The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 43: Borrowing the art of war.

An already long day beceven longer with the news Cosmos delivered. Immediately upon her return to the

vale, Sigrid summoned her family, the immediate ones only.

While she was taking a bath, her grandparents, parents, brothers and Deanna arrived at the vale. They joined

Sigrid for dinner and dismissed everyone with the exception of Cosmos and Lanai.

The doors leading into the dining room were heavily guarded by ten knights, allowing the family to discuss

openly without holding back.

As soon as they started digging into their food, the questioning started.

"Why did you summon us?" her father, Paxton started.

"Is it related to you special abilities?" Duchess Mila followed up with a question of her own.

"Roland returns tomorrow." Sigrid said, she wanted to get straight to the point and move things along as quickly

as possible.

Thad moved fast, it was already approaching eleven, and her body was weary.

Five seconds of silence passed and then conversation picked up but every face at the table was rather ashen,

they knew what Roland’s return meant for their family. It spelled the beginning of their troubles.

"Is he bringing Emmah?" Nathaniel asked.

"Of course he is," Duke Thorin slammed a hand on the table. "I sent five of the retired soldiers to keep an eye on

Roland, they did not make it to the land of mist, they found the knights and Roland’s army on its way back. They

were victorious but Roland was injured by a Nemorian sword mage, a sword almost removed his arm but a

woman appeared and threw herself on him and the sword cut her instead."

They all looked at Sigrid, she was their wise woman who had predicted all this.

"After saving his life, she treated his wounds but passed out because she herself lost a lot of blood. She has been

traveling inside Roland's carriage or riding his horse, getting princess treatment." he sneered.

The duke had learned the words princess treatment from Sigrid.

"I know that I should be grateful that she saved his life and saved you from widowhood and probably death but |

hate her already." Iryne clenched a fist.

Duchess Mila who also had her fists clenched and eyes narrowed shook her head. "I have doubts about this life

saving grace, what was Emmah doing in the land of mist in the first place? Everybody knows that the territory is

dangerous, on top of Nemorian soldiers and bandits lurking in there, you also have dangerous wild beasts that

live in the mountains and trees.

What was a young woman doing there on her own, even if she has magic, it's too suspicious. Also, of all the

soldiers that went off on the expedition, was Roland the only one injured?

Why did she save him and not any other random soldier?"

Deanna put down the glass of lemonade, one of her hands was caressing her round stomach that had only just

started to show physical signs of pregnancy.

"Grandmother, do you think that she deliberately saved the crown prince?"

The duchess nodded, the others started to share her belief as well, it was just too unbelievable to be considered

a coincidence.

"If indeed it was a plot and we can prove it, she will have no way out." John said.

"It won't work." Sigrid shared.

The little hope that has risen in the hearts of the Thorin’s cdown and they turned to Sigrid, waiting for her to

elaborate.

"Roland is a man that was raised to put duty and responsibility above everything else, she took a sword for him

and it almost penetrated her heart. Every tshe coughs, sblood comes out of her mouth, am I right

grandfather?"

"Yes, my men confirmed this." The duke nodded.

"Nobody will believe that she plotted to save him and voluntarily put herself in place to be stabbed near the

heart almost losing her life in the process. Of course what they don’t know is that her body has the ability to

repair itself.

Every tshe coughs up blood, real or fake, Roland’s mind will start to panic, the responsibility will kick in and

be mixed with guilt. Together, these these two emotions will bring out the urge in him to protect her. No matter

what we say, all she has to do is cough a little blood and we will becthe bad guys who are out to ruin her

reputation because | am jealous."

"Blast it all!" Elowin muttered.

"Damned if we do, damned if we don’t." John said.

The two brothers were cursing but nobody tried to encourage them to veil their words, the situation made them

all want to curse using stronger language.

"So we don’t." Sigrid told them. "In fact, we should help her and make sure that she coughs up blood more often.

Sun Tzu said we should engage people with what they expect, it is what they are able to discern and confirms

their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response.

We can borrow other people’s hands to provoke her a little, she will be expecting it and she will react as

expected. The more she coughs up blood at every single slight, the more people will begin to predict it and use it

to ridicule her. Eventually, it will becan annoyance even to Roland."

She watched as their eyes lit up as they cto realize what she meant.

"Is it like your story about the boy who cried wolf?" Deanna asked.

"Yes," Duchess Mila conformed in Sigrid’s place. "If she coughs up blood one too many times eventually people

will begin to question it and doubt it."

Sigrid wanted to clap, she loved working with smart people and the Thorin’s were sharp bulbs that quickly

caught on.

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"I would like to hire this Sun Tzu, from whom...." The duke started and stopped because Sigrid was shaking her

head.

"He died, a very long tago," She lied.

She could not exactly tell the truth that he was a military general, strategist, philosopher and writer from

another world.

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The crystal viewing orbs she had asked him to make where magical devices that were similar to televisions on

earth.

Sigrid’s goal was to produce and spread short s and movies directly aimed at exposing Emmah’s

coquettish green tea kind of behavior.

She planned to shoot harem and spy

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Soon, Emmah would not be able to cough without Eldorian’s rolling their eyes.

Ironically, Emmah was the one that cup with the idea of crystal viewing orbs, Sigrid was determined to steal

that from her as well.