The war drums of both armies couldn't reach Yuan Nü Jūn's ears.
Only Jimò Qiu's offhand request kept replaying in her mind, growing louder and louder, like arrow after arrow stabbing into her heart.
[Can the woman ruler shoot a second Time Arrow?]
How could that possibly be a request???
Yuan Nü Jūn's fingers tightened around her great bow as her emotions surged, her knuckles taut and white. She glared furiously and said, "You really think I can't take your life? This is a grievous humiliation. You'll pay for it with your life!"
Anger tinged the corners of her eyes with crimson and set her cheeks aflame. Boundless Killing Intent churned in her chest. It felt as though her pride had been ripped off and thrown to the ground, where someone trampled it underfoot. The humiliation she'd suffered at the hands of the old Yuan clan was less than a tenth as cutting as those words!
Jimò Qiu gazed back at her calmly.
"Woman ruler, you've misunderstood. I'm making a sincere request."
He knew that Her Highness had a different temperament in this life, but there was one thing the two versions of her shared: she almost never asked him for anything. This left Jimò Qiu, who was accustomed to their quiet companionship, feeling rather troubled.
He even felt a rare sense of urgency.
He might say that Her Highness was undergoing a tribulation, that it was only natural for her to forget her past after entering the mortal world, and that she would remember everything once she returned to her fulfilled state in the future. There was no need to care about gains and losses in the human world.
But—
She made far more demands of Qi Zhongshu and the others than she could count on her fingers.
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