Shang Ruoyan did not kiss Jing Yichen.
She grabbed a small knife and made a small cut on her finger. She used her blood as ink to write words on Jing Yichen's forehead. Yuebao did not understand what Shang Ruoyan was doing. Shang Ruoyan unbuttoned Jing Yichen's clothes and wrote more characters on his body.
Then, she closed her eyes and chanted a few inaudible words. The characters written in blood vanished in thin air. A purple aura engulfed Shang Ruoyan and Jing Yichen. Yuebao finally noticed the harmony of the energy flowing between them.
Yuebao was silently guarding Shang Ruoyan, afraid that something might happen.
The mental riot was soothed in time. Shang Ruoyan fell beside Jing Yichen, exhausted. The man stayed in a deep sleep. Shang Ruoyan felt moving back to her room was troublesome, so she fell asleep in the same room as Jing Yichen. She almost drained her mental power to ease Jing Yichen's rioting energy.
But it was unexpected for her to enter Jing Yichen's dream.
"Who are you?"
Shang Ruoyan bent down and checked the injuries on Jing Yichen's body. He was lying on the battlefield. Dead bodies filled the air with the smell of blood and decay.
"Little girl, you must run. The Zergs will kill you if they get a whiff of your scent."
Shang Ruoyan smiled and said, "They won't. You should worry more about yourself."
Jing Yichen smiled back, but looked more pitiful in Shang Ruoyan's eyes.
"I am nothing but a dying man."
"Don't you fear death?"
"Death? Dying to save the galaxy is my mission. It is an honor to die here."
"Die in honor? Where's the honor when you were clearly betrayed by people you trust the most?"
"How did you know?"
Shang Ruoyan did not answer.
Jing Yichen sighed. "I don't want to die, but does it look like I have a choice? So, little girl, run for your life. You still have a good future ahead. Don't die in the hands of the enemy."
"Do you want to live?"
Jing Yichen stared at the face of the girl in front of him.
"You must live well, Jing Yichen."
The two stared at each other.
Silence.
When everything was calm, Yuebao made sure to guard the house. Yuebao reinforced the system with several data sets, hacking wouldn't be possible. Nobody knew they brought the general to Bimu Planet. But Yuebao and Shang Ruoyan were aware of the news that several forces were racing to find the general, dead or alive.
* Imperial Capital, Planet Zion *
"Did you look carefully?"
"Mistress, we've checked several planets closest to the battlefield, but we still couldn't find any traces of the general. Even parts of his broken mecha vanished in thin air."
"Someone must have found him before us. Or a force must be protecting him from behind."
Under the moonlight, Feng Ruyi's face showed an emotion of madness.
Feng Ruyi, as a reborn person, would never let any threat block her way. The general never died in her last life, and he became the hardest stumbling block in her career. The man was so cold that he never bowed to the woman's skirt. Feng Ruyi wanted to seduce such a person, but he was like the untouchable moonlight. He was beyond her grasp of reality.
Feng Ruyi, with the power of her admirers, hired people to ambush the general when he arrived at a barren planet farthest from the battlefield. But when the killers got to the location, the scene was bare. The land was flat, and no traces of the explosion could be seen. It was as if the coordinates given were wrong.
"It can't be wrong..."
"Mistress, do you have orders?"
"Search the planet. Search for injured people. Kill everyone!"
"Kill everyone?"
"Yes, kill everyone living near the garbage dump!"
The killers were surprised, but they could not disobey their employer.
Feng Ruoyan looked like she had lost her mind, but no one could stop her plans. Several people, innocent or not, were killed in mass. The harvest was done cleanly at night. When the military arrived the next day, only burning bones remained in the area. There were no witnesses, so the officers felt the citizens were just unlucky.
Feng Ruoyan always remembered how hard her journey in the military was. Back then, the Third Military Fleet was the most prestigious in the galaxy. And even with the opposition of her family, she entered the fleet and worked from the lowest position.
She was unaware that men and women have equal rights in the station, which means no gender biases when working. The training was exhausting, and no one was there to comfort her fragile heart. She wanted people to take care of her, but the general could not be found by anyone at will.
She even learned how to dress up, cook, and impress the general, but none of them were noticed by Jing Yichen, who only thought of guarding the galaxy. He was a cruel man.
Jing Yichen's men betrayed him because of her.
She found his people in advance. She leaked the news of their intel to the rebels. She planned the downfall of the Third Military Fleet, but only Jing Yichen's life remained in the veil. The others were safe, and even if she wanted all of them to die, she weighed the benefits their support would bring to her.
In this life, she wanted nothing but the imperial crown.
She would always remember how Jing Yichen protected the imperial family. Jing Yichen became a stumbling block for her in marrying the prince of the dynasty. Jing Yichen's position in the imperial family also added to his advantage in controlling the events that influence the power of several families.
The Qin family might be prestigious, but it was nothing compared to the Jing and Lu families.
"If I could exterminate these families, I would rule the Interstellar Butterfly Galaxy! I would be unstoppable! They do not deserve the death of my parents!"