"Really?" Daiqisi, who had been eavesdropping nearby, immediately grew interested. "Let's go out and welcome her together."
Song Qingshu was speechless. Why are you getting involved? he thought, then hurriedly said, "My identity is different now. If I go out of camp to welcome her, it'll cause too much of a stir. Better to invite her in quietly."
"Yes!" As the guard left, he secretly mused, That woman was so alluring—no wonder she had won the marshal's favor. Too bad my parents didn't give me a prettier face, or I could go find the marshal too...
The image of Tang Kuobian's bearded face surfaced in his mind, and he shuddered all over. That taste was a bit too heavy. Better not think in that direction.
He hurriedly thought of Daiqisi's appearance to soothe himself, and only then did the guard feel a little better. But when he remembered that she too was merely a more handsome guard, he felt even more nauseated. "Tsk tsk, are they playing out some jealous love triangle?" Since Daiqisi was currently disguised as a man and appeared as one of Tang Kuobian's guards, while he was only an outer-circle guard rather than one of the core guards Daiqisi had trained in the past, he had misunderstood somewhat.
"What jealous love triangle?" a gentle voice asked. The guard looked up and saw a woman before him, fair as jade and beautiful as an immortal, her loveliness beyond compare. Only then did he realize that he had unconsciously arrived at the entrance to the camp.
"N-Nothing. The marshal invites you in, miss." At a single glance from her, the guard's heart began racing. His words turned flustered, and there was a faint, sickly pallor on his face that somehow made him seem all the more pitiful.
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