On this day, Su Lingyue was playing chess with Xiao Yu in the hall when Yan Qing and Yun Ting came in. After bowing to Xiao Yu and Su Lingyue, they handed Xiao Yu a scroll.

"Your Majesty, this is Chu Yin's portrait."

Xiao Yu put down the chess piece in his hand, took the scroll and opened it, his eyes pausing on the scroll.

Seeing Xiao Yu like this, Yan Qing asked, "Does the prince know him?"

"Yes." Xiao Yu said in a deep voice: "I have seen this woman before, outside Hanshan Pass."

Xiao Yu closed the scroll and began to recount the past.

When Xiao Yu was fifteen years old, he followed the Marquis of Zhenbei to Hanshan Pass, and initially he only trained as a captain of a thousand men.

The first battle he fought was ten days after he went to Hanshan Pass.

In that battle, 80,000 Huns attacked and 150,000 of our people defended the city. Although we held the city, 30,000 of us died, a heavy loss.

The Xiongnu did not use bows and arrows as usual, but used slingshots instead. Stones were everywhere, and the walls were covered with dead bodies.

Afterwards, Xiao Yu came up with a countermeasure. He scattered kerosene on the ground outside the city in advance, and when the enemy arrived, they ignited the kerosene with bows and arrows. Most of the enemy's catapults were burned, and more than 10,000 soldiers were burned to death.

However, after that failure, the Huns did not stop, but instead led 200,000 people to attack the city.

In response to the enemy's numerical suppression this time, Pei Yan wanted to use the previous method to not fight back, using dummies to defend the city and exhaust the enemy's arrows.

Xiao Yu had a different opinion. If they just kept defending, this situation would never be broken.

Xiao Yu volunteered to lead 3,000 men to disrupt the Huns' layout from the side, and then Pei Yan would lead 120,000 men to engage in head-on battle.

The battle was won beautifully. Pei Yan reported Xiao Yu's achievements to the emperor. After Xiao Yu returned to the capital, he was appointed General Dingyuan and served as Pei Yan's deputy general.

Xiao Yu said: "It was during that time when I returned to the capital that I met Xiliang King Li Zongyuan, who came to visit me and gave me a military token."

Su Lingyue was puzzled, "Why did he give the prince a military token?"

Xiao Yu shook his head. "I just fought him for a few moves, and after I won, he gave it to me. Afterwards, I guessed that it might be because Xiliang was in a serious civil strife at that time, and he wanted me to keep it for him temporarily."

Su Lingyue felt that there was something wrong with the King of Xiliang. He inexplicably threw this hot potato to others without even thinking about others.

Xiao Yu lowered his eyes, his eyes full of sorrow, "If it weren't for this military token, I would have died."

"why?"

Ever since that battle, Xiao Yu has been targeted by the Huns.

The third time, Chu Yin went to the battlefield in person, dressed in red, dazzling.

She came in person to see the man who broke her trap.

In the next few months, the two used the vast land of the North as a chessboard and all things in the North as chess pieces. From Chu Yin's layout in the beginning, Xiao Yu broke the game, to Xiao Yu taking the initiative to attack and set up a trap to lure the enemy, until they won a great victory.

After the last disastrous defeat, Chu Yin disappeared and no one knew where he went.

Now that he was back in Qingfeng Pavilion, Xiao Yu roughly understood the whole story.

Later, Chu Yin hid in Qingfeng Pavilion and used some unknown strategy to cut off all of Xiao Yu's reinforcements and supplies, which led to the inevitable defeat seven years ago.

The Huns wanted to take the opportunity to capture Hanshan Pass, but they did not expect that at the critical moment, Xiao Yu would receive reinforcements from the Xiliang soldiers.

In that battle, the soldiers of Daning fought with the mentality of fighting with their backs to the river. The Huns did not gain any advantage and suffered heavy losses. The plan of marching south was thus shattered.

And Hanshan Pass was finally defended thanks to the assistance of the Xiliang soldiers.

"The soldiers who survived thought they could live a peaceful life from now on, but they didn't expect that the one who ended their lives was the king they fought so hard to protect."

Although he survived that game, he lost completely and all his relatives and friends died.

Xiao Yu's eyes were filled with sorrow, as if he was trapped in a vortex of painful memories from the past.

Although Xiao Yu didn't say what happened later, Su Lingyue roughly knew something about it.

She was ten years old that year and was still being raised by the queen. For a while, everyone in the palace was in a panic, and in remote places, people would occasionally discuss who the emperor had killed yesterday and who he had killed today.

My aunt was also very cautious during that period and never dared to mention anything outside the harem in front of the emperor.

If this was the case for others, Xiao Yu, who was in such a difficult situation, must have had a very difficult time.

Su Lingyue reached out and gently held Xiao Yu's hand. This hold seemed to pull Xiao Yu out of the vortex of painful memories.

