Chapter 1 Chapter 1 This King Will Humiliate You Tonight! ...
On the winter solstice of the fifth year of Longxi, the first snow fell in Shangjing City. The coldness of the ice and snow drowned out the hustle and bustle of the day. The streets were so quiet late at night that one could almost hear the sound of falling snow. The night watchmen on their routine patrols knocked on their clappers as they shuttled through the alleys, and their calls echoed in the snowy night.
Tonight is the day when the Regent of Great Yin marries a concubine. A pair of red lanterns with wedding characters on them hang from the eaves of the main gate of Prince Yin's mansion. The candlelight in the lanterns illuminates the icicles hanging down from the eaves. The dripping water from the icicles reflects an eerie red light in the light of the lanterns, and the dripping water looks like blood.
The nine-curve corridors in the palace were covered with red blood coral beads imported from the Western Regions, and blood-red liquid oozed out wherever the princess's embroidered shoes stepped on.
There are eighty-one bronze mirrors arranged in the wedding hall, forming the shape of the Big Dipper, and in the center hangs a meteorite iron lock from the royal family of the previous dynasty.
Prince Yin, dressed in a black python robe and a jade dragon-patterned buckle on his waist, stood tall and handsome in the wedding hall. Opposite him stood the princess he was going to marry tonight. It was said that this princess, who came from a foreign tribe in the snowy mountains, was the fiancée of the regent's twin brother.
Min Hanyu was wearing a Tibetan red wedding dress from the Central Plains. The red veil made of snow mountain ice silk was embroidered with a dark pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water with pearls in their mouths. Her eyes were uneasy and anxious under the veil.
The matchmaker brought a huge plate, on which was placed a palm-sized cup filled with cinnabar and a small silver-bladed knife.
She said in a hoarse voice: "Please, Your Majesty, draw eyebrows for the princess."
Regent Yin Jinglong picked up a knife and quickly cut his right index finger, letting the blood drip into the cup. The bright red cinnabar mixed with a hint of blood made people tremble when they smelled it, and Hanyu beside him became nervous and uneasy.
The bone blood flowed into the cup, dyeing the cinnabar into an enchanting red. He lifted the mandarin duck red veil, picked up the eyebrow pencil, and used the bone blood and cinnabar to draw a pair of weeping cuckoo eyebrows for his princess.
Han Yu lowered her eyes and closed them, not daring to meet his gaze, fearing that he would see through the anxiety in her eyes. The moment she opened her eyes, she accidentally noticed that the third button on Yin Jinglong's black python robe seemed to have a crack.
She couldn't help but worry. Accompanied by the sharp and piercing sound of suona, the matchmaker sent the two into the bridal chamber and ordered the maid to separate them and change their clothes.
The dragon and phoenix candles shed silver wax tears like upside-down stalactites. On the table, next to the wedding wine, a cedar incense burner was burning. This was the pine incense that Ajiang always loved.
The scene of her secretly getting married to her ex-husband Ajiang on the snowy mountain was still vivid in her mind. After she and Ajiang drank the wedding wine together that night, she fell into a deep sleep. When she woke up, it was already late at night, and Ajiang had mysteriously disappeared.
She followed Ajiang's trail all the way from the wooden house in the snowy mountains until she encountered an army invading the Snow Mountain Tomb Guarding Clan at the foot of the mountain. The leader looked exactly like Ajiang.
She called out A Jiang's name, but the man addressed her respectfully as "sister-in-law"? At that moment, she learned that A Jiang had a twin brother from the same mother, and that A Jiang had been kidnapped and killed by his twin brother last night.
Not only that, the vicious prince also led his troops to attack her tribe and slaughtered all the members of the tomb-guarding tribe. He looked at her father's head in front of Hanyu, and the warm blood splashed on her face. She closed her eyes and fainted.
She thought that she could not escape death and would eventually become a ghost under the sword of this evil prince, but unexpectedly, when she woke up, she was trapped in the dungeon of the Zhongyuan Palace.
Hanyu's revenge failed and she was forced to marry the culprit who killed her husband.
Hanyu, heartbroken, had long given up the thought of living, and only the goal of revenge barely kept her alive.
Asking her to marry the enemy who killed her husband and butchered her clan is tantamount to asking her to die, but how could this vicious prince allow her to commit suicide?
"Don't you want to avenge your brother? Marrying me is an insult to you, so I will humiliate you tonight!"
How would she face her deceased husband and her clan members in the netherworld if she died without taking her great revenge? So she endured the humiliation and agreed to marry him, intending to assassinate him on their wedding night.
Hanyu, sitting in front of the bronze mirror, felt a little stiff, her hands tightly clasped in her sleeves. She looked through the mirror and saw that her lover had already lain down on the bed behind her.
The maid took off her hairpins and rings, and took off her wedding gown. When she was about to change her into a nightgown, she stopped her, saying, "Go away! I can do it myself."
"promise."
After the maid brought her the wedding wine, she closed the door and left.
The red candles illuminated the gauze, the curtains swayed slightly, and the person on the couch lay motionless in the dragon and phoenix quilt, seemingly already asleep.
