After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

After settling in the Peace Palace in the capital, the Empress immediately immersed herself in Federation affairs.

The matter of Gu Yuwei’s special military tribunal was temporarily set aside.

At this time, she was being held in a training camp a hundred miles from the Southwest Military Base.

It was the place where Gu Junwan had previously met with Yu Xiao.

The detention cells in the Peace Palace were already overcrowded.

The military base also controlled many former rebel soldiers, so this place was chosen for secret detention.

In a clean, simple dwelling, Gu Yuwei sat at a desk reading an e-book.

The tablet in her hand had no network function, and there was no communication equipment in the room.

Chi Xuan boiled hot water and brought it to the desk.

“Commander, have some water. No matter what, you can’t let your health collapse.”

Gu Yuwei didn’t take it.

She turned off the tablet screen and looked at her former assistant, speaking flatly: “I’m not a commander anymore. Just call me by my name.”

Seeing his leader who had completely lost her former vitality, Chi Xuan’s eyes grew hot, and he nearly burst into tears.

He sniffled and said: “You’ll always be my commander.”

At this point, Chi Xuan paused, then carefully chose his words and said softly: “Commander, you should cheer up. Perhaps everything can still develop in a good direction.”

Hearing such familiar words, a scene immediately floated into Gu Yuwei’s mind.

The scene was very pleasing to the eye, with two women kissing on a sofa.

Their black hair was slightly intertwined, intimate and beautiful.

Gu Yuwei closed her eyes, suddenly feeling a toothache.

Many things she couldn’t understand before were suddenly unraveled in her mind the moment she saw Gu Junwan actively kiss Shen Han.

‘Mom and Mother must have known long ago. The whole family was keeping it from just me.’

Thinking of this, she felt sad again.

How could she have done such a stupid thing back then?

Just as she was thinking, a commotion suddenly echoed outside the door.

It sounded like someone was running in the corridor, and there was the sound of heavy objects falling.

Soon, it became quiet again outside.

“Click!”

The lock retracted, and the detention room door was opened from the outside.

Then, the tall and imposing Yu Xiao walked in.

Seeing the arrival, Gu Yuwei was greatly startled.

She stood up from her chair, thought for a moment, then turned to look at Chi Xuan, who was standing silently to the side.

“Did you reveal this location to Uncle Yu?”

Chi Xuan pressed his lips and looked at his commander, nodding slightly.

Gu Yuwei felt no joy in her heart. She was both shocked and anxious, and spoke to Yu Xiao: “Uncle Yu, you should leave quickly. In the past, I thought everything was too simple, causing many people to be hurt and implicating you as well.”

“Let me bear the consequences of the mistakes I’ve made. Uncle Yu, you-”

Halfway through her words, Gu Yuwei couldn’t continue.

Rebellion was already an established fact that no one could change. Where could Commander Yu go?

Yu Xiao lowered his eyes to look at the young woman standing before him, as if he was looking at his own daughter through her.

“Commander, we haven’t lost yet.”

Hearing Yu Xiao’s words of comfort, Gu Yuwei slowly shook her head.

Her voice was hoarse, and mist gathered in her eyes: “No, we never won.”

Just then, an alarm suddenly sounded in the training camp.

The “woo-woo” sound tore through the sky, and a dangerous atmosphere instantly permeated the entire area.

“Go!” Yu Xiao grabbed the young woman’s arm and turned to walk towards the door.

Out of the detention room door, the deputy immediately reported: “Commander, we’ve fallen into an ambush!”

Yu Xiao didn’t speak, nor did he make any crazy moves like a cornered beast.

Because that would be meaningless.

He belatedly realized that the Empress’s true purpose in detaining Gu Yuwei in this place was probably to lure him here.

This was a trap laid by the Empress. Today, he couldn’t escape.

After pondering for a few seconds, Yu Xiao had made his decision.

He released Gu Yuwei’s arm, turned sideways, and said something completely unrelated to the situation to the young woman before him.

“The father Yu Man respects should be a hero wrapped in horsehide. In the past, I failed to fulfill my duty as a good father. Now, I don’t want to disappoint her either.”

Although Yu Xiao was nearly 60, his voice was still strong and resonant.

His words just now were heard clearly by all his core combat personnel in the entire corridor.

However, the vast majority of the soldiers couldn’t understand what their commander was expressing.

Only Gu Yuwei and the deputy understood.

Commander Yu was unwilling to accept a trial.

He harbored thoughts of death, wanting to die on the battlefield he was familiar with.

“Everyone listen up! Disarm and stay where you are.”

“Remember, from beginning to end, you were all just following orders.”

At this point, Yu Xiao’s tiger eyes swept over everyone, and he shouted: “This is an order!”

Wan Peng, the soldier who had once engaged in a one-on-one challenge with Shen Han, was also in the ranks.

He removed his assault rifle and the pistol at his waist, threw them at his feet, then stood at attention and saluted: “Yes! Commander!”

With him taking the lead, the other soldiers immediately followed suit.

Except for Yu Xiao’s deputy.

