Imperial Commander: His Pretty Wife Is Spoiled Rotten (Book 1)

996-1000

"Yun Xi..." He did not know if this was happening now or if it had already happened. He stared at her walking stealthily through the night and killing her prey with one shot after another.

The scene finally cut to the battle between her and the wolves. The bloody, gory sight nearly sent his heart leaping out of his throat.

"Be careful!" Looking at the visual being projected on the wall, Tang Cheng suddenly shouted. The scene was followed by heavy gunfire that shook his eardrums.

The picture froze, and the lights in the room turned back on. Tang Cheng looked at the figure by the window who was looking at him. It took him a long time to calm himself down after watching that scene play out.

If what he'd seen was true, the Yun Xi who was still smiling brightly in front of him was no longer the Yun Xi he knew.

He did not know what kind of training she had endured this year or what tribulations she had gone through.

When he saw all this, things changed in an instant. It turned his assumptions upside down and forced him to see that the distance between Yun Xi and himself was insurmountable.

Standing in the doorway, Qi Yuan watched the forlorn figure coming out of Mu Feichi's study. He led him out of Mu Mansion and drove him away from Tianyu Mountain.

"Brother Qi, what exactly has Yun Xi experienced this year? I can feel that she is getting farther and farther away from me..."

"She is trying to become stronger and grow. She still has a lot of things to accomplish and does not allow herself to have too many shortcomings or weaknesses. In the year since you have seen her, she has been kidnapped twice and faced assassination several times. Do you know what that means?"

"How could this be?" Tang Cheng turned his head abruptly. He fixed his eyes that were filled with disbelief on Qi Yuan's profile. "She is only a young girl. How can she be involved in this kind of thing?"

As they were driving, Qi Yuan told him all about what had happened this year. What the Young Commander did not want to tell him himself, Qi Yuan shared with Tang Cheng on his behalf.

After listening to Qi Yuan, Tang Cheng bowed his head and said nothing.

He had grown up with her, sharing happy and unhappy events, but now he found that some things were no longer as simple as he had thought.

"Then what should I do? As you said, I don't want to be her weak link, let alone a threat to her. But I don't want to leave her like this. I will protect her..."

"You don't have to protect her. Can't you see the Young Commander's attitude?"

"..." With this reminder, Tang Cheng finally understood why the man in the study had not said a word and only showed him the video.

It turned out that he was the one who would protect her, and the reason why she worked so hard was so she could stand by him as an equal.

Even so, he would keep his promise and strive to become a person qualified to protect her, no matter in what way.

...

On the day of the beginning of the military training, Yun Xi saw Tang Cheng, who came to say goodbye to her. She was unprepared for this sudden incident.

"Before I came to Jingdu University, the town was already recruiting soldiers. I passed the physical examination in all aspects, but my mother was reluctant to have me endure hardships, so I let my dad go through the back door and pull some strings. I thought that I could escape, but, unexpectedly, I still have to be a soldier."