A Lesson and Caught Red-Handed
July...
The Mountain Hunt begins.
Lingyue didn't come this time.
The people will cry foul if they find out her level had she joined as her Aura Pills no longer work...tested and certified. So Ye Sheng and others had to go without her. Lingyue gave them a lot of medicine and potion-soaked bandages incase they had nasty run-ins...and a firework each person incase none of her medications worked, or if they have fatal injury, she would come save their lives and treat them. Unfortunately, retreating is impossible for the family's sake, so she can only heal them.
Encouraged by her words, her cousins went off without her.
Illya grew up lonely after her parents failed and they never returned home.
The castle homunculi are all about Duty. Emotionless. They have no concept of friendship, caring for others. Even her own grandfather lived only for duty, to take back Einzbern's lost miracle. Even the homunculi admit they're simply tools to activate the Holy Grail.
Grandfather never stopped making Homunculi as more Grail Vessels. Failures are dumped with brutal, fatal injuries, but knowing they were failures and dumped, they were fine staying in that cemetery pool until they died and their mana returned back to the world.
She had created Sella and Leysritt as a desperate attempt to have companions, but she used the same formula...urrrgh. Big mistake.
It was a lonely ten years.
She never had cousins nor friends.
How can a homunculi have those?
Unknown to the entire Mage's Association, the Einzbern are extinct. The so-called Einzbern Family are just a bunch of homunculi! And old Jubstacheit is a well-made, human-like Golem. They played the association for fools for centuries!
Homunculi can't ever have families nor friends. They live and act for the deceased Einzberns trying to do what they failed to in life. Irisviel was an oddball as after her 'birth', she was originally a dutiful zombie until Kiritsugu taught her about the world that she developed her own personality and will. Then there's Illya.
In this world, she honed her martial arts as its the law of the jungle in this world and if the Hongs finds out she exists...
But at least her cousins are nice. Just that, her uncles are kinda stiff around her and her mother.
Her time with Shirou, Rin, Sakura and Taiga are very short, but still fun. Because she gets to hang out with people who are actually ALIVE like herself and her mother was. So what if they're Homunculi too, she and her mother were different, that they both had a HEART. When Shirou found out who she was to him, he tried giving her a childhood. Made her watch anime, enjoy his cooking...he just couldn't take her out on trips...with good reason. The War and the dangers of the Shadow.
Her time is short each time she consumed souls to power up the Lesser Grail...but she only got Archer. The other Servants went to Sakura so her lifespan was ahem, miraculously longer but even then, she only has an extra year after the war. Grandfather ensured that.
But she got the last laugh in her own way.
Sure, she achieved Heaven's Feel but it was for her father and brother, not the Einzberns. She saved her brother with Heaven's Feel and materialized his soul to save him.
Shirou, thinking he's the older one, said older siblings look after the younger...and she's a year older, so she went out with a smile, throwing his words back at him and destroyed the Greater Grail to kill Avenger, and freeing herself as her mother's spirit greeted her with open arms.
Here, her life is no longer cold and alone.
Her new life is warm and happy. She got a real childhood and can grow up to be a lady and someday...
What she has now, is worth fighting for.
xxx
Lingyue was caring for her garden plants at night, carefully-removing dead leaves and twigs with small scissors.
She was mostly out, as she was on the lookout for sparklers.
Fourth day, there was one and she quickly conjured a long wire, a pair of goggles and headphones to protect her eardrums out of her spirit space and had it morph into a bird and flew at high speed. In ten minutes, she was there and saw Ye Sheng and Ye Qing severely injured while the girls and other branch members fought on a berserk Metal-Arm Ape, which she quickly killed with a lightning strike attack, decapitating it before she went to heal Ye Sheng and Ye Qing with Healing Magecraft after opening up their clothes to reveal internal injuries as their chests looked wrong.
'Lingyue! Thank god you're here!' a branch member Ye Chou cried. 'That damn ape chased us for freaking hours until we're forced to fight it because it won't let us go no matter what we do!'
'I'll study that ape after I fix Ye Sheng and Ye Qing. Be on the lookout for Elder Liu as well because the Sparklers no doubt got attention too!' Lingyue instructed.
'OK!'
'Are they gonna be OK?' Ye Ning cried, terrified as the others were anxious about their conditions.
