A New Life Without Regret

Chapter 1

---Lily of Valley City---

@border with the capital

Dongfang Qingyuan rode his horse quickly followed by his troops. Deputy General Hua of the Light Army was beside him. But Dongfang Qingyuan was shocked to see the troops that were not small in number on the city defense fortress. Dongfang Qingyuan and his troops stopped quite far from the city defense fortress.

The city gate was also closed. "Rebels, Dongfang Qingyuan, surrender or you and your troops will be killed on the spot!" Li Tao shouted with a smiling face. Dongfang Qingyuan was silent and then laughed.

"Shameless rebels. How dare you laugh!" Li Tao said angrily. Dongfang Qingyuan stretched out his hand. Deputy General Hua gave the arrow and quiver to Dongfang Qingyuan.

"Brother Hua, when I pull the arrow, take the troops to retreat back to Blossom Village and close the city gate tightly. From now on, Blossom Village will no longer be part of the Lotus Kingdom. They betrayed us so there is no need for us to protect them." Dongfang Qingyuan said flatly.

"What about you? I..." Vice General Hua was cut off. "This is an order. I trusted Li Tao too much to cause today's incident to happen. So I will bear the sin with my life. Go." Dongfang Qingyuan said coldly.

Vice General Hua signaled to the soldiers behind. All the soldiers looked shocked but had no choice to obey their superior's order. Dongfang Qingyuan was in an archery position. "How dare you! Are you going to rebel?" Li Tao shouted angrily.

"Didn't you already said this general as a rebel?! I will grant your wish! Traitor Li Tao!" Dongfang Qingyuan said as he released an arrow. Vice General Hua spurred his horse back as did the troops from the Light Army.

Li Tao was hit right in the head by an arrow and died. "How dare you kill a royal official!" Bian Jun shouted. "Someone from Cloud tried to assassinate your leader! Traitor!" Dongfang Qingyuan said coldly.

"My leader is no longer you." Bian Jun said happily. "I should have known, you are always a traitor! The person behind must be very powerful." Dongfang Qingyuan said mockingly. "Lift it up!" Bian Jun ordered. Two corpses were hanging on the city gate.

Dongfang Qingyuan was shocked to see the two people. Lan Zhi Xuan's corpse and Xue Lingyuan's corpse were hanging. Both of them were his good friends. "You dare to kill a prince!" Dongfang Qingyuan said angrily. "He colluded with you to rebel so he deserves to be killed." Bian Jun said happily.

Dongfang Qingyuan laughed loudly. "Shut your mouth! If you don't want to die!" Xue Xingrui said arriving there. Xue Xingrui had just been summoned to the palace for a while and the troublemakers had angered Dongfang Qingyuan.

"What are you afraid of? Look, his soldiers ran away leaving him alone. What can he do by himself?" Bian Jun said casually. "Are you really an agent of Cloud? You idiot!" Xue Xingrui said flatly.

"Dongfang Qingyuan if you surrender now then His Majesty the Emperor will pardon your crimes." Xue Xingrui said flatly. "Surrender? Are you kidding me?" said Dongfang Qingyuan laughingly.

"I'm just conveying the words of His Majesty the Emperor." Xue Xingrui said flatly. "If he had the intention to spare me! He shouldn't have killed Xue Lingyuan and Lan Zhi Xuan! Today all of you must die accompanying Xue Lingyuan and Lan Zhi Xuan!" said Dongfang Qingyuan angrily.

Xue Xingrui was quite shocked by Dongfang Qingyuan's words. "Did you kill my brother? Are you crazy?!" Xue Xingrui said angrily. "They deserve to be killed." Bian Jun said arrogantly. "Are you an Emperor? How dare you kill a prince!  I will settle accounts with you later." Xue Xingrui said angrily.