Chapter 1118: Chapter 1118: 1115: You Can't Deny It

“Oh.” Su Yingxue nodded silently, it was another matter she could not intervene in.

She should not meddle too much and remain a leisure empress.

The day Su Hao’s army returned to the court, Chu Yihan, along with Su Yingxue, personally welcomed them outside the city.

From afar, Su Yingxue watched the mighty army slowly approach, tears involuntarily filling her eyes.

She lowered her head, grasped the little creature’s hand, and pointed ahead, “Little one, look, that great general, he is your uncle! Your uncle is very powerful, he defeated the entire Qi State!”

The little creature wondered, what does that have to do with him?

What’s an uncle?

Is it tasty?

“Oh~”

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Shan Bao howled next to him, shaking his head.

The little creature immediately understood, uncles are not edible.

He ignored Su Yingxue and reached down, trying to grab Shan Bao’s tiger whiskers.

Shan Bao looked at him disdainfully.

Seeing her son acting aloof again, Su Yingxue really wanted to throw him out. While Chu Yihan was not paying attention, she let the little creature down, and Shan Bao firmly caught the little creature’s clothes, making sure he stood firmly on the ground.

“Ah~~ Hehehe!”

The little creature laughed happily, Shan Bao holding him, and he started pulling on Shan Bao’s tiger whiskers.

True to being tiger whiskers, they were white and thick and hard.

Shan Bao gritted his teeth, truly wanting to swallow him in one bite!

Human cubs really are troublesome kids!

But what could he do with his own pampered child except continue to spoil him?

Su Hao had returned.

Approaching Chu Yihan, he dismounted, and with his soldiers, knelt before Chu Yihan, loudly shouting, “Your servant is fortunate not to have failed Your Majesty’s mission, breaking through the Qi State! A complete victory!”

“My loyal subject, please rise.”

Chu Yihan personally stepped forward to help him up, the corners of his lips slightly upturned, “You did well, not disappointing my expectations.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!”

Su Hao spoke passionately.

The army entered the city, and the people of Jiang Du City celebrated their welcome. Su Hao, loved by thousands, was the undisputed hero in everyone’s hearts.

Having not returned for a long time, Su Hao found everything in Jiang Du City nostalgia-inducing.

Yet, his heart was still preoccupied only with Wu Jinyan and the child.

Su Chenyang was already two years old, and he had not yet met him.

“Chen, look quickly, that man on the horse wearing silver armor, that’s Daddy!” Wu Jinyan, holding the child, stood on the top floor of the Thousand-Jiao Pavilion.

In her arms, a delicate little boy biting his fingers gently called out, “Daddy.”

Su Hao’s heart stirred, feeling as if everyone was looking at him. He looked up and had arrived at the Thousand-Jiao Pavilion, but he did not see Wu Jinyan’s figure.

He longed to rush into the Thousand-Jiao Pavilion to embrace them both.

—

Marquis of Martial South’s Manor.

“Let me out! Let me out!”

In the spacious courtyard, a woman’s crazed screams echoed.

Lu Ying, disheveled and devoid of her previous heroic bearing, shouted daily at the door like a wronged wife, “Let me out! Why does the manor… treat me so unfairly! Su Hao is back, my husband is back, why are you doing this to me! I want to see him!”

Outside, it was eerily quiet, with no response.

Although she was in the Marquis’s Manor, bearing the title of young madam, she could not step even one foot outside the courtyard gate.

Xuan Zhu had died, and Xuan Ye had not returned either.

She, having gone through great lengths to overhear the servants’ discussions through the wall, learned that Su Hao’s massive army had returned victorious yet she still couldn’t leave.

She had smashed the courtyard door once, and every time she did, the people of the Marquis’s Manor replaced it with a new one. They did not skimp on her food or clothing, but she also never saw the outside world again.

Lu Ying knelt on the cold stone steps, wailing loudly, “Su Hao! I am your wife! Su Hao! How could you treat me like this! How could you treat me like this! Please… let me out! Ah!!!”

She cried until her voice was hoarse, until her eyes grew dizzy.

Just as she was about to faint, a man’s cold voice came from outside the door, “Lu Ying, just wait for the day of reckoning.”

“Su… Su Hao.”

Husband!

Lu Ying desperately propped herself up, pried open a crack in the locked door, but only saw Su Hao’s resolute and cold back.

Her eyes filled with tears of blood, “Won’t you even glance at me?”

Did he hate her that much?

“Su Hao, I love you, I love you…”

She didn’t manage to see Su Hao turn back, but instead, she awaited the day Lu Chongming was to be executed.

That day, the Marquis’s Manor let her out, and she ran frantically toward the street. At the city gate, Su Hao personally oversaw the execution, beheading Lu Chongming.

Lu Ying ran madly, unable to even say a word to Lu Chongming, and saw him beheaded.

On Lu Chongming’s head, his eyes still looked at her, as if trying to say something, his mouth moved, but he could no longer make a sound.

“Father! Father! Father—”

The wails of Lu Ying echoed to the heavens.

She clutched the body of Lu Chongming, crying her heart out.

“Why… Su Hao, why did you do this to us!”

On Su Hao’s handsome face, there was only coldness, “Lu Chongming colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, causing the death of our soldiers, and trapping this general in peril, even putting the emperor and the empress in danger. Such a traitor must be executed!”

“Traitor!”

“Must be executed!”

“Must be executed!”

The guards at the execution ground, all of whom had returned from the battlefield with Su Hao, had brothers who were killed because of Lu Chongming’s betrayal. Their hatred for Lu Chongming was bone deep!

Seeing him dead could finally console the spirits of their deceased brothers.

“Why doesn’t this woman die!”

“She is the daughter of this traitor, kill her! Kill her!”

“Kill her! Kill the traitor’s daughter, avenge our fallen soldiers!”

The onlooking crowd was fervently excited, picking up whatever they could and throwing it at Lu Ying.

Lu Ying was pelted until her head bled and she was covered in disgrace.

Watching Su Hao approach like a god descending, she laughed.

The man she loved, her husband, was indeed stunningly handsome, such an exceptional man…

“Lu Ying, do you know why this general won’t kill you?”

Her husband’s words were so merciless, chilling her to the core, as if freezing all the blood in her body.

Lu Ying didn’t know in her heart.

But then she thought again and laughed.

“Hahaha! Su Hao, you dare not, right? After all, you are my husband, and I am the young madam of the Marquis’s Manor! If you were to request the emperor to decree the punishment of exterminating nine kin, the entire Marquis’s Manor would have to be buried with me! Even your sister, the lofty empress, could not escape involvement!”

In Lu Ying’s laughter, there was a tone of bleakness.

“You carried yourself into the Manor in a bridal sedan, without even presenting the documents to the Capital Prefecture; when have you ever been this general’s wife? What does the Marquis’s Manor have to do with you?”

Su Hao, with a cold face, laid out the most cruel reality in the harshest way before Lu Ying.

Causing her pain to bleed profusely.

“What are you saying? You are talking nonsense! You and I are married! What documents… how could there be none! My father, such a meticulous man, surely the documents were approved! Su Hao, don’t think about denying it! I am your wife, you cannot deny it!”