Princess Promotion

Bai Yehan took the fruit handed to him by Fu Yuanyuan and started eating it silently.

It’s not that he hasn’t tried to go on a hunger strike before. If he doesn’t eat, Fu Yuanyuan will just pry open his mouth and stuff the food in, then cover his mouth until he swallows.

Now he has almost no resistance, and it is difficult for him to even raise his hands. The only thing he can move is his mouth.

Bai Yehan looked at the girl in front of him. Even though she was stained with a little mud and looked a little disheveled, her beauty was still evident.

Even in such an embarrassing situation, Fu Yuanyuan still subconsciously tidied herself up. Even her sitting posture when resting was proper and never inappropriate.

Bai Yehan recalled the scene when he first met Fu Yuanyuan. She was wearing a bean green dress and had no extra jewelry on her body.

There was only a wooden hairpin loosely inserted in her tied-up bun, and a plain silver bracelet on her wrist.

The outfit can be considered a bit shabby, but it does not diminish Fu Yuanyuan's dignity in the slightest. There is a hint of bookish air between her eyebrows, and there is an elegance that no one can underestimate.

People like Fu Yuanyuan are obviously well-read and their behavior reveals the style of a noble family.

Bai Yehan never dreamed that Fu Yuanyuan, a seemingly fragile lady from a noble family, would come back with a sword to save him when everyone else was running away.

I can only say that she is worthy of being Fu Hongxuan’s biological sister, she actually knows martial arts.

After eating a few sour wild fruits, Fu Yuanyuan silently began to drag Bai Yehan forward again.

Bai Yehan could only helplessly say, "I say, stubborn donkey, can you take a break? You're not tired, but I need to rest too. If the wound on my body is torn open again, I'll bleed to death."

Just when Bai Yehan thought that Fu Yuanyuan would ignore his words as usual, he didn't expect that Fu Yuanyuan actually listened to him.

He turned around, breathing heavily, and stared straight at Bai Yehan.

Bai Yehan's hair stood on end when he was looked at. Could it be that he had called her stubborn and she was angry and wanted to beat him up to vent her anger?

Unexpectedly, Fu Yuanyuan started to take off her clothes in front of him. Bai Yehan looked at Fu Yuanyuan in shock and immediately closed his eyes, stammering, "You...you don't do this, I...I..."

The next moment, a feminine fragrance suddenly surrounded me, and I felt soft fabric beneath me.

Bai Yehan stared and watched Fu Yuanyuan put her coat under herself to reduce Bai Yehan's shaking.

Fu Yuanyuan was wearing a single white garment and seemed a little uncomfortable with it. She cut off the sleeve of her coat with a long sword and put it on her shoulders and continued to drag Bai Yehan forward.

Bai Yehan was as quiet as a chicken. He had never met someone as difficult as Fu Yuanyuan in his life.

The worse you treat her, the better she will treat you. This is not asking for trouble.

After walking for a while, Fu Yuanyuan felt the silence of the person behind her and looked back.

I found that Bai Yehan was just staring blankly and stopped chattering.

After walking for a while, Fu Yuanyuan stopped and looked back at Bai Yehan.

After looking back a few times, Fu Yuanyuan started to negotiate with Bai Yehan: "Can you continue to speak? You can even scold me."

Bai Yehan's voice was a little hoarse and he asked impatiently: "What? Do you like being scolded so much?"

Fu Yuanyuan shook her head and said, "No, this way I can know your condition even if I don't look back. Otherwise, I would waste energy looking back to confirm whether you are dead or not."

Bai Yehan said viciously, "I won't say anything, just throw me away."

Fu Yuanyuan didn't say anything and just followed Bai Yehan, continuing to walk forward with her head down, looking back at Bai Yehan every once in a while.

Bai Yehan simply closed his eyes and pretended to be dead, and then went through all kinds of trouble.

Fu Yuanyuan noticed that Bai Yehan had his eyes closed, so she stopped and put her hand under Bai Yehan's nose to test whether he was breathing.

Bai Yehan simply held his breath, and Fu Yuanyuan put her hand on his neck to feel his pulse.

Fu Yuanyuan would walk for a while and then stop to check on Bai Yehan's condition. Bai Yehan thought that Fu Yuanyuan would get impatient and give up after a few attempts.

Unexpectedly, he was the first one to give up. Bai Yehan cursed in his heart, is this girl a clay figure?

He didn't have any temper at all. He couldn't stand it anymore and didn't even complain. He accepted it all.

When Fu Yuanyuan was about to stop to check, she suddenly heard sobbing and crying behind her.

Fu Yuanyuan's body froze. Without looking back, she continued to drag him forward, saying, "Cry softly. Crying too hard will break the wound on your body."

Bai Yehan sobbed softly at first, then his voice grew louder and louder before he finally burst into tears, "How am I going to get married in the future if you keep doing this?"

Fu Yuanyuan suddenly turned around and looked at Bai Yehan and asked nervously, "Did I involve you?"

