Chapter 479 (2/2)

”That's alright. Pengxin still has a big move that she hasn't used yet. Once she uses it, she'll be arranged inside the camps and won't even have to lift a finger.” Ji Man spat out a melon seed's sh.e.l.l. She narrowed her eyes as if she was focused on looking at a goal. ”Pengxin actually has a very likable personality. It's only that other people take Ning Mingjie's attention away, so he can't properly spend time with her and get to know her. They'll be staying in Jiangxi for three years. By the time they come back, they'll have a child together. Their feelings will have had time to grow. While they're away in the military camps, no one will be scheming or bullying Pengxin. Her life couldn't be better.”

Zhu Yurun doubtfully looked at her. ”How can you know the war will last three years?”

Ji Man coughed. She didn't feel right pointing out to this fool that she had an inside source for the imperial court matters. She went to sleep hearing all sorts of national secrets, so how could it be possible for her to not know something minor like this?

She had originally only wanted to help Pengxin a little bit, but once Ning Yuxuan found out that she wanted to develop the relations.h.i.+p between Ning Mingjie and his wife, he didn't say another word before getting an imperial edict and sending Pengxin off to join the army.

That's why she had felt okay with divulging a spoiler in advance by telling Zhu Yurun that she could tell Pengxin her good days weren't far.

It would be so pointless just to change yourself. While you were striving to change yourself, you might as well change him too.

Ji Man felt that it was easy for people to feel sympathetic for foolish, young women. It was unlikely that she would ever change into a foolish, sweet person herself, so she would dote on these foolish, young women. She would teach them how to live properly and get people to believe that true love was invincible.

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Pengxin had blocked an attack for Ning Mingjie, and there was a wound on her arm as a result. Furious, Ning Mingjie was about to go after the scattered remains of the enemy army to get revenge for her. Unexpectedly, Pengxin, who should be feeling weak and lying down, acted as if she was perfectly fine. She raised her large sword and ran quicker than anyone else to cut off the enemy's hand.

Ning Mingjie, ”...”

His anger was gone, but he felt a bit distressed.

Pengxin sucked in a breath of cold air, Looking at him, she said, ”I'm going to head back to the tent first.”

The enemy soldiers were pretty much wiped out. Seeing that her expression looked pained, Ning Mingjie went back to the camp with her to check on her injury.

As a result, he heard an army doctor saying she was in her third month of pregnancy!

Ning Mingjie immediately flipped the table. Three months! This girl had come along with him into the battlefield, protected him, and taken a wound meant for him when she was three months pregnant? Was she Yuzhen's princess, or the Monkey King? How could she be so lively?

He was speechless with anger. It was only when he saw that Pengxin's complexion had changed that he anxiously asked the doctor what to do.

The army doctor hadn't treated a woman before. He sighed and said, ”Prepare medicine to help stabilize her condition.”

And so, the dignified, great general of the nation sat outside the tent and earnestly cooked medicine. His expression was stern, and the soldiers that pa.s.sed by him saluted and stopped by the side to see what he was out here doing.

More and more people came to watch this spectacle. When Ning Mingjie returned to his senses, his surrounding was already a solid blanket of black. The pot of medicine was bubbling over.

Translator Ramblings: It's strange that Ji Man can find stupidity cute. Isn't that Wen Wan's defining character trait?