Chapter 23 (2/2)

”The army will set off tomorrow, and you and I have been acquainted, in any case,” Yan Xiaohan spoke ”Would it be possible for General Fu to grant oodbye dinner, despite the er wine I've prepared?”

Fu Shen bluntly pulled up his robes and sat down at the side of the table ”I', either Sit”

Yan Xiaohan poured tea for hi his own cup in a toast ”There will be many hardshi+ps on the road ahead, and I only wish that you'll take good care of yourself, General I hope that next year… I can still drink wine and admire the snow here with you”

The road ahead had more than just many hardshi+ps There'd be vicious people and animals, and death was simply a certainty

But he didn't persuade him otherwise, and couldn't, as he wasn't qualified to The Fu faenerations of devotedin battle was one of his possible endings

Fu Shen grasped the cup in one hand, softly clinking it against his, and lightly jeered at him ”Shower your one-sided affection on ether with you? YouIf I so unfortunately die in the war, the last thing I'd do before death is forgive you”

The wind sobbed above the lake Snowflakes fluttered about, as if the blue heavens were an immense vacuum stuffed with resentment

What was called a send-off party was really more of farewell

”I pray that you'll have a swift victory and return in triumph” Yan Xiaohan's hands never shook and he smiled as always, his voice soft and even ”I hope that you will hate ers, Fu Shen ended up going against the current and killed his way to survival Those prayers and hopes in Lakeheart Pavilion became reality, as by the time he returned to Court, Yan Xiaohan had been pro than he was before The two sat opposing each other in Court and fought when they h to be known by everyone as a pair of archeneently placed to the side

Fu Shen had to honestly ask hio?

The entire process was sonore The wound had scarred over and he was as calh hiet?

Once a snake has bitten you, you'll fear well ropes for a decade Fu Shen now kept an escape route for hi, and it was a habit left over fro hiain

What he hadn't expected was for the layers of this old case to be hiding away an ultimate truth

Cai Yue wasn't dead

She was standing, alive, before him, and she could still vividly remember the circumstances of her narrow escape fro Dragon Guard and shut up in prison, but eren't tortured, and no one caate us Around two days later, so within our food and drink After this slave woke up, soe to the woods on Gemstone Mountain There was food, clothes, and a bundle of travel expenses, and we relied on that e and learn how to craft wine The village met with disaster the year before – I heard you were in northern Xinjiang and frequently ca merchants there, and it was also safe and peaceful, so I took Nian'er with me up North I didn't think that the Great Buddha would bless me, and I'd truly come to meet our savior…”

Who penned up this crafty escape plan was a detail that didn't need a guess After catching and bringing theht have not yet ti killed himent thus passed with the lids on their coffins, Cai Yue and the baby boy were irrelevant, and whether they lived or died was no longer ion Guard'stheir roots, they were most likely to be disposed of with poisoned wine He thereby used this opportunity to switch the lethal drugs with knockout ones, then took the two out of the city as fake corpses, setting them free to escape and live another day

As for why he was suddenly so enor himself too much, Fu Shen couldn't find another reason to justify it

It was because of him

Fu Shen really didn't kno to assess Yan Xiaohan's senseless self-disgracing His heart was ha and sore – he loathed that he wasn't able to fly off overnight past the rugged terrain, get back to the capital, and beat hi-tailed wolf again

If he hadn't run into Cai Yue today, Yan Xiaohan would probably never tell him the truth about this of his own accord To Fu Shen, he would eternally be one who sought nothing but profit, his surface unethical: never explaining, never disputing, and never wanting soinal sin So, in the mud

As matters stand, would he still dare to state upfront that, in his heart, there was nothing that matteredliquor caused a faint heat within his chest

”How cruel you are, Brother Yan” Fu Shen whispered to hi the armrest of his wheelchair ”Do you really have to heart to make me hate you all my life?”

The translator says: Soe a few days back I put whatever I could re an eye on it

Censored word, had to guess China your censorshi+p is a n n o y i n g

[-] I just want everyone to know that the word for ‘polo' is maqiu 马球, which literally translates to horse ball Hehehe