Traveling through an ancient military camp: Bao'er's survival song

Despite having caused a quarrel with the Jin family couple and infuriated Peng Zizheng, Wu Suining continued to live a peaceful life in the Wu family mansion. Although her birthday was in a few days, the Wu family showed no intention of making preparations, simply because her birthday was the same day as the current emperor's, which was the day the late empress passed away.

Everyone knows that the late Empress died from postpartum hemorrhage, and after the current Emperor ascended the throne, he issued an edict declaring that he would never celebrate a birthday again for the rest of his life. If even the Emperor doesn't hold a birthday banquet, how could a mere official's wife dare to hold one on her own birthday? In fact, her coming-of-age banquet last year was deliberately avoided on her birthday and was held three days in advance.

Wu Suining took her birthday lightly; it was just a banquet at home, a get-together with her close friends, and some birthday gifts. What difference did it make which day she gathered? As the eldest daughter of the current Grand Tutor, she wasn't lacking in anything of value, and she didn't expect to receive any special gifts on her birthday. However, Wu Suining's mother always felt indebted to her eldest daughter. Every year on this day, she would hold her daughter and reminisce about the glorious day of her birth, because that was also the day her husband passed the imperial examination with top honors. On that day, after learning of her delivery, her husband lost all interest in riding through the streets; he rushed back to the mansion to see her and their daughter before hurriedly leaving again for the triumphant Qionglin Banquet.

Thinking of her mother's sweet narration and then of her father, the Grand Tutor, as handsome as Song Yu, Wu Suining felt both proud and ashamed. Her father doted on her and her two siblings, but although all three were beautiful, none of them inherited his good looks. Yet, despite his stunning beauty, her father never abused his charms, maintaining unwavering respect and love for her mother. The Wu family had no concubines, not even a single maidservant—a rarity in the entire capital. Therefore, in Wu Suining's eyes, she looked down on every man in the world: No man, however handsome, could compare to her father? No man, however intelligent, could match his talent? No man, however wealthy, could be as faithful as her father? Thinking of this, Wu Suining couldn't help but snort proudly, mentally reviewing the marriages arranged for her close friends, and couldn't help but think: a bunch of trash.

Wu Suining, proud of her father, was unaware that she had already stirred up a storm in other families, and that General Guide, a man of unwavering resolve even after countless battles, had been so enraged by her that he had been jumping up and down with anger for days. That day, after returning from the training grounds, Peng Zizheng, in a fit of impotent rage, spent the entire night planning the upcoming training regimen: he, a dignified General Guide, could not admit defeat to a young girl. He would still go to the Xuanhu Gate's training grounds, and not only that, he would go shirtless every day! He wanted to show that shameless girl whether he was afraid of being seen or not, and to see whether he was afraid of being seen or not! Peng Zizheng, who loved to plan, even mentally rehearsed his gaze and posture when he encountered the girl again, determined to overwhelm her with his imposing presence.

The young woman did not go the next day.

On the third day, the young woman still did not go.

On the fourth day, Peng Zizheng, who had been training at the martial arts field from dawn until dusk, returned home with a dark face.

Damn it, was that shameless young lady off looking at other shirtless men?! Shameless! He barely managed to suppress the urge to order his men to investigate the woman: What a joke! Me, a dignified General of Guide, would I waste my time investigating a delicate young lady? I'm a tiger general who accomplishes great things! I'd rather lose than investigate a mere woman!

During the days when the dignified General Peng Zizheng was troubled, Li Bao'er was also troubled.

Every day, she had to go to the academy to listen to those obscure and difficult classical texts. Back at the general's mansion, she had to drag her exhausted body to practice horse stance. And to make matters worse, she was being pestered by that "Eighth Prince" she'd saved before. She didn't know how that idiot had found her, insisting that she should repay his life-saving grace tenfold, saying he would follow her every step of the way from now on! What kind of talk was that! Did that fit his noble "Eighth Prince" persona? Li Bao'er felt as if her soul had been drained.

She made a decision: once she traveled back to her fragrant modern world, she would write a book of non-fiction, and the title would be—

The Passion of Lee Bo-ah

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