The cold emperor reigns supreme, the arrogant empress begs for a truce.

Chapter 90: The Female General of Southern Chu

"I'm hungry." After a long while, Leng Yuling said, touching her stomach. This wasn't just to lighten the mood; her stomach was genuinely rumbling.

Mo Zhen turned his head to look at her, but before he could speak, he heard her stomach growling again. The only person who would be so unconcerned about her image in front of him was probably Leng Yuling.

Sometimes he wondered if Leng Yuling was truly confident in herself, or if she felt their relationship was so good that they didn't need to hide anything from each other.

However, he didn't ask, but instead told someone to bring the dishes into the room.

He was truly astonished to see Leng Yuling wolfing down her food, eating without any regard for her image. This was the first time he had ever seen someone eat so quickly, yet the person in question seemed completely unaware of it.

Compared to Leng Yuling's hearty eating, Mo Zhen was much more refined. Halfway through his meal, Li Quan's voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, General Ma has arrived."

Mo Zhen was taken aback. He looked up at Leng Yuling, who seemed not to have heard Li Quan's voice at all, before putting down his chopsticks and saying, "Please invite her in."

When Ma Xiaoxiao came in, she saw Leng Yuling rolling up her sleeves, holding up her bowl, looking at the dish in front of Mo Zhen, and saying, "Mo Zhen, could you pick up the fish in front of you for me?"

She addressed him by his name, Mo Zhen, which surprised Ma Xiaoxiao. Although she had heard that this empress was different from other women, she was still surprised when she saw her in person.

Seeing that Mo Zhen didn't move, Leng Yuling called out again, "Hurry up, my arms are getting sore from holding it up!"

It wasn't until he heard Leng Yuling's voice again that Mo Zhen reluctantly picked up his chopsticks, placed a piece of fish in her bowl, and put it there with a hint of helplessness on his face, but he did not refuse.

"Your subject Ma Xiaoxiao greets Your Majesty and Empress." Mo Zhen paused for a moment before nodding and saying, "Rise." At the same time, he put down his chopsticks.

Upon hearing the woman's voice, Leng Yuling stopped what she was doing, looked up at Ma Xiaoxiao, and the food in her mouth instantly got stuck in her throat. She coughed incessantly and pointed to her neck, saying with difficulty, "Fish...fish bone...is...stuck."

Seeing this, Mo Zhen hurriedly stood up and poured her a glass of water, but Leng Yuling waved her hand and said, "It's... no use..." She said the three words intermittently.

Mo Zhen then had Li Quan call a doctor, who removed the fishbone stuck in Leng Yuling's throat. As the doctor, she was quite embarrassed and kept saying "thank you."

However, her "thank you" startled the doctor who removed the fish bone for her, and he almost knelt down before her.

"Where is General Ma?" Leng Yuling touched her throat and scanned the room, but couldn't find Ma Xiaoxiao anywhere.

She had heard Li Quan say "General Ma is here" outside the door, but she thought a general should be a man. She never expected that there would be a female general in the Southern Chu Kingdom, and she looked exactly like her sister from her previous life!

“Her surname is Ma, so…” Leng Yuling seemed to think for a moment before saying, “She is Ma Zhiyun’s older sister?”

It must be said that her reasoning ability is extremely strong. However, she doesn't know whether Ma Xiaoxiao just looks like her sister from her previous life or whether her sister from her previous life really came with her.

Mo Zhen had no idea what Leng Yuling was thinking. He simply nodded and said, "Xiao Xiao is indeed Yun'er's older sister, and she is also the only female general in our Southern Chu."

The only female general in the Southern Chu Kingdom, but what she was curious about was not Ma Xiaoxiao's identity, but rather what relationship Ma Xiaoxiao had with her sister from her previous life.

Thinking of this, she said, "Can I see her?" There were some things she needed to confirm.

Mo Zhen looked at Leng Yuling, rarely seeing her so curious about anyone, but he still said, "She came to tell me that she wants to return to the border."

"What's the rush? Let her stay a few more days." Seeing Mo Zhen's puzzled look, and worried that she might give herself away, Leng Yuling smiled and said, "Didn't she arrive in Yongcheng before us?"

Seeing Mo Zhen nod, Leng Yuling continued, "That's it then. Since she came first, she must be more familiar with the disaster situation, so we need her help."

Leng Yuling spoke eloquently, and Mo Zhen seemed unable to find any flaws in her argument. However, the only thing she was certain of was that her desire to see Ma Xiaoxiao was definitely not so simple.

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The first thing Leng Yuling asked when she woke up the next day was, "Has General Ma arrived?"

Ziyan was taken aback at first, then nodded and asked, "Your Majesty, how did you know the General was here? General Ma is currently discussing matters with the Emperor and the Fifth Prince."

In this era, women were not allowed to participate in politics, but Ma Xiaoxiao was different. She was not only a female general of the Southern Chu Kingdom, but also an ever-victorious general, and a woman loved by everyone in the Southern Chu Kingdom.

"Is she very capable?"

"General Ma and Consort Ma are fraternal twins, but their personalities are completely different. General Ma is so dashing and heroic, while Consort Ma is gentle and virtuous." Speaking of Ma Xiaoxiao, Ziyan's face seemed to show a hint of envy and admiration.

From this, Leng Yuling could easily see Ma Xiaoxiao's status in the hearts of the people of Southern Chu. She was about to ask something when she heard Ziyan say, "Originally, everyone thought General Ma would be the Empress, but..."

After she finished speaking, Ziyan realized that she had let something slip and instinctively covered her mouth, looking at Leng Yuling with a pale face.

However, as a gossip queen, how could Leng Yuling give up such a good opportunity to gossip?

She removed Ziyan's hand from her mouth and asked, "Empress? What's going on here? Miss Ziyan, please begin your explanation."

Ziyan shook her head and said, "This servant doesn't know, this servant doesn't know anything." Seeing that Leng Yuling was becoming more and more curious, Ziyan hurriedly knelt down and begged, "Your Majesty, this servant begs you, please don't be curious, okay? Just pretend... just pretend this servant didn't say anything today."

Is the story between Mo Zhen and Ma Xiaoxiao so mysterious that it can't even be told? But the more mysterious it is, the more it arouses Leng Yuling's curiosity.

She helped Ziyan up.

"Don't worry, I will never force you if you don't want to tell me." Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief after hearing her words, but before she could finish, she heard Leng Yuling say in a threatening tone, "However, if you don't tell me, I will have to ask Mo Zhen or Ma Xiaoxiao directly. You know me, once I'm curious about something, I have to find out the truth."

Ziyan knelt down again with a thud: "Your Majesty, please don't ask General Ma, and please don't ask the Emperor. Your Majesty, please forgive this servant this time." Ziyan finally realized what she had said wrong.

“Miss Ziyan, you’ve piqued my curiosity, so you have to take responsibility for destroying it.” Leng Yuling bent down, lifted Ziyan’s chin, and forced her to look at him.

Ziyan wasn't afraid of Leng Yuling; she just knew that she had to say it, whether she wanted to or not.

Who told her to end up with such a curious master...