Saving the foolish general, she accidentally becomes his favorite.

Station.

The room was filled with steam, and behind the screen, the fragrance of clothes and the shadows of hair created an alluring atmosphere.

Amidst the swirling smoke, Princess Mingzhu is taking a bath.

The servants were waiting to announce the news:

"The Regent's Consort has arrived..." Before she could finish speaking, she was pushed aside!

Ye Li arrived travel-worn and, without even waiting for an announcement, went straight into Mingzhu's boudoir.

The maids outside the door were terrified, their faces pale, and they scrambled to their feet, crawling on their hands and knees outside the screen.

"Princess, please forgive us!!! We failed to stop them, please spare our lives!"

"Step back! Everyone step back!"

Ye Li spoke up:

"It's me. I have something to ask you."

Mingzhu said impatiently:

"Everyone else, step back! As for you, I'll get dressed and go out to see you..."

The maids hurriedly retreated, and the moment they closed the door, Ye Li rushed behind the screen—

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Mingzhu shouted, and the servants, seeing this, were about to open the door when they heard their master's angry roar again:

"No one is allowed in! Everyone get out! Otherwise, you will be killed without mercy!"

So everyone cautiously moved away from the room and stood guard outside.

Looking at Mingzhu, Ye Li's suspicions were confirmed, and her heart clenched involuntarily.

"you……"

"Have you seen enough?"

Mingzhu's tone was harsh, but she still managed to suppress her anger.

She was one of her few friends, and they had shared secrets, for which Mingzhu still placed absolute trust in her.

"not enough."

After Ye Li finished speaking, she went up and pulled Princess Mingzhu out of the bathtub, carefully examining her body.

Princess Mingzhu was furious and cursed:

"Where are you looking? Don't you have one of your own? Get out of here! What are you looking at?!"

She had no interest in being stared at naked by others!

"Don't move! Let me check... does this pressure hurt?"

Mingzhu said irritably:

"Try letting someone pinch you, see if it hurts..."

Ye Li paused, looked into her eyes again, and asked with heartache:

"Since when?"

Princess Mingzhu snorted, slapped Ye Li's hand away, and said fiercely:

"Don't tell you!"

Ye Li looked at her, and her heart ached for a moment, a pain that was hard to describe.

She embraced Princess Mingzhu, her previous assertiveness vanishing completely, as if her anger had been extinguished instantly, and she bowed her head in apology:

"I'm sorry... I just... I don't know how to say it..."

Princess Mingzhu felt awkward being held naked, even though the other person was a woman. To make matters worse, the culprit was crying her eyes out, leaving Princess Mingzhu with nowhere to vent her anger...

Once Ye Li had calmed down, Princess Mingzhu said:

"You can let me go now, right? Although we grassland tribes are not particular about formalities, we don't have the custom of chatting naked..."

Ye Li suddenly realized that she had been too impulsive in her excitement. She rarely hugged someone like this, not even in modern times, let alone in ancient times. Her face turned red instantly, and she hurriedly took the clothes and put them on Mingzhu.

"Sorry……"

"Hmph, you'd be better off using the energy you use to apologize to think about whether you could actually do this kind of thing! Regent, Princess!"

After a chaotic tidying up, the two were finally able to sit down and talk calmly.

Ye Li spoke first:

“I found bruises on Mo Chen’s body, and since he was unconscious, and Master said that with so much blood ginseng used, an ordinary person should have woken up by now… So I thought, perhaps you know something…”

Princess Mingzhu was still angry. She took a big bite of a piece of beef jerky and said:

"You came here to spy on me while I was showering, just for this? What can't you ask me? Why did you have to barge in and see me naked?"

Ye Li was surprised by the coincidence; she actually managed to see it. She said anxiously, "..."

"At first, it was just a guess; I couldn't confirm it until I actually saw it..."

"Hmph, that's right. As you can see, although I, who have been brought back to life, am alive, my body is not without damage. These bruises appeared gradually after I woke up..."

"At first, it was just a few bruises on my legs that would disappear soon. But the longer it went on, the longer they stayed. Later, the bruises became more and more numerous and larger..."

"I have to take medicinal baths frequently, and that's why I'm so eager for revenge..."

Hearing this, Ye Li finally asked:

"So in your original timeline, Mo Chen had already..."

Princess Mingzhu said solemnly:

"He died long ago! He killed Xuanyuan Ming, then committed suicide. No one knows why. Some speculate that he faked his death and simply changed his identity to live in hiding..."

“He didn’t live that long in his past life. Thinking back, he was going to perish in the fire on that cliff, but you saved him time and time again…”

Ye Li confirmed her guess with Princess Mingzhu. Mo Chen had originally passed away, but because of her intervention as a transmigrator, he did not die according to his predetermined fate. However, since he no longer belonged to this timeline, he would still be arranged by fate to face various dangers of death in order to maintain the established course of this world.

Ye Li glanced at Mingzhu and said cautiously:

"How did you survive? Since you were able to survive, how did you end up with these injuries... Could this have backfired?"

What she really wanted to ask was, if the bruises spread all over her body, would she also fall into a deep sleep like Mo Chen...?

Princess Mingzhu sighed, remained silent for a long time, and finally said quietly:

"Let me tell you a story..."

"Once upon a time, there was a girl who died, in the snow... It was so cold... Pieces of her flesh were cut off, her blood staining the snow red, melting into blood, and flowing into the sea... At that time, she racked her brains but could never understand what she had done wrong..."

"She looked at the sky, and the sky was red, because her eyes were stained with blood... She also saw vultures, their eyes filled with longing; they wanted to eat her flesh..."

"The strong prey on the weak; they eat what they want... Before she died, the girl thought that if there was an afterlife, she would spare no effort to take revenge. She would make those people wish they were dead, and make them taste all the suffering she had endured..."

"Later, when she woke up, she was in a white place. The place was pure white, with carved beams and painted rafters, like a fairyland. She thought that she would enter the cycle of reincarnation after death, but she didn't expect that she would be at sea..."

Ye Li wondered:

"maritime?"

Princess Mingzhu wrote on the table with water:

"Pilgrimage Temple".