'Lucky they lied down in a comfortable way...they ensured none of the broken ribs punctured a lung or worse, their heart!' Lingyue shivered as her words instilled horror in her cousins as she controlled the broken pieces and the marrows to repair themselves. 'Their ribs are in pieces!'
'Hiiiih!'
'O-ow! Broken pieces hurt a lot!' Ye Qing yelped, coughing up blood as he and his big cousin suffered broken bone pieces moving about inside them.
'Be a man Ye Qing, your ribs needs repairs before I can heal the rest of you.' Lingyue said playfully. 'They're all shattered its like I have to piece them up before you can recover and I have to draw out blood as blood went to where they shouldn't be in, so open your mouths.' that, and other medical lingo and body parts they know nothing about that she needs to fix. Ye Sheng and Ye Qing did so and Lingyue snapped her fingers, and blood came out of their throats.
'That, felt weird...'
By the time Lingyue finished healing her cousins, Elder Liu and some officials arrived.
'Ye Family, so its you with the sparklers.' Elder Liu spoke. 'What happened?' their team clearly has a casualty and Lingyue who wasn't with them is healing them. The others explained their situation while Lingyue gave her cousins a blue pill and a new sparkler.
'Here, a pill to restore your blood and you're as good as new.' she said, before standing up to take the ape's carcass. 'Elder, I'll be studying this ape. My cousins implied its behavior is abnormal and our family has issues with alchemist-related attacks on us lately.' she said. 'That merchant who tried to scam us with fake ores, a dog driven mad by poison and now this...'
'Very well. We'll go to my office to study the ape.' Elder Liu told her. 'Can Ye Family continue on?'
'Thanks to Lingyue, we can.' said Ye Sheng, staggering as he got up. 'She gave us sparklers to summon her incase of things like this. One each of us.'
'Very well.' the elders left with Lingyue for town and upon autopsying the ape's body...she even checked its memories in the brain to be sure...
'...its a natural cause of ahem, ingesting a fruit infected with Yang-Burst mushroom spores which explains why it went nuts...it wasn't a forced kind and there are no traces of spirit force on this creature so this case is that my cousins got plain unlucky.' Lingyue told the elders who winced and felt sorry for young adults who really had bad luck.
'I see...this beast must have picked fruit off the ground to eat that was near that mushroom...and things went downhill from there.' an elder tut-tutted. 'Yang-Burst mushrooms are a drug...a nasty one at that. In exchange for strength you lose your sanity, making you a Berserker.' Lingyue inwardly cringed at the word alone. 'Just owning or selling one will earn you the Death Penalty by law, no court needed.'
'Why didn't you join this year's hunt, Ye Lingyue?' Elder Liu asked Lingyue curiously.
'Well, I sought the path of pharmacy as full alchemy is impossible for me.' said Lingyue. 'My family's finances can never help me be a real alchemist so I took a sub-branch study of pill-making and focused on healing. I quit being a martialist and grandfather's OK with it.'
'And you're clearly a gifted sorcerer at that.' Elder Liu was impressed with the girl who gained information from a corpse.
'I needed sorcery for autopsying incident scenes and bodies.' Lingyue smiled. 'Given attacks on us lately I couldn't stray from home for now.'
'Mm. Understandable.' Lingyue then politely excused herself. The elders began discussing with each other.
'...she just gave blue pills to her cousins...right?'
'She did. What talent. She's only 13, right?'
'Yes, but breaking through to high levels sure didn't make her look 13.' Lingyue was taller than a non-practicing, normal girl her age and grew into her charms.
'Elder, what should we do?' a young official asked Elder Liu. 'She'd be a valuable support for this town.'
'For now, nothing.' said Elder Liu. 'Nothing can keep that girl in this town for long. That child has a karmic burden she must win over...or she will lose everything.' he said. 'I've checked her paternity and its not a pretty one. That, is her burden.'
'Yeah, Ye Huangyu returned home alone with a baby...what kind of man is he?'
'A bastard through and through...he will only keep you until you outlived your usefulness and cast you away in favor of a new toy. That's what the rich boys from cities are like.' said Elder Liu. 'That was what happened with Ye Huangyu who sadly, actually loved him. Thing is, she fell for the wrong man and her father knew he was wrong from the start. But alas, the heart is irrational and doesn't listen to the brain...and learned the horrible way Ye Gu was right all along. She could have been killed with her baby if she didn't get away in time.'
Not like he can say the truth...
