Since that day, Nian Yuexian had occasionally issued Lu Ye tasks through the Guard Token. They were all trivial, petty matters, mostly related to food and drink.
One task had even sent him to a nearby pass to buy a locally brewed specialty wine.
Every completed task earned him Battle Merit—several hundred at the least, two thousand at the most. In just a few days, Lu Ye had accumulated nearly ten thousand Battle Merit.
The gains were decent, yet Lu Ye always felt that something was off.
Things should not have developed this way.
That day, Lu Ye was once again preparing food on the Spirit Peak where Nian Yuexian resided. Beast meat roasted over the fire, hot soup simmered in a pot, and several jars of fine wine sat on the table, awaiting Nian Yuexian's honored arrival.
Usually, she would suddenly appear only after Lu Ye had finished preparing everything.
A burnt smell suddenly wafted out. Yiyi turned her head, then cried out, "Lu Ye, it's burned!"
She hurried over, snatched the roast from his hand, and did her best to salvage it.
When she turned back again, she found Lu Ye sitting there with furrowed brows, wearing an expression as bitter as though he bore a blood feud.
"What's wrong?" Yiyi asked in confusion, unable to understand what he was fretting over.
"This isn't right!" Lu Ye shook his head.
"What isn't right?"
"It shouldn't be like this."
He had joined the Bing Province Guard to defend the frontier passes of Soldier Province, not to serve as someone's errand boy. Though orders from above could not be disobeyed, what exactly had he been doing these past few days?
He suddenly sprang to his feet and kicked over the soup pot before him. Amid Yiyi's startled cry, he overturned