The cunning barbarian dares to impersonate a maiden of our Great Yu

"You are clearly so strong, so why couldn't you have come earlier?"

"If you had come to save us sooner, my parents, brothers, family, and friends wouldn't have been killed by the barbarians!"

"It's all your fault!"

"You are the ones who got them killed!"

A blood-red setting sun shrouded the battlefield where blood flowed like rivers. A bedraggled young girl wailed loudly amidst a pile of corpses. Yet, her eyes were completely bloodshot as she viciously pointed at the twenty-odd soldiers standing before her.

Every soldier in this unit was clad in armor. Judging from their insignia, they clearly belonged to the border army guarding the northern frontiers, unified under the jurisdiction of Great Yu's most elite force: the Chifeng Army!

They were currently formed in a semicircle, protecting the young girl in their center.

Their leader, Ren Tianye, was a handsome young man clad in silver armor, riding a Night-Illuminating Jade Lion and holding a Fangtian Halberd.

Hearing the girl's accusations, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

"We risked our lives to save you from the barbarians, yet you blame us for arriving late?"

"Is this female-oriented novel world really this absurd?"

The soldiers beside him were also stunned.

Soon after, traces of anger surfaced in their eyes.

"Hey, you are being completely unreasonable! To save you, we fearlessly charged the barbarian cavalry and several of our brothers were wounded. Now you are blaming us?"

"General Ren guessed that a merchant caravan was being attacked by barbarians and led us on a frantic ride for a whole day and night. Our horses were foaming at the mouth. We came to save you as fast as humanly possible, and you still call that late?"

"Your caravan was attacked and killed by barbarians. Your parents and brothers were all murdered by barbarians. Just a moment ago, you were cowering subserviently before them. We slaughtered them all for you, and yet you scream and shout at us?"

"Are you blind to the blood on our bodies? Do you know how heavy a price we paid to save you? Yet you still accuse us so unreasonably?"

...

In the evening sky, only a single ray of light remained, illuminating this border patrol in stark detail. They were covered in blood, both their enemies' and their own.

Their faces were exhausted and their eye sockets sunken, yet they still tightly gripped their blades. They remained vigilant against the barbarian cavalry they had just slain, as well as any barbarian reinforcements that might arrive at any moment.

One look was enough to tell that they had plunged straight into a life-and-death bloody battle immediately after a grueling, long-distance march.

All of these sights fell clearly into the young girl's eyes. The tears on her face surged even more violently, and her body trembled uncontrollably, yet she suddenly stood up.

"It IS your fault!"

"Why did you only run your horses until they foamed at the mouth? Why didn't you ride them to death?"

"Why didn't you charge forward to block the blades for my family?"

"Why couldn't you throw your lives away to slaughter the barbarians?"

"If you had just been a little earlier, pushed yourselves a little harder, and been a bit more unafraid of death, my parents, brothers, servants, and guards... none of them would have died!"

"You are the ones who killed them!"

"You butchers!"

The young girl's shrill cries echoed across the blood-stained battlefield, filling the cold, solemn aftermath of the war with a terrifying resentment.

It also made it difficult for the border soldiers to conceal their anger.

Their hands couldn't help but grip the hilts of their swords tightly.

However...

This sole survivor was, after all, a citizen of Great Yu.

Moreover, she was merely a young girl.

She must have suffered a sudden, traumatic shock that clouded her mind, causing her to spout such words. Once they brought her back to the military camp and cared for her, they believed it wouldn't be long before she understood.

That they, the border army, were her saviors.

Not her enemies!

And certainly not butchers!

The lieutenant took a deep breath, suppressing the surging emotions in his heart. He leaned close to Ren Tianye and whispered, "General Ren, this girl's mind is clouded. Why don't we first..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ren Tianye shot forward like an arrow released from a bowstring.

The Fangtian Halberd in his hand flashed with a cold gleam.

He swung it out fiercely in a horizontal sweep.

Aided by the swift charge of the Night-Illuminating Jade Lion, this strike erupted with incredibly tyrannical power.

"Bang!"

The shaft of the halberd solidly struck the young girl's body.

With a single strike, the girl was sent flying over ten meters away.

"Damned barbarians, to think you would dare disguise yourself as a young girl of my Great Yu!"

Ren Tianye roared loudly. Changing his grip on the Fangtian Halberd, he raised it high, flexed his arm strength, and hurled it straight ahead!

The Fangtian Halberd shot forward like a meteor chasing the moon. With a piercing screech through the air, it struck dead center, ruthlessly pinning the airborne girl to the ground!

The girl only let out a single cry of pain before falling completely silent, clearly dead.

Behind him, the twenty-odd border soldiers were thoroughly dumbfounded.

