The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

Gong Yuanzhi shuddered and quickly stepped forward to smooth things over. "Let's talk it over! Why are you suddenly howling? There's no way Yu'er would fall in love with Su Rou anyway! Otherwise, why would he obey orders and lead his troops to attack the Northern Kingdom?!"

"Yu'er grew up in the palace. Your Majesty knows him best. I'm already old, so it's not normal that I can't beat Su Wan's youngest son. I heard that Su Wan's youngest son is only a few years older than Yu'er now."

Gong Yuanzhi stood in the middle with a smile on his face, acting as a peacemaker.

Gong Yu frowned, "Hulanduo, His Majesty personally appointed me as the Commander-in-Chief General. If you don't accept it, go and argue with His Majesty."

Hulandu was the only one from the desert among the four generals who attacked the northern country.

The people of the desert are belligerent by nature, and Gong Yu didn't take his words to heart.

Hulandu rolled up his sleeves and pushed away Gong Yuanzhi who was standing in front of him, his eyes wide open with anger.

"You'd better not have any other thoughts!"

At night, someone came to report, "Major General, Shen Yao found a female corpse."

Inside the room, Gong Yu, who was looking at the document, paused.

He put down the book in his hand and opened the door with a "creak".

"Where did you find it?!"

The person kneeling at the door kept his head down and said, "The female corpse has been brought back by Shen Yao. It's in the front yard."

Gong Yu strode over the threshold, and the cloak on his shoulders fell to the ground.

Gong Yu didn't bother to go back and pick up the cloak on the ground, and quickly came to the front yard.

Before he got close, he smelled a strong stench.

The stench of a corpse is the most annoying thing, and you can smell it even if you cover your nose.

Shen Yao had a white cloth covering his face, covering his mouth and nose. "With the recent spring arrival and rising temperatures, the body hanging on the cliff has decomposed beyond recognition. However, I found a pestle maker from the Northern Kingdom to examine the body. The person has no calluses on their hands, so she's not a martial artist. She's not Su Rou."

Gong Yu took a look and asked, "Did you find anything on her that could prove the identity of the object?"

Shen Yao raised his hand, and the attendant waiting beside him brought him a waist pendant on a tray.

"This was found on her. She belongs to the Southern Kingdom's royal family."

Shen Yao doesn't have a deep connection with the Southern Kingdom, and he hasn't had much contact with the Southern Kingdom's royal family. Perhaps Gong Yu knows him.

Gong Yu didn't take it, but glanced at it calmly, "This is the Ninth Princess's waist badge. You need it to identify yourself when entering and leaving the palace."

Shen Yao asked, "Why did the Ninth Princess of the Southern Kingdom appear in the Northern Kingdom?"

Gong Yu didn't answer Shen Yao's question, "Where did you find her?"

Shen Yao answered truthfully, "Go south of the capital, there's a cliff with traces of a fight on it."

Gong Yu's face was gloomy. "What hurt her?"

"A dagger. I think it might be a spy from your Southern Kingdom. That dagger pierced the Ninth Princess's head, pinning her to the cliff wall. And I found another identical dagger on the Ninth Princess."

Gong Yu was stunned. "Is it a golden dagger?"

Shen Yao nodded, took out something wrapped in cloth from his arms and handed it over.

As the layers of white cloth were peeled off, Gong Yu's heart completely died...

He stretched out his trembling hand and took the dagger handed to him by Shen Yao. Wrapped in it was the dagger he gave to Su Rou. Gold is soft, and it can only hurt flesh when used to cut people, but it can't even cut bones.

He knew that she was only good at using a dagger, so he plated a layer of gold on the iron dagger that could cut through iron like mud.

Combined with the red gem on the hilt, he could be sure that this was Su Rou's. The gold on the outside of the blade had been worn off and curled.

"Ready your horse."

"Major General..."

Gong Yu gritted his teeth and said, "I said, prepare the horses."

When Gong Yu and his men arrived at the edge of the cliff, it was already dawn.

He looked at the bloodstains on the edge of the cliff and his heart tightened.

The blood dripping onto the rock wall had long since dried up and turned dark brown.

The attendant beside him said, "Young General, Miss Su is a lucky person, I think she will be fine."

Before Gong Yu came here, he had already checked the wounds on the Ninth Princess's body.

Killed with one blow, this isn't the Ninth Princess's blood...

Could it be Su Rou's...

His black hair fluttered in the wind, and his fur collar began to shake along with it.

"Major General... This place is in the wind, why don't we first..."

It wasn't until the follower got closer that he realized he wasn't feeling cold. It turned out that Gong Yu was trying his best to control his anger...

Seeing that he had not returned all night, Gong Yuanzhi asked his followers to lead him to the edge of the cliff to find Gong Yu.

"What's with that corpse you left at the Northern Kingdom General's Mansion? Could it be that the Northern Kingdom Emperor has set an ambush here?"

Gong Yu glanced sideways, his voice hoarse, "Father..."

Gong Yuanzhi said blankly, "What for?"

Gong Yu said, "The Ninth Princess was killed with a single blow and nailed down here. Shen Yao brought her body up here yesterday."

Gong Yuanzhi glanced down and when he heard Gong Yu say that the body was the Ninth Princess, he felt a trance and quickly took two steps back. "The Ninth Princess was killed?! The old Northern Emperor really has a backup plan! I'm going to tell people to patrol more frequently in the next few days to prevent another remnant of the Northern Kingdom from harming our people in the future."

Gong Yu stopped Gong Yuanzhi who was about to leave, "It was Su Rou who did it."

Gong Yuanzhi paused again in astonishment, "Where's that girl?!"

Gong Yu said, "...maybe he fell down."

Seeing him so calm, Gong Yuanzhi became anxious, "Then send someone down to look for him! What are you still standing here for?"

Gong Yu's voice was filled with loneliness. "Before you arrived, I had already sent people down. There is a river below. The bloodstains on the cliff already indicate that her life or death is uncertain, not to mention..."

"She can't swim at all."

Gong Yuanzhi frowned and walked quickly towards him. The sound of the armor he was wearing colliding with each other seemed particularly heavy and harsh.

Gong Yuanzhi pulled Gong Yu back from the edge of the cliff and shook him with his powerful hand, hoping to cheer him up.

"Search for her. At least find this girl's body! She saved my life, so let her be buried in our ancestral tomb! Even if we can't find her body, we must set up a memorial tablet for her and place it in our main hall!"

Gong Yuanzhi was even more excited than Gong Yu. Although he had not spent a long time with Su Rou, he still owed her a favor.

He originally had a bad impression of the little girl Su Rou, but didn't he change his prejudice against the northerners later?!

Gong Yuanzhi sighed secretly. If she fell from this height, even if there was a river below, Gong Yuanzhi knew that she would be crippled if not dead.

Then again, that girl was injured but still managed to kill the Ninth Princess with one blow. She is truly a genius...