Since the day the two armies fought and the Northern Li Kingdom inexplicably retreated, the news spread like wings to Shangjing City of the Great An Kingdom, to the Emperor in the palace, and to the Prime Minister in the Prime Minister's estate.
The Emperor suspected something was amiss and sent his secret guards to investigate.
The result they received was that the Northern Li Kingdom had retreated because of the sudden appearance of a woman in red.
The Emperor: ...?!
He then sent people to investigate who the woman in red was.
The secret guards investigated again, but found nothing. They only heard some civilian rumors that the woman in red that day was the daughter of the Prime Minister's estate.
The Emperor: ...
Fine, he again ordered the secret guards to investigate the Prime Minister's daughter.
After all, the Emperor did not believe that the woman in red could be the Prime Minister's daughter. He had met the Prime Minister's daughter; she was a lovely young girl, quite likable.
The Emperor's secret guards accepted the orders and went to investigate, but after much searching, they found no irregularities.
The Emperor: ...
A few days later, the Prime Minister overheard the matter during a conversation among his servants.
The Prime Minister: ...?! The Prime Minister didn't believe it, but then he remembered that his daughter Li'er had indeed been away from the estate during those days.
The Prime Minister: ... After a moment of hesitation, he walked towards Ming Li's courtyard.
On the way, the Prime Minister kept reassuring himself that the person in the rumors definitely wasn't his beloved daughter, definitely not!
Not until he reached his daughter's courtyard and saw his beloved daughter, and heard his beloved daughter personally admit that she was the one.
Ming Li had no intention of hiding it, so she told the Prime Minister directly. As for breaking her persona, Ming Li didn't care at all.
System: ...?! The great one is indeed the great one.
The Prime Minister: ...?! He was so shocked he couldn't speak. He never imagined that the person rumored to have made the Northern Li Kingdom retreat with her own might was actually his daughter.
After the shock, the Prime Minister sensed something was wrong. He asked Ming Li with a serious expression: Li'er, tell Daddy the truth, how did you become so powerful?
Ming Li also put on a serious expression and tricked him: Father, actually, during the two years I was traveling, I met a master.
That master saw that your daughter had extraordinary bones and was highly intelligent, so he took me as his disciple. All the skills I have now were taught by him.
System: ...?! Shocked, Host, are you sure he will believe you if you say this?
As it turned out, the system's worries were unnecessary. Her cheap father truly believed it, without the slightest bit of doubt.
System: ...?! Baffled again and again.
The next day, Ming Li heard that Nangong Jin had returned.
Since the Northern Li Kingdom's unexpected move that time, Nangong Jin had been worried it was a plot by the Northern Li Kingdom, so he had been stationed at the border. However, seeing that the Northern Li Kingdom had no immediate intention of going to war, Nangong Jin returned to Shangjing City.
Because the Northern Li Kingdom had suddenly stopped fighting, Nangong Jin did not earn merit. But the old Emperor, considering that Nangong Jin had made the trip, even without merit, still had contributions, and rewarded Nangong Jin with some gold and silver treasures.
Nangong Jin: ... He felt that all of this should not have happened this way.