Quick Transmigration: Saving That Cannon Fodder

Seeing that things were not going well, Murong Tuo tried to leave with Wang Qi, but was stopped by the guards who arrived at the scene.

"How dare you! You dare to stop this prince?"

The guards seemed not to hear, and continued to block them with their swords at the ready.

Murong Yu had already reached the group behind them when she heard several splashes of water. It turned out that Sun Qiming and the others had all been kicked into the lake by Murong Yu.

"Does this mean I allow you to rise?"

The group struggled in the water, the icy lake water filling their nostrils again. Sun Qiming wanted to beg for mercy, but he couldn't utter a single word and could only continue thrashing his hands.

Murong Yu's icy gaze fell upon Murong Tuo and Wang Qi not far away, and Murong Tuo couldn't help but take two steps back:

“I am your elder brother, even if you are the crown prince… ah.”

Murong Tuo's mediocre skills were no match for Murong Yu's kick, and Wang Qi followed suit, falling into the lake.

Young men from noble families considered swimming to be vulgar, so naturally they wouldn't do it. Their clothes were soaked through, and the group sank as they went.

With a few gurgling sounds, Murong Tuo sank the fastest.

The gaze overhead was too intense. Chi Xing looked up and met a pair of angry eyes, followed by Murong Yu's somewhat gloomy question:

"Why did you come here? There are too many people and too many eyes today..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Akahoshi had been running for too long and had caught a chill; now that he had stopped, he couldn't stop coughing.

She wanted to say a few more words to him, but then Murong Yu felt sorry for him, wrapped his cloak around him again, and hugged him as they left.

The guards around him kept their eyes straight ahead, neither looking at the people struggling in the lake, nor at Murong Yu and Chi Xing.

"Oh dear, my son! Who pushed my son into the lake?"

The sound of the eldest princess wailing and lamenting came from the other side, but Murong Yu didn't even glance at it and took a shortcut straight to the East Palace.

"General Zhao, these people..."

Zhao Jintong would occasionally glance at Gu Panpan waiting over there, without interfering with her communication with the guards.

"One is missing. That person's fighting style is not like that of Dongqian people. He has a back injury, so he shouldn't have escaped far."

The head of the guards immediately dispatched men to search.

This is the imperial palace. The matter is left to the guards. Zhao Jintong turned and walked towards the plum grove, ignoring the crowd that was rushing towards him.

Gu Panpan approached with concern: "Are you hurt?"

He then began to examine her body, but Zhao Jintong shook his head:

"No, it was that little hostage. He must have been quite frightened. These assassins are no ordinary people."

Gu Panpan noticed her frown and her fingers, which were gripping her sleeve, curled up slightly: "You, little hostage, are you pretty?"

After saying that, she couldn't help but lower her head, feeling ashamed of her unwarranted jealousy.

Sure enough, the next moment Zhao Jintong's low laughter came, and Gu Panpan's blush crept up to her neck.

He could hear Zhao Jintong's whisper: "Isn't my sister avoiding me? And she still cares whether I've seen the little hostage or not."

"I wasn't avoiding you, I just hadn't made up my mind." Gu Panpan's voice trailed off, "Who told you to..."

Recalling the bandits she encountered on her way from Jiangnan to the capital, Gu Panpan still felt lingering fear, but it was also on that occasion that she met Zhao Jintong.

At that time, Zhao Jintong disguised himself as a man and became the fifth leader of a bandit stronghold. When he saw Gu Panpan, he acted like a robber and directly took her to her room.

He even roughly pressed her down and kissed her, scaring Gu Panpan half to death.

Later, Gu Panpan found out that someone had been eavesdropping, and Zhao Jintong had no choice but to make the act real.

That evening, Zhao's army arrived and, following the route provided by Zhao Jintong, went up the mountain and successfully wiped out the bandit's den.

