Perhaps she herself doesn’t even know what this means for a soldier defending his homeland.
"Nuannuan, how can you expect me not to love you?"
He buried his handsome face into the nook of her neck.
Smelling her unique, clean, fragrant scent, he felt both assured and enchanted.
The greatest fear of being a soldier isn’t marching to war.
Rather... it is managing to protect the country but being unable to guard the home.
Many wives of the brothers in the barracks simply don’t understand their husbands’ determination to defend the nation at the cost of their lives.
In their eyes, having one more person in the camp won’t win the battle, so what’s wrong with deserting and leaving Bianliao together?
But if everyone thought this way, who would protect the country?
Some would even, because their husbands were at war, feel their status is special and profiteer among the impoverished populace...
He’s seen this happen many times, at first not understanding and feeling very angry. Later, he thought of the lonely widows and orphans who waited bitterly, life being hard for them, and gradually he stopped concerning himself with it.
He even felt that such was normal thinking for a soldier’s family...
His little wife always inadvertently touched the softest spot in his heart, then seized the chance to slip in, filling every corner of his heart with her completely.
What the man was thinking inside his big head, Yun Chunnuan didn’t know.
She also didn’t feel she had said anything remarkable.
Thus, everything was attributed to his self-reproach.
She gently wiped the sweat from his chin, her voice soft and sweet, "Husband, about your mother..."
This was something Yun Chunnuan had been worried about for many days, always wanting to ask how the future mother-in-law was faring.
But she feared walls have ears, adding trouble for him.
"She should have already reached Great Xia."
His warm breath brushed against her sensitive neck.
The stubble grazed the delicate skin, slightly tickling.
She couldn’t help but shrink her shoulders, but due to this action, his scorching lips touched her blushing snowy neck.
She gasped sharply, the man’s muffled laughter spilled from his throat.
He casually planted a big... not small strawberry on that tender snowy skin.
In return, she landed a thumping knock on his head.
"I still have to go out and meet people! You’re really..."
The weather was getting warmer, such an obvious mark on her neck couldn’t be covered by clothes!
The man shamelessly planted another kiss on her small face, "If you won’t let me eat, can I at least have a lick? Nuannuan, the new year is almost over, on which day is our wedding set?"
Yun Chunnuan: "?"
Weren’t we talking about the future mother-in-law?
This topic switch caught her off guard!
She thought of the instructions the future mother-in-law gave before leaving, and her face turned red, "It’s still early, first tell me if mother is safe? Only a dozen days, so quickly to Great Xia?"
She remembered the original host took more than a month from Great Xia to exit to Bianliao.
As soon as she spoke, she saw the man’s face full of pride, "My Jifeng is as fast as Lightning, even the fastest steed in the world can’t compare."
"Jifeng?" Yun Chunnuan asked suspiciously, "Is this what Mother forgot about?"
He nodded slightly, "Mother probably doesn’t know how many sweat-blood horses the King nurtures, faster than Lightning, even if they escape successfully, they’ll definitely be caught.
The only thing in the world that could let her successfully escape Bianliao is Jifeng."
"And Aunt Ashe..."
"My men caught her but have released her."
His men... have spread so widely? That’s the personal guard of a monarch...
"Then that’s good."
Yun Chunnuan asked no more.
She originally thought he was dim-witted... no, naive and ignorant, but he wasn’t.
This realization reassured her even more.
What she didn’t utter aloud, he rushed to clarify, "Nuannuan, throughout Bianliao, whether you can see it or not, my men are everywhere.
Or rather, arranged by Mother early for me.
Not to be scheming, just as one who walks on the edge of a blade...
"Husband, I know." She smiled sweetly, "I see how much you’ve given to this country with my own eyes, and so do the people of Bianliao, whatever you do or don’t do, I’ll be with you."
She hinted, causing Yelyu Lie to pause.
He was that eager to explain, afraid his little darling misunderstood the purpose of his early foresight.