After casually throwing out two talismans and canceling the incoming thunderstorm spheres, she fell into her memories again.
"Alas! The Princess had such a hard life!"
She had married far away, thousands of miles from home, surrounded by people speaking strange languages she could not understand. It took her more than a year to slowly learn the language of Xiye. Yet the Princess had learned the local language while traveling here for the political marriage.
After arriving in Xiye, she could not adapt to the food, living habits, or anything else. Coupled with her homesickness and sorrow, the Princess had even fallen seriously ill at first.
And that was not even counting the later wars. She led troops in battle outside for over a year and finally defeated Shache's invasion. That could be considered a glorious achievement.
Perhaps without the Princess's great victory at Zepu, the Xiye Kingdom might have been destroyed.
"Hmph! Could building the Princess a palace possibly offset her contributions?" Lan Caijie said indignantly.
But there was nothing they could do. The Princess naturally had her own thoughts and accepted this reward.
Being able to live independently in a palace that belonged solely to herself was also a very happy thing.
So, when construction was halfway complete, the Princess brought Lan Caijie and Lan Caiyue to inspect the project. She even wanted to build a garden behind the palace to grow some plants she had brought from home. Perhaps they might take root here.
But unexpectedly, during that outing, she saw the person she had longed for day and night—her cousin.
The three of them were all astonished and unable to believe it. Her cousin had once loved cleanliness and always worn moon-white or grayish-white long robes. He had always kept himself spotless, cared greatly about his