'But just incase, ensure Ye Lingyue is indeed, at home so the efforts of her cousins are legit.'
xxx
The rest of the Mountain-Hunting went without incident. Until the final night happened that another sparkler was loosened.
This time, it was a scary, 'Ye Yinshuang fell into this hole and she was screaming how she can't get out because of a crowned serpent!'
Lingyue knew another route through a cliff and her cousins followed her, and killed the crowned serpent while calling for Yinshuang.
'Sister Lingyue, watch out for the snake!'
'It's already dead.' Lingyue called back.
'R-really? Thank god!' Yinshuang gasped in relief. 'Oh yeah, I found a chiyang ginseng here but I can't even pick it up if I can't even get out! It's too high for me! Help!'
Lingyue went in further to see what she's long known. A lava pit cave with a small 'island' in the middle. There was Yinshuang who got lucky enough to fall there and not INto the lava pit. Lingyue crafted earth stairs for her to use.
'Yinshuang, cut off the main body and toss it into the lava and do both as quick as possible as you have five seconds after moving the thing...because if the main body is jostled about, those orange berries will release poisonous smoke if you wanna pick it!'
'Oh!' Yinshuang did one karate chop on the part where the berries are and kicked it into the lava pit, and then used the stem to yank out the ginseng. 'Ooh, it's big!' Yinshuang squealed in delight as she ran up the stairs Lingyue made with her booty. 'How old do you think this is?!' Lingyue analyzed for Yinshuang.
'By the looks of it, it's a rare fifth grade...you hardly see something like this in the wild.' Lingyue smiled. 'Its pretty potent if used as is, even moreso if refined into a pill. Against lower than grade five illnesses, this will cure almost anything.'
'That's good and all...' a sinfully-alluring voice of a man purred that startled the girls. 'But I'd like to have that.'
'Wha?!' they saw a masked man in black robes with gold embroidery, and a silver mask. He's clearly handsome by the look of his lower face.
'We found it first, look for your own!' Yinshuang unhappily shouted at him. Lingyue was too busy looking at the man to see if he'll move, but in a blink, he was in front of Lingyue, and flirtatious tilted her chin up with his hand and pulled her against him, enabling Lingyue to do one thing...
'Uwaaa unhand my cousin this instant!' Yinshuang's hair comically raised at the sight before her in hysterics.
'You're right to be wary about me, but I am not your opponent.'
'I knew that.' said Lingyue just as 'nicely'. 'Yinshuang. Give it.'
'Ehh?'
'We're at a disadvantage even if we have mom.' Lingyue told her in defeat. 'This man is too strong.'
'S-stronger than even Third Miss?' Yinshuang gulped out her stammered words. To her knowledge, Ye Huangyu is a third rank in Reincarnation Realm now. VERY RELUCTANTLY, Yinshuang traded the ginseng for Lingyue.
The man smirked and gave Lingyue something she'll never forget.
A deep kiss.
Lingyue had no idea what a kiss is unlike Yinshuang whose jaws dropped and eyes popped.
The man's lips are soft, and his tongue caressed hers that it felt so good and sparked a fire within her, yet she got weak-kneed...surely something this good can't be bad? Its not harming her, but it felt good!
Such thoughts were in her innocently-ignorant mind.
'I-is that a martial arts technique?' Lingyue croaked out weakly, clinging to the man by gripping his clothes. Her words made the man smirk. 'M-my knees...can't move...'
'It's not, he's just weird!' Yinshuang sputtered, helplessly unable to do a thing and red-faced. Is he THAT great of a kisser even Lingyue fell apart?
'Its not~' the man chuckled, amused and put the weakened girl down. He owed her that much. 'It felt good, right?' and he was gone.
'NEVER GO NEAR LINGYUE EVER AGAAAAAIN!' was what the man heard from the angry other girl as he left and he laughed. She's so innocent! Martial arts technique! Really?! How innocent is she?
Yinshuang had the utter mortification of explaining what a kiss was to the innocent, younger girl.
xxx
Yinshuang shakily got back up the cliff with Lingyue's help on a bird she crafted with a long wire to meet up with her group and the elders.
Yinshuang crossly explained what happened after Lingyue saved her that she was still in a daze and barely conscious enough to fly them out with her wire bird. The cousins felt utterly flummoxed with Yinshuang's tale while the elders shook their heads in mixed emotion at the unusual encounter.
