Chapter 1: Past Lives
"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and said, Qin Xuanping, the prince of Suguo, since guarding Jianan Pass, deceived the upper and lower prisoners and stole themselves, and fornicated with foreign enemies. The shrill voice was deafening, but overnight, the glory of the Suguo Mansion was over.
On March 10, the 31st year of Renkang, the spring rain was wrapped in cold, the entrance of the vegetable market on West Street was crowded with people but there was no noise, the people all lined up in the city, men, women and children were all full of sorrow, and between the knives in their hands, the hot blood mixed with the rain dipped into the brick cracks, and no matter how they washed, they still left dark marks.
On March 12 of the same year, Concubine Hui of Minghua Palace died.
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A woman was kneeling on the ground, her clothes were torn and could not be covered, her fingernails were bloodily clasped on the ground, her neck was tied with thick black chains, and her palm-sized face was covered with horizontal and vertical scars.
The door squeaked open, and two stout mothers-in-law walked in, their eyes swept over the women on the ground with disgust, like looking at a pile of garbage, and the two mothers-in-law rudely grabbed her arms and dragged them out.
The blazing sunlight pierced into his eyes, and Ji Wan couldn't help but close his eyes.
For three years, three whole years, she didn't step out of that room.
After the defeat of her grandfather Suguo Mansion three years ago, her life also fell from heaven to hell, the Xu family changed their previous enthusiastic and courteous attitude, and said to the outside world that she had a sudden illness, and secretly took care of her, and several big girls around her were also executed in order to maintain her, and other cronies were also sold by death, and she also secretly sent people back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to report the news, but it was also sunk in the sea.
In the past three years, she has endured a lot of hardships, and what accompanies her every day is endless darkness and constant humiliation, whipping, and beating, from the beginning of the resistance and crying to the later Mu Ran, like a rat in the stinky ditch, dirty and tenacious life.
She's really unwilling......
Why do this to me, why!
"It's really unlucky, look at her, she's disgusting to death, I don't know if I'm sick when I do that kind of thing every day, I really don't know what the nobles want to do when they see her." One of the women said.
"How do we know the thoughts of the nobles, we as slaves just listen to orders, ouch, it's so heavy, I'm tired to death." The other woman shouted in her mouth and quickened her pace, eager to get rid of Ji Wan immediately.
In the gorgeous living room, a woman wearing a gorgeous dress reclined on the soft couch in the hall, her face was exquisite, a pair of beautiful apricot eyes outlined the long tails of the eyes, which looked extremely charming, and at the moment she was looking at the ragged woman under her feet with contempt.
"Big sister, it's been a long time, how are you doing? Vile is here to give you the good news today. The corners of the woman's mouth in Chinese clothes curled up with a touch of malice.
Ji Wan looked at her fixedly, his eyes were cold, in the past three years, so many days and nights, what else could she not figure out, but she didn't understand why?
"Why does the eldest sister look at me like this, is it because the person arranged by the younger sister is not good to serve? Oh, look at this body, it's really a group of people who want to eat, and they don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade at all. β
Ji Wan lay on the ground in embarrassment, his exposed fragrant shoulders were bruised and purple, and his dark eyes were blank.
"Hmph, that's boring." Ji Wei was a little angry, and his eyes rolled and he laughed out loud.
"But my sister is really here to report the good news today, Ji Guan, do you know? Just last night, your own brother died, died in the guest bed of the Nanyin Pavilion, I heard that the scene was very tragic, alas, what a pity, he is very popular with those nobles. β
"Why?"
The deep voice was mixed with a thousand wisps of hatred.
"I'm so good to you, why do you want to do this, Ji Ran is also your brother."
"When you are dying, you still ask such a ridiculous question, Ji Guan, you are so naΓ―ve that you are almost stupid." Ji Wei pinched Ji Guan's chin with two fingers, his face full of resentment.
