"I thought everything was ready and all we needed was the east wind. Now it seems we're not only missing that east wind, but me as well." Shen Tang felt she ought to give Kang Jishou a special award. "...If they ever make a 'Ranking of the World's Civil and Military Greats,' Ji Shou had better be ranked first among the martial ones. Otherwise, it'd be an insult to all these years he's spent making my life miserable..."
A Literary Scholar who dominated the rankings as the world's number-one general.
Even Gongxi Chou couldn't beat Shen Tang into such a sorry state, yet Kang Shi had managed it with ease, from a thousand miles away. Who wouldn't hear that and praise him for being incredible? When Jimò Qiu heard her complain, the latter's hands were wrapped up like a pair of mallets. She tucked both "mallets" against her chest and stared fixedly at the sweet potatoes roasting in the fire.
Jimò Qiu nearly gaped. "Your Highness, your hands?"
The princess lowered her gaze to her two hands and said calmly, in a tone that sounded almost as if she had seen through the Mortal World, "Oh, I got bitten by ants."
Jimò Qiu: "..."
"...And they weren't ordinary ants, either. They were venomous ants affected by the mountain's special environment!" Shen Tang's expression twisted for a moment. "How poisonous were they? They crawled over my arm a couple of times, and my skin broke out in an allergic reaction. Was I going to let ants run amok on me? I slapped one dead right away. Who knew its blood would be even more poisonous? It's itchy and painful."
Fang Yan, who had barely made it back and sat down, was summoned again.
Shen Tang's hands had swollen to twice their