I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Lu Mingyuan stared blankly at the sister in front of him, whom he had only met a few times, and said in a hoarse voice, "I thought you were afraid of me."

I didn't expect that he would try so hard to comfort and help himself.

"At first I was afraid."

Lu Mingyang looked at the face before him, which bore a passing resemblance to himself, and a wave of emotion welled up in his heart. In just a few short months, a pregnant woman had gone through the process of learning of a loved one's death in battle, the funeral, investigating the case, giving birth, and ultimately killing her husband. Even during this time, she'd managed to find a way to save herself.

Just thinking about it is amazing.

"But now, I'm not afraid anymore." Lu Mingyang said firmly, "If one day you want to kill me, it must be because I have done something extremely evil and deserved to be killed."

Lu Mingyuan was amused by her. Her face was very pale, and now she was even more exhausted. After leaning on the bed for a while, she broke into a sweat. It was rare that the smile brought a hint of life to the frail woman.

"Eldest sister, I just asked King Ningyuan." Lu Mingyang sat cross-legged and told his plan: "As long as we can let King Ningyuan find the murder weapon in the place where the Xiongnu are hiding, he can close the case. Maybe we need to find a reason for him to assassinate the Xiongnu."

Speaking of this, Lu Mingyang remembered the conversation between Chu Mingzheng and his elder sister in the main hall, and his brows furrowed deeply.

"No wonder he asked you that. It turns out he had this plan all along. What kind of person is this? Instead of focusing on handling the case properly, he only knows how to be sneaky and cunning."

"You can do it, but others can't?"

"I'm not like him." Lu Mingyang retorted confidently. Turning his head, he saw the layout diagram given by Shen Yan on the bedside table and picked it up excitedly.

"Fortunately, Prince Ningyuan forgot to take it away. Eldest sister, can you see where you hid the murder weapon so they can easily find it?"

The moon hung high in the sky, gently kissing the window. That night, Lu Mingyang hadn't mentioned Song Wei yet, but she held her hand and slept soundly.

The next morning, Lu Mingyuan retrieved the murder weapon hidden beneath her father's tablet in the ancestral hall. As for the reason the Xiongnu had murdered Earl Zhongxin, she used ink to create the key mold for Changshuiying. As for the reason, they hadn't thought of it. Since Prince Ningyuan had thought of the key, he must have had a reason.

"Eldest sister, is that okay?"

Walking out of Qingluo Lane, Lu Mingyang recalled how he had just put the things away and felt a little excited.

"It should be fine." Lu Mingyuan nodded. "The Xiongnu love horses the most, and they also like to hide good things on horses. They won't be traveling far these days, so they shouldn't find it. If we just come and check, we will definitely find it."

"That's good!" Lu Mingyang reached out to lift his elder sister's veil.

Lu Mingyuan slapped it away lightly, "What are you doing!"

"We're already on the street, it's okay." Lu Mingyang smiled like a nympho, "Such a pretty little face is covered up, how will my future brother-in-law see it?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Lu Mingyuan was angry and slapped her hard on the back of her hand.

Along with the sound of slaps, the sound of horse hooves came from afar.

A horse, unbridled and mad, galloped towards them, sending pedestrians scrambling to avoid it. In the middle of the road, a frightened three-year-old boy sat down on the ground, crying loudly.

A man rushed out from the side and pounced on the little boy. He knelt on the ground with all four limbs and protected the child under him.

The mad horse charged forward, about to trample the man. Lu Mingyuan galloped onto the horse and forcibly lifted its front hoof. The mad horse neighed, its front hoof brushing against the man's head and falling to the side.

The wind blew, blowing the woman's veil.

Shen Yan touched his surviving head and looked up, only to see the veil of the woman on the horse fall down. He couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he felt that the woman's figure was extremely familiar.

I just can't put the face together.

The little boy's mother hurriedly picked up the child and thanked him.

"It's not me, it's this girl." Shen Yan raised his hand to the woman on the horse and found that the woman had dismounted and left, with another girl following her.

He left in a hurry.

"Girl, girl..."

Shen Yan waved his hand and chased after them, but the more he chased, the faster the two women walked. After turning two alleys, he finally lost them.

He withdrew his gaze in disappointment and bowed three times towards the void.

"Thank you for saving my life!"

After saying that, he went back, looking back every few steps.

"This Lord Shen is really interesting." Lu Mingyang came out from behind the door and said with a smile: "Eldest sister, didn't you see Lord Shen's posture just now? He looked like a toad."

Lu Mingyuan said, "Stop laughing, and go!"

After all, it was someone else's door. Lu Mingyang said "Oh", took his elder sister's arm again, and leaned on her shoulder. She asked in confusion: "Eldest sister, you are so good at kung fu, why do you have to hide it?"

Even my husband of eight years didn’t know.

"It's not nice to tell others that a woman knows Kung Fu."

Lu Mingyuan talked about the past with his sister: "Our family is a family of military commanders. Mother was worried that I wouldn't be able to find a good husband, so she didn't allow Dad to teach me. But she was also worried that I would be bullied, so she taught me secretly. Dad always listened to Mother, but he didn't listen in this case. He taught me secretly without Mother's knowledge."

Lu Mingyang felt a little envious when he heard this, but the more Lu Mingyuan spoke, the sadder he became.

"When I got married, my grandmother was worried that my husband would dislike me, so she told me to keep it a secret. I kept it a secret for eight years. I also wanted to tell him, but then I gave up. Not all men in the world are like my father."

"For men, martial arts is a gentleman's art, but for women, martial arts is a stain and is despised by the world."

Women, especially those from aristocratic families, should only learn how to manage a household and how to assist others. If they learn anything else, they will be unfit to be wives.

Looking at his elder sister's lost eyes, Lu Mingyang said, "But elder sister doesn't think so, right?"

"Yes!" Otherwise she wouldn't have learned it, and learned it so well.

Lu Mingyang asked, "Elder sister, can you teach me?"

"You want to learn?"

Lu Mingyang rubbed his hands together, "I don't need to be as strong as you, as long as I can defend myself."

Lu Mingyuan warned, "If people knew about this, they would laugh at you."

"I'm not afraid! Those stinky men have done too many bad things, so they don't dare to let women learn martial arts, for fear that they will be stabbed. Sister, I'm not..." Lu Mingyang thought of Uncle Zhongxin.

"Okay, I'll teach you." Lu Mingyuan smiled and patted his sister's shoulder. Her feelings for that man were already very vague, so vague that even hating him was exhausting.

After receiving the promise, Lu Mingyang's heart was in turmoil. Returning to Yuanzhi Pavilion, she dismissed her attendants and told them about Song Wei.

"So, elder sister, I'm not doing this entirely for you. I'm also worried. I'm worried that if what he said is true, Prince Ningyuan will use this to take advantage of this and depose me from my position as princess."

Lu Mingyang stared at his sister in front of him.

"Sister, I just lied to him." To prove himself, Lu Mingyang swore to the heavens, "I didn't choose to be his pawn that day, and now that I know he's my father's enemy, I won't do that anymore."