'Oh dear, I think she needs a certain...lesson at home.' Ye Sheng pinched his nose hard in utter dismay because this is so dangerous that strong Lingyue may be, she can be dealt with through this. 'She doesn't even know what a kiss is!'
'A...kiss?' Lingyue croaked out slowly, still in a dream-like daze. She got it real bad by the looks of things.
'Its not a martial arts technique.' said Ye Ning wryly with an armfold as the Elders took Lingyue home.
It was an unusual night to the elders, but for Elder Liu, he shook his head.
Why did he of ALL people do that in a tiny town like this...? It was good Qiufeng Town has no idea of him while in other places he's a feared personage!
xxx
Ye Gu twitched in annoyance as Elder Liu personally went to his residence with a dazed Lingyue in tow...with quite the story.
He had to...awkwardly teach Lingyue about certain lessons all her other cousins know yet only she doesn't.
It was awkward and Lingyue learned from her grandfather what to look for in a life partner, so that she would be a happy woman when she marries some day.
'If such a man truly loves you, you can enjoy his kisses as much as you want.' Ye Gu joked as Lingyue blushed.
'Grandfather, in a ratio of all men in the world...how many are good men compared to bad men?' Lingyue asked the old man who looked thoughtful.
'Sadly, few, that's why its best that once these attacks on us stops, you travel and find a husband who's both capable of being a decent human being, a good husband to his wife and a good father to his children too, and capable of paying your bride price.' said Ye Gu. 'Before all the good men are taken.' he warned her. 'You are already of age. I would have wished the same for your cousins, but they need to get stronger before I let them travel like you in search of a good husband, at least, until they reach Upper Celestial at most. Two years and nobody in this town picked them yet, I'm getting worried.'
'Yes, grandfather.'
'If that man can't afford the price the grannies set up, as long as he truly loves you he's willing to fight me for you and I sense no evil in him, I'll make an exception.' Ye Gu promised his innocent granddaughter.
'So, what on earth is that man in that lava cave?' he went for the more important matter. Elder Liu was wary of him as well.'
'He's way stronger that even if we all banded up, we'll still lose.' Lingyue explained as logically as possible while her words stunned the old man. 'When I managed to touch him, I felt his power...its like an abyss of coldness. He's beyond Reincarnation Realm.'
'Most likely the mythical Avatar, Void or Divine Realm or Ghost Realm.' Ye Gu shuddered. 'The final stage, the highest form of power depends on one's state at Void Realm. That when you break through, you'll either be a Divine-Class, or a Ghost-Class. But such monsters never existed, many tried but most people never survived the deadliest of all Reincarnation Trials...the Lightning Trial.' he said. 'They'd be damn lucky if they did, like you.'
'Mm...and he also has Cold Poison.' said Lingyue remembering what she found in Analysis. Her words astonished the old man. 'He made Yinshuang trade the grade five ginseng she found for me in exchange.'
'Cold Poison?! That's a rare thing to happen these days!' Ye Gu choked as cold poison spells 'career breaker' for any cultivator other than Cultivation Abolishment. 'Not even Chiyang Ginseng can cure that!'
xxx
Lingyue began thinking at home in her room.
She had such criteria for good men now that grandfather gave her the lessons old man Acht didn't bother to.
She had known how her father treated her mother, and how Shirou treated her.
"A mix of Kiritsugu and Shirou...would be nice." they were the only good examples of men she had in her life. Hercules was also a good man and father, if not for Hera ruining his life because she was a petty goddess. If her husband is cheating on her, take revenge on HIM, not on clueless kids who had no idea their father can't keep it in his pants!
"I wonder if I can find good men." she sighed as she imagined what little time she had with her parents. "Could I have that too?"
She began dreaming of a rose-colored family life with her own ideals and her heart soared, as she dreamed of her rose-colored childhood...until the Grail War happened.
xxx
Soon, her cousins came home, victorious again.
As expected as they're stronger than anyone their age in this town now, but Lingyue took that as her cue to act.
The Seven Slope Mine that her family had won three years prior, was smaller by twenty to thirty percent. Also, the quality of the ores was of much lower quality in this place, that the Ye Family later learned that their old mine was better, that got the family into a really somber mood while they were annoyed that the Song were surely celebrating, which was why when Lingyue got powerful enough, she opened new tunnels that led to Yuan Ores on purpose when she was ten and upon her return from seclusion after her second ascension, she renovated it to boost morale of the workers. Until then, they were stuck selling only ordinary iron for three years!