Bai Yehan's crying stopped, and he naturally noticed Fu Yuanyuan's earlobe that suddenly turned red, and her gaze that subtly moved down to his lower body.

Bai Yehan felt that he was no longer a human being, and he couldn't harm the girl like this. He quickly explained: "It's not that I'm physically weak, I'm saying that it will be hard to find a girl who will stick with me and want to take me with her. I have to be single for the rest of my life."

Fu Yuanyuan's eyes flickered, she turned her head away, not daring to look at Bai Yehan, and whispered, "It's my parents' orders, the matchmaker's words, my eldest brother is like a father, I'll listen to my brother about the marriage."

He said that it seemed like this place was hot for his feet, so he immediately pulled up the vine and continued walking forward.

Bai Yehan didn't expect Fu Yuanyuan to answer his question so seriously. He subconsciously asked, "Even if you don't like the person your brother asked you to marry, will you still marry him?"

Fu Yuanyuan replied seriously, "Of course, the person my brother chooses must be excellent."

Bai Yehan curled his lips and said, "Then there's definitely no hope for me. I was born poor and I'm not a good match for you. Fu Hongxuan will definitely not agree."

Fu Yuanyuan shook her head and said sincerely, "That must be because my brother saw that you have neither the talent to stand out nor your behavior. He will definitely criticize me in the future. It's normal that he doesn't agree to marry me off to someone who only has a pretty face."

Two arrows whizzed straight into Bai Yehan's heart. Fu Yuanyuan almost pointed at Bai Yehan's nose and said that he was just a poor and stupid vase.

Fu Yuanyuan continued, "Did you read the story in the novels where a poor scholar and a young lady from an official's family fell in love but were forced to break up by their elders? Did you think that marriages between aristocratic families are based solely on family background?"

"That story is all fabricated and impossible to happen in reality."

Bai Yehan felt somewhat ashamed of being exposed, but out of curiosity, he pressed on, "Could it be that the elders in the family won't intervene in this matter?"

Fu Yuanyuan shook her head and said, "If it weren't for the elders interfering, there's no way a young lady from an official family would fall in love with that poor scholar."

Bai Yehan: "Why wouldn't you like it?"

Fu Yuanyuan: "The story you're reading says that a young lady from an official family meets a handsome scholar while strolling in her garden or worshipping Buddha in the mountains. The two of them, through the exchange of poems between their maids, begin to fall in love with each other and eventually get married."

Bai Yehan nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, yes, that's almost the case."

Fu Yuanyuan analyzed each point to Bai Yehan, "First of all, meeting is a problem. When a real official lady is at home, outsiders are not allowed to enter the backyard. Even if they accidentally break in, they will be caught by the guards and expelled from the mansion."

"If it was outside, it would be even more impossible. Young ladies from official families are always surrounded by people, with guards clearing the place and maids serving them. There is no possibility of being alone."

"Let's take a step back and say that even if by chance the young lady and the scholar met, the recipient would simply smile and bow and leave. If someone approached and started a conversation, they would only be expelled like the lecher that was once the young lady's guards."

Bai Yehan sighed, "I didn't expect it would be so difficult for them to meet each other."

Fu Yuanyuan continued, "Even if we give them a chance to meet and talk, how can a scholar win the lady's heart instantly with just a few words? Just because he has a pretty face and can write two sour poems?"

"A young lady from an official family isn't some peasant girl from a humble family who's never seen many men. A noble family will never be short of handsome men and beautiful women. That scholar must be Pan An's reincarnation."

"Speaking of poetry and literature, what good poems and lyrics has the young lady of the official family not observed? Perhaps a great scholar of the time has even enlightened her. No matter how good the scholar's writing is, can it be better than that of the great scholar of the time?"

Fu Yuanyuan concluded, "If that scholar had the looks of Pan An and the talent of a great scholar, he would have already become famous and would not be an ordinary person at all. Unless the elders in the family have a grudge against the scholar or the young lady is already married, they would generally agree."

Bai Yehan's childhood delusion was completely shattered. When he was a beggar, he did have the fantasy that when he grew up, he would be able to show himself in front of a rich lady with his good looks.

Maybe a young lady would fall in love with him at first sight and would marry no one but him. At that time, he would be looking at a group of old bachelors who were still single until they were old.

He inexplicably felt a sense of superiority. He was different from them. He could marry a wife with the good looks given by God.

Bai Yehan now held his broken heart in his hands and asked, "Why are you suddenly paying attention to me? Before, no matter what I said, you were just like a stubborn donkey."

Without saying a word, he just walked away with his head covered.

Fu Yuanyuan raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her face. She looked as if she had been pulled out of the water. She took a few breaths and said, "No... If I don't talk to you, you'll start making trouble again."

Bai Yehan didn't say anything for a long time. Just when Fu Yuanyuan thought that Bai Yehan was starting to act up again, she was about to stop and see if he had started to act up or had fainted.

Then Bai Yehan asked calmly, "Answer me a question seriously, and I will stop making trouble and cooperate with you."

