Chapter 73

That night, Carissa couldn't sleep.

Despite being at the front line for days, she usually slept soundly even when half-starved, except for the first and the current day when she was full.

But tonight, even after a satisfying meal, she couldn't get any rest.

The hardships of the front-lines were terrible, and she admired her father and brothers for enduring it for so many years. She herself could endure, but she hadn't explained her situation with Barrett to Rafael and the other generals, and it felt wrong.

How could she explain?

That her mother had chosen a man who, after gaining some achievements, threw her to the side and wanted to marry a female general like Aurora?

People might think she came to the Southern Frontier to prove she was better than Aurora

She didn't care about the gossip in the capital, but on this battlefield where her father and brothers had sacrificed so much, she didn't want her loyalty and dedication to her father's legacy to be mistaken for jealousy.

and Aurora would arrive, and the truth would come

though everyone was deeply asleep, they were

noticed the silence and asked, "Carissa, can't

Carissa said, hugging her knees and feeling

shoulder with her eyes closed, and

thinking about telling the marshal about Barrett... Do you think if I say it directly, the marshal might think I came here to

here to outshine her? I thought you wanted to surpass her and step

"If even you think that, then everyone else

feeling an itch like bugs crawling on

with her? Aren't you better than Aurora? You're now a regiment. commander. Do you know what that means? In official terms, you'd be a fifth-ranked major if it were

here to compete with her. My father and brothers sacrificed themselves on the Southern Frontier. I

I remember her saying she wanted to be an outstanding general like her father and brothers.

will think that if she wants to be the best

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the household? Why only come to the battlefield after being abandoned?" Violet said

in her. They are the ones who

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