Lu Ziqian was taken aback at first, then looked at her with a strange expression: "How could that be? I'm not stupid!"
"Imperial orders are hard to disobey. The Emperor couldn't swallow this anger and insisted on fighting. None of the civil and military officials could dissuade him, and I couldn't disobey the imperial decree."
"Alas, the war against the Jin Kingdom was too easy. I was praised so highly that the Emperor really thought I was omnipotent."
Su Yujiao stared at the man's handsome features and said, "Could you please not go?"
"You can't bear to part with it?"
Su Yujiao turned her face away and ignored him. She couldn't explain how she felt.
Although I don't want to continue living with him, I don't want to watch him die either. Their relationship is just incompatible; there's no deep-seated hatred between them.
Lu Ziqian held her in his arms, stroked her fair face, and gently comforted her, "Don't worry, I'll be back safely."
"Thirty thousand men may be few, but you have developed gunpowder and explosive charges. With such powerful firearms, we still have a chance to win."
"It's alright if we can't win. His Majesty knows that the disparity in strength in this battle is huge, so it's normal that we can't win. He sent troops just to let the Northern Rong Kingdom see our attitude."
"I'll play it by ear. If all else fails, I'll just run. If we can't win the war, can't I just run away?"
Su Yujiao gently pushed him away: "I'll go prepare your luggage and get you some extra self-defense medication."
Lu Ziqian gazed at the woman's slender back, a hint of emotion flashing in his eyes. In the quiet night, he suddenly asked, "Jiaojiao, you still love me, don't you?"
"Otherwise, you wouldn't care whether I live or die."
"They won't pack my luggage or prepare my medicine."
Su Yujiao paused, turned around and stared into his eyes, answering him very seriously: "I just don't want you to die, it has nothing to do with love."
"Two years ago, when you abandoned me to those bandits, you didn't intend for me to die, but you didn't love me then, did you?"
"I am the same as you were before. I don't love you, but I don't want you to die either."
"After all, we don't have any deep-seated hatred, nor are we that malicious. We wouldn't be hoping for the other to die a miserable death every day."
"Does a divorce mean I have to spend every day hoping for your death?"
"Your death will benefit no one but Prince Bei Jing. If he becomes emperor, the outcome will remain the same, as for us..."
What should we do about the child?
What will happen to my parents?
What should I do about my friends?
No one can escape the fate of a tragic death!
Therefore, to change her fate, she had to get rid of the male and female protagonists. She refused to believe that if the male and female protagonists were dead, the author would still be able to follow the original plot.
Currently, she cannot eliminate Chen Yunniang, but she can deal with the Third Prince first.
She didn't want, and couldn't let, the people around her continue to suffer the fate of cannon fodder!
Therefore, Lu Ziqian cannot die. He is the Crown Prince's greatest support, and the Crown Prince is the only one who can compete with the Third Prince for the throne.
Lu Ziqian listened to Su Yujiao's unfinished words, but he couldn't quite understand them. He felt that there was something hidden in her words, such as what ending, or what about us.
Su Yujiao went out for a while and came back in with a bowl of herbal soup.
"What kind of medicine is this?"
Su Yujiao said coldly, "Afraid I'll poison you?"
Lu Ziqian hesitated for a moment, then stopped asking and drank it all in one gulp.
"It's really bitter. Do you have any candied fruit?"
"Go find someone else to serve you."
Su Yujiao teased him and left with her bowl.
Lu Ziqian missed the old days when she was always obedient, gentle, and considerate.
Every time he finished taking his medicine, she would carefully hand him mouthwash and then give him a piece of candied fruit or dried fruit to mask the bitterness in his mouth.
Unfortunately, he didn't appreciate it then. He not only ignored her care and thoughtfulness, but also found her annoying, as she clung to him all day long.
Now, she no longer shows him tenderness and care, and he finds himself longing for the woman he knew before.
Lu Ziqian fell asleep while thinking about it. He had wanted to wait for her to come back so they could sleep together, but his eyelids were too heavy to lift.
Su Yujiao returned to her room, looked at the sleeping man, injected some clear liquid into his legs, and then lay down to sleep as well.
At the city gate, Lu Ziqian, clad in full armor, rode majestically on his horse, preparing to lead his troops into battle.
Su Yujiao stared at the man's legs, unable to tell whether what she was seeing was the real world or a dream.
No, this is a dream. Last night he injected an anesthetic into Lu Ziqian's legs, so he shouldn't be able to move his legs.
However, she couldn't tell whether this was her own dream or Lu Ziqian's dream.
Never mind whose dream it is, she can use the dream to let him see what happens next.
In her dream, her every word and action was not subject to divine punishment.
The man on horseback kept turning his head back, and finally saw Su Yujiao in the crowd.
He spurred the horse, turned it around, and walked towards her step by step.
"Jiaojiao, I knew you would come to see me off."
"When I come back, I will make it up to you."
"Don't like anyone else, and don't marry anyone else."
Su Yujiao nodded, then waved her hand, and the scene transformed into a bloody battlefield.
Lu Ziqian and his remaining troops were forced into a canyon, where they were surrounded by 300,000 troops from the Northern Rong Kingdom, who were determined to starve them to death.
"General, our supplies are running low. We can only last for three more days at most."
How long until reinforcements arrive?
"Wait a little longer, reinforcements will surely arrive."
Three days passed, and the Lu family army still couldn't get reinforcements from the imperial court.
The provisions were gone, the warhorses were gone, the tree bark was gone, and even the leather armor was boiled... In the end, even the comrades who had starved to death became food.
Lu Ziqian had never suffered such a crushing defeat. He did not eat the corpses of his comrades, but he did not stop his soldiers from doing so.
He has no right to stop someone's instinct to live.
In the end, the Northern Rong army stormed into the canyon and brutally slaughtered the inhabitants as easily as cutting vegetables and melons...
Lu Ziqian stood amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, fighting to the very last moment. Even when pierced by countless arrows, he stood upright and refused to fall.
After his death, his soul floated in mid-air and saw Jiaojiao appear on the battlefield.
"Jiaojiao, what brings you here?"
"Jiaojiao, I broke my promise and didn't make it back alive."
"Jiaojiao, in the next life, I will definitely make it up to you."
He reached out to hug her, only to find that he had passed right through her body.
He is now just a wandering ghost, without a physical body, so he can't hold her at all.
Su Yujiao turned and left, but his soul followed her ever since.
In the blink of an eye, he had followed her to the Imperial Study.
Jiaojiao, what brings you to the Imperial Study?
Are those the Emperor and the Prince of Bei Jing?
It's one thing if they can't see themselves, but why can't they see Jiaojiao either?
Could it be that Jiaojiao is dead too?
Just as Lu Ziqian was filled with doubt, the Prince of Bei Jing spoke up: "Father, the war between Marquis Jing'an and the Jin Kingdom has reached a stalemate, and he is in dire need of reinforcements."
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