"Then I'll leave it to General Feixiao."
Sold her out.
Fu Xuan was decisive when she needed to be. Once she decided to sell someone out, she did it.
In any case, it wasn't as though Qingque had no feelings for Liu Bai. Go on, enjoy her life for Fu Xuan's sake.
Qingque's stunned sideways glance made Fu Xuan's heart clench painfully.
Maybe... she should take that back...
"Actually, Lady Fu Xuan wants to go too! She's just too embarrassed to say it!"
"Qingque—!? Urgh... is this what they mean by one wrong thought leading to self-inflicted suffering..."
Fu Xuan looked at Qingque, who had immediately turned around and betrayed her, her expression shocked and complicated.
But after the shock, her first reaction was to reflect on herself.
She had set a bad example. She really had no face to turn around and scold Qingque...
And she really had been working Qingque like a beast of burden over this matter...
"L-Lady Fu Xuan, since it's come to this..."
Qingque regretted it too—she wanted to say it had been an instinctive counterattack, not intentional...
...Maybe.
It was over. She... really had to run away and become a general.
"Since it's come to this... all we can do is try not to lose our chastity."
While Qingque was still thinking of how to make up an excuse, Fu Xuan accepted it surprisingly quickly.
"Huh?"
Wait! Why was someone who barely knew Liu Bai accepting this faster than Qingque was!
Qingque desperately wanted to complain internally.
—Though if they were discussing physical familiarity, Fu Xuan was actually far ahead of Qingque.
"...Lady Fu Xuan, are you serious?"
"Of course."
It would be a lie to say she was not uneasy.
But...
"Some things have to be faced eventually."
Fu Xuan took a deep