Sure enough, whilst the complicated love triangle among the other leads was burning strong around the northern border of Borley City, Margarette did not hesitate to bring her people away upon hearing about Jiang li being sighted near the gate.She did not care if the mercenaries and battle maids she had cultivated for years were staring weirdly at her. Margarette was more than aware this bunch had so many opinions about her seemingly whimsical trips and decisions. But she was also confident that none of them would forget it was her giving their salaries.
""Husband, if a chase is what it will take to make you come back to me, I accept the challenge," she softly whispered in the wind, casting a spell on herself so she could calm down and stopped the urge to cry.
Apart from being a cat-and-mouse game, this was an emotional battle, she realized. Even if she wanted to cry, it had to be while he was watching.
With this in mind, she started another journey that lasted for another month. It had been a physically and mentally taxing one. It had to be said it was even a feat already for a delicate lady like Margarette that she managed to last until now.
However, when she was finally getting the hang of it, her body adapting to a long period of travels, she discovered that there were no more footsteps for her to follow.
Her group was back to that village in the desert serving as borders of both kingdoms. All that she found there were line patterns on the sandy regions that stretched for miles and were appearing in random positions.
Only after a day did she realize the similarities of the lines to the famous Nazca Lines in Aliyah"s memories.
A bad feeling rose from her heart, towering over her suspicions about where he learned creating geoglyphs. It prompted her to decide to stay in that village longer.
"I only need Morris and Samantha to stay with me as my guards. The rest, I want you all to survey the lines in the desert and record the patterns," she commanded while giving out quills and parchments.
One of the rather intelligent mercenaries asked with doubt, "Milady, are you suspecting the dry ca.n.a.ls we saw outside this village are codes?"
Margarette did not say a thing or nod. But her silence was enough for them. At this point, all of them were aware that their boss was looking for her husband. They sympathized with her but also wondered why she insisted on chasing after that outrageous guy. It had to be said, none of Margarette had a favorable impression of Jiang Li since he basically made everyone"s lives in the past months quite unbearable. Even now, he was engaging them in puzzling stuff like this.
The group set out watched by many local farmers and villager kids. As the scope of the land needed to be surveyed was quite large, they only returned a couple of hours before nightfall. Margarette hired four local ladies to cook her tired subordinates a feast while she headed inside her room in the two-story house she rented.
Following after her were the two guards who had been idle today, in their hands were the parchments collected.
"Milady, here are the submitted output. I think these are really codes. But how are we going to arrange it?" confused, the lady guard Samantha, a tall, bronze-skinned woman, asked.
The princess impatiently looked at the symbols, "I can"t guess which kingdom"s characters these are. Perhaps, I will be able to get something if you spread them out on the floor."
After a few arrangements where she tried to check if words would be formed, she frowned. She had mastered nearly all the alphabets in the continent yet none of the symbols corresponded to the characters she had learned. What was she missing?
The two people had to keep flipping and arranging as if they were working on a puzzle. At one point, Margarette ordered them to temporarily stop. With her brows furrowed, a fragment of memory from Jiang Ying Yue"s memory bank floated up and she started to understand how she should arrange the patterns.
However, was knowing how to do it really a good thing?
Minutes later, Samantha and Morris just found their boss freezing on place. They exchanged glances. Having seemingly arrived in a tacit understanding, they silently withdrew from the room. Margarette was left there to look blankly at the words laid out before her eyes.
Shortly after, a gentle laugh reverberated throughout that room. The girl squatted down with her hands covering her face.
At this moment, she felt like really received her karma since she finally understood, it would probably very hard for her to see him in the next few years.
"Become a G.o.d… he says?" she whispered to herself.
The sole person in the place shook her head.
Didn"t she put the "General" in her heart because she greatly admired the valiant and powerful man who had made a whole dynasty cower under his army? Because Jiang Li was aware of it, he wanted to show to her, the past was the past, and the new him could be someone mightier than that "General". A lot mightier, in fact.
There was really no stopping for him now. The price to realize her desire for a man she would forever be proud of was a long-term separation that would truly test her patience and love for the real him.
Understanding this, she laughed, albeit self-mockingly.
Was there a redo b.u.t.ton somewhere? If there was none, how about a time machine? She really wanted to go back in time and pull the hair of the arrogant her who caused their relations.h.i.+ps to be this cold. She really wanted to tell the past her to appreciate what she had right now or else she would completely regret it.
The Queen of Commerce holed up in her room for days after that, worrying her people. Because they had no idea if their boss was doing some experiments or simply being a shut-in due to some setbacks, they put in some effort in creating excuses to make her leave her room or to speak with them.
There was already some unrest in the Holon Kingdom due to her extended absence, Samantha reported to her one time to force her out. It had no effect.
"Milady, Mr. Jiang is spotted in Holon City talking to Marquis White," Morris said on the next day.
Margarette did come out not long after. However, it was not because she fell for the mercenary"s obvious lie. It was to announce to everyone that she would stay in that village for an indefinite amount of time.
Margarette looked thinner but she seemed to be back to her usual domineering and sharp self. In just ten minutes, she had arranged who would return to the kingdom and who would remain with her. She chose only one companion, Samantha. The rest, she ordered to help her managers in the capital.
"Become a deity… huh?"
As she did not want to pa.s.sively wait for that man to ascend before looking for her, she decided to continue with what she was doing before.
She would chase him to G.o.dhood, and maybe, if fate would allow it, she would succeed first and become a G.o.ddess before he ascended. The world would then help her locate him, no matter if he was in Mu or outside, exploring the other continents. Once she learned his location, she would be the one to go to him. She would declare her victory. If she had to, she was even prepared to shackle him to her side. After that, she would tearfully say, she finally won him back.