Chapter 592: Does it taste sour? (2/2)

“Are you sure?” Long Feiye asked.

“Sure. He doesn’t look the part! Moreover, if he was really part of the Di Clan, he’s simply asking for death by proposing a three-way pincer attack against those forces!” Han Yunxi declared.

“Then are you still betting?” Long Feiye asked next.

Han Yunxi thought it over before asking, “What about you? Want to keep going?”

“Continue it!” Long Feiye said without hesitation.

Cloud Realm Trade Consortium had clearly gone to support the Nether Clan, so Great General Ning had no reason to go against them! After all, once Long Feiye settled things with Emperor Kang Cheng and transferred all his troops, the Chu Clan would collapse under the pressure!

“You’re that confident?” Han Yunxi asked.

Long Feiye didn’t answer, but only asked, “Are you betting or not?”

“Can I take back my bet?” Han Yunxi asked.

Long Feiye nodded, leaving her in a conundrum! If she kept betting and lose, then Lil Thing would be sent back to the pharmacy. But if she won, Long Feiye would have to hug Lil Thing. She carefully considered her options before suddenly suspecting Long Feiye of playing her on purpose just so she could give up the gamble.

“I’ll continue!” Han Yunxi decided at last. It’s really tiring playing psychological warfare with this man, much less IQ points.

Long Feiye’s mouth twitched minutely. Actually, he was already very certain that Great General Ning was part of the Di Clan now. All the things he’d just said was just to confuse Han Yunxi so she could give up already! But this woman still persisted even after her views were shaked! It’s really tiring competing with this woman’s intelligence!

As soon as he thought of that furry little rat, he felt fidgety and irritable…

But no matter the chances, everything was still up for guesses right now. Until the truth came out, none of them could be considered victor or loser! The very same day, Long Feiye sent a message to Emperor Kang Cheng to propose an alliance and dispatch their troops together. At the same time, he gave a heads up to General Baili to prepare the troops to move north! Actually, his forces had already been ordered to secretly creep northwards before their trip to Western Zhou. The soldiers weren’t stationed very far from Western Zhou’s borders to begin with, so it wouldn’t be difficult to use them when needed.

The next day, Long Feiye received news that Great General Ning had already started moving his troops south from the forces under his two generals’ command. His cavalry forces remained where they were as a deterrent against Northern Li in the north.

One day after that, Emperor Kang Cheng replied an affirmative to the alliance with added thanks to the Duke of Qin. He hoped to see the day that Long Feiye took Tianning’s throne and reunite its split factions into a whole again. At the same time, he promised that Western Zhou would be willing to continue the tradition of marriage alliances with Tianning after the Duke of Qin became emperor, all the better to defend against Northern Li! Besides that, Emperor Kang Cheng even brought up the issue of Empress Xue and said they had a way to rescue her. Thus, there was no need to harbor any reservations between the Western Zhou – Long Feiye – Great General Ning alliance.

When Long Feiye showed the missive to Han Yunxi, she only sighed. “Even the emperor’s lost his dignity?” Just recently, Emperor Kang Cheng had tactfully declined any proposals to ally against Northern Li. But hardly any time had passed since he was hoping fervently for an alliance to pass? He was a high and mighty sovereign, but he’d fallen to such depths just to ingratiate himself with Long Feiye!

Han Yunxi glanced at Long Feiye and had the premonition that this man was going to throw all of Cloud Realm Continent into absolute chaos one day. While the generals of the three factions all secretly prepared their forces, the situation at the three prefectures on the east end of Western Zhou grew tense. At the same time, the atmosphere in Western Liang’s royal courts grew more desperate by the day. A few imperial princes had taken to hanging around Emperor Tianhui’s palace day after day, waiting in vain for a chance to meet with their father. Meanwhile, Chu Qingge had been replaced by one of the Chu Clan’s hidden agents to watch over Emperor Tianhui himself.

Currently, Chu Qingge was in charge of looking after her premature-born son. Witch Aunt had helped find a few other replacement babies from other mothers just in case, all of whom had taken the same early labor-inducing medicine as Chu Qingge. If Chu Qingge had really given birth to a girl, her baby would’ve been switched for one of the backups. But she ended up having a son after all!

The labor-inducing medicine had caused massive damage to her body, making it not only impossible for her to give birth again, but weakening her health. Still, her pain and suffering made her all the more determined to get her revenge. Currently, her child was only a total of eight months old and needed vast amounts of medicine to keep him alive everyday. Chu Qingge was actually incapable of personally caring for the child, which she left to the hands of Head Elder Ling and Lady Lianxin. Neither of them revealed their true identities to the empress, but spent their days wearing white face veils. One purported to be a divine doctor of the jianghu while the other masqueraded as a servant girl.

Today, the two of them were study Chu Qingge’s back from a distance without disturbing her.

“Head Elder, I heard that the Chu Clan won the support of Cloud Realm Trade Consortium,” Lady Lianxin murmured.

“So what?” Head Elder Ling replied, unconcerned with it all.

“Yesterday, Lianxin received news from the medical academy that Medicine City accused Cloud Realm Trade Consortium of colluding with Jun Yixie for the sake of the snow mountains’ medicinal and poison plants. Medicine City’s requested the medical academy to issue orders to all doctors to stop business with the consortium,” Lady Lianxin continued.

Head Elder Ling simply stared after Chu Qingge without saying a word. A complicated look flickered past Lady Lianxin’s eyes before she sneakily tugged on a corner of his robes, her voice turning coquettish…