Having spent over a year in Great Desert City, she had long since learned the enemy's strength and circumstances. Yet when she finally managed to slip out of the city and return to the Han Palace Royal Court after untold hardships, she discovered that times had changed.
The Self-Defense Army had left, replaced by the New Army guarding the Han Palace Royal Court. After she reported her intelligence, no one took it seriously.
Not until Her Majesty the Empress ordered Qu Jianglin to march against the Cangling Kingdom.
He was to join forces with the Self-Defense Army attacking Firmament City and launch a counteroffensive against the Cangling Kingdom. Only when he saw something to gain did Qu Jianglin leisurely dispatch his troops, and then he remembered her. Although Gongsun Qianxun was angry, she could still distinguish what mattered when principles were at stake. She led Qu Jianglin and two hundred thousand Shenzhou New Army troops to Great Desert City in a mighty procession, only for Qu Jianglin and Nangong Han to treat her as a mere guide. She was an Eastern Conquest General; even if her post was in the Self-Defense Army, that did not give their New Army the right to slight her like this.
The more Gongsun Qianxun thought about it, the angrier she became, so naturally she showed them no pleasant face. Now she only wanted to return to the Self-Defense Army as soon as possible. That, after all, was where her roots lay.
Now, watching the Shenzhou New Army's vanguard being battered into a sorry state by the Desert Star, she remained indifferent on the surface, but an inexplicable surge of satisfaction rose in her heart.
Enemies though they were, the Desert Star had indirectly helped her vent her anger, and she wanted to secretly give