67 Boundless Anger (2/2)

All the while, running at full speed and almost squeezing your innards on the way and jostling your ribs to the point where they were just a few millimetres away from piercing your heart.

Now, answer the physician, how are you?

Humph!

However, the physician curbed his acidic tongue but couldn't contain his terse voice as he responded, ”He'll live.”

Su Li almost wilted in relief at that reply.

Now that the danger had passed, she felt her anger rearing its head once again.

She didn't want to lose all composure in front of these people who looked up to her as their ultimate sky and asked everyone to leave her alone in her tent and not move the child still lying on the imperial bed.

The Head Commander tried to protest but when he saw the furious expression on the emperor's face and the heated glare sent his way, he realised he was being discourteous to his liege when he questioned all his orders. Even if his objections were for His Majesty's well-being, he shouldn't second guess the words of the monarch.

The Head Commander left without a word and took the imperial physician along with him as well.

An hour passed and Su Li felt no calmer, glaring into the fire in her tent.

The fire mirrored the emotions in her chest perfectly.

Her heart was lit on fire.

How dare they?

How dare they?

No one, no one was allowed to do something like this to Li Rong.

Su Li was realistic enough to realise that had it been someone else in Li Rong's position, she would have been still furious but wouldn't have been angered to such an extent.

It was precisely because it was Li Rong in this situation, that her heart couldn't calm down.

He had always stood by her side in the first world and he was there when everything went to hell in a handbasket. He hadn't even refused her when she had been adamant to go back to the warehouse and how did she repay him?

In a place, where she ruled supreme, someone had laid their hands on him. She didn't even have the face to see Li Rong once he woke up.

Su Li heard someone calling their salutations from outside the tent.

She stalked to the flap of the tent in a few steps and raised it open.

She was too infuriated at this point and if someone was courageous and willing enough to deliver themselves at her doorstep, she'll rip them a new one.

It was Ning Fu standing on the other side of the flap.

”Your Majesty...”

Su Li wanted to scream and shout at this person.

How come he was so lax in his discipline and control of the army?

What?

Recruits, conscripts and low-level military men weren't worth his protection?

Or was it a form of hazing the new recruits? It was despicable no matter how one looked at it.

”Your Majesty, forgive this small one but Your Excellency shouldn't harm your dragon body with anger.”

Su Li blinked her eyes in surprise and almost wanted to see if this person had hit his head on his way back to the camp.

Instead of pleading for his second-rank generals or trying to give explanations, he was telling her to calm down.

Had he finally lost his marbles?

Or was he trying to butter her up, to get him and his people out of the predicament?

Su Li seethed, however, she managed to swallow the sharp comments on her tongue.

”Your Majesty, ...”

The pleading note in Nung Fu's voice broke Su Li's control over her anger.

Su Li interrupted his words. ”Unit Commander, Zhen forbids you from giving out punishment to the people involved. Zhen will decide their punishment. Leave”

Just as Ning Fu turned to leave, he heard the monarch's voice once again, ”Unit Commander, you better hope and pray to all your gods that the child regains consciousness and isn't harmed in some permanent way or Zhen will take it out of the hides of those scum's families and that is Zhen's promise.”

Time doesn't stop for anyone and on this night it passed at a snail's pace for some while others were dreading the dawn of a new day.