In that brief moment, with the sudden swiftness of a striking falcon, this unreasonable young girl had been killed by their General Ren Tianye?

Wait, she was a citizen of Great Yu!

As the border army, they were supposed to protect the citizens of Great Yu and keep them safe from harm.

How could he just kill her?

"General..."

The lieutenant approached again. "You... you... isn't this... a bit inappropriate? Even though you are a powerful noble from the capital, you can't just kill..."

Once again, not giving the lieutenant a chance to finish, Ren Tianye said coldly, "What? Should people of the barbarian tribes not be killed?"

"Over the years, the barbarians have repeatedly marched south to pillage."

"They have slaughtered the commoners of our Great Yu and humiliated our women. Their crimes are so numerous that no record could contain them all."

"If I remember correctly, your father died from a barbarian sneak attack, didn't he?"

The lieutenant hurriedly replied, "General, the barbarians deserve death."

"It's just that, this young girl..."

"What about this young girl?" Ren Tianye coldly snorted. "The border army has fought bloody battles with the barbarians for so many years, do you still not understand their cunning?"

"To actually try and disguise their women as young girls of our Great Yu, using a staged pursuit as a ruse to win our trust and forge a fake identity... what a brilliant scheme!"

"But I, your general, saw through it at a single glance."

"My only regret is that my anger was so unstoppable that I acted too quickly. I didn't get to ruthlessly torture this barbarian girl, and it leaves a fire in my chest."

Ren Tianye spoke with absolute certainty, clearly having made his final judgment.

The lieutenant dared not say anything more.

After all, this man had been parachuted in from the capital three months ago. Not only did he possess a formidable background, but his abilities were also outstanding. He had always shared life and death with them, and he was their direct superior.

He dared not disobey.

It was just that he was struggling quite a bit in his heart.

They belonged to the Northern Frontier Border Army and were under the command of the Chifeng Army. They all greatly admired and looked up to the Chifeng Army, and everyone's greatest dream was to join its ranks.

But the Chifeng Army was loyal, brave, benevolent, and righteous; they would never allow such a thing to be done!

As a result, his conscience was heavily tormented.

"Right, cut off her head and send it up to claim the merit."

Ren Tianye casually added another order, making the lieutenant feel even more uncomfortable. However, faced with Ren Tianye's iron-blooded military command, he could only obey and hurriedly arranged for someone to do it.

He also stole glances at Ren Tianye from time to time.

That handsome face remained cold and stern, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent, completely lacking the gentleness characteristic of the Chifeng Army...

"General Ren is truly ruthless!"

Little did he know, at this very moment, Ren Tianye was also quite speechless.

He was originally an exemplary modern youth who loved reading male-oriented web novels in his spare time. Yet, for some unknown reason, the website had inexplicably recommended female-oriented romance novels to him.

Harboring the mindset of panning for gold in a pile of shit, he had randomly flipped through a few books, only to be infuriated to the point of nearly having an aneurysm. It almost gave him depression.

What was even more outrageous was...

He woke up to find he had directly transmigrated into a female-oriented novel world.

Because he had physically transmigrated and directly replaced the original owner, his absorption of the predecessor's memories was somewhat incomplete. Still, he managed to learn that the original owner was a descendant of a family of generals. However...

He was caught up in a true versus fake young master drama!

As the true young master who was finally found and brought home with great difficulty, he was subjected to all sorts of creative bullying every day, and was eventually exiled to this frontier.

Moreover, this true young master was actually a substitute lover for the current Empress.

Ren Tianye was left completely speechless at the time.

What kind of bullshit plot is this?

The Ren Duke Estate, ennobled through military merits, doesn't think about resisting the barbarians and expanding the territory, but instead spends every day thinking about how to show favoritism to the fake young master?!

The dignified Empress doesn't govern state affairs, but worries entirely about stand-in romance tropes?!

Does this make any fucking sense?

Speechless, he had no choice but to temper himself in the army first and accumulate his strength. Yet, he never expected that after surviving so many life-and-death battles with the barbarians without ever losing his temper, he would be absolutely infuriated by a teenage girl today!

Fine, fine, fine, trying to guilt-trip me, huh?

Then go to hell!

As a loyal reader of male-oriented fiction, like hell I would swallow my pride and suffer such grievances in your female-oriented novel!

His cold gaze swept across the scene. The area was littered with corpses; apart from a small portion belonging to this family, the rest were barbarians they had slain, all completely devoid of life.

However, Ren Tianye still ordered: "Search carefully. Leave absolutely no survivors."

"Rest assured, General. We will definitely not let a single barbarian escape."

"This general is not just talking about the barbarians, but this family as well. There are likely still some of them hiding. Drag them out for me!"

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