Lingyue even had to refine them into high-quality iron as yuan iron is only for high-ranking military officials only. She only works, if the miners got a large amount of iron for her to work with. She makes iron so pure, that they sell at the Blacksmith's for 50 gold a bar. It was better than nothing. Yuan Iron is taken care of by the adult men, she takes care of the ordinary iron to make it very marketable.
Unlike the alchemists here, she uses alchemy of Earth that doesn't leave a trace, not the alchemy of this world that DOES leave a trace! So Blacksmiths praise the Ye Family with no clue whatsoever. But she cannot refine Yuan Iron with Earth Methods when she tried out once.
Spirit Force is basically weaponizing Divine Consciousness, like a spirit-powered telekinesis.
Since all Ye Family Members are trained in such a way by the founder Ye Wuming, the Ye Family Men have the potential to become Alchemists if and only if they were intelligent and creative enough. You cannot be an alchemist without both. Since the scamming incident, she taught the family men how to detect alchemy forgery traces since by refining Yuan Iron all their lives, they had INSANE LEVELS of basics of Alchemy already that they can weaponize spirit force.
That means the same thing for the Song Clan and they didn't realize that like Lingyue did.
And every three years, she puts a powerful barrier in every orifice of the family mine, including the outhouses...with good reason.
Now that there's an enemy alchemist, she was one who will never be defeated.
She called Elder Liu and her family adults...
xxx
'What the hell?!'
Song Moshi, Song Guangshi and Master Lian saw a powerful barrier over the Ye Family mine.
'D'you think we can break this?' Song Guangshi knocked on the barrier.
'Are you kidding? Not even I can break this!' said his father unhappily as he estimated the amount of power needed to create this barrier. They spent a good amount of money on buying a lot of Ice-Freezing Grass and there's this?! 'We need a good sorcerer for this!'
'And can you afford such a person?' Master Lian asked wryly. 'That power is no joke.' he said with a frown as he looked at the large barrier that covered the Ye Family Territory at night. 'To dismantle this barrier, you need to pay that person 50.000 gold and that's pretty much your entire fortune.' both father and son choked.
'So it was a good thing we put a barrier over our mine!' Ye Gu snarled as he and the family men, along with the town officials showed up after Lingyue removed her invisibility over them. His outraged roar startled the villainous trio. 'You'll sabotage our mine with Ice-Freezing grass, ah?!'
The Ice-Freezing Grass they have was no older than one year but can still inflict great damage in a metal mine. ANY, metal mine. It does so by making the outer surface of the ores rust and grow moldy. Thankfully not old enough to utterly render any metal useless by corrosion into rust.
Lingyue happily watched the chaos from her hiding place, but Elder Liu was impressive. He too, is a Dan Realm expert and the evil trio is arrested. But due to Lian Be's nature, his cultivation was abolished as he was a dangerous person who can free himself any time, being an alchemist who can manipulate any material so prison cells won't keep him for long. With that warning, Lian Be's now an ordinary man to his horror.
That disgusting stare on her from her grandfather's party is gone too. Ye Gu warned her about Lian Be's type of man in his lessons.
End result, because of Song Moshi and Song Guangshi's arrest, Song Han is defacto Head of the Song Family as his father and brother will be in prison for ten years in two separate, far away cells and there's a restraining order as well.
It was an ending the Ye Family accepted much to Song Han's dismay as he was never taught how to manage the family business. Being second son, his duty was protection and security of the manor! The family business schtick was taught to his older brother Guangshi!
'Well, that's his problem now, not ours.' was the snarking after they left court.
'Ten years is enough time to groom the Main Family Sons to be savvy in the business.' Ye Gu decided. 'The future is looking bright. Maybe we can finally unseal that well now that the Qiban Mine is ours for real.' he chuckled. 'We'll have to deal with the Poison Ants first though.'
The sons shuddered.
There's a small colony of 1000 poison ants the size of large dogs, and hundreds larvae soon ready to become the next batch. They have to kill the current ants AND the queen ant.
'We need Lingyue for that.' said Huangyun. 'She's the only one who knows how to cure their poison so she'll back us up.'
And so...
With five glass balls to illuminate the forbidden zone and kept it afloat with spirit force, the light agitated the ants when Lingyue unsealed the seal that covered the entrance they could hear hundreds of 'gigigigi' sounds.
