“Stop right there!!”
Everyone present in the plain halted at the blazing voice of a woman.
The prisoner’s throw stopped.
Aidan looked at the fortress wall with surprised eyes. The princess, who had just swung her whip, was biting her lips, looking at him with a stern face.
“Duke! Will you let the northern people die like this without even hearing what the royal family has to say?”
The princess held her head stiffly, looking down at the Duke as she spoke.
No one knew why the princess had stopped the throw, but it was certainly effective.
At least the Duke was willing to listen.
River sent a discouraging glance, but Aidan turned his eyes.
As Aidan looked with clenched teeth and a stern look, the princess realized that he had agreed to negotiate and began to speak.
“I request a truce for the next three years.”
A truce? Aidan snorted.
River intervened from beside him.
“To propose a truce before the victors of the war? It seems the royal family has no one who can do simple calculations?”
Besides, three years? The time was ambiguous. Is it to gather strength during that time and attack the North?
Or wait for the North to starve for three years, then collect the empty northern lands as though gathering fallen grains?
Either way, there was no need to listen.
But there were the prisoners on the wall.
River clicked his tongue in his mind.
The determined prisoners were probably feeling fear as they hesitated at the princess’s shout.
River didn’t want to sacrifice them, but they had some value to the Duke thanks to them.
But now that they had entered negotiations, the tide had turned.
The Duke was forced to make a choice with their lives on the line.
They had been outplayed by the princess.
“If you do not accept this proposal, we will kill these people here. If they choose to take their lives on their own accord….”
The princess stopped talking and gestured behind her. Then, the archers aimed their arrows inside the wall, inside the royal fortress.
Flames were burning at the ends of the arrows.
The princess continued.
“We will burn all the grain stores inside the fortress.”
There was a sound of grinding teeth not only from River and Aidan but from everywhere.
It meant they would rather die together than hand it over easily.
If the grain stores of the royal fortress were to burn now, the North would be doomed.
Although they could grow potatoes and kohlrabi, that was a longterm plan. They could not prepare and store food for the winter now.
It meant holding the lives of the people of the North, the wilderness, the people inside the fortress, all the people, as hostages.
‘To think this is the royal family….’
But the princess showed no signs of impatience.
She looked like a person who would carry out her intentions if provoked.
Apparently, River saw it that way too.
River whispered something in Aidan’s ear.
Aidan sighed and nodded heavily.
Aidan stepped forward and spoke.
“There are conditions.”
The princess, keeping her head up, slightly nodded, gesturing for him to speak.
“Recognize the autonomy of the North.”
The princess bit her lip. It was a small motion that was hard to see from a distance, but Aidan, with good eyes, could see it.
The princess gestured with her chin to continue, as if that was all.
She looked upset, but she seemed like a person who could make a proper judgment without getting excited.
Aidan continued.
“Take all the prisoners on the way back and take a third of the grain stores in the royal fortress.”
“Agreed.”
Surprisingly, the princess responded breezily. It seemed she had anticipated this.
Aidan barely resisted looking at River with a shocked face. Although he couldn’t see it, River also had a shocked expression.
“But we also have conditions.”
“Speak.”
“Return Duke Jacks to us.”
It was already what he intended, and he didn’t want to take her either.
Aidan nodded without hesitation.
Upon concluding the deal, the Princess turned her body without another word.
Before turning away, Aidan caught eyes with the Princess.
Her face was expressionless, but her eyes were ablaze. The look was filled with anger, contrary to her resolute attitude.
Intuitively, Aidan felt that this was not the end.
Thus, a ceasefire was concluded.
[This is a time separator.]The North was no longer part of the Empire under the Emperor. Therefore, they didn’t have to pay taxes to the royal family, and the danger of plundering had vanished.
If they took onethird of the abundant southern grains, they could dream of future cultivation even after surviving this winter.
It was unexpected, as they thought the royal family would propose stricter conditions.
River was satisfied, feeling as though they had won, considering that they had come down prepared to face death.
However, most of the soldiers who wanted a revenge battle within the Imperial City somehow turned their steps with a sense of emptiness. It felt like they had won the fight, but it felt like a draw.
Aidan wasn’t feeling good either.
“My Lord! Please create a North where our children can live happily!”
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
