The day he returned from the battlefield felt like obtaining absolution.
She was also relieved that he had returned alive, her heart weakened.
Brody didn’t wish for Aiden’s death because she wanted freedom.
The decision to move the main base of the air force to the south was made quickly, and Aiden asked Brody to come along.
Brody nodded without a word.
“Are you okay?”
“Huh?”
“I mean… your body.”
Aiden asked cautiously, perhaps worried about the previous night.
“Do you think I’ll be okay?”
Brody answered as if scolding, and Aiden blushed. Then Brody looked as if he had expected it and smirked.
His reaction was amusing, but she mustn’t tease him too much.
Brody changed the subject.
“Your Highness, please make sure the potatoes and kohlrabi, both of which I have developed, don’t leak outside. I’ve improved them to grow quickly.”
“I see. I’ll make sure of that.”
“Yes. They’ll spread throughout the region eventually, but for the time being, doing business with them will help the north a lot.”
“Hmm, how about this? Why don’t you take charge and promote this?”
Brody smiled and paused for a moment.
Then answered.
“How could I handle such a difficult task? You should take care of it, Chief of Staff.”
“River may whine, but he probably recognizes you by now?”
“No way.”
Brody refused.
But Aiden eventually thought that she would take on the task and succeed.
Soon, the Duke and his party packed their things.
The current encampment left a few prisoners and soldiers behind to maintain the fields. The remaining soldiers were mostly those who were injured or had connections with the prisoners.
They would settle here and lay the foundation for a new territory.
The greatest battle, facing the royal army, was not far off, but Aiden was somehow not worried.
It felt like victory.
Perhaps Brody, who met his eyes, understood Aiden’s feelings and smiled.
“Don’t you know how to ride a horse?”
River asked Brody, smiling.
When Brody expressed embarrassment about not being able to ride, he looked unusually happy.
‘People are consistently petty.’
Brody confidently sat on the back of the loaded wagon. The wagon driver, a soldier, looked at Brody and smiled, a welcoming smile.
After returning the soldier’s smile, Brody replied to River nonchalantly.
“What’s the big deal if I can’t ride a horse? Being inhuman is a bigger problem.”
At her response, River’s forehead wrinkled.
Even the soldiers who disliked Brody had changed their minds after seeing what she had achieved—but that wasn’t something Brody was particularly pleased about—yet River had not even said a word of thanks or apology.
‘He’s picking on me for some reason.’
Brody had noticed his attitude and pointed it out.
At Brody’s answer with a hidden edge, River retorted sharply.
“I didn’t know you were so desperate for recognition.”
“I didn’t know you were so jealous.”
At those words, River unknowingly raised his voice.
“What, jealous? Me, of you?”
“Surely you know you’re unusually emotional toward me?”
The calm response and fiery reaction. It was clear who the winner was.
As Brody looked at him with a relaxed expression, River turned his head with a snort.
“It’s going to be tough if we continue like this? The road is quite long.”
Aiden, looking at Brody sitting behind the wagon, seemed worried.
He was riding the biggest and most goodlooking black horse, ‘Kaius.’
“I’ll be fine. I’ll sit here and then sit next to the wagon driver later.”
Sitting next to an unfamiliar man?
At those words, Aiden slightly frowned, and the wagon driver sweated.
But Brody, who had no concept of an unfamiliar man(?), could not perceive any problem.
Brody lightly thumped the wagon and shouted.
“Let’s go.”
The wagon driver, looking at the Duke’s face and perplexed by Brody’s stare, finally set the wagon in motion.
The journey was indeed more arduous than expected.
The jolting of the madly shaking carriage felt as if it would shatter Yurik’s buttocks.
“Ah, my hips.”
It was the same when sitting next to the coachman.
Every time the carriage jolted greatly, Brody, a female, would hold onto the coachman beside her, and the coachman would be busy taking care of the carriage and watching the duke’s face.
Finally, when the wheel caught on a large rock and Brody, who had been sitting on the back of the carriage, was thrown and fell to the ground with a thud, a new method was accepted.
Ian, a male, grumbling inside, had Brody ride in front of him.
Being on top of the tall horse was scary, but only for a moment, as her gradually weakening stamina made her suffer greatly from motion sickness.
Ian was restless but couldn’t do anything about someone else’s motion sickness.
“She just fainted. She’ll wake up. Is that okay?”
Brody had completely eaten and fallen asleep.
She curled up like a squirrel and fell asleep in Ian’s arms.
Ian made it like a cave by tying his cloak in front, and held her tightly with his strong arm so she wouldn’t fall.
He was sturdy, but continuously putting strength in his arm while on the horse must not have been an easy task.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
