Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Fu Xian nodded slightly.

"It's good that Your Highness remembers."

The Gate of Life is in the East; this was a result she had deduced long ago using the divination chart.

And this result has remained unchanged.

Moreover, there has always been a prerequisite.

The Gate of Life needs to be paired with the Gate of Death.

Having confirmed that Jiang Chengdao had taken his previous instructions to heart, Fu Xian cupped his hands in a respectful gesture and said calmly:

"Your Highness, an urgent message has arrived from the Heavenly Secrets Bureau. This humble subject needs to return to the Holy Realm as soon as possible and cannot delay for even a moment. This is why I have come here specifically to bid farewell to Your Highness."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chengdao immediately swallowed back all the questions that were swirling in his mind.

The Heavenly Secrets Division is concerned with the stability of the Holy Realm and cannot be neglected in the slightest. Since Fu Xian has said so, he cannot force him to stay.

"In that case, Fu Qing, please be careful on your journey."

Fu Xuan nodded and bowed, saying, "Take care, Your Highness."

After saying that, without the slightest hesitation, she turned around and walked outside.

As Jiang Chengdao watched Fu Xian's receding figure, his gaze grew increasingly serious, and the scene of Jiang Chengwan asking him to find Fu Xian flashed through his mind.

Even for Cangming Realm, Fu Xian is an extremely special existence. Every move and word she makes is full of profound meaning and has a great influence. Before, when she came into contact with Lu Chen, Lu Chen began to act abnormally, which made Jiang Chengdao, Gu Simiao and others very worried.

Meanwhile, Fu Xian had been with Lu Chen right under Chai Hongyu's nose for the past few months and was pregnant with his child.

All these events, when connected, gave him a constant feeling that a storm was brewing.

Boom! !
Just then, a thunderbolt suddenly ripped through the night sky and fell straight down, its earth-shattering roar waking countless people who had just fallen asleep.

This also brought Jiang Chengdao back to his senses instantly.

He slowly raised his head and looked out the window. His gaze gradually deepened.

Is it just an illusion?

As he murmured, he inexplicably raised his hand and glanced at his bare palm.

The next second, several tiny specks of light, the size of grains of rice, suddenly floated out of his palm, as if they were parts of his body. The specks of light drifted in the air and then disappeared instantly.

It was as if it had never appeared.

Immediately afterwards, several more specks of light floated out from the palm of the hand.

Seeing the points of light disappear one after another, he suddenly gave a bitter laugh.

On the other side, the new army camp.

As soon as Cang Yue returned to the main tent, she rummaged through a large box and took out some gauze dresses that she had secretly bought before. She put them on one by one and kept looking at herself in front of the mirror that had been temporarily made of solid ice.

“This one won’t do. It’s too revealing. Lord Lu is a respectable man and he definitely won’t like this style. It would be terrible if he misunderstood.”

"This one won't do either, it's too conservative, it doesn't have any femininity at all."

“That woman surnamed Chai is so beautiful, she can be described as stunningly beautiful, yet she couldn’t win over Lord Lu and take him into her household. It must be because she doesn’t know how to dress. She always wears a red outfit. I can’t follow in her footsteps.”

"This one looks good, but it's not enough. Lord Lu faces stunning beauties every day and deals with His Majesty every day before, so his standards must be extremely high. Ordinary women would definitely not catch his eye."

"This one."

No one would have imagined that the usually aloof and strict female demon, who always had a stern face, would have such a tender and feminine side. If the new army members saw this, they would probably be shocked.

After trying on dozens or even hundreds of dresses scattered around, Cang Yue still couldn't find one she liked. In the end, she collapsed to the ground, feeling both distressed and frustrated.

Fortunately, she majored in ice magic, and the ground had been condensed into a smooth, solid layer of ice by her magic, so it wouldn't get her clothes or herself dirty.

She took her promise to Lu Chen very seriously and wanted to show him her best side.

The thought of going to the hot springs with Lu Chen the day after tomorrow filled her with excitement, and she was afraid she wouldn't be able to fall asleep tonight without using some tricks.

But amidst her excitement, she also felt a sense of unease.

To be honest, she has absolutely no confidence right now.

Although she was very beautiful, no less so than Chai Hongyu.

Whether she was in the desolate state before, or later became the commander of the Imperial Guard in the capital, or went to Yuzhou with Lu Chen to become the commander of the new army and serve Lingyun Prefecture, she was never short of suitors.

Among them are many outstanding figures of the time, nobles, and renowned scholars.

But compared to the stunning beauties like Gu Simiao, Chai Hongyu, and Fu Hua, who were closely associated with Lu Chen, she felt somewhat inadequate.

It's not that they're not pretty enough, it's just that they don't have anything particularly outstanding about them.

Especially in terms of strength, Lu Chen had several experts at the Unity Realm, while she was only at the Void Realm.

Although it's only a major realm difference, the actual gap between the Void Realm and the Unity Realm is like heaven and earth, practically incomparable. No matter how powerful a person is, it's impossible for them to defeat a Unity Realm expert.

Moreover, Fu Hua and the others had almost all been through life and death with Lu Chen, and their friendship was extremely deep.

To take a recent example, there's her former boss, Gu Simiao. She and Lu Chen were each other's saviors, it was practically fate. Even now, she still thinks Gu Simiao and Lu Chen are a match made in heaven.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have followed the two to Xingping County to cause trouble in order to help Gu Simiao win over Lu Chen, only to unfortunately encounter the Xingping Incident and almost get herself killed.

She wasn't greedy; she didn't ask to become Lu Chen's legal wife, she just wanted to have a place in Lu Chen's heart.

Keep it small.

But Lu Chen is always seen with at least one stunning beauty with the cultivation level of the Returning One Realm, and he is always surrounded by beauties. Even if she were willing to be his concubine, it would be a pipe dream.

Not to mention that Lu Chen himself is an absolute gentleman who doesn't get close to beautiful women at all; good looks alone can't move him at all.

Otherwise, Gu Simiao would have succeeded back in Xingping.

Thinking about all this, Cang Yue became increasingly frustrated. Looking at the dresses of different styles around her, she suddenly felt that what she was doing seemed to have no meaning at all.

It's better to be more natural.

"Forget it, let's take one step at a time."

With this thought in mind, Cang Yue stood up, straightening her skirt while comforting herself.

"No matter what, we should at least give it a try. If it really doesn't work, that technique isn't out of the question."

Back in Xingping, Lu Chen almost made a move on Gu Simiao. That was all her doing. That secret technique was her trump card, and it could be used without leaving a trace.

Unknowingly.

When you go to the hot springs the day after tomorrow, I'll see how things go. If there's really no chance, then I'll have to force myself to have one in this way.

Although there was Chai Hongyu in the way.

But she doesn't have to mind. (End of Chapter)