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Chapter 4413: Awareness

Duan Yue ignored her, turned his horse, and rode away, leaving a single instruction: "Send her back to the Prime Minister's residence."

"Then, with such a big incident, Your Majesty still isn't returning to the capital?" Wu Ruomei was a bit confused and quickly asked.

Wuyi indignantly pulled her up. "Alright, alright, His Majesty's affairs don't need your interference. You're a woman, why meddle in so many men's matters?"

Wu Ruomei immediately pushed Wuyi back. "What's wrong with being a woman?"

Wuyi couldn't help but be amused. "Nothing's wrong with being a woman, it's just you..."

Wu Ruomei suddenly summoned a long sword from her Sea of Consciousness. "Draw your sword! I'll make you pay for that!"

The surrounding onlookers: ...

Wuyi twitched the corner of his mouth, crossed his arms, and rolled his eyes. "I never fight women."

"Are you looking down on us women?!"

"I'm telling you, a small fry like you wouldn't last a hundred moves against the Peerless Princess of Shenzhou!"

It seemed this Prime Minister's daughter held the Peerless Princess of Shenzhou in remarkably high esteem. Her blind admiration was almost bordering on fanaticism...

"Alright, stop making a fuss; His Majesty is busy with serious matters!"

"How am I making a fuss?" Wu Ruomei retorted angrily. "I'm here to help him suppress bandits and deliver important news."

"Hah. By the time your news arrived, the matter would have already happened!" Wuyi couldn't help but laugh. He grabbed Wu Ruomei with one hand and strode towards the waiting carriage.

He directly tossed Wu Ruomei into the carriage and instructed the coachman, "Take a few men and safely escort Miss Wu back to the residence."

"Yes!"

Wu Ruomei, exasperated, clung to the carriage frame, pounding the wooden board. "Hey, brat, you still haven't told me if His Majesty already knew about the Second Prince's sinister intentions?"

Wuyi didn't answer her, only giving her a look that implied she should figure it out herself.

"Go!" The coachman cracked his whip, directly jolting Wu Ruomei back inside the carriage.

She could be heard cursing and yelling the whole way, "I'll be back! None of you will stop my dream of becoming a female general!"

Wuyi couldn't help but rub his forehead. No wonder the Prime Minister always had an unreadable expression when he saw his daughter; any father would feel heartbroken dealing with this.

That night, Duan Yue led his troops to the nearby barren mountains and, in one fell swoop, wiped out the remaining bandit remnants.

At dawn, Ying silently appeared beside him, bowing. "The Second Prince's people have started their move."

Duan Yue looked back.

In the misty air, rows of cold-faced green-clad puppets stood before him. These were the assassins the Second Prince and Third Prince had hired from Jiawei City earlier. After his men captured them one by one, they were all turned into puppets, and now, they could finally be put to use.

"Did my Third Imperial Brother truly not make a move?" Duan Yue's eyes flickered slightly. He seemed to think of something, and his expression held a hint of regret.

His rather useless brothers, who lived in luxury and only knew how to eat, drink, and play all day, were truly a waste of money to keep. He genuinely wanted to take this opportunity to eliminate both the Second and Third Princes in one go.

Unfortunately...

His Third Brother, who usually seemed impulsive and reckless, had shown a bit of sense this time and hadn't been involved from beginning to end. It was truly difficult to find a good reason to simply arrest him.

Duan Yue couldn't help but sigh.