Pei Zhi sat up straight and said, "General, you have no right to say such a thing."
Yuan Chengyu asked with suspicion, "What do you mean?"
"Such jealous and sour remarks are inappropriate for a general."
Yuan Chengyu came to his senses and understood Pei Zhi's meaning.
The two gazed at each other silently, when Yuan Chengyu suddenly asked, "When will the princess know of my feelings for you?"
Yuan Chengyu believed that he had kept it a secret very well.
Little did they know that the princess had already taken everything in.
"When you spoke up for me in front of the Emperor."
People are driven by self-interest.
She, a woman, dared to come to the border.
As the commander-in-chief, Yuan Chengyu did not hesitate or try to persuade her; he directly helped her plead with her father, the emperor.
The reason is easy to guess, isn't it?
After all, she was just a princess without a powerful background, and there was nothing that Yuan Chengyu could use against her.
Yuan Chengyu hadn't expected it to happen so early.
"The princess is indeed very intelligent."
Pei Zhi replied without the slightest hint of modesty, "Otherwise, you wouldn't like it, would you?"
Yuan Chengyu chuckled, then shook his head. "The princess is right."
"Now, Princess, can you tell me what your purpose is?"
Pei Zhi picked up the teapot, poured water into the cup in front of her, and handed it to Yuan Chengyu.
"I am not a rash person."
Pei Zhi did not believe that Yuan Chengyu liked her, so she could take advantage of Yuan Chengyu's kindness to make him work for her.
Loyalty and friendship are worthless.
In the face of life and death, nothing else matters.
Moreover, what she wants is too great. If Yuan Chengyu finds out, he might sell her off.
Pei Zhi wouldn't be so foolish as to gamble with her own life.
Yuan Chengyu understood Pei Zhi's meaning and picked up the teacup in front of him, rubbing it in his hands.
He was just thinking about how to make Pei Zhi completely trust him.
"All these years, my mischievousness has been an act."
Pei Zhi responded, her mood low, not at all surprised.
"My father's leg was injured by His Majesty."
"Oh?" Pei Zhi became slightly interested.
“I am not willing to pledge allegiance to him, and I am not willing to become a second father.”
Yuan Chengyu put down his teacup and then knelt on one knee in front of Pei Zhi.
"If the princess needs anything, I am willing to serve her for the rest of my life."
Yuan Chengyu spoke sincerely, but he was also testing the waters.
He wanted to know if his guess was correct.
Pei Zhi raised her lips: "Even if this road is full of thorns, you won't regret it?"
Yuan Chengyu looked at Pei Zhi with reverence: "As long as the princess needs me, I am willing to brave any danger, even mountains of knives and seas of fire."
Pei Zhi remained silent for a moment before saying, "I have remembered your words. It is getting late, go back and rest."
Yuan Chengyu was somewhat disappointed, but he simply nodded, stood up, and prepared to leave.
"Tomorrow, Your Majesty will give you a list. All the people on that list are my people. In the upcoming battles, you will make good use of them."
Yuan Chengyu's face lit up with joy, realizing that Pei Zhi had opened a door for him.
The subsequent battles went very smoothly.
Yuan Chengyu has not wasted these years, as he has Pei Zhi, his strategist, by his side.
In just half a month, they captured five cities in the Kingdom of Solo.
Solomon suffered repeated defeats, so it was not at all unexpected that they hung Princess Dekang on the city gate.
It was even a bit late.
Yuan Chengyu believed that the Kingdom of Solo should have introduced Princess Dekang when the fighting had just begun.
Princess Dekang, dressed in magnificent robes, had her hands bound and was hanging from the city gate, her voice hoarse from crying out.
"If you don't withdraw your troops, I'm going to strip your princess naked right here!"
Pei Zhi reached out her hand to Yuan Chengyu, who said, "I'll do it."
If Pei Zhi's true goal is the capital of the Kingdom of Solo, then Princess Dekang is doomed to die.
Yuan Chengyu, however, was unwilling to let Princess Dekang die at Pei Zhi's hands.
He was afraid that after returning to the capital, someone would cause trouble for Pei Zhi.
Pei Zhi didn't want to waste any more words, "Give it to me."
Having no other choice, Yuan Chengyu handed the bow to Pei Zhi.
Pei Zhi drew his bow and shot the man who had threatened to strip De Kang naked with an arrow.
Pei Zhi lowered his bow and arrow and shouted, "I can grant you one wish."
Dekang realized that he was being spoken to.
She understood that this meant she was being asked to say her last words.
The months that Decon spent in Solo were a living hell.
All that luxurious life of the past is now just a fleeting memory.
Now, if you ask her what her wish is?
Dekang's previous wish was to return to the palace at all times.
She wanted to return to her father and mother's side and become the incomparably noble Princess Dekang again.
Instead of being a discarded princess sent for a political marriage.
On the eve of her wedding, Dekang went to beg her father, the emperor, to spare her.
Her father had said that as long as her mother agreed, she could substitute one thing for another.
Dekang was overjoyed, thinking he had escaped a disaster.
But her mother said that if she was no longer Princess Dekang, what would be the point of her living in this world?
My mother said that if she went to marry a foreign ruler, at least it would give my brother a good reputation.
If it were revealed that the princess sent for the marriage was a fake, it would bring trouble to the emperor.
At that time, Dekang was utterly despondent.
She only just realized that her mother didn't love her at all.
Dekang closed his eyes and shouted with all his might, "Kill Gao Wanlin!"
Dekang was never a magnanimous woman.
While still in the palace, she relied on the emperor's favor and became arrogant and disdainful of others.
And now, as she was dying, all she wanted was to drag the person she hated most into hell.
Gao Wanlin was the birth mother of Dekang and the Fourth Prince, and was known as Consort Gao.
Pei Zhi replied loudly, "Okay."
He then drew his bow and gave Dekang a quick death.
Pei Zhi's decisiveness in this battle seemed to have given all the soldiers a shot in the arm.
So what if they are princes? So what if they are favored princesses? In the face of national and personal vendettas, they are nothing.
They advanced with unstoppable momentum, and news of their victories kept reaching the capital.
After receiving the news, Emperor Pei also issued an order, instructing Yuan Chengyu to negotiate a truce with the Kingdom of Solo.
Pei Zhi was standing beside Yuan Chengyu when he received the imperial decree.
Yuan Chengyu looked at Pei Zhi and asked for her opinion.
The place where they set up camp was not far from the mountains.
To conquer the capital of Solo, one must cross this mountain.
The soldiers set up camp around the area and also loaded up their bows and crossbows in case wolves came down from the mountain to attack them in the middle of the night.
"Princess, how should we reply?"
Pei Zhi took the letter from Yuan Chengyu and threw it into the brazier inside the tent.
"Later, I will have someone intercept and kill the messenger. After we take over the capital of Solo, you can say that we did not receive this letter."
Yuan Chengyu hesitated for a moment, then said, "Alright, whatever the princess says goes."
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