Shen Changting was stunned.
He spoke with difficulty, "Your Highness, are you teasing me?"
Shen Changting has always felt insecure, so Qingdai left the decision-making power to him, "What do you think? Changting."
She spread her arms, overflowing with love and trust, "Come and hug me, or should you stand where you are?"
Almost instantly, Mo Xiang walked over quickly and hugged Qingdai into her arms.
"Your Highness, let me hold you."
“Ding—the task is completed at 75% progress”
Shen Changting held the back of Qingdai's head with one hand and placed his chin on her forehead, feeling in a trance.
After ten years, he finally came to His Highness's side.
After returning home, Qing Dai acted like a clingy couple who had just established a relationship, clinging to Shen Changting and refusing to leave.
The night was as cold as water. Qingdai took Shen Changting and sat on the long steps outside Linxi Courtyard.
She had drunk too much at the palace banquet and was drunk. Qingdai leaned on Shen Changting's shoulder in confusion, "Changting, what type of woman do you like? Is she like the eldest sister?"
Shen Changting was frozen and didn't dare to move. Hearing these words, he turned to look at her, feeling a little aggrieved for no reason, "Your Highness, don't you know what kind of woman I like?"
Qingdai didn't seem to hear it, and she was bound to drink like crazy until the end. She said angrily, "Huh, seeing my eldest sister confessing to you makes me so angry that my heart hurts."
She covered her heart and screamed.
Shen Changting was stunned for a moment, and he boldly picked up Qingdai's chin. Seeing her red face and blurred eyes, he immediately understood that the person in front of him was drunk.
He sighed softly and put his green-white jade fingertips on Qingdai's lips, "You little fool."
Shen Changting is several years older than Qingdai, and this title is filled with indescribable intimacy and affection.
Qingdai's head was turning bit by bit, and she was very dissatisfied, "What fool! Shen Changting is the fool! Why? Why didn't you say anything when you were wronged? Why do you think I like someone else?"
The moonlight flowed quietly in Shen Changting's eyes. When he smiled, the surrounding night seemed to tremble.
"Because he loves you so much."
The fine water reflected the glistening wetness, "That's why he didn't dare to gamble. He would rather be like a coward and stay by your side."
Shen Changting held Nuan Yu through his clothes, which seemed to give him stability.
"Little fool, Shen Changting has loved you for a long, long time."
Qing Dai pursed her lips and whimpered to express her displeasure.
Shen Changting leaned closer to listen, "What?"
With the soft touch on his cheek, Shen Changting heard His Highness's voice, unhurriedly, "Then I will start to love you now. I will love you for a long, long time too."
Shen Changting suddenly opened his eyes wide.
For a long time, he held his forehead and bent down with a smile. For the first time, he lost the manners of a high-ranking young man.
He said, "Your Highness, you are so evil."
Qingdai held her hands back and laughed heartily with Shen Changting.
That night, Linxiyuan lived up to its name.
The hope finally came.
Just a few days after the two had settled down in the mansion, urgent military reports from southern Xinjiang arrived.
Qingdai's heart tightened: It's coming!
Maozi was also nervous: Don’t die.
Qing Dai gave me a white look: Then give me a golden finger.
Maozi closed his pocket: No.
Qingdai: Oh.
Qingdai remembered that her twentieth blind date was an officer. During that blind date, the straight man took her to simulated battlefield dates every day.
Qingdai was unconvinced when she was pressed down and beaten by a man in the early stage. On the fortieth day, after Qingdai won the man with a record of 6-2, she happily dumped the straight man.
So she should be... quite talented, right?
Qingdai stood in the Imperial Study Room, with her hands on her chest and saluted, "What is the Queen Mother's decision now regarding Southern Xinjiang?"
"The two generals of the Zhong family have already set off for southern Xinjiang, so you don't have to worry."
"Mother," Qingdai knelt straight down, "Qingdai took the initiative to invite me to come."
"Dai'er," the queen put down her pen and smiled, "You are the third princess, how can you just go to the battlefield casually?"
"What's wrong? Are you having a conflict with your husband? Are you going to run away to avoid the limelight?"
"..." Qingdai was silent
"Oh, I heard a few days ago that you two had a good relationship. Why, have you changed your mind?"
"..." Qingdai said helplessly, "Mother Queen, please read less of the script."
"Oh. You get up first." The Queen hissed, "Then you can't go."
"Your father must know that a few years after you came back from the military camp, I threw you into the battlefield again and had to twist off my ears."
Qingdai laughed, "Mother, I'm not kidding."
She stood up, her expression gradually becoming more serious, "This turmoil in southern Xinjiang cannot be taken lightly. Their new king came to power at the beginning of the month, and his methods are terrible."
The Queen also suppressed her joking expression after hearing this, and leaned forward slightly, "Seriously?"
"A few years ago, when the new king was still an unpopular prince, I fought against him. He was a completely ruthless character. He was good at all kinds of underhand tricks, using poison, poison, and tricks. As long as he could win, he had no shame. If he had the power to command the three armies back then, I might not have been able to win."
These words were extremely serious, and the Queen said seriously, "If Dai'er's words are true, then I'm afraid you really have to go."
There is no doubt that the top general who leads the army in Beiming is the Third Highness.
The Queen was worried, just like the most ordinary mother at this moment, "Diel...how sure are you? If not..."
Qingdai cupped her hands and said firmly, "My son, I will guard the border and will not retreat even one step."
"Okay, okay." The Queen said hello three times in a row, walked down and held Qingdai's hand, half-jokingly, "Your husband is still waiting for you to come home. As a newlywed, you should come back early."
"Um."
Before Qing Dai left, the Queen spoke again, "Go and meet your father."
Qingdai's father is the son of a general, with a fiery personality and extremely protective nature. If he knew that Qingdai was going to "die", he might have locked Qingdai in the palace gate.
The Queen talking about her father at this moment probably gave Qingdai a chance to retreat.
Not for the Third Highness of Beiming, but for her most beloved daughter.
Qingdai smiled and shook her head, walked out of the door without looking back, waved goodbye, "Wait until I have a great victory! Then in front of my father, it will be the crime of taking the lead and slaying the latter!"
The queen stared at her daughter's retreating back until her eyes were sore, and then she closed her eyes heavily.
"Come here, tell my imperial army to follow His Highness secretly. Remember, I want a daughter with both beard and tail."
As soon as she walked out of the palace gate, Qingdai found Shen Changting standing by the carriage holding his cloak.
He was dressed very plainly, with only a hosta in his hair, and the rest of his long hair hanging down the back of his head.
Seeing Qingdai, Shen Changting immediately came up to her and covered her with his cloak, "Your Highness, go home."
Qingdai looked calm, but she was hesitating in her heart whether to tell Shen Changting about the expedition.
She tentatively said, "Changting...if I say..."
"Your Highness is going to Southern Xinjiang, right?"
In the carriage, Shen Changting sat upright, looking straight ahead, and slowly tightened his hands on his knees.
"……yes."
