General to the Battlefield, Lady with a Broken Heart

The army of over a hundred thousand had already left the city, yet Luo Bai was still waiting there.

“Commander Luo, we should depart…”

The veteran general beside him sighed, reminding Luo Bai.

“Mm, I know.”

Luo Bai took one last look toward the city gate, but in the end, he still did not see the person he was hoping for.

In the past when departing for a campaign, there would always be soldiers weeping with their families.

Luo Bai used to find it sentimental, but now, he had become just as sentimental.

Luo Bai turned his head, squeezed the horse’s flanks, and prepared to leave.

“Brother, Beautiful Brother…”

Luo Bai almost thought he was hallucinating.

But looking back, there was indeed a small figure struggling to squeeze through the crowd of people saying goodbye, running toward him.

Luo Bai stopped.

Long Miaoming ran up to his horse.

“Beautiful Brother, are you really going?”

“Yes, girl.”

Luo Bai leaned down with a helpless expression and patted Long Miaoming’s small head.

“Commander Luo, we truly must go.”

The old general reminded him.

Luo Bai smiled at Long Miaoming.

“I must go.”

“Then, then you must remember to come back,” Long Miaoming bit her lip.

“When you return, I will tell you my biggest secret!”

Luo Bai took one last look at Long Miaoming.

“Mm, it is a promise.”

Having said that, he stayed no longer.

He raised his horsewhip and hurried forward to catch up with the main army.

“You must come back…”

Behind him, Long Miaoming was still shouting loudly, waving her small hand desperately.

Luo Bai had never felt himself to be so disheveled.

He was a bit afraid—afraid that if he stayed for even one more second, he would lose the courage to go to war.

Long Miaoming’s Diary.

“Today is the first day Beautiful Brother went to war. Although I know he cannot return so soon, I still could not help but go to the city gate to wait.

What if, what if Beautiful Brother regrets it and comes back early? Hehe, I am still the most thoughtful one…”

“The second day…”

“The third day…”

“The fourth day…”

“The thirty-seventh day. Today I still have not waited for Beautiful Brother to return, but the grain official came back to the city to prepare military supplies.

I wrote a letter to Beautiful Brother and entrusted the grain official to deliver it. The grain official seemed very happy to help me deliver the letter, but when I asked him when Beautiful Brother could come back, he could no longer smile. He only said everything is fine, everything is fine.

Hmpf, having things to say but not saying them—what a strange person.”

“The thirty-eighth day…”

“The thirty-ninth day…”

“The one hundred and seventeenth day. The grain official came back again.

He also brought many wooden spirit tablets of various sizes with names written on them. There were cries everywhere in the city. For some reason, I really want to cry too.

When I asked if there was a reply from Beautiful Brother, the grain official took out Beautiful Brother’s reply. It mostly said that he disliked my poor handwriting and told me to practice writing more, eat well, and things like that.

Seriously, even saying my handwriting is poor—Beautiful Brother’s handwriting is also all crooked. But I remember Beautiful Brother’s handwriting was not this ugly before. How strange.”

“The one hundred and seventy-fourth day. The older sister next door married Big Brother Lin from upstairs. It turns out that when two people who like each other are together, they have to go through a ritual called a grand wedding.

Mm… since I like Beautiful Brother so much, I suppose I will have to go through this kind of ritual too.”

“The one hundred and eightieth day. Beautiful Brother still has not returned.”

“The one hundred and eighty-first day. Beautiful Brother still has not returned.”

“The two hundred and forty-third day. The grain official came, but it was no longer that same official; he had been replaced by a new one I do not recognize.

But it does not matter. I only want to know how Beautiful Brother is doing.

The grain official gave me a letter with only one sentence on it.

‘May the mountains and rivers be at peace, may all living beings be without sorrow, may…’ The part after was crossed out, followed by ‘May Sister Ming not worry’.”

“The two hundred and forty-fourth day. Beautiful Brother has not returned.”

“The two hundred and forty-fifth day…”

“The two hundred and forty-sixth day…”

Inside Luo Bai’s command tent.

“Commander Luo…”

The generals all knelt on the ground, looking at Luo Bai before them.

Compared to when he first left the city, the current Luo Bai had undergone great changes.

The most noticeable change was that one of Luo Bai’s sleeves was empty.

“Everyone, things have come to this point; we must give it our all.”

Luo Bai sighed.

“Do you all blame me for bringing you out in the beginning?”

“Commander Luo…”

The generals below all lowered their heads very low, unable to bear speaking.

“I was the one who was foolish.”

Luo Bai laughed at himself.

He stood up and walked out of the command tent.

Outside the tent stood rows of armored soldiers, all holding bowls and looking at Luo Bai.

The army of a hundred thousand he brought out of the city years ago now only had the thirty thousand ironclads before him remaining.

“Everyone!”

Luo Bai picked up the wine presented by a soldier.

“This battle shall be the final battle. If we win, we shall return home in triumph and leave a good name for eternity. If we lose, we shall bury our bones in a foreign land and leave our sins for ten thousand years.”

Luo Bai looked around the circle.

He raised the wine in his hand and drank it all in one gulp.

“We shall surely return in triumph!”

The bowl was smashed fiercely onto the ground.

Then all the soldiers drank the wine and smashed their bowls fiercely onto the ground.

“Triumph! Triumph! Triumph!”

“Attack!”

Luo Bai waved his hand, and thirty thousand ironclads left the camp in a grand procession.

The generals in the command tent had all gone to the attack, and now only Luo Bai was left alone once again.

Using his only remaining left hand, he picked up a brush and wrote a sentence on the paper.

‘May the mountains and rivers be at peace, may all living beings be without sorrow, may the lady not worry.’

It looked like a love letter…

Luo Bai frowned and casually crossed out the last sentence.

He knew very well that the chances of returning this time were not great.

This kind of sentiment was better left to rot in his own heart.

‘May the mountains and rivers be at peace, may all living beings be without sorrow, may… Sister Ming not worry.’

“Someone…”

Luo Bai called out toward the outside of the tent.

A guarding soldier hurried in.

Luo Bai stuffed the paper into a bamboo tube and handed it to the soldier.

“Give this to the grain official and have him take it back to my sister.”

“Yes!”

After the soldier went out, Luo Bai covered his face with some distress.

His thoughts were on the verge of collapsing.

I really like you so much.

I did not dare to say it before, and now I have no chance to say it.

If heaven could let me start over…

Miaoming, do you know? Every single movement of your daily life, I have seen it all. Your extraordinary nature, I have seen that too.

Even though I knew you were not one of us, I just could not help it…

Luo Bai slapped himself fiercely.

He finally snapped out of those thoughts.

This was a battlefield; a miss by an inch is a loss of a thousand miles.

Yet he was trapped in these feelings between a man and a woman.

Perhaps from the moment he fell in love, he was no longer a qualified commander.

Luo Bai suddenly laughed again.

But this was fine too.

Even if just for her, he must win!