"It's only a matter of time. That woman Yin Xuan'er will eventually kill Dugu Qianchen." This is inevitable. It's not that he's confident of victory, but simply because...
This is just like him back then, when a woman almost killed him!
His gaze darkened as he thought of this.
"How can you be so sure?" Shang Xian glanced at him, having already noticed something, but choosing not to say anything.
He smiled at her: "It's nothing."
Shang Xian smiled slightly, but Shen Yi couldn't tell how fake or distant her smile was, though she knew it very well in her heart.
"Alright, it's getting late, I'm going back to sleep, bye~" Shang Xian ignored the hand on her waist, stood up, closed the door and left without any apparent change in expression. The whole process was quick, giving Shen Yi no chance to speak.
The smile on her face instantly cracked as soon as she left Changning Palace.
It seems she was too naive. Not everyone is Li Ci. Shen Yi is just his protector and a partner right now.
It's just a cooperative relationship, and nothing more.
He was the most trusted person in this system's world, but not when he returned to Licheng.
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Just as Shen Yi said, barbarian tribes invaded Tianqi, and no one was willing to go to the frontier. The old general was getting old, and in the end, everything went according to Shen Yi's plan.
No one objected to sending women to the battlefield because they were all cowards. This made Dugu Qianchen feel a sense of crisis. He didn't know when these people had become like this. The old ministers who followed him and helped him kill his brothers back then were all old. These years of good weather and abundant harvests had made him forget the killings of the past.
The news that Consort Ning was to become the Marshal of the Western Expedition spread throughout the entire Tianqi Kingdom. With the marshal's seal in his hands, Dugu Qianchen temporarily entrusted the tiger tally to him.
He had never given the Tiger Tally to anyone before, but this time he actually gave it to Shen Yi. In fact, he didn't believe that anyone was without ulterior motives, but he thought that Lan Ning was a woman who couldn't cause any trouble, so giving her the Tiger Tally to establish his authority was not a bad idea.
But he never expected that one day in the future, the tiger tally he used to establish his authority over Lan Ning would actually harm him!
Dugu Qianchen and the other three, along with Shen Yi, were discussing matters in the Imperial Study. None of them had expected this woman to be so decisive.
"Your Highness, are you sure you want to go?" Rong Ling put away her folding fan and looked at Shen Yi with a conflicted expression.
If no one else was going, he would have gone too, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but I really didn't expect it!
"I don't like to say it a second time." Shen Yi's cold and handsome appearance, if not for his face, would not have made him seem like a woman.
"Your Majesty, please don't joke around. This is no joke. How could you not know..." Dugu Lianbai was so anxious that he was frightened by a look from Shen Yi before he could finish speaking.
"What do you think is wrong with me that makes me untrustworthy?" Shen Yi asked directly.
Seeing that they remained silent, he continued, "You all think I'm just someone who can only wield a sword? In that case, let's give it a try."
"This..." Dugu Lianbai hesitated.
Shen Yi glanced at him disdainfully: "I can let you have it."
Rong Ling was displeased: "Come on, let's have a contest. Don't think that just because you're a concubine, I wouldn't dare to make a move."
"Ah Ling," Dugu Lianbai felt that Rong Ling's words were inappropriate and immediately reminded him.
"Yes, that's how it should be. A real man shouldn't be so fussy."
Dugu Lianbai: "..."
Dugu Qianchen: "..."
Yu Hanzhi: "..." He was speechless.
Rong Ling was filled with questions.
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