Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

1023 Winter Battle

“I’ve had enough rest.”

Nan Hua leapt down from the wooden frame and landed on the ground gracefully. Her movement was so quiet and didn’t produce any sound that could be captured even with Yu Jin’s sensitive ear.

Looking at that, Yu Jin shook her head. “As an assassin, you must have been at the very top.”

Nan Hua was silent.

Back then, she was indeed acknowledged as the no. 1 assassin in that organization and had a lot of tasks in her hand. Whenever there was a mission that had high fatality rate, she would be sent to clean up the mess.

They expected her to return in one piece and continued to do the same thing over and over.

To the point that her own legend spread out.

“Mhm.”

After a night rest, Nan Hua felt her mind clearer. She also faintly recalled the brutal training she had received ever since she was young and also the description of the female lead from the .

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No matter how much a genius someone is, if they didn’t work hard in order to realize their talent, they could end up worse than someone with average talent. Luo Qing Wei had been training under her family strict medical training for more than 10 years.

It was also the reason why she didn’t know much about the outside world.

All she knew was either the research or her family members who would be cheering on her and gave her happiness.

They protected her.

But at the same time, they had high expectation of her talent.

That was why Luo Qing Wei could become the ‘Miracle Doctor’ and had her name known despite only in her teenage age.

There was no instant success.

Every single one of them had experienced harsh and brutal training that tempered them in order for them to grow to be who they were now. Standing at the very top just meant that they worked harder.

Talent only dictated the pace they would need in order to achieve a certain height.

But whether they could reach it within a short time or long period of time would depend on their hard work.

“What’s your plan, now?” Yu Jin noticed that Nan Hua indeed look different from yesterday. She silently marveled that genius was indeed different from normal human being. Even after showing a bit of her frustration yesterday, she could calm down within a night’s rest.

That pace was extraordinarily fast!

But Yu Jin also knew that this was the quality that Nan Hua had. And this quality might have been forged by time rather than being innate.

As Yu Jin herself knew how hard it was to adjust one’s mentality so easily like that.

“I’m going to stay here for the time being and borrow some of your soldiers to train. When there’s an attack from these subjects, I’ll take them on.”

“Will they still use these people?” Yu Jin was skeptical.

“They will.”

Because some of their earlier methods were wrong and thus, they needed to be thrown out. Zhang Family wouldn’t want to waste these resources and would use them in areas that wouldn’t be seen by the current Zhang Xu Kingdom’s Emperor.

One of that location would be this Mountain Tribe.

Yu Jin glanced at Nan Hua then shrugged. “You’re free to stay here for as long as you want. Anyway, make sure that you treat my men nicely. I still need them for the next war and it wouldn’t work if they end up losing their mentality because you destroyed them.”

Nan Hua: “…”

She only wanted to train her body a bit in order to make sure that she would still be in her top shape. Besides, Yu Jin’s soldiers were all the strength based type, which was the complete opposite of hers.

It would be a good training.

As for the reverse method… Nan Hua would still continue to try. Honestly, it would have been much easier for her to directly abduct her senior sister, but she didn’t want to do that.

There were very few people who cared for her.

And she didn’t want to force the other party.

She would think for another way, a way that didn’t require her to harm those who were important for her.

“Come on, let’s have a breakfast. Ah Shan is cooking this time.”

“He did?”

“Yeah, since I’m here, he wouldn’t dare to neglect his duties.”

“His duties included cooking?”

“Of course~.”

…

Time passed swiftly.

Nan Hua continued to stay in the Mountain Tribe, training with the soldiers under Yu Jin while her focus was mostly on these attackers.

Yet, no matter what she did, she still couldn’t do it properly.

Summer passed and autumn leaves began to fall.

The thick layers of leaves were then buried under the heavy snow.

The temperature dropped rapidly.

Nan Hua controlled Dark Moon Organization’s expansion through the distance and watched as the organization grow. The speed was much slower than what she expected, but at the very least, she had more influences here and there.

The next problem was that Prime Minister Lei had introduced a small group of elites under him, which helped him greatly.

They were all the people who were already trained to be the ‘perfect soldier’ under the effect of those medicines.

They wouldn’t know their limit.

They would think that they were far above what they were actually capable off. Even if the medicines had strengthened them, their real increase in strength was nowhere as exaggerated as what they had actually thought inside their mind, which could no longer calculate their limit well.

General Wei was barely hanging on.

And the two of them were mostly in a stalemate with neither side could truly take advantage of the situation. They were even considering to have a temporary truce with each other at this moment.

But it was not Nan Hua’s main attention.

Her real attention fell on another point, which was the fact that Yu Jin received an order to take over a certain city.