With a huge margin of five votes in favor and one vote against, Hua Cai donned specially made armor and gloriously became the first female general in the history of the Yue Kingdom.
At the gates of the Yue Kingdom's capital, Jin Yin looked at Hua Cai on horseback at the front of the procession with teary eyes. Her image of many years had completely collapsed, and she almost burst into tears on the spot.
“Father, once I conquer Li Kingdom, we will go and take back everything we owe you, bit by bit.” Hua Cai looked at Jin Yin, who was staring intently at her: “That bottle of blood-dissolving powder, and that fire, I will always remember them. I must personally repay the sins I committed.”
"Stare—Yue Chen's favorability has increased by 20 points, currently at 85."
A crisp system notification sound rang out, but Hua Cai, unfazed, ignored it and continued to bid farewell to Jin Yin. With a flick of her long whip, the army slowly began to march forward.
Fifteen minutes later.
"Baozi, I feel like something's missing." Hua Cai suddenly spoke up, feeling that something was amiss.
The system was silent for a moment: "Something's not right."
The scene fell silent again.
"Can we speed things up?" A suppressed voice, tinged with resentment, rang out. Hua Cai looked up and saw Yue Chen, clad in dark blue armor, straddling his horse, looking at her with slightly furrowed brows.
Hua Cai was taken aback. Looking at the cavalrymen leisurely strolling behind her, she suddenly understood. Her cheeks flushed, and she quickly shouted, "Full speed ahead!"
The force heading to the border city this time consisted of only 20,000 cavalry, whose overall speed was perfectly suited for a rapid march, with the aim of reaching the border city in the shortest possible time and catching the Li Kingdom off guard.
Once she stepped out of the city gate, she suddenly started daydreaming and walked along like a horse, no wonder Yue Chen, who usually didn't give her a good look, couldn't help but urge her on.
Hua Cai glanced somewhat awkwardly at Yue Chen's back, who had already run ahead of her, when suddenly a brilliant idea flashed into her mind.
"I realize something's wrong. This time, the sensitivity level was raised, but it didn't decrease again," Hua Cai said in surprise.
As a character with a very strong presence in Jin Baozhu's current mission progress, Yue Chen's favorability was diligently recorded by the system. Thus, during the three years that Hua Cai lived in the Third Prince's residence, she witnessed Yue Chen's erratic favorability.
Every time the favorability rating increases, it is immediately followed by a sharp drop. Without exception, this time there was only one favorability rating notification message.
Hua Cai pulled up the system message panel in disbelief and checked it repeatedly; there was indeed only one message.
Hua Cai stared at the back of Yue Chen's head with a strange look in her eyes. She couldn't figure it out at all. This snake spirit had been sick for so long, and now he had suddenly become normal. Why was she so unaccustomed to it?
"General, it seems that Deputy General Yue is ill." A rough voice came from behind. Hua Cai shifted her gaze from the back of Yue Chen's head to the person who had come.
It was Shi Zhong, another deputy general appointed by the Yue Emperor.
"Sick?" Hua Cai asked, puzzled. Wasn't she just fine a moment ago?
Seeing the genuine expression on Shi Zhong's honest face, Hua Cai quickly spurred her horse to catch up with Yue Chen: "Yue Chen?"
Yue Chen sat upright on horseback, his eyes fixed straight ahead. He didn't turn his head to look at her when he heard the sound. His thin lips moved slightly, and he uttered two words in a stiff voice: "What?"
Oh my god, what a terrible temper.
Over the past three years, Yue Chen has caused her so much trouble that now, whenever she sees him with a cold expression, she feels an itch to retaliate.
"I heard you're sick?" Hua Cai tried hard to suppress her temper, constantly reminding herself that she was now the commander-in-chief of an army and needed to maintain her composure, and could not act the same way as before.
Whether it was her imagination or not, the person on horseback seemed to freeze as soon as she said that.
"No." The voice was still stiff, which made Hua Cai furious: "Deputy General Yue, I'm talking to you, and you don't even look at me. Do you have any respect for military regulations?"
Hua Cai tilted her head back and had no choice but to resort to her trump card.
The superior command quality of Yue Kingdom determined that the quality of its soldiers far surpassed that of the other three kingdoms. When Hua Cai said this, he was speaking to his deputy general in the capacity of a general.
Yue Chen paused, then turned his head without hesitation, looking at Hua Cai with a serious expression: "This subordinate obeys your command, General, please speak."
Hua Cai stared in disbelief at Yue Chen's serious face, almost falling off her horse: "You—what's wrong with you? Why is your face so red?"
Yue Chen's handsome face, which was difficult to describe, was now covered in a flushed red, making him look as if he had been burned.
"It's nothing." Yue Chen's face seemed to turn even redder, his eyes darting around and avoiding Hua Cai's gaze.
Hua Cai frowned: "Could it be that someone is trying to poison Yue Chen at this time and then frame me?"
That shouldn't be the case. She's been in Yue for three years now. Let alone making enemies, under the protection of the Yue emperor and Jin Yin, she hasn't even had the chance to meet anyone else in Yue, let alone find anyone to make enemies with.
The system remained silent. You're staring so blatantly at a man who has an 85% affinity for you, and you're blaming the Third Prince for blushing?
Not hearing a reply from the system, Hua Cai felt that she must have guessed correctly. She instantly focused her mind and fixed her gaze on Yue Chen, paying close attention to the movements around him.
So, after holding out for half an hour, Yue Chen, unable to bear it any longer, decisively turned his horse around and followed Hua Cai's horse.
Hua Cai: ...What am I supposed to observe if you're following behind me? I don't have eyes in the back of my head.
With her beautiful big eyes wide open, Hua Cai turned her head and glared at Yue Chen: "You, either stay by my side or stand in front of me, choose one."
The crisp sound spread outwards, carrying an undeniable air.
Yue Chen instantly felt like he had become the focus of 20,000 people, with countless meaningful gazes falling on his face, and a few people trembling from trying not to laugh. Did they really think he didn't see them?
Embarrassed, awkward, and secretly pleased, with a strange and sweet feeling in his heart, Yue Chen didn't know whether he should cry or laugh. He stiffly spurred his horse to Hua Cai's side and rode alongside her.
“That’s right.” Hua Cai nodded in satisfaction: “From now on, you cannot leave my sight. This is my order.”
Yue Chen's obedience surprised her, and Hua Cai was very satisfied with it.
She refused to believe that those people around her had any tricks up their sleeves.
Even though the cavalry marched at high speed, they still couldn't cover a thousand miles a day. At night, they still needed to find a place to set up camp.
The open plains were convenient for riding horses and traveling. When setting up camp for the night, they didn't deliberately look for a place with many trees. They just found a decent-looking spot on the march and settled down.
Watching the soldiers busy preparing military tents and dinner, Hua Cai wandered around aimlessly, but couldn't find a single tree.
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