Resisting the Wind and Splendor

The day Chu Yueli saw Tuoba Yi and Lu Beimo at the inn, they were clearly old acquaintances, and the two spoke without any restraint, looking like friends who had known each other for many years.

Lu Beimo could no longer laugh at this moment.

She was cleaning his wounds with strong liquor.

When strong liquor gets on a clean cotton cloth and is pressed against a wound, it feels like a knife is cutting into the wound.

"So Your Highness does feel pain." Chu Yueli glanced at him, and although she complained, she tried her best to be gentler in her movements.

"I'm not dead, of course I feel pain." He frowned, but didn't utter a sound. "Ah Li, are you worried about me?"

Chu Yueli did feel a little sorry for him.

He has more than just this one wound.

His body was covered with wounds of varying sizes and depths—knife wounds, sword wounds, and arrow wounds.

"Is the battlefield in the Northern Frontier really that dangerous?" This was Chu Yueli's first time facing the war in the Northern Frontier head-on.

Previously, it was only rumored that King Mo was known as a god of death in the northern frontier.

But even the God of Slaughter is a person, a flesh-and-blood human being.

Lu Beimo lowered his eyes and saw the fleeting pity in her eyes. His heart warmed, and he said, "Several times, you almost died on the battlefield."

"Sorry……"

Why should I say sorry?

Chu Yueli looked up at him, then continued to treat his wounds.

“If it weren’t for my design, Your Highness probably wouldn’t have been trapped in the northern frontier for five years.”

"Ah Li, have you ever been to the Northern Frontier?" he suddenly asked.

Chu Yueli shook her head.

Lu Beimo sighed: "If you had been there, you would know that even without your design, I would have gone to the Northern Frontier."

She was somewhat surprised and looked up at him.

His expression was serious, with a rare hint of pity: "The northern frontier is a place where various forces converge, and wars break out every year. The people there live in misery every day. Men are forced to do hard labor, the elderly and children are often brutally murdered, and young women suffer terrible calamities."

"Before I arrived, the people were constantly fleeing and living in constant fear. People were starving to death everywhere, and there were even cases of cannibalism..."

Chu Yue's heart tightened suddenly, and her fingertips trembled slightly.

Lu Beimo squeezed her wrist and smiled, "That's all in the past. Although the Northern Frontier is still poor and harsh, at least after it was pacified, everyone started to work hard to develop agriculture, with men farming and women weaving. I believe that life will get better soon."

Chu Yueli was somewhat stunned.

These tender words, spoken by the Great Demon King, didn't seem out of place at all.

It's unimaginable unless you see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears.

For the first time, I felt that this great demon king was actually quite down-to-earth.

Chu Yueli was about to apply the medicine to him when she realized that her hand had been held in his the whole time.

She was startled and quickly withdrew her hand.

Lu Beimo didn't make things difficult for her; when she pulled back forcefully, his fingers had already loosened.

Chu Yueli cleaned his wounds and began applying wound medicine. Lu Beimo suddenly said, "He wanted to marry you, so I beat him up."

"Huh?" The Great Demon King's thoughts jumped around too quickly, and Chu Yueli almost couldn't keep up.

“If he weren’t Tuoba Yi, I might have killed him directly. Killing him would have saved you from this predicament.”

"Your Majesty..."

"But firstly, he is Tuoba Yi, and secondly, he is the third prince of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Firstly, I will not kill my friend; secondly, if he dies in the capital of Dongling, it will cause a war between the two countries, and the common people will suffer."

Therefore, he only beat Tuoba Yi up and did not kill him.

Chu Yueli looked into his deep, dark eyes: "Your Highness, there's no need to explain to me..."

"You are my future wife, so I should explain this to you."

Lu Beimo said seriously, "You promised yourself that you would marry me in the future. Ali, you are even more heartless than Lu Fengjin. You forgot the promise you made to me in the blink of an eye."