Rebirth: Marry a General instead of a Prince

The next morning, the snow stopped. Bai Zhiyuan got up and saw that the entire northern border was covered in silver, with no sign of a fierce battle last night.

The Northern Di people suffered heavy losses yesterday. Their leader Yu Xihua committed suicide. Once the leader died, the people under him became scattered and they abandoned their armor and fled, surrendering.

The North also suffered heavy casualties. In addition to the soldiers on night watch, there were also patrolling sentries assassinated by the Northern Di people and archers ambushed on the roads in the North.

Last night, the North Border military camp was littered with corpses. Right now, the living soldiers were helping to clean up the battlefield, and the seriously injured had been sent to the infirmary, where they were treated by Cheng Beixiao and the military doctors. The dead soldiers had been burned and buried on the spot.

How many young lives have been lost, and the cruelty of war is more vividly reflected after each war.

Bai Zhiyuan stood in the campsite early in the morning. The white snow had buried everything from the previous night. A new day had come, as if nothing had happened yesterday.

She sighed softly, then turned and walked towards Xie Yunsong's tent.

When he arrived at Xie Yunsong's tent, he heard Lu Zhiling and Zhou Yehan talking inside. Maybe it was about what happened last night. Bai Zhiyuan stood at the door and waited for a while. After a while, Lu Zhiling and Zhou Yehan left, and Bai Zhiyuan walked in.

Xie Yunsong still looked calm and composed, as if he had not been involved in a fight last night.

Bai Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and said, "Xie General, where is Qin Jinan now? I want to go see him. I still have some questions to ask him."

Xie Yunsong raised his eyes and looked at Bai Zhiyuan, but did not speak for a while.

Bai Zhiyuan felt a little guilty when he looked at him, and thought to himself: Could this guy be angry again?

While she was thinking, Xie Yunsong said casually: "He is in the dungeon."

"Dungeon?" Bai Zhiyuan asked in confusion, "I've been in the North for so long, and I didn't even know there was a dungeon here?"

Xie Yunsong replied: "In previous battles, we often captured prisoners, so we dug a dungeon in the northern border to detain prisoners and traitors."

Bai Zhiyuan understood, and she said, "I was worried about the situation in the North last night, and there were many things I didn't ask clearly. I want to go to the dungeon."

Hearing this, Xie Yunsong said nonchalantly, "Go!"

Bai Zhiyuan didn't expect that he would answer so readily, and he stood there in a daze for a moment.

Xie Yunsong looked at her and asked, "What?"

Bai Zhiyuan came back to his senses and said hurriedly, "Nothing."

Xie Yunsong added: "I am indeed troubled about how to deal with him. Uncle Qin must have received my letter. I have never been lenient towards traitors, and Uncle Qin knows that. But after thinking about it, I still think I should tell Uncle Qin."

Bai Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Then I'll go."

"Wait!" Xie Yunsong stopped her, "I'll go with you."

Bai Zhiyuan was dazed for a moment and stopped where he was.

Xie Yunsong had already walked a few steps. Seeing this, he turned around and asked, "What are you standing there for? Why don't you hurry up?"

Bai Zhiyuan then hurriedly caught up with him. The two of them walked in silence all the way to the dungeon entrance.

Bai Zhiyuan has been in the North for a long time, but this is her first time in the dungeon. She was a little curious and looked around.

Xie Yunsong stopped and said, "Go in, I'll wait for you here."

Bai Zhiyuan asked: "You're not going in?"

Xie Yunsong glanced at her and said, "If I go in, there are some things he won't say. I'll wait for you here, please come back soon."

Bai Zhiyuan nodded, turned and walked towards the dungeon.

The guards in the dungeon made way for Bai Zhiyuan when they saw him. The northern border was cold, and the dungeon had no sunlight for many years, so the cold and damp accumulated over the years was even more obvious.

Bai Zhiyuan walked all the way to the cell where Qin Jinan was.

"Open the door," she said.

The guard stood up and opened the door.

The creaking sound of the door startled the person inside. Qin Jinan slowly raised his head and saw that it was Bai Zhiyuan. A glimmer of light flashed across his originally dim eyes.

Bai Zhiyuan sighed and slowly approached him.

Qin Jinan's voice was hoarse, and he said, "I thought you would never see me again."

Bai Zhiyuan slowly stood in front of him and said, "I am also responsible for your current situation. I came to see you today because I have something to ask you."

Qin Jinan smiled sadly and said, "I am like this now because of my own choice. I had many opportunities to choose again, but I didn't. You don't have to blame yourself. My behavior has nothing to do with you."

"I know what you want to ask. Yes, it was me who gave the Northern Di people the map of the Northern Border camp, it was me who spilled wine around the granary, it was me who put the sleeping pills in your food, and it was me who worked with them to capture Xie Yunsong and the Northern Border Army in one fell swoop."

