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The sounds of metal colliding to each other blazed the afternoon further. The country's border had once again had it's fill of scarlet blood as one after another sacrificed for their home country's hope and future.
Li Yun, with his bow and arrow hurriedly find where his allies where. He saw Wei Xi Yan along with other gallant female warriors and the heroic male soldiers preparing themselves to fight near a tent.
Wei Xi Yan, noticing Li Yun's eyes directed to her, nodded. She hurriedly went to his direction and checked if he got injuries because she knew that the Crowned Prince General forbid Li Yun from joining the war preparation.
" Were you... hurt? "
Li Yun gently shook his head. He proudly showed his limbs that were still pretty attached to his body and his tanned skin which held no wounds in it.
" Wei Jie, did... our army initiated the attack this noon ? Did they did it while the enemies were eating. "
Seeing that Wei Xi Yan made a curt nod as a response made him arrived in a terrifying conclusion.
" Xiao Ping's death was suspicious. He was killed due to blood lost cause by a sword strike in a place somewhere in his chest. He was a talented soldier but he died like that. Who killed him? The enemy troops are all happily eating at that time. Our army attacked sneakily unless... "
Unless an assasin or a spy was ordered to kill him. Li Yun touched his chin then grabbed an arrow from his back, hold the bow with the other then aimed toward the enemy soldier as he and Wei Xi Yan run towards the battlegrounds.
" Thank you for the assist. "
Ling Xiao gratefully muttered under his breath to the young man while fighting the enemy general.
" Wei Jie, we should talk about this scheme later. "
" En. "
The man and woman separated and joined the battle.
Li Yun aimed his arrow, here and there. He aimed at the enemies' heads with the help of the system's instructions. He was like a sniper in modern times because of the system helping him accomplish his goals.
Wei Xi Yan was also hurling her spear. She even made a barbecue out of enemy sodiers. It was a funny sight but a little gross.
The crowned prince general was also suceeding in killing the enemy's general. They were fighting one- on- one fairly with swords that when a poison arrow
was suddenly launch towards their direction. It was aimed at Ling Xiao's and he didn't had the time to dodge it for he was fighting and he just let it pierce him.
Ling Xiao let it be because once the arrow succeeded, he will extract the poison out of himself with the help of the royal physician. He was confident with the royal physician he brought from the capital towards the border for the reason that he was reknowed to administering poisons.
Li Yun who saw the peculiar arrow directed at his mission's body, launched an arrow from his bow to intercept it. The two arrows hurriedly collided in the air and dropped at the same time.
The enemy general who gave a sign to his ally to launch a poisoned arrow to Ling Xiao was suprised. He din't thought that it would be intercepted. Because of his suprise, he was caught off guard when the prince hacked his sword toward his arm. It was chopped and the red liquid squirted like a fountain.
The enemy general clutched his bleeding armless shoulder. He prepared to flee when a cold voice that came from hell was conveyed towards him.
" You will not leave this place, ALIVE! "
Ling Xiao pierced his sword at the enemy's throat. The enemy went limp on the ground and Ling Xiao's loud voice echoed in bloody battlefield.
" The enemy general, Song Ran was now dead! Surrender or your life and family will be erased from this world! "
It was directed to the enemy soldiers. They dropped their weapons and ceased to move.
Li Yun run toward Ling Xiao. He smiled and stand beside him when Ling Xiao suddenly hugged him.
Fudge! I'm a gay but I'm not into PDA, you know? Well, we're not in a relationship so, I'll let this slide.~
Ling Xiao tightened his arms around the young man's body and with a hoarsed voice said in a low dangerous voice said:
" Thank you for saving this prince. I don't have enough money to compensate you for saving my life. Will my heart be enough for the payment? "
Li Yun: OAO Fudging hot chocolate with marshmallows!!!
" That...Your a prince. A crowned princed who will become the emperor. I know you can give me rewards! "
Ling Xiao chuckled. He felt the body of the young man suddenly slightly stiffen. He knew that this was riduculous but he can't help himself. As a prince or a man, he didn't believed that there would be a time that he will surrender his heart to another person.
Ling Xiao and Li Yan were childhood friends. He also know about Li Yun that time but he often ignored him because of his quiet nature. Li Yan was not a bad friend because he was there whenever you need him. He was also a cheerful person, opposite to his little brother.
Ling Xiao was determined that Li Yan was the person who will be his true friend until the end but the word friend might not be suitable anymore after what happened next.
It just came out of the blue that Li Yan visited the palace and initiated a kiss to him on his 16th birthday and said that he was a gifted man. Li Yan sincerely said that he was inlove with Ling Xiao since they were kids so, he was very happy to be married to him while following tgeir families' arrangement.
It was said that that the Li Family and the Imperial Ling Family were closed friends that even before Ling Xiao's birth, the old emperor ( Ling Xiao's grandfather) and the Li patriarch ( Li Yan's grandfather) formed an arrange marriage for their grandchildren.
Ling Xiao with his powerful sense at his surroundings noticed that a palace servant was kneeling at the ground and asking for forgiveness. Obviously, the servant saw all of it, as in all of it from the start.
Li Yan showed his pitiful look to Ling Xiao like quitely saying "Xiao Ge, please forgive him. He was not at fault. He was just a passerby." Ling Xiao let it passed and made the servant scram but he didn't know the second prince also saw this and reported it to his imperial father, the emperor.
' He was actually suprised by his friend's actions but it was already done, he can't reverse the time, right? '
The next day before leaving for the battle, Ling Xiao and Li Yan was issued by an imperial decree. Omitting the flowery words, it only says that the two people, He and Li Yan will be married in a three months time.
Ling Xiao thought that it wasn't a bad idea because he don't have someone he loved dearly. He just cheered himself that eventually, he will learned to love his friend, no...his future wife once he returned from the battle and invested to his feelings but little did he know, someone will make his frozen heart melted without his prior permission and it was....
" Li Yun, I know that this was the wrong time to say this but I can wait. "
Instead of the usual "this prince", Ling Xiao used to referred himself as a normal person to show sincerity.
Li Yun: OAO
[ System? What's happening? Why is this sissy proposing to this fellow cannon fodder? ]
---[Ah...That...~~]
Li Yun who was stiff aand not responding was currently interrogating the system like a lawyer to the suspet at a certain trial court.
[ This was not included in the drama! Ah! ah! ah! ]
Li Yun wailed internally. The system rolled its imaginary eyes and responded with a gentle flirty voice.
---[ It was cause by...by....by...]
[ By what?! ]
Li Yun wanted to punch the system because it was keeping the beans from spilling.
The system sensed the host's surge of negative emotion ans finally spout the info.
---[ By you~~. It might not be bad, ah!~~]
Li Yun body was splashed with cold water. Ling Xiao touched the cheeks of the cute soldier. He felt it was cold and he can't help but covered it with his palm.
[ You are cold. We should go inside the tent and warm up. ]
Ling Xiao looked at the sky. He didn't felt that it was already turning dark. He carefully held Li Yun's pale hand then guided him inside.
Li Yun unconciously blushed but he wanted to struggle against this feeling. He chanted at his mind that this was definitely the former host's feelings to Ling Xiao and not his!
---[ Oh.~~By the way, lead Ling Xiao to his happiness host~~ and also don't forget to lead also the protagonist. Tee Hee~~]
Happiness? Yes... my mission. I completely forgot!
Li Yun was awaken from his frozen state and his eyes glinted with delight. He covered himself with his arms while Ling Xiao guided him to sit.
He didn't noticed the wicked smile plastered on Ling Xiao's face while observing him on the bench.
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