Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 291 The Little Nun 19

Having broken free from Ling Yi's restraints, Xue Zhen stood with his hands behind his back in the only clean spot at the tent entrance. After a long while, he said, "I allow you to take your soldiers with you. You may leave."

That wasn't what Ling Yi wanted to hear. She smiled and said, "I'm not leaving."

It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away. So what if she doesn't leave?

If you're so capable, then kick her out.

"you……"

Xue Zhen was still angry, but he didn't know how to intimidate her.

If it were someone else, he could have taken their life directly.

But if it were her...

Xue Zhen's heart tightened whenever she thought of the scene of a knife held to her neck.

He was used to acting roughly, and now he was entangled in a rope that was neither temperamental nor extremely tough, and for a moment he really didn't know what to do.

As for opening up my inner thoughts to her, that's even more impossible.

Who is she? And why would he do this?

Suddenly, a warm sensation came from his hand. Xue Zhen looked down and saw a hand holding his: "I hit it off with the general at first sight and considered him a confidant. It really hurts me that the general is rejecting me like this."

Xue Zhen's heart was in turmoil again. He wanted to shake off Ling Yi's hand again, but found that she was holding it very tightly this time.

"What's on your mind, General? Why can't you tell me?" Ling Yi was well-versed in the art of pacifying a stubborn mule, and her voice was as gentle as a spring breeze: "Although I'm not very clever, I can always share some of your burdens."

"I don't need..."

"But I think," Ling Yi said sadly, "that seeing a close friend in such pain, with no way to help them, makes me incredibly sad. Do you know how heartbroken I am?"

Are you sick? What's there to be sad about?

Xue Zhen pursed his lips, reluctantly prying open a little of his heart, and uttered a sentence: "I am not cut out to govern the world."

If you're not one, then don't go and harm others.

Having witnessed the most horrific scenes, Xue Zhen harbored a deep-seated fear of incompetent people ruling the world.

He didn't want to be that incompetent person, and he certainly didn't want the last words uttered by the desperate victims dying in the wilderness to be a curse upon himself.

So when he realized that his abilities were insufficient to govern the world, and that the gentry and scholars who were capable of governing the world would not submit to a rough man like him who came from a bandit background, he almost instantly gave up his plan to become the ruler of the world.

Perhaps it was cowardice, or perhaps he was never an ambitious person to begin with; it was the chaos of the world that turned him into this, forcing him to move forward.

When he finds a small pebble on his path, his decision to give up becomes perfectly understandable.

This tough, even brutal, general finally revealed his loneliness and vulnerability at this moment.

Now he roams the world freely, but what he misses most are probably the carefree days before he became a constable.

"If the general is not suitable, then who is?"

Xue Zhen thought he had only said one sentence, enough to appease Ling Yi, but little did he know that there was someone in the world who understood him better than himself.

With just this one sentence, Ling Yi saw through the softness beneath his hard exterior.

Ling Yi knew that this was a strong and tough person, but beneath that tough exterior lay an exceptionally soft person who desperately needed companionship.

His ideas are sometimes hard to understand; he would give up things that are unattainable for most people in the world for things that seem unimportant to others.

But perhaps, those things as noble as the clouds in the sky were not what he desired in the first place.

Ling Yi could understand his gentleness and was willing to tolerate it, but that didn't mean she would agree to him exchanging his life for that gentleness.

At that moment, her gentle tone turned cruel: "Is it the Southern Army, or that little emperor?"

"Does the general know that they are born into wealth and cannot understand the suffering of us poor people? Does he know that they have gathered countless beasts under their command who yearn to reclaim the world?"

"The general is the only enemy of those beasts, their only concern. Once the general falls, those people will have no more hesitation when they divide up the world."

"If the general dies, all will be well. But do you know that you are the greatest sinner in the world?"

Xue Zhen knew this all too well.

He was just too tired.

He didn't like this kind of life, nor did he like being placed in a position where he couldn't touch the ground.

He was tired of this kind of life.

Ling Yi could sense his self-destructive emotions and understand the choices such a gentle person would make after witnessing countless acts of bloodshed and misfortune.

But she was never a submissive lover; she was more like a tyrant than Xue Zhen.

She wanted him to live, so he had to live.

"The greatest sin in the world is not incompetence, but having the ability yet standing idly by and letting the abyss descend." She stood behind Xue Zhen. Xue Zhen could not see her cruel expression at this moment, but he could feel the terrifying power in her words.

"Can a general truly die with such a crime in his name and close his eyes in peace?"

enough.

Xue Zhen could no longer touch those soft hands, nor could he hear her gentle voice piercing his sore spot.

"Ling Yi, how dare you!" He was filled with impotent rage, terrified that she had seen through his heart.

Ling Yi's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Hmm, so what?"

"I am the general's subordinate, and I am absolutely loyal to the general. The general's future is my future."

She said calmly, "Since the general is seeking death, then I am also destined to die. What does it matter what we say when we are about to die?"

Xue Zhen was shocked and gritted his teeth: "I never asked you to be absolutely loyal to me!"

He had no intention of having anyone die for him.

Before he dies, he will arrange everything so that his old brothers can have a good future.

“But General, you can’t even defeat the enemy, so how can you defeat the hearts of your allies?” Ling Yi stepped forward, pressing him aggressively: “You say you won’t allow it, and you say you can’t, and you say you can’t?”

"Do you know how many soldiers in this army are willing to die for you? Do you know how many soldiers in this army are willing to be buried alive for you? Xue Zhen, are you trying to kill them?"

She was much shorter than him, but her presence completely overwhelmed him.

This was something no one had ever said to Xue Zhen before.

His older brothers didn't understand him and didn't know how to explain it.

Master Xu was afraid of him and dared not speak.

Only Ling Yi, who had only been by his side for a day, understood him and was not afraid of him, dared to say these words.

These words were like the first thunderbolt in the world, striking Xue Zhen so hard that he was completely bewildered and didn't know what to do.

"General, if you want to die, do you dare to die with the lives of countless people on your back?" Ling Yi met those seemingly stern and cold eyes, which concealed a cowardice that even he himself was unaware of: "Do you know that when you give the order, your personal guards and your veterans will die with you?"

"Do you know that after you die, those people will do anything to take away the enemy from you, until the last one is dead?"

"Are you unaware, or do you know but dare not face it?"

"Xue Zhen, you are a coward."