"Good for me? Those were originally mine, obviously I should be the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was you who robbed me of everything, and every day with a high expression of not caring about anything, it really disgusts me, I just want to trample you under your feet and crush you into the mud, you look at your current appearance, dirty, ugly, just a slut who can be a husband, heh, it's really happy! As for Ji Ran, he deserves to die just like you. β
"Now that I am the fourth princess, I will become the most noble woman in the Daxi Dynasty in the future, in fact, I should thank my sister for you, my sister should not know why the one hundred and six people in the Suguo Mansion died at the beginning." Ji Wei covered her mouth and laughed.
"Because of you, the crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, but you put it in with your own hands, my sister won't remember it, right? Because my sister's cooperation saved us a lot of effort. β
The bright red lips were still closed in front of her eyes, Ji Wan couldn't hear anything anymore, and the shock and pain in her heart made her unable to breathe.
Although my grandfather was a military general, he loved calligraphy very much, and he especially admired Mr. Jian Shijun, a calligrapher in the previous dynasty, and often said that if he was lucky enough to get a pair of words, he would have no regrets in this life!
That day she was worried about her grandfather's birthday ceremony the day after tomorrow, and it happened that Xu Yuze came to Chunhui Garden with a booklet, saying that it was a coincidence that she saw a book of calligraphy in the previous dynasty, Mr. Jian Shijun's Chinese narrative post, thinking that she was worried about her grandfather's birthday gift, so she spent a lot of money to beg people to cut love, this thing is extremely rare, but it is my grandfather's favorite.
Ji Wan was overjoyed, she grabbed Xu Yuze's sleeve excitedly, her heart was full of happiness, and she didn't notice the mockery that flashed in Xu Yuze's eyes.
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Hehe, is that so......
The surprise she secretly hid in the day in advance turned into a butcher's knife hanging over the heads of one hundred and six people in the Suguo Mansion.
Blood kept pouring out from the corners of his mouth, Ji Wan couldn't stand it anymore, and the cold ice chips in his eyes shattered.
Ji Wei curled the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, holding his waist and laughing.
"Is it painful? The more painful you are, the happier I am, you don't know how miserable your concubine and aunt died, and in the end she couldn't even enter the imperial mausoleum, hahaha ....... β
"Poof!" Ji Wan spurted out a mouthful of blood, his eyes were about to split, and he staggered up and rushed towards Ji Wei.
Ji Wei screamed and fell to the ground, and at this time, the door opened from the outside with a 'snort', and a man quickly flashed in, raised his foot and kicked Ji Wan's heart hard.
"Wei'er, are you hurt?" After confirming that Ji Wei was unscathed, the man turned around and said in a very cruel tone: "You crazy woman, you should be grateful to Wei'er for allowing you to live until now, if you hurt her hair, your ten lives are not enough to compensate." β
After that, he didn't look at her again.
Ji Wan flew out like a kite with a broken string, fell to the ground and rolled a few times, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood, hearing this voice, he raised his head violently, Xu Yuze!
"Cousin, my sister was so terrible just now, Wei'er's face was almost scratched." Ji Wei had a frightened expression on her face, but her eyes were full of pride, Ji Wan, did you see it? I will take everything you have, even if it is something I disdain, and if I can't get it, I will destroy it all.
"Haha, I see, I see, Xu Yuze, I married into the Xu Mansion, I am filial to you, I am friendly to my brothers and sisters, no matter how hard I work, I have never complained, I am going around for you, I pay wholeheartedly, but you treat me like this, haha, I am waiting, you will be retributed!"
Ji Wan laughed, her eyes shone with a burning light, she hated, full of hatred was about to burst her chest, and her blood-stained lips were also extraordinarily bright: "Swear by my blood, Ji Wei, Xu Yuze, if there is an afterlife, I will definitely skin you, tear off your bones, and let you pay for your blood debts and blood, and there will be no place to bury you." β
The body temperature was dropping, and his consciousness was slowly blurred, Ji Wan felt that he was floating, getting lighter and lighter, and finally fell into the boundless nothingness.