Bai Zhiyuan stared at him quietly and asked, "Why do you have to be a traitor? You are Uncle Qin's grandson, so you naturally know what the fate of rebels is."

Qin Jinan looked up, silently looking at the woman who made his heart beat. He slowly said, "That day I went back to Yuehua Town to visit my grandfather. It was dark and the road was slippery. In order to get there faster, I took a small road and did not go around Wanxiang Mountain. Instead, I chose to go over the mountain. I didn't expect that this decision would change my life from then on."

Bai Zhiyuan remained silent, she just listened quietly to Qin Jinan's words.

"I was walking in the mountains when I happened to meet a Northern Di man, Yu Xihua, Yu Huangqing's uncle. I was very scared at the time and hid myself, but the wild animals around startled my horse, which cried out in fear. That's how the Northern Di man found me."

"At first, I drew my sword and prepared to die with them. I ignored them even though they kicked and punched me and insulted me at will."

"But I didn't expect that Yu Xihua brought me back to the Beidi Camp. They..."

Qin Jinan seemed to be unable to speak, Bai Zhiyuan understood, Xie Yunsong once said that they recruited military prostitutes for Qin Jinan. If you want to defeat a person, you must first start with his weaknesses. Yu Xihua is indeed very good at controlling people's hearts.

Seeing that he couldn't continue, Bai Zhiyuan continued, "You went to the Beidi military camp, they hired prostitutes for you and fed you hallucinogenic drugs, so you fell for them, right?"

Qin Jinan raised his head abruptly, smiled bitterly, and said, "So you know everything."

Bai Zhiyuan: "I didn't know that at first. General Xie told me."

Qin Jinan's smile was extremely bitter. "That's right. The medicine they fed me made me mistakenly believe that the woman I was having sex with was you. But when I woke up, I found that I had fallen. I thought about committing suicide, but Yu Xihua didn't give me the chance. They fed me aphrodisiacs and let my blood flow backwards while I wailed in pain. At that time, my mind was full of you."

Qin Jinan shed two lines of tears unconsciously, and he said in a trembling voice: "Ayuan, I really like you. From the first time I saw you in Yuehua Town, I fell in love with you. But at that time you were General Xie's fiancée, and I didn't dare to have any ambitions. But later when we arrived in the North, you told me that you and General Xie only pretended to be his fiancée in order to deceive my grandfather. Do you know? I was so happy. I practiced sword with you every day, and I could see you every day. That was the happiest time for me."

"But later, you and General Xie seemed to have really fallen in love. After you came back from Wanxiang Mountain, I saw the feelings between you. General Xie targeted me several times, all because of you. I am a man, so I naturally understand men's jealousy. I understand that he likes you. But I always thought that you had no interest in General Xie, but I didn't expect that one day you would tell me in person that you like him."

Qin Jinan burst into tears and said, "Do you know how sad I am to hear that? Everyone says that General Yunhui and Princess Rong'an are a perfect match. But I am unwilling to accept that. Although General Xie is good, no one is worthy of you in my heart, even if that person is Xie Yunsong."

Qin Jinan was curled up, and unconsciously moved towards Bai Zhiyuan. He said, "Ayuan, I hate it. I hate why he can easily win your heart."

Bai Zhiyuan was silent for a moment, then looked at him and said, "Perhaps I liked General Xie a long time ago. I didn't know you at that time. Maybe it was when we went to Liuzhou together to fight side by side; or when he helped me break off the engagement and watched the fireworks with me on the roof of my house; or when he rescued me without hesitation during the spring hunt in Mount Li; or maybe it was even earlier, when I first saw him outside Shangjing City."

"I fell in love with him a long time ago, but I didn't realize it at that time, so later I followed him from Shangjing to the Northern Territory regardless of everything. Now looking back, along the way, no matter the crisis or hardship, he was always by my side."

"You don't understand the feelings between us. But what I want to tell you is that no matter what, I will never like you. Whether there is Xie Yunsong or not, or even if there is no Xie Yunsong in this world, it will definitely not be you."

"I know it's cruel to say these things to you, but if I had explained it to you earlier, perhaps your obsession wouldn't be so deep, and you wouldn't have walked down this path of no return."

"I have said all that needs to be said. You should think carefully about how to tell your grandfather the rest. He raised you and sent you to the North, but he never thought that you would become a traitor. I think he is probably the saddest one."

Qin Jinan was stunned at first, then he said in disbelief: "Did you tell my grandfather about this?"

Bai Zhiyuan nodded in agreement.

Qin Jinan stood up suddenly and shouted, "Xie Yunsong, kill me if you can."

Bai Zhiyuan shook her head. She had said everything she needed to say. Now she just had to wait for Qin Hai to arrive.

She looked at him slowly, then turned and walked out.

Qin Jinan saw her movements and finally ignored everything and rushed over to grab her, saying, "Ayuan..."

Bai Zhiyuan stopped looking at him and turned around to see Xie Yunsong, who had arrived at some point, standing at the prison door.