After a night of fighting, the Qi royal palace finally returned to peace. The palace gates opened little by little with a creaking sound, as if a short opera was beginning, with the curtains drawn back to let people glimpse the scene on the stage.

The ground was covered in blood and corpses were lying all over the place. The eunuchs who had been hiding were driven out by the soldiers and began to clean up the bloody battlefield. No one dared to make a sound, so people came and went on the stage, but it was terribly quiet.

Everyone was busy except for one person, who was standing quietly on a high platform in gorgeous clothes, gazing into the distance.

The man was dressed in a black robe and a white fox cloak. He held a heater with the scent of orchid in his hands, and his handsome and delicate face was cold. The morning sun stretched his figure, and the strong wind mixed with the coldness of the snow made his sleeves flutter. He stood tall and looked from afar, as if he was a banished immortal who had come to the world and was about to ascend to heaven.

King of Huai'an, Qin Shuhuai.

He was held hostage in Northern Yan at the age of eight and returned at a young age. However, nine years later, he regained the pinnacle of power, commanding a large army and holding sway over the government and the country.

Such a person cannot be ignored. Everyone who comes and goes can't help but cast a cautious glance at that person.

But that person seemed to care about no one and seemed to be waiting for something.

In the distance, the palace gate is bathed in the morning sun, and the vermilion eaves are reflected in the morning sun. It looks solemn and ancient, yet seems to be reborn.

Everything that happened last night, everything that happens now, and even everything that will happen in the future, the fighting and competition between people, seems to have nothing to do with this city.

It stands here, still fighting with you for half its life, and it still looks as graceful as ever.

"Sir," a handsome young man in military uniform and covered in blood came hurriedly. He was Jiang Chun, the current leader of the South City Army. He walked up to the young man in black wide-sleeved clothes and said in a low voice: "The queen locked up all the princes and burned them. The concubines and princes are all

Jiang Chun was a little scared. He looked at Qin Shuhuai carefully, not knowing how to deal with him. Under the current circumstances, if he was not careful, Qin Shuhuai would be charged with treason.

After all...a large number of veteran officials in the court had believed that he had been planning a rebellion for a long time.

Qin Shuhuai was the only son of the previous emperor Qin Jing. Qin Jing was cruel and licentious, causing the country and the people to live in misery. There were many complaints about Qin Jing in Qi. When Qin Shuhuai was eight years old, Qi was at war with Northern Yan. Later, Qi surrendered, ceded cities and paid compensation, and sent the crown prince Qin Shuhuai to Northern Yan as a hostage.

Not long after Qin Shuhuai went to Northern Yan, Qin Jing died suddenly. Because he had no offspring, the State of Qi argued for a long time about the issue of succession. Finally, the ministers recommended Qin Jing's distant cousin, King Wen Qin Wenxuan, to inherit the throne.

Qin Wenxuan was a good emperor who possessed both noble character and talent. He worked hard to govern the country. Under his leadership, the troubled Qi State finally stood up again and became a powerful country.

At this time, Qin Shuhuai was already twenty years old, and Qi State also had a new crown prince. As Qin Shuhuai's "uncle", the noble-minded Qin Wenxuan put pressure on Beiyan and spent 100,000 gold to welcome back the "former crown prince".

After Qin Shuhuai came back, he was quite ambitious and went directly to the military camp. He then fought in many battles, made great military achievements, and finally became the King of Huai'an who holds great power in the government.

He and Qin Wenxuan have always maintained a good uncle-nephew relationship. Qin Shuhuai is grateful for Qin Wenxuan's kindness, and Qin Wenxuan admires Qin Shuhuai's talents.

Without the barrier between the emperor and his subjects, Qin Shuhuai's life was pretty good. The only thing that was not going well was probably his marriage.

He married three wives in total. The first one was Princess Zhao Peng of Northern Yan. However, she died of illness due to unfamiliar climate on the way back to Qi.

The second one was Jiang Yi, a famous female general on the battlefield. Jiang Yi was the only daughter of the Jiang family. Qin Wenxuan was able to gain a firm foothold in the army by relying on his marriage relationship with Jiang Yi. However, Jiang Yi became seriously ill as soon as she married him, and died three years later.

