Chapter 278:
I promise you……
Even though she had long seen through his intentions, Xie Wanning was still stunned by these bluntly straightforward words.
After coming back to her senses, she quickly said, “I don’t need it.”
Ji Chengfeng gave a low hum, still smiling, “Good, then I’ll wait until you need it.”
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The awkward silence lasted only a moment before Xie Wanning could no longer stay.
She stood up with a whoosh, “I’m going to check on Ran’er.”
Without waiting for him to say anything else, she lifted her feet and walked toward the courtyard.
She looked as if there was a monster chasing her from behind.
Ji Chengfeng watched and watched until he smiled.
What a bold young lady, able to come alone from the Northern Region to the South, yet scared into panicked flight by a single sentence from him.
It seemed that after two years together, he was no longer just an insignificant cousin in her eyes?
After all, living alone in one residence, seeing each other every day, and having a newborn child.
From the great anxiety of the child’s illness to teething and learning to speak, over those two years, all the big and small trivial matters were handled together by them.
He must have left some impression on her, right?
Ji Chengfeng was extremely patient; he had waited two years already and wasn’t afraid to wait another two.
Anyway, in this Southern small city, there were no relatives around them.
As long as she didn’t return to the Capital City, and those two men never appeared again, he was certain he could eventually wait for her to nod in agreement.
If she wanted a peaceful life and the freedom to choose, he wouldn’t force her.
He would take it slow, day after day, year after year, subtly and silently infiltrating her heart bit by bit.
Making her get used to him, trust him, depend on him.
In the end, he would surely get the beauty as he wished.
Perhaps in one or two years, perhaps in three or five, there would be a day when he held her in his arms.
In the countless years of the future, their eyes and hearts would hold only each other.
He was so certain of this.
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Time passed quickly.
After that day, Ji Chengfeng indeed no longer took the initiative to tell her about matters from the Capital City side.
The news Xie Wanning could hear was all that had spread throughout the Great Khan, which all the common people could hear.
For example, the Emperor personally leading the campaign to the Northern Frontier, winning several great victories in a row, the army advancing as if there were no one there, pressing straight toward the Great Jin capital.
What followed was a reputation for murderous brutality.
Because their Great Khan had ordered the massacre of a city.
Every time a city was captured, the first order given was to massacre the city.
The relationship between the two countries had reversed.
The burning, killing, and plundering that the Great Khan’s borders had suffered in previous years were now repaid in full, even with interest.
The Great Khan’s people hated the Great Jin to the bone, naturally applauding and cheering.
But after the slaughter of city after city, different voices inevitably emerged.
Some felt this was too brutal.
They believed the Great Khan was a land of propriety and ritual, not an uncivilized barbarian tribe.
Such indiscriminate killing was no different from barbarians.
More people, however, felt that repaying tooth for tooth was truly happy.
When Xie Wanning heard this, she was stunned for a long time.
She remembered that year when the Lu Family uncles and brothers all died on the battlefield, Jin Kingdom’s iron cavalry rampaging in the Northern Frontier, committing countless sins of killing.
Lu Ziyan was just a twelve- or thirteen-year-old youth at the time.
His eyes red, he gritted his teeth and swore that he would eventually make the other side pay blood for blood.
She also remembered that he had once told Jin Wuji that he would slaughter every last person in the Great Jin.
And now, he had really done it.
Tens of thousands of sins of killing, mostly innocent common people.
He really was doing this!
