After Nan Zhiyun blocked the sword in her first life, the Empress Dowager seemed to age more than ten years in an instant. She was filled with guilt until her death, guilty for not protecting Nan Zhiyun and for letting Nan Zhiyun enter the palace.
But after her death, she didn't truly leave. She awoke again in the spring of the following year. She woke up in the Imperial Preceptor's residence, but... only in consciousness. She was like a wandering soul, but she could only exist within the Imperial Preceptor's residence. No one could see her except Gu Yin. He couldn't see her, but he could feel himself and "hear" himself speaking.
When she learned that Yu Jingchen had reinstated a woman as a Consort, she wanted nothing more than to rush into the palace and confront him. She harbored resentment towards Yu Jingchen.
She knew that her awakening in the Imperial Preceptor's mansion was related to Gu Yin, so she begged Gu Yin for help. Gu Yin agreed, and thus she was reborn.
However, all that existed was a consciousness, which emerged a month after Nan Zhiyun entered the palace. Seeing Yu Jingchen's various humiliations of Nan Zhiyun, she wanted to help her, but because she was merely a wisp of consciousness, she was powerless to do so.
She found Gu Yin again, and Gu Yin told her that sometimes not changing something is the best change, especially since fate cannot be defied. Fate? She had never believed in fate. Gu Yin readily agreed to help her, so her consciousness returned to the Empress Dowager in that world.
After her rebirth, she began to plan her own future. Yu Jingchen was nothing. If it weren't for her and the Nan family, where would Yu Jingchen be?
She meticulously planned, all for the day she could truly seize control of the world. If he doubted the Nan family's loyalty, why would they remain loyal to someone who schemed to destroy them?
So in that lifetime... she persuaded Nan Su to rebel. She had been planning for two years, and in the same time, she rebelled along with Yu Jing'an.
Not only that, but she chose an extreme method to get revenge on Yu Jingchen. Yu Jingchen's feelings for Nan Zhiyun had changed, and she wanted him to fall in love with Nan Zhiyun and then lose her. She wanted him to know the pain of losing someone he loved, and she wanted him to regret it.
But what the Empress Dowager never expected was that one day... she would fail. Yu Jingchen had already made preparations; he had already arranged everything in the palace, and everything was under his control. Therefore... regardless of whether Nan Su from the first life could return, Yu Jing'an could not succeed.
After the failed palace coup, Yu Jing'an's fate was predictable: he was imprisoned, and Nan Su was thrown into the imperial prison. In an instant, the Nan family was wiped out.
For about a month, Yu Jingchen went on a rampage of revenge, leaving no one with any connection to the Nan family or Yu Jing'an alive. By then, Yu Jingchen had developed different feelings for Nan Zhiyun, but unfortunately, he didn't treat her kindly.
Nan Zhiyun begged Yu Jingchen, but he coldly ignored her. She knelt for an entire day, but Yu Jingchen didn't let go. Later… Nan Zhiyun secretly came to see him, and unsurprisingly, Yu Jingchen discovered her.
Yu Jingchen was a cruel man. He had Nan Su brought in and placed her in Cining Palace. Nan Zhiyun's repeated pleas for mercy and her attempts to secretly come to see him completely enraged him.
So... he executed Nan Su on charges of treason. Right in front of Nan Zhiyun, he made her watch as her father was beheaded. Nan Zhiyun went mad after that day...
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