Xiao Yu raised his eyes and looked at Su Lingyue's worried expression. The pain on his face faded away and he smiled softly, "I'm fine."

Then he held Su Lingyue's soft hand, and a sense of joy surged in his heart.

Ever since the last incident, Su Lingyue always looked indifferent. She would not refuse Xiao Yu's advances, but she had never been as proactive as before.

At this time, Yun Ting, who had not spoken yet, spoke up, "From General Zhao's last letter, Chu Yin should be a spy for Linchuan King Hu Yanping."

Xiao Yu agreed, "It's really good."

Yan Qing frowned and said angrily, "She is a woman. Why doesn't she stay in her boudoir and take care of her husband and children? Why does she come out and plot such a vicious plot to harm others?"

Xiao Yu put down the scroll, his expression returned to a calm state, "With her mind and appearance, she is indeed qualified to be a wife and mother outside the boudoir. She alone can be against ten thousand people, and should not be underestimated."

Yan Qing sneered, "She looks okay, but I didn't expect her to be so vicious!"

"When two armies fight, regardless of tactics or strategies, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit."

While Xiao Yu was speaking, Su Lingyue had let go of his hand at some point, picked up the scroll on the table and began to look at it.

Xiao Yu is such a cold-hearted person, but he still praised the woman for her good looks. Su Lingyue also wanted to see how beautiful that woman is!

When Su Lingyue opened the scroll, what she saw was a woman dressed in red, with hair as black as ink, cheeks as white as snow, a smile as beautiful as a flower, and a pair of fox-like eyes that were full of lively charm.

Beautiful indeed.

As a woman herself, Su Lingyue couldn't help but sigh.

She looked up at Xiao Yu, then at the woman in the painting, and an inexplicable emotion surged in her heart.

"Arrange someone to keep an eye on them and make sure to find the person who contacted her and Hu Yanping."

When Xiao Yu said this, his eyes were looking at Su Lingyue. She had every frown and smile in his sight, and a smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

During dinner, Su Lingyue was absent-minded. After taking a few bites, she stopped eating and just looked at Xiao Yu.

"Are you full, Princess?"

"...Hmm." Actually, no. Ever since the thought came to her mind, an idea has been churning in her mind.

Before getting married, my aunt gave me some simple training on how to capture a man's heart.

My aunt said that men will only be interested in women they cannot conquer. Once they get them, they lose the desire to conquer them and their love is over.

My aunt said that Yue'er must know how to control a man's heart and not satisfy him.

So, in fact, Chu Yin is also someone that Xiao Yu has not conquered.

But that is the enemy, what is Xiao Yu thinking!

Xiao Yu chuckled and coaxed, "If you eat more, I will tell you something."

"what's up?"

"What you want to know."

Su Lingyue was so curious that she ate all the food Xiao Yu picked for her in the bowl.

After eating, Xiao Yu coaxed her and said he would tell her after he came back from bathing.

Su Lingyue came back from her bath and sat for a while before Xiao Yu came back from his medicinal bath.

Seeing that Su Lingyue was still sitting there waiting, he knew that that sentence really made Su Lingyue concerned.

Xiao Yu picked up Su Lingyue and returned to the bed, holding her in his arms as before. He leaned his head on his hand, chuckling as he looked at the person in his arms.

"What do you want to say?" Su Lingyue couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Yu gently stroked her delicate cheek, "What does Yue'er want to know?"

Su Lingyue lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and finally made up her mind, "Chu Yin is an enemy. No matter how pretty she is, you can't... like her."

Xiao Yu turned over and covered Su Lingyue's body, slowly approaching, and his hot breath sprayed on Su Lingyue's cheeks and ears.

"Is Yue'er jealous?" The voice was frivolous and seductive.

Su Lingyue turned her head to the other side and whispered back, "No, I'm just worried that you've been deceived by that woman."

"She is the one who harmed my relatives, friends and brothers. I don't like her."

Hearing this, Su Lingyue felt relieved, finally he was not obsessed with sex.

Afterwards, Xiao Yu gently held Su Lingyue's slightly red and hot earlobe in his mouth and whispered softly in her ear, "The only one who seduces me is Yue'er."

This person is becoming more and more excessive.

Her earlobe felt itchy from being sucked, and Su Lingyue wanted to push Xiao Yu away, but he easily grabbed her hands and restrained them.

The kiss gradually moved downwards, and the hot breath sprinkled on the neck, leaving red marks on the delicate skin of the neck inch by inch.

The belt of the inner garment had been untied at some point, and when Xiao Yu was about to move his passionate kiss down, he was stopped by Su Lingyue's strong sense of shame.

"No!" She trembled slightly, resisting Xiao Yu's touch.

Xiao Yu stopped, released Su Lingyue's restrained hands, held her in his arms, and patted her back gently to comfort her.

"Isn't it enough? Yue'er, let's take it slow. I'll wait for you."

After saying that, he kissed Su Lingyue's warm and soft lips again.

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