Chen Yue flicked her ponytail. "Don't mention it. If there's nothing else, I'm off. You scholars are all the same—more full of schemes than a sieve has holes."
Watching her leave, Jiang Qi thought to himself, 'You can say that, Second Miss, but when it comes to schemes, you're certainly no worse than a scholar. How many fools do you find commanding armies in war?'
Only a true fool would think a warrior knows nothing but brute force.
On the day of Chen Cui and Qi Yaosong's trial, the Ministry of Justice was surrounded by a massive, impenetrable crowd. Rumor had it that Chen Cui was the reigning emperor's paternal aunt, that she'd actually been someone's concubine, and that she had murdered the man's first wife...
...and that the young general, An Wen, was that very wife's posthumous son.
