I became a mermaid egg and saved the Imperial Marshal

In fact, the story of Huo Xuanshuang and Si Yue can be simply put as a cold female warrior who meets a persistent and cunning crown prince.

As the military and political decentralization became more and more serious, the contradiction between the military and the royal family grew day by day. In order to regain military power, the old emperor actually thought of throwing his son into the barracks.

They hoped that he would take the opportunity to establish military merits, consolidate the imperial power, and at the same time suppress the momentum of the Huo family.

At that time, Si Yue was young and energetic, unruly and unrestrained, and was not a person who would settle for less.

When he first joined the army, he relied on his own strength and intelligence to achieve several victories and was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a captain.

However, as he was born into a noble family and was naturally arrogant, how could he possibly obey discipline?

The Huo family has always been known for its strict military discipline, especially the First Legion led by Huo Guang, which has cracked down severely on all kinds of extravagant and wasteful tendencies.

Those who followed Si Yue's lead were a group of new recruits who had not yet been tempered and whose free and easy habits had not yet completely faded away. Coupled with their blind worship, they had great faith in Si Yue.

It is said that a dog relies on the power of his master and a fox relies on the power of a tiger. Influenced by Si Yue, these people acted unscrupulously in the army and did not take anyone seriously. Over time, they naturally had a lot of friction with others.

Later, as the friction intensified, the news reached Huo Xuanshuang's ears.

At this time, Huo Xuanshuang was only a commander of the First Army, but she and Huo Guang were of the same lineage, both of them used strict military discipline as their guiding principle for governing the army, and they hated people who were free and undisciplined and ignored discipline the most.

This group of recruits led by Si Yue undoubtedly ran into her trap, and thus the two people who were supposed to be enemies met under such circumstances.

Huo Xuanshuang is as noble as the bright moon, heroic and beautiful. Si Yue could not help being attracted to her at the first sight and decided that she was the woman he wanted to accompany him for the rest of his life.

So even though Si Yue never took that group of new recruits seriously, when Huo Xuanshuang wanted to punish them.

Whether it was out of his own arrogance or he wanted to attract Huo Xuanshuang's attention, he resolutely chose to stand up for that group of soldiers and challenged Huo Xuanshuang.

Huo Xuanshuang wanted to use him as an example to scare the monkeys, so he readily agreed.

As expected, Si Yue ended up suffering a crushing defeat.

Originally, for the pampered and arrogant Crown Prince of the Empire, this defeat should have been an extremely humiliating thing.

But who would have thought that instead of being angry, he started to pester Huo Xuanshuang from then on.

At this time, Huo Xuanshuang only wanted to drive away the strange beasts and defend her country. She looked down on Si Yue at all, which deepened Si Yue's determination to conquer her.

No one expected that the battle that followed would be an opportunity to promote the development of their relationship.

The Battle of Wadala is one of the famous battles in interstellar history. The war lasted for twenty years.

At the beginning of the war, Huo Xuanshuang led her troops to raid the lair of the King of Alien Beasts. However, due to an error in intelligence reconnaissance, they encountered a counterattack and the team suffered heavy casualties, and even she was in a desperate situation.

Later, she was rescued by Si Yue who had followed her secretly. The two of them and several surviving soldiers persisted on the planet inhabited by strange beasts for a whole month.

They had no weapons, ammunition, or food, but they not only survived miraculously, but also completed their mission brilliantly and killed the Beast King with a trick.

It was also this experience that finally made Huo Xuanshuang look at Si Yue with a new respect.

Since then, the two have fought side by side, experienced countless battles of all sizes together, and their cooperation with each other has become more and more tacit.

From then on, she was the general, and he was willing to be a soldier under her, charging into battle for her and killing the enemy.

It was not until the end of the Battle of Wadala that the royal family held a commendation ceremony for all the soldiers.

At the banquet, Si Yue's true identity was revealed in the worst way. He had countless opportunities to confess before, but he failed to say it.

Huo Xuanshuang felt cheated, and due to external pressure and family factors, the two eventually parted ways unhappily.

For the next fifty years, Huo Xuanshuang had been fighting outside and had never returned to Lingxing.

The exposure of Si Yue's identity made the Huo family immediately aware of the royal ambitions, which made Huo Guang furious. The old emperor's plan to regain military power in a roundabout way also completely failed.

Originally, the story should have ended here, and the two should have become strangers and never see each other again, but this was just the beginning of their love-hate entanglement that lasted for more than a hundred years.

When Huo Xuanshuang first went to Andromeda, Si Yue was unwilling to give up and followed her, but Huo Xuanshuang always avoided him. Over time, misunderstandings and suspicions slowly grew, pushing the two further and further apart.

As the crown prince of the empire, Si Yue has the most honorable status, and people have always come to please him and curry favor with him.

His innate pride made him unable to accept that he had to humble himself and try to please a woman again and again.

So he left, and the two didn't see each other again for fifty years.

Until the year before Si Yue inherited the throne, the old emperor became critically ill.

In the last moments of his life, the old emperor hoped to end the long-standing military and political confrontation, so he issued an edict to allow Huo Guang and his daughter to return to Lingxing, and his words were full of compromise.

Huo Guang had no doubts about it. His family had been in the military for generations, so he knew very well what harm long-term separation of power between the military and the government would cause in the end.

What's more, at that time, monster riots occurred frequently. If the empire was divided again, the civilians would be the ones to suffer in the end.

If an agreement could be reached to achieve joint rule instead of the supremacy of the monarchy, that would be a good way to have the best of both worlds.

Just like that, two people who had each other in their hearts met again.

After years of settling down, both of them have matured a lot when they met this time. Compared with the previous impulsiveness, this time they cherish each other more and have more feelings that have accumulated over time.

This feeling of losing and regaining makes them temporarily forget their identity, responsibilities, and the disturbances of the outside world.

That period was the happiest time for the two of them. They even agreed to put everything aside and become an ordinary couple.

However, things did not go as planned, as their identities destined them to stand on opposite sides.

The old emperor pretended to ask for peace, but in fact he wanted to get rid of Huo Guang and his daughter. A good negotiation meeting turned into an assassination operation.

Although Si Yue was not aware of it at first, this incident became the fuse that completely broke down their relationship.

The conflict of identities was like a chasm that could never be crossed. In the end, it was proved that none of them could forget the past and abandon their identities.

Si Yue can't let go of power, while Huo Xuanshuang can't let go of responsibility.

After that incident, the two had a big fight, and eventually, tortured by endless suspicion and defensiveness, Huo Xuanshuang left in disappointment.

Si Yue originally thought that this time the two of them would be able to reconcile after calming down, just like they had done countless times before.

But he didn't expect that this farewell would be forever.

Huo Xuanshuang returned to the battlefield, and the conflict between the military and the royal family further intensified. Soon after, Huo Xuanshuang discovered that she was pregnant.

The arrival of this child made her feel confused for a while. She did not tell anyone about this, but deep in her heart she had the urge to give herself and Si Yue another chance.

But before she could take action, news came that the old emperor had passed away and Si Yue had succeeded to the throne and married a new queen.

This news was like a bucket of cold water poured over Huo Xuanshuang's head, completely extinguishing all the impulses in her heart.

It was also because of this news that she was distracted on the battlefield and accidentally fell into an ambush by a group of strange beasts, causing mental damage.

Finally he had to withdraw from the battlefield and lived in seclusion in a wooden house.

Until their death, the two never saw each other again.