Defense Blueprint Lost in the Army

"Don't ask any more questions. Just take him down the mountain!" said Grace.

"Aren't you afraid you'll bring trouble to our Spirit Alliance?" Lily Xu demanded sharply.

"I'm the President. Any trouble will come to me, not you! Relax!"

Lily Xu bit her lip, called for two people, and had them bring a stretcher to carry Prince Zane Tuoba away.

After they left, Grace looked at Rina Chu and burst out laughing. "Rina, with all your skills, how did you end up in a situation where you can't even afford to eat?"

"My master only taught me how to cultivate, not how to make money! Making money is way harder than cultivation." She shook her head vigorously.

Grace: "..."

......

Down the mountain, inside the carriage, Lily Xu frowned and asked, "Your Highness! How are you feeling?"

She thought he was a prince and the Left General, someone she could really rely on!

Who would've thought he'd be this useless!

Beaten up like this, and I still had to carry him down the mountain.

"I'm going to make Grace and that wretched woman—the one who hit me, what's her name again?"

Lily Xu had no idea who'd hit him.

But at the time, the only people in the room were Grace and Rina Chu.

So she asked, "Do you mean Rina Chu?"

"Yes, that's what Grace called her!" Zane Tuoba said. "Once I'm better, I'll have the two of them torn apart by horses! Grind their bones to dust!"

Seeing Zane Tuoba so furious, Lily Xu's eyes gleamed as she suddenly got another idea. "Prince, if you want to deal with them, it's easy! Tomorrow we can catch them off guard!"

"Idiot! Can't you see I'm like this? How am I supposed to fight?"

"Oh, please! Who do you think you are? You don't have to do it yourself," Lily Xu said. "You're the Left General—you can command the army!"

Zane Tuoba frowned, "Are you saying I should mobilize the army to attack the Spirit Alliance?"

"Of course not!" Lily Xu said sweetly. "But you can mobilize the army to catch a spy!"

"Catch a spy? Who's the spy?"

"Rina Chu!" Lily Xu said. "As far as I know, Rina Chu only came to our Vermilion Kingdom a year ago. Her background is suspicious, her identity is questionable, and she's got such high cultivation but chose to be a servant in the Spirit Alliance—super suspicious!"

"But that doesn't make her a spy, does it?"

"Come on! Who are you? If you say she's a spy, then she has to be!"

"What do you mean?"

Lily Xu's voice was silky and seductive: "The Defense Blueprint went missing in the army, and you suspect her of being a spy, but she hurt you instead... Arresting her is only natural!"

Zane Tuoba thought for a moment, then slapped his thigh—ouch!—but burst out laughing, "Great! Brilliant plan! That's it! When the time comes, I'll have plenty of ways to make that wretched woman confess! I'll drag Grace and a few others into it too!"

Lily Xu smiled.

Rina Chu is actually that powerful!

That put a lot of pressure on her.

Even if this move doesn't take Grace down, it will definitely get rid of Rina Chu!

That way, Grace would lose a strong ally...

...

That night, Rina Chu packed up a huge bundle of food and headed home.

Once she'd reheated it, she started to dig in.

Leon Zane crawled onto the table, wanting to eat too.

"What are you doing?" Rina Chu glanced at him. "Don't tell me you want to fight me for food again? I've told you a hundred times—dragons don't need to eat!"

Leon Zane: I do need to eat!

Why do you think dragons don't need food?

My cultivation isn't high enough to live without food, okay?