The third one was Dong Wanyi, the daughter of Prime Minister Dong. Prime Minister Dong wanted to form an alliance with Qin Shuhuai, who held military power, so he married his beautiful and gentle daughter to Qin Shuhuai. Who would have known that Dong Wanyi, a lady from a wealthy family, actually ran away from her marriage. She accidentally fell while climbing the wall and became paralyzed. She lived in Qin Shuhuai's backyard for two years and finally died.

From then on, the whole Qi State knew that Qin Shuhuai was a wife-killer, and no one dared to touch this mold again.

Fortunately, the parties involved did not care. People who knew the situation said that there was a tablet in the Huai'an Palace, and Qin Shuhuai ate and slept with the tablet every day, so he did not think about getting married at all.

Therefore, even this only unsatisfactory problem was not a big problem, and Qin Shuhuai lived a very comfortable life.

He only wanted to be a good prince, but the outside world never thought so. The princes and royalist ministers watched Qin Shuhuai covetously every day and thought that Qin Shuhuai must have ulterior motives.

To show his loyalty, Qin Shuhuai returned to his fiefdom after the war. However, less than a year after he returned, he received a letter from the palace.

Qin Wenxuan was in trouble. The empress's son joined forces with the empress to rebel, sealed off the palace, detained the emperor, and directly beheaded the prince.

Qin Shuhuai had no choice but to rush back without stopping. As soon as he captured the palace, he got the news that the empress had led everyone to ambush.

Jiang Chun saw that Qin Shuhuai looked unhappy and his handsome eyebrows were slightly wrinkled. He couldn't help but ask, "Sir?"

"There's one more."

"Um?"

Jiang Chun was stunned for a moment. Qin Shuhuai turned around and walked out, saying in a cold voice: "Lady Shu is still in the imperial mausoleum with the sixteenth prince."

After hearing this, Jiang Chun reacted instantly.

Although all the princes and concubines in the palace are dead, there is still a beauty and prince outside the palace who was born as a palace maid and was demoted to guard the imperial tomb after failing in the palace struggle!

Although this concubine is of a lower rank and this prince is younger, they are still Qin Wenxuan's bloodline.

Qin Shuhuai couldn't take the throne. If he took it, he wouldn't be able to explain how Qin Wenxuan died. By then, Qi would be in civil strife again. Qin Shuhuai didn't want to be the emperor, and he didn't want to cause chaos in the country just to become the emperor.

Therefore, this only prince became Qin Shuhuai's only hope now.

Qin Shuhuai walked hurriedly for a while and suddenly remembered something.

"Does Lady Shu have a daughter?"

Jiang Chun thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, I married Wei Yang..."

"Look at her."

After Qin Shuhuai finished speaking, he jumped on his horse and rushed out.

The sun had completely come out, and the melted snow filled the air with a chill. Qin Shuhuai looked up at the snowy mountains and rivers and quickened his whip.

Zhao Peng dreamed of heavy snow.

The snow in Beiyan is always fierce, with wind and snow all the time. When you go out when it snows, you can feel the wind scraping across your cheeks like a knife.

Zhao Peng had experienced this kind of weather many times when she was a child. At that time, she lived in the cold palace with her brother and mother. There was no charcoal supply in the cold palace, and every winter, several people would freeze to death. She was lucky because she had her mother and brother here. Every winter, the three of them crowded together. Although they still felt cold, at least they escaped the fate of freezing to death.

She hadn't felt this cold for a long time.

From helping her mother walk out of the cold palace, from how she gradually turned around and became the most beloved princess of the Emperor of Northern Yan, from how she assisted her brother to become a legitimate prince to how her brother won the battle for the throne and became the emperor of Northern Yan...

etc.

Zhao Peng suddenly realized that her younger brother Zhao Yu had become emperor, but how did she know?

She left Beiyan when she was 19 years old and then died...

Zhao Peng was a little dazed and heard someone calling her.

Countless memories flooded into her mind, and Zhao Peng slowly opened her eyes. A familiar feeling of strangeness overwhelmed her, and she sighed softly.

She is alive again.

Yes, it is “again”.

This is Zhao Peng's fourth rebirth.

As a princess of Northern Yan, Zhao Peng married Qin Shuhuai, a hostage of Qi State who was left in Northern Yan. When she was 19 years old, Qin Shuhuai's distant cousin, Qin Wenxuan, the emperor of Qi at the time, offered to open trade in exchange for Qin Shuhuai's return to his country.

