The second betrayal (1)

However, she turned 16 two months ago and, no longer being a virgin, heard that her cousin and crown prince were engaged. She decided right then and there that she wouldn't stand for nothing. She would do something about it.

Muxiaoyu's first mistake was falling in love with the crown prince who had always showed disdain when seeing her and was only interested in white-lotus-type females (the cousin). The second was putting her trust in her cousin who had always bullied her.

Out of loving kindness, Muxiaoyu never told anyone about the bullying or how her cousin would take things from her dowry without asking. She had a belief that someone from her family would never hurt her because if you can't trust your own family, then who can you trust?

She also believed that what was hers, was also her family's; everything she owned could be shared. Plus, she never really fussed about jewelry in the first place. However, she learned too late that the man she loved and her cousin had plotted against her.

When she lost her father, the general Manor took an enormous hit. It is no longer the famous and distinguish general's Manor that people feared as when her father was alive, but rather more or less dust in the wind.

Muxuanyuo and Longchaun decided to permanently get rid of Muxiaoyu. Especially, when Longchaun realized that no matter how many time he asked his father the emperor to dissolve the engagement. He would always get a negative response.

Longchaun stopped asking and, instead, convinced the emperor that his spies in Mayuan country had informed him that war would break out soon.

The emperor didn't want another war because of the effect it would have on the common people. He still remembered the last war with Sanlong country, six years ago. His country won, but the outcome of the country's economic factor was disastrous.

Even to this day, the country still has not yet fully recovered. Many of the rich nobles in his country dropped to middle class by donating most of their wealth to win. Because of this when his fight in these wars they would want for nothing while on the battlefield.

But when his son, Longchaun, informed him that Mayuan was considering going to war to take over the city called HuXuan, which was in the east borderlining the two countries, what could he do but draw up his defenses?