Flowers Bloom from Battlefield

Kuina brought Jun Hua to her room. She looked towards the girl before opening her mouth to answer the previous question.

"I mean, I'm not as brave as you to take over the men duty. Even though I have the title of princess all my life, I was never fit to be one in the first place. The only good thing I have is this title, which allowed me to step up as a figure in the front to make the citizen feel safe again."

She walked a few steps towards the table in front of them. With her small hand, she picked a rather big book that Jun Qing read just a day before.

"Before the rebel, my father had told me to try learning politic because I'm still not married at this age," Kuina smiled wryly, "I can't even finish this one book even after learning about it for a year. What kind of leader would I be if I were to be the one to step up as the sole leader?

The only hope for this kingdom to have a decent leader is by my marriage, but I don't want to get married to someone I didn't even know. If not because of that, my father wouldn't have so many headaches at the thought of my marriage."

Kuina chuckled a little. She remembered the time when her father was still alive and treated her kindly. Still, she knew that he was feeling rather hopeless in facing her since he didn't want to mistreat her after not being her father for years. He complied with her demands, but it was what made her unable to get married all these years.

"So your only choice would be to be a playful princess," Jun Hua stated.

Kuina nodded her head. "That way, I won't be forced to get married so early since I know that General Tou could handle the matter rather well. Those papers didn't necessarily need me to look through, and it's just a kind of formality to make the officials know their order."

"That won't last long."

"I know," Kuina admitted, "Before long he will have to pick me a partner. No matter how my thought about him, I will have to comply. Since I know that I won't have any freedom later, I choose to use the freedom I have now to the fullest."

In front of her people, she was not allowed to show any weakness. Even when she found it hard and tired, she has to stay as the figure just because she was the princess. So, the only way she could make them not worry about her was by showing her playfulness as the front. That way, they would only think that she was a trouble.

After she had finally picked a partner, the matter would be placed on Jun Qing's hand. She didn't necessarily need to be a playful princess anymore, but she prefer to be that way because she didn't want them to know that she was unable to learn the books when they tried to teach her.

Jun Hua nodded. She knew that not all women can be like her, disguising her real gender and divulged into the world of men. The others can only choose the path that they knew was prepared for them with the limited option.

"Yeah, you can't become a good leader with such measly skill," Jun Hua nodded her head.

Kuina smiled helplessly, "That's correct, so…"

"But you could become an excellent wife and aunt," Jun Hua added with a grin.

Seeing the mischievous smile on her niece, Kuina's face was frozen for a second before flushed red in embarrassment. This little rascal!

"You little…!" with that, Jun Hua encountered her first experience of having an aunt berated her.

Kuina took some time to finish berating Jun Hua. She knew that the other party was only trying to liven up the atmosphere, but she did feel embarrassed to have that pointed straight to her face. She changed the subject.

"How's the preparation going?"

Despite being a princess, Kuina didn't intervene much with the preparation. She let the people around her prepared for the things needed and only received the report about how the progress was.

Jun Hua smiled, but her smile was indifferent. "The preparation is almost ready. The spies who are coming to sneak had been eliminated."

The cold smile from Jun Hua was not directed at her, but Kuina can feel the coldness. Despite having near the side of General Tou for a long time, this was the first time she could felt the chill of people from the battlefield. General Tou can control it perfectly, but Jun Hua was not and some traces would come out. Because of that, she could faintly feel it, the coldness from the war.

Kuina looked towards the new niece of her. She felt sad that a little girl like Jun Hua had to experience such youth in her younger time. That was really awful, but the girl didn't seem to mind it at all. Indeed, Jun Hua has her own past that made her stronger until this point.

At that time, Xia came to her and handed a letter. Jun Hua opened it and her expression changed slightly.

"Auntie, I will be going for a moment."

"Take care of yourself."

Kuina felt helpless. Was there nothing she could do to make the girl live more comfortably in the palace and not busy doing this and that? But, she cannot force her because she knew that the kingdom needed her. With the little girl power and knowledge, she had her own responsibility.

Jun Hua changed her dress to black clothes. In an instant, she had disappeared from the room the moment she finished changing. Xia cleaned up the rooms like it is nothing.

"Will Miss be alright?" Xiao Yun asked.

Xia nodded. "She will be. The number of people with the same martial arts with her is low."

Shrouded in the darkness, Jun Hua slipped outside the capital. Even the people she had chosen specifically didn't have the ability to track her if she wanted to go out from the capital unnoticed. Running towards a certain direction, she finally stopped.

In front of her was Yasha holding a man down. The man was wounded badly, but Yasha also seemed a bit disheveled. The two of them almost matched and Yasha only stronger than the other party by a little bit.

Jun Hua looked towards that man coldly. "Another gold ranked assassin. It seemed you still cannot match them, Yamin?"

Yamin, who was wounded by the side, hurriedly kneeled, "This subordinate apologize."

"Treat your wound and get ready for training."

"Yes!"

Yamin hurriedly stood up and went while Yasha still held that man down. The man struggled hard, but he cannot get away from Yasha grip that was getting tighter on him. Jun Hua looked towards that man.

"In that organization, there are only three gold ranked assassins, how generous of them to send two of them here."

The man's face paled. How could she have such accurate information?

Jun Hua didn't bother with his astonishment and proceed with her interrogation. After getting enough, Yasha killed the man. He looked towards Jun Hua with complicated expression.

"Miss, if they were to send even more people, we can't hold them back on our own."

Jun Hua nodded. "The Pan Kingdom is the biggest kingdom among all of us. Naturally, he would have more people and resources compared with us. It seemed, I would need to meet with Teacher Kan again."

"Miss?"

Jun Hua dismissed Yasha without explaining anything. She looked towards the capital. The ceremony will take place soon, but she should have enough time for that.

"Seems like I will be going on another trip again," Jun Hua sighed.