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Chapter 861

Stealing a Bite Without Wiping Her Mouth, Then Leaving Her Lord to Clean Up the Mess (Part 2) [Monthly Passes, Please]

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She'd snuck a bite without wiping her mouth, then left her lord to clean up the mess.

Shen Tang felt like she wasn't a lord at all. She was the biggest sucker in the world!

Silence fell over everyone in the tent.

When they'd discovered that this Female Soldier was pregnant, who could have imagined the situation would turn out like this? They'd assumed the Female Soldier was the victim, but it turned out the man who'd gotten her pregnant was the one who'd suffered. There wasn't even a military law that could be used to punish her.

That was because the relevant military laws only applied to male soldiers.

The women's camp wasn't covered.

Before this, who could have guessed that a Female Soldier might also see someone attractive and give in to temptation, mutually willing to "lie beneath the open sky," "heedless of the world around them"? That would have been one thing, but she'd even left ironclad proof in her belly. It was truly inconceivable and completely unexpected.

Gu Chi looked at the Female Soldier, thoughtful.

Shen Tang looked at the Female Soldier, expressionless.

The others looked at her, each with their own thoughts.

This really was a difficult mess to clean up.

If they punished her, there was no military law for this. They couldn't just patch in a new rule on the spot and punish the Female Soldier. The only charge they could use was dereliction of duty—and the sentence for that depended on the extent of the damage. Though the Female Soldier had lost her head and shirked her duties halfway through, she'd completed her orders well and even earned a small merit and commendation from her battalion.

But if they didn't punish her, that wouldn't look good either. They couldn't simply take her

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