under the seat, which was just big enough for the petite Di Jinghan. Di Jinghan closed her eyes, glanced at the soldiers entangled outside, and reluctantly shrank inside.
The man sat down steadily, and Di Jinghan felt a suffocating sense of humiliation. She vowed to repay him tenfold in the future.
The soldiers came up to check but did not find Di Jinghan, so they told them to take a detour.
Unable to proceed north, they had no choice but to detour through Dongyang to return to Beixiang. Leaving Yingfeng City, the carriage headed east, just as Cheng Er and his men arrived, having missed them.
Upon learning that Liu Xinqi's men were heading east, they quickly gave chase.
At the end of the year, the only pass leading to Dongyang was Yuwu Pass. After seven days of hardship, Liu Xinqi's men led the thin and disheveled Di Jinghan to Yuwu Pass by taking a detour to avoid the inspection.
Yuwu Pass, the place guarded by Li Yannian, was opened by him under the pretext of the year-end. He received a secret decree that the eldest princess had gone missing and that the people who kidnapped her were on their way.
He sent men to conduct a thorough search of the border area near Dongyang, just to find the princess he was worried about. How could someone as delicate and noble as her endure the brutal treatment by the villains? He had to rescue her as soon as possible.
Inside Yucheng, Li Yannian rode a tall horse, followed by his trusted confidants. Soldiers, spears in hand, patrolled vigilantly. No one was checking Di Jinghan's portrait; it was just routine city defense.
Having received advance notice, Li Yannian immediately ordered his men to secretly surround the carriage as soon as they learned it was entering the city. With Cheng Er and his men following behind, they were trapped.
Di Jinghan was forced to stay in that small box again, daring to be angry but not daring to speak out. When would this kind of life ever end?
She decided she would fight desperately later; she would never live a life of dependence on others, much less become a bargaining chip for them to control her elder brother.
So what if we both go down fighting?
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