'Prepare to fire blasts as you get in!' Lingyue warned. 'I'll lower you down and feet off the ground and watch out for the 5th Rank Xuan Yin Scorpion!'
'Thank goodness we're in Dan Realm.' Huangcheng muttered as they were lowered down and mayhem ensued as Lingyue came in last, taking in their kills and refined them into antidote powder as a precaution.
It took an hour of battle. The issue was locating the main nest with cocoons while dealing with the freezing cold that was the Xuan Yin Jade vein.
The queen ant...is huge, but thankfully immobile because of her large abdomen they can easily kill it.
'Alright, all that done.' Ye Gu sighed tiredly as Lingyue refined the Queen Poison Ant Corpse into a poison crystal since had she turned it into liquid, there was no container to put it in. 'Let's look for an exit tunnel just incase so we can seal it to prevent more bugs inhabiting this mine.'
Took them a whole day to find an exit as down there, was a maze with twenty paths!
Other than the Xuan Yin Jade, there was also a richer vein of its counterpart...
'Sonovabitch! This is a motherlode of wealth!' Ye Huangcheng howled, drooling in delight at the bigger vein. 'That Xuan Yin mine upstairs is smaller and this one is so huge!'
'No, we will not use our lucky finds in a commercial way.' said Ye Gu, shaking his head. 'This is our family's hope to rise again. From today onwards, all descendants of the Ye family, including you two, must enter this vein to train. We will map this place and create an easy-to-understand path, so it's easy to go to in seclusion after getting enough Yin energy for the children and future descendants. It'll be folly on our end if we sold all this.'
All Ye Family sons and nephews are in smaller Dan Realm now, including Ye Gu himself.
And now? After the other 9th rank kids consumed Lingyue's Xuan Yin pills she crafted out of some jade? They broke through, while Ye Sheng broke to Intermediate level of Lower Celestial. As a result, they were also under Gag Orders for Lingyue's safety.
'ITS SO COLD!'
Everyone who was weaker than the adults, namely, the teenagers shivered helplessly against the freezing cold caused by the Xuan Yin Jade vein.
Well, gaining strength was never easy is it?
'Well, looks like I'll be making a lot of Chiyang Tea for six hours a day before you go to the Yuan side the next day.' Lingyue chuckled as she sat next to a fire where on a tripod, a large kettle of chiyang tea is being kept hot. She amassed a thick amount of Yin Energy for them all to take.
'T-the children need it more than we do...' said Ye Gu, shivering. If they, the elders are shaky now, the young adults are terrible off!
xxx
Now that they no longer have enemies to worry about, Lingyue can now freely travel on her own.
She devoured the ki of the mountains while not touching what's within the mountains for her family's use. She was halfway through to Level 3 now as a result and she must find bigger opportunities.
She packed her clothes, and dressed as a typical martialist. And basically cosplayed as Xiaolongnu of Condor Hero anime, but kept her own hairstyle of two braided buns on both sides of her head and loosely-braided the rest. Lingyue left home after buying so many sacks of white rice, and left instructions for the new butler Zhao Yi that Nanny Liu and Yanche will be the ones getting her mother's monthly allowance but out of that 100 gold, Qiaochu Quarter Servants will get 2 gold as their monthly salaries in the form of strung-up coppers, and 3 gold for food expenses until they come back days later for another 3 gold. The rest will be kept safely until her mother gets back from Seclusion.
Those were her instructions.
'Alright, Yanche, you and the kids are now Lower Celestials.' Lingyue told her subordinates. 'Keep up with your cultivation and keep going higher, and keep training as well. I will find a Manual for your unique arts as well, so keep practicing the basics I taught you as well as train in Free-Running in the forests.'
'Yes miss!'
'I don't know how long I'll be back due to family orders, so watch the house and take good care of each other!'
And Lingyue left home, satisfied things will be OK.
She left for her next stop: Bo City.
For the past few years, it's governor is General Lan Yingwu, a nice fellow who had a career-breaking injury when she was eight years old. He was originally a civil official after leaving the military but somehow got demoted to Bo City.
He runs his city really well that its now a very prosperous city and everyone has equal opportunities that he was a VERY FAVORED governor.
When she found out why, she lost respect to the Emperor.
'Hummm...maybe I should give him a little...leg-up.' Lingyue grinned. 'We can use more good guys in the government~'
A:N- Bo = Glass