As Qin Shuhuai's wife, Zhao Peng had no choice but to follow Qin Shuhuai back to Qi. But just after entering the border of Qi, Zhao Peng was poisoned to death.

Having died three times, Zhao Peng now wakes up and can no longer remember what happened. She only remembers that she followed Qin Shuhuai back to Qi State, and then Qin Shuhuai poisoned her to death.

Yes, it was Qin Shuhuai who poisoned her. She didn't know why. She only remembered struggling desperately, while Qin Shuhuai held her in his arms and poured the sweet-tasting poison into her mouth. She struggled and hit him, but he just trembled and held her in his arms. His handsome face was full of despair. He suppressed her movements and let the poison roll into her throat. He cried, "Pengpeng, it doesn't hurt. Drink it and it won't hurt."

"Peng Peng, don't blame me. Go on your way and have a good time..."

She didn't want to die, and she forgot why she didn't want to die, but she remembered clearly that she didn't want to die at that time, so she pushed him hard. But he always followed her and didn't let go at all, letting her die.

Zhao Peng died unwillingly.

She was still worried about her brother Zhao Yu, who was still in the battle for the throne, and had not had a day of peace. Perhaps she was too obsessed with it, and when she opened her eyes, she found herself as a female general named "Jiang Yi", the daughter of Jiang Cheng, a famous general of Qi State, and quite prestigious in Qi State. Before she could adapt to her identity as Jiang Yi, she met Qin Shuhuai again.

Qin Shuhuai came to marry her.

At this time, it was less than four months since Zhao Peng's death.

Then Zhao Peng understood why Qin Shuhuai wanted to kill her. Only after she died could Qin Shuhuai marry a noble lady in Qi and gain a firm foothold in Qi.

Zhao Peng felt very emotional about this, and suddenly felt that he was really blind back then to think that this person was not bad?

At this time, they were already on the way to get married. Zhao Peng had no choice but to pretend to be sick on the day of the wedding. She pretended to be sick for three years. Qin Shuhuai also cooperated and did not ask her whether she was alive or dead for three years. Although the two of them were in the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard respectively, they had not seen each other for three years.

During these three years, Qin Shuhuai thrived in Qi State, established himself through military achievements, and gained control of the entire northern military. Zhao Peng quietly established her own power, and was thinking about the day when Zhao Yu was stable, and she would quickly run back to Beiyan.

As a result, Zhao Yu had just ascended the throne not long ago, and she had just planned her manpower. On a dark and windy night, Zhao Peng, who was Jiang Yi, was eating grapes in the yard when she was stabbed to death by a group of men in black who suddenly rushed in...

This time, Zhao Peng died inexplicably, and she, with a desire to find out the truth, came back to life again.

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Peng found that he had become Dong Wanyi, the daughter of the Prime Minister of Qi State.

Moreover, at this time Dong Wanyi had already been engaged to Qin Shuhuai, and Qin Shuhuai's former father-in-law, the Jiang family, had also fallen into decline, and Qin Shuhuai had become a prince with a large number of troops in the current dynasty.

Then Zhao Peng understood how Jiang Yi died...

The father-in-law is useless, so why keep this daughter-in-law? You should quickly marry a useful one!

Zhao Peng concluded that Qin Shuhuai was poisonous and being his wife would definitely not lead to a good death.

So the day before the wedding, Zhao Peng tried his best to escape the marriage by climbing over the wall, and fled all the way to Beiyan to find Zhao Yu, who was cleaning up the court and eliminating dissidents. However, the young lady was in poor health and couldn't climb the wall halfway. Her hand slipped and she fell down, becoming half disabled...

However, her marriage to Qin Shuhuai was a political one. Even though she was half disabled, Qin Shuhuai still married her and brought her home, and then continued to raise her in the backyard.

Although she was paralyzed on one side, Zhao Peng was still very strong. She still inquired about the news and rebuilt her own power. However, she was paralyzed after all, so there was very little she could do this time. Fortunately, she was far-sighted and worried about when she would die again. So she worked hard to save money every day, and then buried a large box of banknotes in the yard...

After all, Dong Wanyi's father was extremely corrupt. He had nothing else but a lot of money.

