Chapter 11: Code Name 47! (10)

The Cold Grand Hall, the Crown Princess Forced to Serve! (10)

Having been baptized by the fires of war, the post road leading east from the State of Li was already weathered and worn.

One hundred thousand iron cavalry, their armor gleaming brightly; never mind that their ranks were perfectly aligned, even the sound of their hoofbeats seemed to fall in perfect unison.

The most discordant element within the entire army, however, was a semi-old carriage.

It creaked and groaned as it moved, though it was hitched to a high-quality warhorse.

Although Chu Yang had managed to find a carriage for Lin Ying and her daughter to use for transport, he did not alter the marching speed of the troops because of these two women. The thin, old quilt inside the carriage could not alleviate the jolting at all.

Lin Ying, the Crown Princess of the State of Li, who was already physically and mentally exhausted, had fallen ill on the very second day after leaving the imperial palace.

Now, three days later, this woman—who was once a peerless beauty—showed increasing signs of frailty. Huddled inside a tattered cotton quilt, she looked as if she might die at any moment.

The military doctors had visited several times. Although Chu Yang had issued orders, Lin Ying's illness was already severe, and the army lacked sufficient medical supplies; her condition only continued to worsen.

*Scrape, scrape, scrape!*

In the corner of the carriage, Dugu Yue was carefully polishing a carriage nail about a palm's length long and as thick as a little finger.

It had taken her an entire day just to pry this nail out of the carriage.

When she first pried it out, the nail was still covered in a layer of rust.

After two days of polishing, it had become as bright as new, and the tip was incredibly sharp, flashing an undeniable, cold light within the dim carriage.

Over the past two days, through her mother's delirious ramblings during her unconsciousness and the discussions among the soldiers...

Dugu Yue had basically grasped the information regarding the world she was in, and her understanding of this body had deepened significantly.

Yue'er was her name, but her surname was Dugu—the surname of the royal family of the State of Li.

Her father was the Crown Prince of the State of Li, and Chu Yang's single night of slaughter...

Had already wiped the Dugu lineage from this world, and she was the sole survivor of the Dugu clan.

Because she had suffered a major illness at the age of four, this child's mental capacity had remained forever frozen at that age, until she had transmigrated and been reborn into this body.