Ren Shou hugged Li Amm for a couple more minutes before he let her go.
It was dark, only with a little shed of moonlight that Ren Shou would be able to see his Wangfei's face that he had dreamed of many times. It had been months since he last saw her. He missed her scent and her smiling eyes so badly that he almost sneak away from the camp to just have a glimpse of her.
Ren Shou hadn't missed someone this bad.
Finally, after enduring for months, he could come back home and see her.
Li Amm shook off those goosebumps. She doesn't know why but Ren Shou had something on him that made her nervous. Maybe it was the bloodbath that Ren Shou gathered through the years he was on the battlefield. That was the only reason that Li Amm could think of.
It was good that Ren Shou had a pretty face that overwhelmed the deathly aura he carried around him.
"You're here. Long time no see." Li Amm could not see his handsome face so the excitement of meeting such a handsome man was not present. Thus, his existence easily swiped away by the thoughts of getting the children to safety and going back for the other two kids.
"Wangfei-" Ren Shou was a bit taken aback that his heartwarming meeting with her just turned into a simple greeting.
'Is my wangfei angry?' Ren Shou had left the capital for six months. Leaving his wangfei in the household alone.
A beautiful girl without her husband to admire her and spoil her was pitiful. Ren Shou imagined a lonely Li Amm glancing at the moon feeling melancholy. Did she had missed his warm embrace like how he missed her soft body?
As he slept, he imagined her sleeping in the cold bed and hugging his pillow. Like how he pretend Li Amm was the rock pillow he was embracing.
He ran fast here as he could. After the preparation was done, he immediately went to Ren household to hold his wangfei.
But imagine his horror when a crying face of Xiao Min met him. From Xiao Min's reports, his wangfei was so lonely (-translation : she is bored to death) and felt responsible to the citizens of the Ren Empire who was suffering from the winter (- translation: she was looking for trouble ) that his wangfei went out and check the situation of the other cities.
According to Xiao Min, his wangfei could not leave the people behind and helped such pitiful citizen to face the winter together. Xiao Min wanted to stay behind too but his wangfei was unwilling to burden anyone.
Ren Shou's heart was drowned with guilt. Here he was, preparing for a rebellion when his own wangfei was helping the empire with her own little strength. This character of hers was very suited for an Empress.
However, those thoughts only surface for a bit as his worries overwhelmed him.
His wangfei was missing and was currently in the city they had just evacuated. That place might turn into a bloodbath soon. And his beautiful wife would be caught on the middle of it.
Those scary thoughts, made him ordered his spies to swipe the cities and looked for his wife. This became the top priority even if they have to expose themselves as spies.
He was lucky that his left-hand man found her.
Ren Shou touched Li Amm's cheeks. He was so glad he got her before the face-off occurr.
However, Li Amm's brows told him that they weren't sharing the same feelings.
'Darn. My wangfei is still mad at me.' Ren Shou cursed at himself.
Once, he heard his soldiers that their wives would be mad if they stay in the camp too much, thus, all the soldiers who had wives back home would give something to their wives once they return.
Ren Shou took note of it and ordered the best craftsman on his army to make something special for his wangfei. According to those soldiers, their wives would instantly forget their grievance and it would follow by a passionate conversation of husband and wife.
Ren Shou hoped that his wangfei would forget those lonely nights and would exchange passionate 'conversation' with him.
Ren Shou took his gift from his pocket. Hoping that this gift, an orchid hairpin carved from a ivory wood would make his wangfei happy.
"Wangfei, I am sorry I let you wait for six months. Here I-"
"Ren Shou, is the city safe?" Li Amm asked urgently.
They were still inside the city where the Emperor's guards were in. They were out in an open and anyone might see them. If this city was the Emperor's camp like she had guessed, then hell would break loose once those soldiers who were pretending commoners saw Ren Shou.
That's why her brow was furrowed thinking that these men were taking their sweet time and haven't flown them over to cross the wall.
Hell, they could exchange greetings later. The important thing first was to secure these children, get Ren Shou out of the enemy's territory, and brought back those two children.
Ren Shou's passionate and practiced speech was swallowed down back to his throat.
"Um. T-the city is not safe." He answered Li Amm even his heart was ruthlessly given a beating to wake up from the situation they were in.
"Then, let's go. These children need to be warm up quickly." Li Amm displayed her hand that was holding the two children.
Two little bunnies who were hiding at Li Amm's side blinked at General Ren Shou.
Ren Shou took a step back in surprise.
'Since when these two rascals were here?'
Ren Shou had not noticed them since all his attention was on Li Amm.
Ping Bi seems to understand the question on his mind, his pale lips move.
"They are with the Lady ever since I found her."