Why My Domineering Prince Regretted Filing for Divorce?-Chapter 578 - 478 Fire

Just as they feared, the heavy rain lasted for three days, causing the water level of the Little Forest River to surge, almost flooding into the city.

However, Shang Ruyi felt somewhat grateful for these three days of rain.

Because of the persistent rain, all actions had to be delayed, allowing Yu Wenye time to recover. Although he didn’t fully adhere to the doctor’s advice to rest quietly, on the second day after waking up, he insisted on getting out of bed. He spent half a day before he could move freely, and by the morning of the third day, when Shang Ruyi woke from her dream and opened her eyes, she realized he was no longer beside her!

"Feng Chen?!"

Shang Ruyi was startled, hurriedly propped herself up, and looked around, finding herself alone in the bed with no sign of Yu Wenye in the room.

Where did he go?

Shang Ruyi quickly got out of bed, threw on some clothes and was about to go out when she heard a fierce gust of wind outside. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

That sound seemed somewhat familiar.

It felt like she sensed something, so she gently pushed open the door, and with a creak, the wind carrying fine rain droplets rushed in.

In the wind, there was a sharp, cold flash that suddenly approached her eyes!

"Ah!"

Shang Ruyi let out a short cry, subconsciously closing her eyes.

As if sensing its source, the sharp wind abruptly stopped, almost hitting her face and startling her loose hair to flutter in the air.

Feeling the other’s pause, Shang Ruyi slowly reopened her eyes to see Yu Wenye, who had disappeared earlier that morning, retracting a short sword right in front of her.

At this moment, he was dressed in a brown thin shirt, with a loosely tied belt at his waist. He was practicing sword under the eaves—it was clear he couldn’t go to the courtyard due to the rain and had to practice at the door, but even so, he didn’t intend to solely muddle through it. His chest was revealed as his movements opened up his shirt wide.

Upon seeing Shang Ruyi, he immediately stopped his sword practice, his wide sleeves fluttering with his arm before lowering again.

"Why did you come out?"

"..."

Shang Ruyi’s heart thumped rapidly.

She initially thought she was scared, but when trying to calm her heart and looking up again, she found her heartbeat racing once more.

Especially upon seeing Yu Wenye’s tall, upright figure in front of her, contrasting so much with his recent sickly, weak, bedridden state—it was like he was a completely different person within two days.

Even though she felt this way, Shang Ruyi forced herself to suppress this inner agitation, biting her lip and retorted, "I should be asking you that!"

"..."

"Why are you out practicing sword? You only just managed to get out of bed yesterday!"

"..."

"Pushing yourself too much like this, your body could—"

Before she could finish her sentence, Yu Wenye had already smiled faintly, waved the short sword a couple of times and said, "I’m only practicing here, what else do you want?"

"..."

His words left Shang Ruyi momentarily speechless.

But she quickly understood the underlying meaning of Yu Wenye’s words—after all, his real weapon was the eighty-pound Mo Blade which could easily slice both men and horses in half, compared to which, practicing with a short sword in this tight space was him "restricting" himself.

Seeing her face change due to his words, Yu Wenye softened his voice and said gently, "Alright, I know my body well."

Shang Ruyi muttered, "What do you know?"

"I know that I’m hungry."

"..."

Shang Ruyi was taken aback, looking up at him, only to see Yu Wenye with a playful smile on his lips, looking at her mischievously. She glared at him, but ended up laughing herself, and immediately called for Tushere and Wo Xue to help them wash up. Once ready, the kitchen quickly brought in hot porridge and some small dishes.

Yu Wenye frowned slightly, saying, "Why is it still the same?"

Shang Ruyi served him a bowl of porridge and said, "If you want a proper meal, wait until lunch. It’s better to have something light in the morning."

Yu Wenye shook his head, helpless but to gulp down a small bowl of porridge in a few bites. Though he appeared a bit petulant, Shang Ruyi felt relieved inside—the witch doctor had once told her that to determine whether a patient was recovering, the ability to eat normally was key. If so, even King Yan couldn’t take him away.

From this view, Yu Wenye indeed had recovered, and as he said, he pushed himself to recover faster than the average person.

Feeling happy for him, Shang Ruyi silently ate while serving him side dishes. Just as Yu Wenye finished his second bowl of porridge, a hurried and heavy footstep sounded from outside, stopping just at the door.

Yu Wenye turned around to find Mu Xian hastily coming in.

His hair and clothes were still wet with rain, clearly having rushed through it without an umbrella. Just as he reached the door, seeing the two of them eating breakfast inside, he hesitated whether he should enter.

Yu Wenye immediately asked, "You came, is something the matter?"

Hearing this, Mu Xian apologized and entered.

He said in a deep voice, "Great General, there’s trouble!"

Hearing this, Yu Wenye put down his utensils, while Shang Ruyi looked up with surprise—although they had no military progress due to the rain these past days, everything had been calm.

How did things suddenly go wrong?

Yu Wenye said, "What’s the issue, speak!"

Mu Xian said, "Xue Xian’s supplies caught fire and burned."

"What?!"

Yu Wenye hadn’t even spoken when Shang Ruyi gasped in disbelief, "How could it be?"

Mu Xian said quietly, "The spies reported back, the news is true."

"..."

Shang Ruyi took a deep breath, contemplated a moment, and said, "But hasn’t Lord Dai been interrogating the prisoners these past two days without finding the enemy supplies’ location?"

"Yes."

"Nor did the General give orders to start a fire."

"Yes."

"Then how did his supplies catch fire and burn? Who set it on fire?"

Mu Xian looked at her, then at the frowning Yu Wenye, and said, "Unknown."

"..."

"While Lord Dai had people interrogating prisoners, he also sent spies across to locate the enemy’s supplies but found nothing in the past days. It wasn’t until last night that a red glow lit up from beyond several miles across. Spies went to investigate, only to find Xue Xian stored his largest supplies in a village several miles away from the camp, holding villagers hostage to prevent leaks."

"..."

"But last night, those supplies suddenly caught fire and burned down the entire village!"