When Fu Yuanyuan heard Bai Yehan's voice, she felt relieved and said, "Ask!"

Bai Yehan pondered for a long time before speaking: "You are from Zhou, and I am from Qi. Why did you save me? Don't tell me that you would do the same to anyone here today."

Fu Yuanyuan was covered in wounds but she forced herself to drag herself along. Bai Yehan knew that Fu Yuanyuan was afraid of leaving him alone in the dense forest.

After a long time, the wild beasts in the dense forest will come here due to the smell of blood, and Bai Yehan will have no power to resist and will become meat in the wild beasts' plates.

Fu Yuanyuan didn't know how big the dense forest was or how many days it would take to get out.

If they walked for several days and nights and finally found someone to rescue Bai Yehan, it would take several days and nights. By then, even if Bai Yehan was not eaten by wild beasts, he would starve to death.

But dragging him like this would be very dangerous for Fu Yuanyuan, as the Western Border Army is still roaming around and killing people.

It takes so much energy to bring him along. If Fu Yuanyuan encounters any danger, she will be dragged to death by Bai Yehan.

Moreover, if she were alone in this dense forest, she might be able to get out in a day or two. But if she brought him along as a burden, she might be exhausted or starve to death before she even got out of the forest.

If Fu Yuanyuan was Lin Wan, and they had a close relationship since childhood, Bai Yehan could still understand it.

But Fu Yuanyuan and I were just chance acquaintances, and this was our second meeting. She was so nice to me. It couldn't be that this young lady from a wealthy family was attracted by my pretty face?

Bai Yehan looked at Fu Yuanyuan's thin shoulders, but still gritted his teeth and dragged himself forward.

Fu Yuanyuan was silent for a moment before she replied, "If it was anyone else, I wouldn't lend a hand, but I wouldn't risk my life to save them. Besides grandma, you're the only one in our group."

Bai Yehan thought: It's over, I have no choice but to obey her.

Fu Yuanyuan lifted her trembling legs, took a difficult step forward, and said, "Indeed... you are from Qi. To be honest, I hate Yao Chuguang. She made me a slave of a conquered nation."

Bai Yehan remained silent. The first time they met, he knew that Fu Yuanyuan was hostile to His Majesty. She concealed it but could not hide it from him.

Fu Yuanyuan gritted her teeth and continued to pull hard, saying, "My brother told me that the Fu family protected the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty, not the Zhou royal family. The two are different."

Fu Yuanyuan's eyes flashed with confusion as she said, "I didn't understand the difference between the two at the time. Yao Chuguang was also an emperor. She conquered the Western Zhou Dynasty and became its emperor."

"If every outsider who conquered the Western Zhou Dynasty could become its king, then what was the point of resisting foreign enemies? They were all lackeys of the royal family. What difference did it make who they worked for?"

"Wouldn't it be a joke if the land that the Fu family has guarded for a hundred years became a joke? Although I am dissatisfied, this is the decision made by my brother."

Fu Yuanyuan seemed to have spoken a lot in one breath and was a little out of breath.

After resting for a long time, he picked up the vine again and walked forward. As he moved forward with difficulty, he said, "Now, Yao Chuguang would rather risk his own life than let his brother lead the army to resist the barbarians."

"If other emperors were faced with a situation like Yao Chuguang's, they would definitely ask my brother to withdraw his troops to protect me. It would only mean the loss of one or two cities."

"The lives of tens of thousands of people in the city are not as important as your own life."

"Although I am a woman and don't understand battlefields or court affairs, I know that Yao Chuguang is a wise ruler. I accept that."

Bai Yehan interrupted Fu Yuanyuan and asked in confusion, "You've been praising His Majesty for so long. Does this have anything to do with you saving me?"

Fu Yuanyuan felt a little exhausted and stopped to sit on the ground to rest. She said, "Brother is fighting the enemy in the front to defend our country. Although I am a woman, I am willing to help as much as I can."

Bai Yehan was even more confused. What was going on?

What is the connection between the two? Fu Hongxuan is defending his country in the front, and Fu Yuanyuan is protecting him in the back?

Bai Yehan felt that no matter how arrogant he was, he could not think that he was as important as His Majesty and the State of Qi, and was worthy of Fu Yuanyuan risking her life to save him.

Bai Yehan shook his head with confused eyes and said, "I don't understand what you mean."

Fu Yuanyuan knew she was being a little vague, so she hinted, "The first time we met, His Majesty brought you to us at the restaurant. That's when I noticed that His Majesty's attitude towards you was different from that of ordinary people."

Fu Yuanyuan thought for a moment and added, "His Majesty is very close to you, even picking food for you..."

Bai Yehan suddenly realized that Fu Yuanyuan thought he was having an affair with His Majesty.

To round it off, in Fu Yuanyuan's eyes, Bai Yehan is just a concubine in the palace. Since her status is extraordinary, it is natural for her to risk her life to save her.

Bai Yehan······

Girl, you are asking me to cuckold your brother whom you worship like a god!