Hanyu clenched the poisoned dagger in her sleeve and slowly approached him, her steps so light that they made no sound, for fear of waking the person on the couch.
She got under the Longfengxi quilt and stared at the python dragon pattern on the black pajamas of the man on the couch. Seeing that he was not on guard at all, she immediately drew out her dagger and stabbed him in the neck.
The moment the dagger stabbed in, eighty-one bronze mirrors suddenly simultaneously reflected the scene of Ajiang struggling in the dungeon. The mandarin duck embroidery on the wedding bed curtains was twisted into the shape of a cage in a pool of blood. At this moment, all sounds suddenly became silent, leaving only the crisp sound of ice breaking and falling to the ground.
The man opened his eyes in horror and covered the wound with his hands, but in an instant, a column of blood spurted out, dyeing the python on his pajamas red. The python with bared fangs and claws was submerged in the blood.
The man did not struggle. Before he died, he used his last bit of strength to call her "Ayu".
The familiar voice woke her up from her dream. She quickly opened the man's shirt and saw the familiar scar on his chest, which was the mark only on A Jiang.
"No... Impossible. Didn't you kill A Jiang? Why do you and A Jiang have the same scar? Could it be that... No! You can't be him!"
Hanyu collapsed to the ground, looking in disbelief at the man lying in a pool of blood.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Yin Jinglong's voice, both triumphant and sarcastic, rang out: "How is it impossible? Open your eyes and look carefully. Who is dying in front of you?"
She couldn't believe that she had fallen into the enemy's trap. The person who had just married her in the wedding hall was Yin Jinglong, so why did it become A Jiang now?
She hugged her husband's body, screamed to the sky, and felt as if her chest was being torn apart alive, in excruciating pain.
"I didn't kill him. You killed him with your own hands. But you can't blame me! I never thought that the great general of our dynasty would die at the hands of the one he loved."
Han Yu glared at him fiercely, gritting her teeth and saying, "Yin Jinglong, you plotted to harm your brother. Aren't you afraid of divine punishment?"
The man suddenly retracted his smile, walked forward and half-knelt in front of Hanyu, lifted her chin, and stroked her weeping cuckoo eyebrows with his fingertips.
When the man touched her warm teardrop, he pretended to look distressed and looked at her with tenderness.
"I was the one who just bowed to heaven and earth with you, and he was the one who was willing to die in my place. Everything is his own fault. He is simply atoning for his sins. You don't need to feel guilty. Without your brother, you still have me. What your brother can give, I can also give. Ah Yu, why don't you just obey me now!"
Min Hanyu felt that she was being insulted at the moment. It would be better for her to die than to be allowed to enjoy the pleasures of her enemy.
"Don't insult me! I belong to him in life and his ghost in death. I would rather die than submit to you!"
She quickly pulled out the dagger that was stuck in Ajiang's chest, and pushed it hard against her throat. Hot and salty blood gushed out. At this moment, she seemed to feel no pain. She died in the blink of an eye, without giving others any chance to react.
Hanyu's life dissipated in the misty rainy season. At the moment before her death, she was still thinking that since she could not be with the person she loved for her whole life, it would not be a bad thing to be able to die with him.
After her death, she should be reincarnated into the cycle of reincarnation and continue her relationship with Ajiang, right?
She suddenly opened her eyes, and what she saw was not the dark underworld, but a wooden roof and beams hung with red silk.
The cold wind blew in from the broken window with the red "囍" character pasted on it, and she woke up instantly. She jumped out of the bed and looked around, wondering whether she was dead or alive again?
Wasn't this the love nest she had secretly built with Ajiang at the foot of the snowy mountain? But she had just died by swallowing a sword in Prince Yin's mansion.
She touched her throat again and found no hole. She was still wearing the red wedding dress she had made herself, and there was no bloodstain at all.
What on earth was going on? Could it be that God had mercy on her and allowed her to be reborn?
If she were to live her life again, she swore that she would never let the tragedy happen again in this life, and she would kill her enemies with her own hands to avenge herself and her lover in her previous life!
In shock, she suddenly recalled what happened on the night when she and Ajiang secretly got married in her previous life. That night, as soon as she drank the wedding wine, she felt dizzy and then lost consciousness.
When she woke up, A Jiang was nowhere to be found, so she hurried down the mountain to look for him. However, on the way down the mountain to look for her husband, she happened to meet the army of the Regent Prince Yin Jinglong.
In his previous life, Yin Jinglong broke into the snow-capped mountains in order to steal the statue of the goddess, captured Ajiang, and massacred the tomb-guarding tribesmen on the snow-capped mountains. The screams of the tribesmen seemed to still echo in Hanyu's ears.
At that time, she did not know that Ajiang had a brother who looked similar to her. She mistakenly believed that Ajiang had suddenly rebelled and led his troops to massacre the tribe. The elders of the tribe were still scolding her for bringing this outsider into the tribe of the tomb keeper until their death. All the tribesmen resented her until their death.
Now that she is allowed to live her life again, she must save Ajiang and her people at all costs.