Zhao Peng's idea was correct. Sure enough, one day two years later, when she was eating crystal shrimp dumplings, she suddenly had a familiar feeling...

It felt exactly the same as when she died at the age of nineteen.

She immediately concluded that it was poisonous.

But it was too late, she was dying.

Zhao Peng broke down. It was the first time she wanted to strangle someone to death and curse at someone without caring about her manners.

You want to make room for someone else, so you divorce me? You kill me every time, is that interesting? ! !

So Zhao Peng prayed to God repeatedly when he died.

She doesn't want to marry Qin Shuhuai.

Don't marry Qin Shuhuai!

Absolutely, absolutely, don't marry Qin Shuhuai again!!

Zhao Peng didn't know whether her prayers had any effect. Her mind was still a little confused and she hadn't sorted out her original body's memories clearly.

A cautious voice came from the side: "Madam, are you feeling better?"

lady?

Oh yeah.

Zhao Peng remembered that this person was called Qin Peng, also a princess. This person was a bit like her, both were born to unfavored mothers, but the difference between them was that although Zhao Peng was born in a humble family, she still planned step by step to become the most favored princess. And this Qin Peng...

I was really unloved until the end.

She was timid and submissive, and had no respect for her except her face. Fortunately, her face made up for 80% of her shortcomings, and she married Wei Yang, the son of Xuanwu Hou, at the age of 15. Who knew that on the day of the wedding, Wei Yang was sent to the battlefield and died.

The Wei family was almost wiped out in that battle, leaving only the 14-year-old Wei Yan. With only a 14-year-old boy, everyone thought that the glory of the Wei family would end here, so the women of the Wei family committed suicide or remarried, leaving only the old lady Wei and Qin Peng. Qin Peng was a gentle person. After her husband died, she had no intention of remarrying. Instead, she took the initiative to go to the Huguo Temple to practice Buddhism, saying that she was praying for Wei Yang.

After ten years of repairs, the Wei family experienced great ups and downs. Wei Yan fought hard all the way and finally brought the Wei family back to glory.

Qin Peng also spent ten years to turn himself into a walking memorial archway.

Zhao Peng finally figured out the current situation. She breathed a sigh of relief and then felt very happy.

Very good, this time, Qin Shuhuai has no reason to marry her anymore, right? ! ! She doesn’t need to die too early. Zhao Yu is probably stable now. She will find a good opportunity to write a letter to Zhao Yu. As long as Zhao Yu believes that she is Zhao Peng, she will return to Beiyan immediately!

The future is bright, and Zhao Peng is very happy in her heart. She coughed lightly, withdrew her thoughts, raised her head, and glanced at the person who asked her the question. It was Qin Peng's dowry maid, Chunsu.

Qin Peng caught a cold and had a high fever all night last night. Only Chunsu and Qiusu were with him.

Seeing that Zhao Peng didn't look very well, Qiu Su said anxiously, "No, Madam, I'd better go call the doctor."

"No need." Zhao Peng raised his hand to stop the two people: "Give me some water, I'll take it easy."

Chunsu responded and poured some water. Qiusu rubbed her handkerchief and said anxiously, "Madam, you need to see a doctor if you are sick. You are always afraid of causing trouble for others. You were like this in the palace and in the Wei family. Now..."

"Your Highness the Fourth Princess!"

Before Qiu Su finished speaking, a low voice suddenly came from outside the door. The person seemed very anxious: "Is Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess here?!"

The people present had not heard the title of the Fourth Princess for nearly ten years. Chun Su and Qiu Su exchanged glances, and Zhao Peng's face also turned cold.

Seeing that everyone inside was quiet, the people outside hurriedly said, "Fourth Princess, this old servant Dong You has come here on the orders of the Queen!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them were stunned. Zhao Peng immediately realized that Dong You was indeed the personal eunuch of Qin Peng's biological mother, Lady Shu.

Such situations in the palace are never simple. Zhao Peng immediately said, "Come in."

Qiu Su quickly opened the door, and Dong You immediately slipped in. Qiu Su closed the door. Dong You was wearing a thick cloak. He opened the cloak and found a child of eight or nine years old in his arms.

The child was shivering in Dong You's arms. Everyone gasped when they saw the child's appearance.

Zhao Peng suddenly stood up and exclaimed in shock: "Why did you bring him here?!"