This middle-aged man who had followed the commander for many years threw away his weapons but didn’t stay put like the others.

He followed closely behind his commander, stepping to the sound of the wailing alarm, walking towards the outside.

Gu Yuwei’s whole body was trembling. Ignoring Chi Xuan’s obstruction, she ran out after them.

Outside, on the spacious training ground.

Snow had begun falling from the sky at some point, drifting down in flurries, biting cold against the face.

Gu Junwan, wearing a white military uniform, stood facing the wind and snow, like a proud winter plum blossom.

Shen Han still stood straight-backed beside her, but this time, no one held an umbrella.

The entire training camp was filled with armed soldiers from the Third Army Group.

Fully equipped and solemn, strictly disciplined.

Over a thousand people were arrayed in battle formation on the left and right, the entire world so quiet it seemed only the sound of falling snow could be heard.

“Your Majesty, you plan within the command tent and achieve victory a thousand miles away. You are an outstanding leader.”

The first to speak was Yu Xiao.

Gu Junwan raised her hand to indicate the other soldiers need not follow, and only led her guard team forward.

She stopped at a distance neither too close nor too far from Yu Xiao.

“Commander Yu, surrender. The battle at the Third District’s border checkpoint has already been quelled.”

The Empress’s voice was clear and crisp, carried on the wind and snow, but conveying a fair and peaceful demeanor.

Yu Xiao didn’t answer. He raised his right arm, his palm moving towards the holster at his waist.

Seeing this, the guard team members raised their guns, aiming at the tall old general not far away.

Shen Han even stepped forward, directly standing in front of Gu Junwan.

“No! Don’t shoot!”

Gu Yuwei’s voice pierced through the flying snowflakes, entering the ears of everyone on the training ground.

At the same time, she gripped the body of the handgun that Yu Xiao had already drawn with both hands, using all her strength to press the muzzle downward.

Yu Xiao’s action was meant to provoke the Empress’s guard soldiers to shoot at him.

He had long since viewed his own life and death lightly, but at this moment, he was worried the young woman beside him might be accidentally injured.

“What are you doing? Let go.”

“Deputy Qian, pull her away from me!”

The deputy stepped forward, reaching out to drag away the crying and shouting Gu Yuwei.

However, at this moment, Yu Xiao, who had just freed himself from the young woman’s grasp, suddenly felt a gust of wind in his face.

He narrowed his tiger eyes, his foot grinding into the ground to stabilize his stance, then raised his fist and punched straight ahead.

The straight punch is the most basic technique in boxing, with no frills.

This punch Yu Xiao threw carried all his will to face death at this moment.

The force of the punch was so heavy that even the large swath of wind and snow before him was stirred into swirling in all directions.

The person who suddenly launched an attack towards Yu Xiao was Shen Han.

When Gu Yuwei uttered her first word earlier, she had already pounced out like a hunting leopard.

Yu Xiao couldn’t die here in this way.

Otherwise, the army group unrest that had been suppressed with such difficulty might stir up who knows what kind of trouble.

Moreover, he had outstanding merits, but also irrevocable faults. Merits and faults couldn’t simply cancel each other out.

If everyone thought they could just die and be done with it after causing unrest, what would be the point of establishing laws and regulations?

As the heavy punch came, Shen Han dodged by a hair’s breadth.

The wind from the punch whistled by, stinging her cheeks.

She twisted her waist to Yu Xiao’s side, kicking the gun in his hand far away.

Without a firearm, the general was like a fierce tiger with its fangs pulled.

From this moment on, Yu Xiao’s plan to provoke the guard soldiers to shoot at him had failed.

But a fierce tiger is still a fierce tiger. Even with its sharp teeth removed, it can still harm people.

Shen Han had intended to retreat after kicking away the gun, but she was entangled by the other’s follow-up attack, so she could only choose to concentrate on engaging him.

For a general like Yu Xiao who had emerged from battlefields of corpses and blood, every strike he made was a merciless killing move.

Shen Han didn’t dare to be careless for even a moment.

The man she was currently fighting was the most formidable hand-to-hand combat expert she had ever encountered.

Although he wasn’t an awakened individual, he was even more fearsome than the assassin codenamed Red Fox that she had met before.

Fortunately, Shen Han had been intensifying her training in recent months.

Otherwise, she really wouldn’t have been able to withstand the other’s heavy punches.

As the two engaged in close combat, Gu Junwan’s heart was nearly in her throat.

Shen Han hadn’t had time to give any warning before taking action.

When she saw her Alpha charge out like an arrow leaving the bowstring, it was already impossible to stop her.

The straight-backed Empress had never shown a hint of timidity when facing family betrayal or enemy encirclement.

But every time Shen Han fought an opponent, she was extremely worried and afraid.

At this moment, looking at the two figures with such a great disparity in build fighting in front of her, she felt as if she had returned to when she first met Shen Han, when the other chose to fight two Ying assassins alone.

Gu Junwan was very clear about Yu Xiao’s martial prowess.

Just as the single character in his name suggested, he was indeed an uncompromising iron-blooded general!

Her silly Alpha must not come to any harm!