Thinking of this, Min Hanyu hurriedly put on a fox fur shawl and immediately ran down the mountain to look for Ajiang, wanting to rescue him before Ajiang was captured by that man, and then find a way to stop Yin Jinglong from entering the mountain to massacre the tribe and prevent this tragedy from happening.
The Snow Mountain Tomb Guardians live deep on the hillside of Yulong Snow Mountain, shouldering the mission of guarding the statues of the Snow Mountain Goddess.
Min Hanyu was an orphan abandoned in front of the Goddess Temple. She was picked up by an honest and kind man and taken home to be raised. Her adoptive father had an eye disease and never married or had children in his life. After picking her up, he treated her as his own daughter, and the father and daughter depended on each other for survival.
When Hanyu went up the mountain to clean the temple, she rescued an amnesiac man lying in the snow by the cold river. Judging from his clothes, he was a foreigner. No one knew why he had entered the snowy mountains, and no one knew what had happened to him that caused him to faint there and lose his memory.
The kind-hearted woman secretly brought the strange man back to the tribe, and named him "A Jiang" because she saved him by the river. After that, Han Yu took good care of him, went down the mountain to buy medicine for his healing, and helped him recover his memory.
Because she was worried that the tribe leader would find out, she wanted to wait until the man regained his memory and remembered who he was and where he lived, and then have him leave the tribe immediately.
However, several months passed and the man's memory had not recovered at all, and the two gradually developed feelings for each other as they got along.
One day, after Ah Jiang came back from buying medicine, he solemnly told Hanyu that he wanted to marry her. Hanyu was both happy and shy, but besides being happy, she began to worry about how to mention this matter to her adoptive father?
When her adoptive father learned that she not only secretly brought back a foreigner but also insisted on marrying him, he almost fainted from anger.
But he couldn't persuade his daughter, so he could only think of a way to cover it up for her, because once the clan leader and elders knew that there was an outsider hiding in the tribe, not only would that person die, but Hanyu would also be expelled from the tribe.
According to her adoptive father, Hanyu's mother had an affair with a man from another tribe and gave birth to her. The man was tied up by the tribe leader and thrown into the icy lake where he drowned, while Hanyu's mother was hit and killed in front of the Goddess Temple. Her adoptive father was worried that Hanyu would follow the same path as her biological mother, so he tried to dissuade her while helping her to conceal the truth.
Hanyu knew that truth would come out sooner or later. Since she had made up her mind to be with this man, she could only take the initiative to leave the Tomb Guarding Clan.
She took A Jiang and escaped from the tribe, and came to a dense forest beside an ice lake at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. They cut down trees and built a small wooden house as their new home. The day the new house was completed was the day they got married.
Unexpectedly, on the day the new house was built, A Jiang suddenly disappeared. After that, she met the man who looked exactly like A Jiang but was much more terrifying than him.
Min Hanyu followed the downhill road in her memory of her previous life and came to the foot of Yulong Snow Mountain. Along the way, she kept looking for Ajiang's footprints in the snow, but the snow fell heavier at night, and even if there were footprints, they were soon covered by thick snow.
Anxious, she saw, just like in her previous life, a large army of guards marching towards the depths of the snow-capped mountains. The sound of horses' hooves stepping on the snow kept coming and going, like a death warrant, constantly alerting her. The scene of the massacre in her previous life resurfaced in her mind.
Min Hanyu, unafraid of life or death, ran to the guards and tried to block the army's way with his weak body.
The man sitting on the black horse was the master of this army - Yin Jinglong, the regent prince of the Great Yin Dynasty.
He was wearing silver-gray armor, with a long sword at his waist. He rode on the horse with an upright posture, looking down at Min Hanyu.
His guards were about to draw their swords to kill this ungrateful blocker, but were stopped by Yin Jinglong.
When she thought about how she and A Jiang were brutally murdered by this man in their previous life, she gnashed her teeth in hatred. She wished she could take a sword and cut open his chest at this moment to see if this man who murdered his brother had any heart!
But this time, Yin Jinglong didn't care about her. He just asked the guards to drive her away, and the others continued on their way.
Although Hanyu was somewhat surprised, she was determined not to give up until she found Ajiang, whom he had abducted. Moreover, if this group of people entered the snowy mountains, they would inevitably be discovered by the tribesmen, and then a bloody battle would be unavoidable.
She yelled at Yin Jinglong, "Give me back my husband!"
Yin Jinglong's face froze on horseback, a hint of surprise in his cold eyes. He asked, "Where is your husband? How would I know? I don't even know your husband. A good dog doesn't block the road. You need to find someone to go down the mountain and look for him yourself!"
Hanyu suddenly realized that Yin Jinglong had no memory of his previous life, and naturally did not know that her husband was her brother.
So she changed the subject, "I understand your purpose in entering the snowy mountains, but the wind and snow are strong tonight. If you venture into the mountains rashly, you will inevitably encounter inclement weather and might freeze to death on the mountainside before you even reach the summit. I am a member of the Snow Mountain Tomb Guardian Clan. I have the ability to read the weather and know the paths through the mountains like the back of my hand. If you are willing to help me find my husband, I will lead you to the goddess statue."
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