Notice from the author

First of all, thank you so much to all the readers for your continued support!

Really, thank you!

Qingqing will keep working hard and do even better!

Let’s witness it together!

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Regarding the part where Willis subdues the miners, Qingqing sped up the pace a bit!

But the necessary details and the back-and-forth tactics between both sides couldn’t be omitted.

Otherwise, there would be gaps in the reading.

So please don’t think it’s a bit wordy—Qingqing is trying her best (stares at you with big, cute eyes)

Some readers might have this question — Why didn’t Willis use her Lord status to crush them directly, or reshape Ushi City with her Imperial Princess identity or something like that?

So here’s a collective explanation (even though it’s already been explained many times in the story…..)

1. A bloody crackdown would only give the enemy an opportunity to unite the surrounding mines and the City Defense Army of Ushi City, leading to either a collective rebellion and escape with wealth, or stripping Willis of her power.

After all, if you force people to their deaths, of course they’ll resist, right?

And it’s very likely they’ll join forces to fight Willis, who is just an Apprentice Mage without an army to stand against them.

The outcome is self-explanatory!

This is one of the reasons the protagonist considered.

2. The power of the Willis Lord had already weakened during her absence, and outside the Castle Lord’s Mansion, with the current atmosphere in Ushi City, as long as it’s something unfavorable to themselves, basically no one will enforce it…

And what could Willis do to them?

3. From the previous assassination attempt, Willis clearly realized that someone wanted both her and her Imperial Sister dead.

If she stayed in Ushi City, surrounded by people with their own agendas, without trying to break the situation—

She would be isolated and helpless, and when the enemy struck, she’d be like a turtle in a jar.

4. Using various charges or forcefully replacing officials through authority brings many problems.

First, where could Willis find enough trustworthy and capable officials to replace them?

The five hundred soldiers brought along have to be returned, and the seven hundred-plus people reclaimed can’t guarantee loyalty. The Elven Race can’t be expected to help humans manage a city.

Ofilia and the others are only two or three people, far from enough.

And those captured bandits were originally miners.

Second, even if the officials are replaced, the soldiers guarding Ushi City are still a corrupt, evil group.

Willis could never have them serve under her.

Replacing officials might just treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Furthermore, these officials have already become deeply entrenched here.

If you try to take away their power and position, they’ll definitely resist, unite their followers, rebel, or refuse your orders.

Willis is all alone.

Either she gets sidelined, or she forces these officials and their soldiers to rebel.

5. Willis is also thinking about reclaiming the embezzled money.

Not all of it, but at least what they’re still holding.

If you don’t find a way to charge them all, they’ll never hand it over on their own.

And wanting to charge all of them—if it’s just her, a solitary commander, issuing a command as Lord, would anyone really obey?

So she still needs her own power, her own strength!

In the end, what Willis really needs now is a clean foundation—her own army and influence.

Those in Ushi City either don’t belong to her, are hostile, potentially hostile, or are fence-sitters who listen but don’t follow through.

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These are Willis’s thoughts—or rather, Qingqing’s thoughts.

It’s mentioned in earlier chapters too.

I hope these incomplete summaries can help clear things up.

Thank you again for your love and support.

Qingqing will keep working hard, and bring even more exciting content to readers who have always supported and liked Willis!

As for the paid content everyone wants to read, I’ll try to write a bit later on.

If it passes review, that is.

So, that’s all!

Good night, mwah~!