Guide to raise my cutie husbands

Soon the information about Xien Zhenya receiving 500,000 soldiers from the Empress of the Ying Desert spread through the imperial city. The rumour wasn’t unlike any other as it spread like wildfire before reaching the court.

When Xien Xieren heard the rumour, she was so angry that she passed out. Because of the blue lily fabric, she had waged war on the only nation that was willing to help her; due to this, the entire pressure was indirectly placed on the army.

Half of the commoners who were forced to join the army died, while the other half decided to kill themselves after seeing the ruthlessness of the war. Only the soldiers fought bravely but they were also humans and had limits; now the current number of soldiers was less than 100,000!

How was she going to fight Xien Zhenya, whose army had more than 500,000 soldiers? Now she could only lay her hope on Master Ruan and the army of the dead that she was raising.

She hoped that the sect master would not let her down and at the same time, she hoped that Xien Zhenya would lose this battle.

However, her hopes were doomed to dash with Yu Dong by her side; Xien Zhenya only saw the face of victory and never defeat. One after another, her army won the remaining cities that were under Xien Xieren.

And after another year and ten months passed by, Xien Zhenya now stood in front of the imperial city. She was dressed in heavy battle armour and staring at the walls and the heavy gates that were closed.

“Your majesty,” Yu Dong walked over to where Xien Zhenya was standing and said to her, “Can you grant permission to the person waiting outside the base? She came here at my request.”

“Under your request?” Xien Zhenya was surprised when she heard Yu Dong’s words; after all, this woman had never asked for help from her or anyone else. This was the first time she was hearing Yu Dong say that she had called someone for assistance.

“That’s right,” Yu Dong’s face was now covered with a hint of tiredness and scars. With the continuous battle, she had lost the wild look in her eyes and had become more restrained.

With scars covering her body and an eye as a sacrifice for the victory in this war, it would be surprising if she could still be as carefree as she was in the past.

“I thought about it a lot and realised that we have no other means to deal with the dead soldiers,” explained Yu Dong, her eye flickering as she said to Xien Zhenya, “We can of course kill them but the problem is that I am afraid that there is an entire army waiting for us inside that wall. We cannot take an entire army of undead without an ace plan.”

“And this woman is your ace plan?”

“If you trust me, then, yes,” Yu Dong nodded as she replied firmly.

Of course Xien Zhenya trusted Yu Dong; this woman had helped her in not only wars but she also detected the flaws in the Blue Lily techniques. Who would have expected that the master of Blue Lily actually left such a riddle in the notes that he left behind?

Because he wanted to test his heirs, he actually wrote two contradictory things that caused the fabric to either lose its sheen or its scent.

If one was not paying attention to the notes and only focused on copying it, they would never be able to create a replica of the Blue Lily.

But Yu Dong was smart enough to understand what she called simple tactics and changed the half that was deliberately left behind by the creator.

So of course, she trusted Yu Dong enough to let her bring someone in the base camp.

“Alright, you can take this token and show it to the guards.” Xien Zhenya handed her personal token to Yu Dong, who took it with a respectful bow and walked out of the tent.

Once she walked out, one of the generals who were discussing their next tactic couldn’t help but sigh with regret.

“She could have become a high-ranking general if she was willing; what a shame that she is not willing to,” she said with a shake of her head.

“There is no need to feel regretful,” remarked Xien Zhenya as she turned to look at the map with a heavy look in her eyes when she thought about how her daughter was far happier at the Big River Village than she was at the imperial palace. “If not for the fact that my sister was such a fool, I too would have rather chosen to live as a commoner than the ruler of the nation.”

Living in fear, worrying about when her own siblings would kill her or when someone would betray her—compared to that, Xien Zhenya truly wished to live a comfortable and pleasant life.

When the general heard her words, her eyes softened with a hint of tears in them. Indeed, if she were given another chance, she would choose to be born in the family of commoners with a decent life rather than in the house of an official.

“Sister Junfen,” Yu Dong greeted the woman with a smile on her lips but even when she was smiling at Wu Junfen, the latter was looking at her with a solemn look that was covered with a layer of frost.

“Yu Dong, have you lost your mind! What the hell is this? What happened to you?” Wu Junfen felt as if her heart was about to burst with anger and pain.

Her granddaughter was such a fine and perfect woman—and now!

“I am fine,” Yu Dong smiled and tried to comfort Wu Junfen but the latter simply smacked her hand away. She covered her face with her hands and cried, “This is why I never wanted you to come here but you never listened to me. You have lost an eye, Yu Dong! An eye! Do you think I don’t know the pain of being stabbed in the eye? Do you take me as a fool? How dare you say that you are fine! When you are covered in scars like this?”