The last tea party ended unhappily due to Su Chen's refusal and the unrequited love between the princesses.
Yuefeng rejected Suchen's marriage proposal on the spot, and everyone was waiting to see Suchen make a fool of herself.
What was unexpected was that after that tea party, the Emperor did not pick a fight with Su Chen again.
Since transmigrating to this world, Su Chen has always maintained a strong sense of self-awareness that the Emperor dislikes her.
She had already prepared herself for being completely kicked out of the court by the Emperor after the tea party, but the Emperor treated her as before, neither warm nor cold, as if he had no idea what had happened at the tea party.
Thus, Su Chen also began to be unable to understand the Emperor.
And so, after three years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Su Chen remained in that mediocre position for three years.
The political landscape at court shifted from a power struggle among the fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and twelfth princesses to a situation where only the fifth, seventh, and tenth princesses held sway. The remaining princesses were either disabled, demoted, too young, or simply too dissolute to be considered respectable. Among them, the fifth and seventh princesses wielded the most power and were considered strong contenders for the crown prince position.
Over the past three years, Su Chen's relationship with the Tenth Princess Jin Rulan has become increasingly harmonious, and she has even become Jin Rulan's confidante and third wheel.
As for Yuefeng, Su Chen rarely saw him, and even when she did, she would deliberately ignore him as if she hadn't seen him at all.
Unexpectedly, a sudden storm broke out.
Three years of peace were suddenly disrupted by unrest on the border.
For reasons unknown, the Western Winter Kingdom openly declared war.
Enraged, the Emperor imprisoned the hostage Xuan Yu and warned the Western Kingdom that if it took another step forward, Xuan Yu would be beheaded and his head displayed to the public.
Unexpectedly, the Western Winter Kingdom simply disregarded the safety of this so-called Third Prince and immediately marched its army forward, swallowing up three border cities of the Eastern Autumn Kingdom in one fell swoop.
Just as the person on the dragon throne was about to behead and expose the hostage Xuan Yu's body, everyone realized that Xuan Yu, who should have been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, had already escaped, and the person who replaced him in the prison was none other than Yue Feng.
The court was in uproar, and the emperor was furious. He ordered Yue Feng to be executed by slow slicing and Jin Rulan, the tenth daughter who had always been close to Xuan Yu, to be placed under house arrest.
On a chosen day, the Emperor returned the military tally to Su Chen and appointed her as the General Who Pacifies the West, ordering her to go to the battlefield three days later and quell the enemy forces of Xi Dong.
Everything happened very quickly; only seven days had passed from the anomaly in the Western Winter Kingdom to the current situation.
At night, Su Chen lit an oil lamp, picked up a long spear from the corner of the wall, and casually twirled it. In the past three years, Su Chen had regained ninety percent of the original owner's martial arts skills, and now wielding a spear was no longer a problem for her.
He danced for a while until a light sweat appeared on his forehead before he stopped.
Su Chen found a clean cloth and wiped the gun barrel. Looking at the gun tip gleaming coldly under the light, she couldn't help but curl her index finger and tap it, the unique metallic humming sound reaching her ears.
Su Chen nodded in satisfaction, leaned the gun against the wall, her expression slightly serious, and asked, "Is the matter settled?"
The system's voice rang in her ears: [Yes, the villainous boss has been rescued, and the substitute doll you made has been placed in the dungeon.]
Su Chen's expression softened somewhat.
"I've already told a certain villain that you were the one who saved him. Su Chen, didn't you give up on winning over the big villain three years ago? Why did you still reveal this?" Ning Wu asked, puzzled.
"Who said I gave up on winning him over?" Su Chen raised an eyebrow, a sly glint in her eyes.
[Um... I can't tell at all that you haven't given up.] You clearly ignore people who try to talk to you, and you always disregard their existence. No matter how you look at it, it seems like you've already given up on them.
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