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As he spoke, his head drooped lower and lower.
As the personal guards of Pei Jue, they actually didn't understand what the Great General was thinking, nor what kind of feelings he had for his wife.
But they would feel uncomfortable on behalf of their master.
Rumors about the negotiations had long been spreading throughout the city like a storm.
Countless people in Xinzhou City spread rumors in private, saying that Feng Yun and Xiao Cheng had been betrothed to each other a long time ago, that the pair were deeply in love, and it was General Pei who stepped in and forcibly took someone else's wife.
Others said that their General was not a husband, but a paramour.
The Imperial Guard Camp always received messages from scouts in all directions, and outsiders were so angry they could die, let alone them?
But the General, aside from silence, offered only silence.
He didn't even mention a word of it to his wife.