"Are you waiting for your worthless snacks? Tuoba Shu, as a defeated opponent, you should have the awareness of a defeated opponent."
"Your Desert Kingdom abandoned you in the Cloud Kingdom like a pawn. If I were your father, I would have kept to myself and lived a quiet, unassuming life. Why couldn't you think straight?"
Yun Lian gently clapped her hands twice.
Many of Tuoba Shu's personal guards were hung from the city gate.
The moment he saw them, panic flashed in Tuoba Shu's eyes.
"Impossible! Impossible! How could someone from ancient times possibly know the future? There must be a traitor among them, right?"
Tuoba Shu was reincarnated into a desert country. Relying on the knowledge he learned in modern times, he believed that he could definitely do whatever he wanted in ancient times.
Every man dreams of being a hero on the battlefield, but he never expected that his first time on the battlefield would end at the hands of Yun Lian.
Even though he lived as a hostage in the Yun Kingdom, it did not dampen his enthusiasm in the slightest.
He believed himself to be the chosen one, destined to achieve something great before returning to this world.
He secretly recruited soldiers and secretly undermined the foundation of the Yun Kingdom. If it weren't for the Yun Kingdom's female generals and officials' high regard for the Yun Kingdom, he might have been able to buy most of these officials.
But those people were unmoved by any of his promises.
Tuoba Shu was furious.
He painstakingly colluded with neighboring small countries and finally managed to send Yun Lian away using wicked and unorthodox methods.
But her peaceful days hadn't lasted long, and the recruitment drive wasn't even over when she came back!
That was the turning point in his life.
Tuoba Shu was unwilling to accept this.
He tried countless times to assassinate Yun Lian, but she remained cooped up in the palace and refused to leave.
Even when she returned to the princess's residence on occasional occasions, she was always surrounded by people.
Tuoba Shu's desire to kill Yun Lian was so strong that he even dreamed about killing Yun Lian or replacing her.
He was treated as an invisible nobody and lived in the hostage residence, but they secretly provided him with many conveniences.
Knowing that Yun Lian would come out to pray for the Empress's injury during the Flower Festival, he was so happy that he couldn't sleep for two nights.
But he never expected to be faced with this kind of scene.
Yun Lian spread her hands, a half-smile on her face, and stared at Tuoba Shu.
"If that's how you think, there's nothing I can do. You say there's a traitor, then there is a traitor. But it's too late for you to say all this. Tuoba Shu, aren't you very eager to take over other countries, yet you lack the strength to do so?"
"Don't worry, I will let you witness firsthand how your country will perish."
"Ah, no, if your father and mother are sensible, perhaps they can allow you to stay under the protection of the Yun Kingdom in the future."
Yun Lian instructed the reformed soldiers to lift up Tuoba Shu.
"Aaaaaah!!! Yun Lian, I'm going to kill you! Why did Heaven create both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang?"
Nobody cares about what the losers say.
Yun Lian had no desire to spend time with him.
When Yun Lian learned that the mastermind behind everything was such a nobody, she felt a deep sense of pity for the Yun Kingdom.
If her soul had been inside her body the previous times, she would never have been killed so easily by a mere defeated opponent.
Yunxi and her mother would not have met such a tragic end.
Yun Lian arrived at the palace and sent all the people she had just captured to prison.
After bidding farewell to Yunxi, he led the soldiers from the southeastern and western regions straight to the country where Tuoba Shu was located.
The tiger has been sitting in the top position for too long, and those ignorant little beasts below it always try to provoke the king's majesty.
Only by demonstrating our strength can we make them wary.
Yun Lian showed almost no mercy in this battle.
The female assassin from many years ago has returned to the battlefield, but this time she is like a life-reaping machine.
On the battlefield, there is only the distinction between friend and foe.
Armed with a crossbow and gunpowder, while others could only fight with red-tasseled spears, the female general of Yun Kingdom completely outclassed them.
The Desert Kingdom also had a low-end version of gunpowder, but many of them were duds, the technology was not mature enough, and they were almost completely outmatched by the Cloud Kingdom.
It wasn't until the small country behind Tuoba Shu surrendered that everyone finally woke up from their daze.
Tuoba Shu's parents were spineless. When Tuoba Shu rose to power, they devoted the entire nation's resources to obeying his commands.
After witnessing Yun Lian's iron-fisted methods, he could no longer muster any thoughts of resistance.
When others carry cannons while you only have knives, the outcome of a war that is unequal from the start is predictable.
Before Yun Lian even reached their palace, the former emperor and empress had already changed out of their everyday clothes and were respectfully waiting for Yun Lian's arrival.
Yun Lian didn't even have a chance to say the coercive and enticement lines she had prepared beforehand; she was almost forced to ascend the throne by them.
Yun Lian was both amused and exasperated.
Fearing that staying in this small place for too long might lead to them convincing her to become emperor, Yun Lian rushed to her residence. Once the person sent by Yun Xi to hand over the duties arrived, she immediately went to Yun Qingcheng.
Yun Lian arrived with a large army. Although she was always beautiful, she also had a somewhat murderous air about her under the armor.
Almost as soon as they entered the city, the people spontaneously lined both sides of the road to wait for them.
"General Yun is back!"
"It's our Crown Princess!"
"Ahhh!!! Your Highness, look at me! I come from a respectable family and am handsome, making me the perfect match to marry into the princess's household!"
"Welcome back to the city, Your Highness!"
Yun Lian looked at the people on both sides of the road who trusted them unconditionally, and her eyes welled up with tears.
It was these lovely people who, after the villains took advantage of her death, brainwashed them, leading to the demise of the Yun Kingdom.
But it was these lovely people who loved and cherished her, whether she was alive or dead.
Yun Lian had a smile on her face almost the entire way, and her cheeks were almost sore from smiling.
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