Chapter 1198: Why the rush? (1/2)

Long Feiye’s smile deepened at the sight of Han Yunxi’s curiosity. He placed all of the command tokens back in the box before handing the whole thing to her. “It’s you!”

“Me?” Han Yunxi didn’t react at first as she accepted the box by instinct.

“I was planning to wait until Northern Li stabilized in two to three years before handing the command tokens to you. Seems like now will work, too,” Long Feiye said.

Han Yunxi finally understood his intentions. Long Feiye had been planning to let her have the ultimate military command token!

“Me?” she asked again. It had to be said that Han Yunxi was inexplicably nervous. Military might was the best guarantee of a country’s stability!

“What are you afraid of?” Long Feiye arched a brow.

“Aren’t you afraid of Baili Yuanlong coming to annoy you everyday?” Han Yunxi retorted. They had just settled affairs in Northern Li and here Long Feiye was stirring up trouble again. Once news of this spread, all of Cloud Realm would be boiling again.

Baili Yuanlong had been assigned to take care of deploying materials to Northern Li’s disaster areas. He was very fair with his work, so Long Feiye couldn’t get anything on him. In a few more days, the general would return.

Long Feiye grew earnest. “I want to tell the wold that I don’t favor East or West Qin. I only favor you, the female master of Cloud Realm Continent!”

In the end, Northern Li’s matter affected the fortunes of the Di Clan’s Ning family too. With the Ning Clan troops withdrawing from the front lines, Han Yunxi wouldn’t give them command of Northern Li’s soldiers in the future. His actions were to tell the world’s people that Han Yunxi was not only the West Qin princess, but Long Feiye’s woman and Cloud Realm’s future female master. She had massive strength behind her--not from the Di Clan, but himself! She would share in his power.

He’d like to see who dared to suspect his strength.

Without further explanation, the words “female master” told Han Yunxi everything. She was both surprised and pleased. Actually, she always had the will to rule the country together with Long Feiye. Thanks to her modern thoughts and conventions, she could do her best to consider and fix Cloud Realm’s situations even if she didn’t have the most fitting mindset.

However, she wouldn’t risk claiming half of the imperial court. This was still a patriarchal society. Men showed themselves to the world, while women remained cloistered. It wasn’t suitable for them to meddle in politics. However, she could discuss things with Long Feiye in private. Nevertheless, she couldn’t sit at the same table in his imperial study or face the civil and military officials with him during discussions.

Who knew that Long Feiye had the guts to let her stand out and get involved!

She looked at him, not knowing what to say.

“What, so you agree?” Long Feiye creased his brows at her.

“No!” Han Yunxi rejected instantly. She held the brocade box in both hands ans replied, “If I agreed, you wouldn’t have any room to retreat! Also, you’re not allowed to give these command tokens out. Wait until the day you confer honors. Then I’ll personally give them to Baili Yuanlong and the rest!” As she spoke, she picked out the highest authority command token and slipped it into her sleeve. “Meanwhile, I’ll take this one!”

Long Feiye looked at Han Yunxi’s rare moment of cuteness and couldn’t help but let his thoughts wander again. If we had a daughter, would she be even cuter than Han Yunxi?

Since Rui’er was only six months old, he couldn’t bear to act. The days ahead of them were long, so he’d wait for now.

Han Yunxi was in quite a good mood as she lazily stretched. By her side, Mu Linger quickly rose to her feet. She’d been too afraid to speak this entire time.

Heavens, it’s too scary seeing how Long Feiye spoils my big sis! Although Long Feiye looks really handsome when he smiles, but...it’s still super terrifying to my eyes.

She wanted to leave ages ago, but didn’t want to disturb the couple. All she could do was sit quietly and pretend she was air.

“Linger, I’m going to take a walk outside the palace. Are you coming?” Han Yunxi asked. She’d almost forgotten how long it’d been since she left Yunning Palace.

“Are you bringing Rui’er along?” Mu Linger asked hastily.

“Rui’er napping right now, so I won’t,” Han Yunxi replied.

“Then I’m not going. I’ll go guard Rui’er until he wakes up!” Mu Linger grinned. She had no idea how ugly her smiling expression looked right now.

A complicated look flickered past Han Yunxi’s eyes. She knew there had to be some unknown story between Mu Linger and Jin Zi. However, since Jin Zi wasn’t going to Wintercrow Country and told them to their faces that he wasn’t marrying Mu Linger, the girl should be out of danger for now. Whatever happened between them, she didn’t want to pry. Feelings were complicated matters. She was luckiest of all to like and be liked with Long Feiye.

“Find a few more people to go with you. Be careful,” Long Feiye muttered softly.

“Alright,” Han Yunxi replied, feeling rather helpless. Is there anyone else in Cloud Realm Continent besides Long Feiye who has the skills to harm me?

She was planning to go to the markets and pick out some fabric to make new clothes for Long Feiye and Rui’er. Although Zhao mama was in charge of arranging their food and clothes, as a wife and mother, she still had to care for her husband and son.

Once Han Yunxi left, Long Feiye instructed a shadow guard, “Go to Kangan Private Bank and tell Manager Luo that this crown prince wants to purchase all of the biggest wine shops in Cloud Realm Continent.”

The shadow guard couldn’t help reminding him, “Your Highness, there’s a shortage of grain after the war so alcohol businesses aren’t profitable!” If there wasn’t even enough grain to eat, who would be brewing wine from it instead? Moreover, it’d be difficult to do business with those shops if their costs were high.