Li Ruo's days were even more miserable. Even when she secretly ran away and refused to come home, Huang Ling would send people to drag her back.
Then came another round of even more vicious tantrums and abuse, or else scratching and clawing.
As long as they were unhappy, Su Qiao was happy.
Because court began too early in the morning—she had to enter the palace at the fifth watch—and because everyone there looked at her askance no matter how they viewed her, she simply took leave and began running to the military camp outside the city instead.
On the surface, the four great kingdoms of Huangming, Eastern Jin, Northern Yao, and Western Yu had remained fairly peaceful these past few years, but in truth, there were often skirmishes along the borders.
Most importantly, among these four kingdoms, only Huangming Kingdom was ruled by women, and its military camps were entirely made up of women as well.
Although the women of Huangming Kingdom were not physically weak, they still had to bear children. In terms of physical strength, they were inevitably somewhat inferior to the robust men of the other three kingdoms.
Su Qiao decided to improve their training methods. Rather than focusing solely on strength training and competing with men through brute force, she planned to make up for their shortcomings by using height, agility, and other advantages to attack the enemy's weaknesses.
Besides designing a suitable training plan, she also developed various battle plans to train their coordination and teamwork. She even introduced modern military management theories, ensuring that every order was carried out and every prohibition obeyed.
Occasionally, she would also go into the mountains with Ye Lihan to wander around, hunt, and have a barbecue in the wild.
Life was going wonderfully.
One day, not long