Gu Panpan was still resentful about what had happened to her. Zhao Jintong changed into women's clothing in front of her to prove that she was a woman.

Zhao Jintong thought the matter was over, but she kept that tenderness in her heart.

All I could think about, whether my eyes were open or closed, was Gu Panpan's breathtakingly beautiful face, her tearful appearance so heartbreaking.

Zhao Jintong has always been straightforward; once he's made up his mind, he's serious. On that very day, he told his family that he liked a woman.

Poor General Zhao, with tears streaming down his face, complained that there was something wrong with his ancestral graves and that he wanted to go back and rebuild them.

The Zhao family had been hoping for this girl for many years, and they wanted to raise her with great care.

Unexpectedly, this child loved swords and spears from a young age, followed the army to the camp, and later went up the mountain to suppress bandits. She even made meritorious contributions and won the emperor's appreciation. Before she was even twenty, she became a famous young female general in the capital.

Grandmother Zhao smiled and asked Zhao Jintong which family's girl he liked and whether she was sincere.

Zhao Jintong was careful and didn't say whose daughter she was, only that she would marry that woman in the future.

Grandma Zhao smiled and said "good" several times, "as expected of the children of the Zhao family, so courageous and responsible."

Even Zhao Jintong's parents, brother, and sister-in-law had no objections. They loved Zhao Jintong and did not want her to get married and have children, confining her to the inner courtyard of the mansion for the rest of her life. This would be too cruel for their daughter who longed for freedom.

For a family like theirs, finding an ordinary person is impossible.

If the daughter marries a woman, then she won't have to endure the pain of childbirth, and she can marry her, or the two of them can move out to live together.

Only General Zhao objected, so his objections were ineffective, and Zhao Jintong officially began his pursuit of his wife.

She chased after him all the way back to the capital, sending him flowers and jewelry every day. After many attempts to arrange a meeting, Gu Panpan finally agreed to see her.

Gu Panpan was unsure of her own feelings; for two women to be together was truly shocking.

At this time, the Empress invited her to a flower viewing banquet, and Gu Panpan came. Upon hearing the news, Zhao Jintong also joined in.

When they saw Gu Panpan talking to His Highness the Crown Prince, they assumed that Gu Panpan had come to have a marriage proposal from His Highness the Crown Prince.

She hid to the side until Gu Panpan called out "cousin," at which point Zhao Jintong realized she had misunderstood.

However, this did not stop her from pretending not to know and kept teasing Gu Panpan until Gu Panpan got angry and pulled her aside, and took the initiative to kiss her cheek.

*

In the Eastern Palace, the imperial physician had just left, and the familiar bitter smell of medicine lingered in the air once again.

"I don't want to take the medicine. I'll feel better after a while."

Chi Xing was in Murong Yu's arms, her chin resting on his shoulder, coughing occasionally.

"Drink your medicine obediently, and go out when you're better."

"What does Your Highness care about me? You haven't wanted to see me these past few days anyway." His words carried a sense of estrangement and a hint of resentment.

Murong Yu recalled the past few days of avoiding him and felt guilty: "I'm sorry, I've been leaving early and returning late these past few days to avoid catching your chill, which is why I stayed in the side hall."

Akahoshi did not accept this explanation.

Murong Yu continued, "My cousin came to the capital for a visit. I heard that she encountered bandits on her way, so I went out to welcome her and take care of the aftermath."

The main purpose was to silence the bandits who knew about this, so as not to damage my cousin's reputation.

However, he made a new discovery in the past few days, and it was this discovery that confirmed his feelings.

To clarify her own thoughts, she obeyed the old woman's advice and went to the flower-viewing banquet.

The answer was exactly what he expected.

The boy had little concept of matters between men and women; what he saw most was the interaction between his father and mother.

After much thought, I realized there was only one person in my heart, but that person was a man.

He wanted to spend his whole life watching the stars, and perhaps in the future he would even watch the stars get married and have children, which made him feel restless.