It was March, the spring was warm and the peach blossoms were in full bloom.

Chang'an City was full of lights and decorations, with banners fluttering. Both sides of Zhuque Street were brightly lit, and people were rubbing shoulders with each other, looking at the excitement and talking among themselves -

"The prince's wedding is too grand!"

"Nonsense, the prince's wedding must be grand. Besides, this might be the only wedding of his life, so it must be grand."

"Alas, our prince is so pitiful. He is such a wise and gentle man, but he is weak and sickly..."

"The prince is pitiful, and the princess who married him is also pitiful. A legitimate daughter of a marquis, she has to marry a sickly boy who is about to die. If the prince dies, she will become a widow at a young age."

As we chatted, the gorgeous sedan chair entered the East Palace along with a long procession.

The prince was ill and unable to personally welcome the bride, so the sedan chair had to go all the way to the gate of the East Palace before the prince stepped out to pick up the bride.

The matchmaker smiled and said to the sedan chair, "Crown Princess, we have arrived at the East Palace. Please get ready. His Highness is coming to pick you up!"

There was total silence in the flower carriage.

The matchmaker called again, but still no response. Could it be that the bride had slept all the way?

She felt something was wrong and lifted a corner of the curtain to take a look.

Upon seeing this, matchmaker’s face suddenly turned pale, her legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground.

Inside the sedan chair, the bride, in a bright red wedding dress, was leaning limply against the couch, her eyes tightly closed and a trickle of black blood flowing from the corner of her red mouth.

Next to the hand that hung limply was a small white porcelain bottle.

The bride who was to bring happiness to the prince committed suicide by taking poison before the ceremony!

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Tao Ti closed her eyes and what she saw was a large area of ​​warm red.

Bright red wedding curtains, bright red pillows and quilts, bright red wedding dresses, bright red double happiness paper-cuts…what is going on?

As if answering her question, the next moment, countless memories flooded into her mind like a tide.

The owner of this body, also called Tao Ti, is the legitimate daughter of the Yongwei Marquis of the Dayuan Dynasty, and is sixteen years old this year. The wife of the Yongwei Marquis, Zhang, was a close friend of the Empress Gu, and later gave birth to a young daughter, Tao Ti. The two good sisters agreed to marry their children to each other.

Child marriages were common in ancient times, but in the second year after the arranged marriage, Empress Gu died of illness.

Not long after, the five-year-old prince also fell into the icy lake. From then on, his health was damaged. He had a cold every three days and a high fever every five days. He had to rely on medicine to hang on to his life. Half a year ago, Qin Tianjian calculated that the prince was doomed to die and might not live past the age of 23.

This year, the prince is twenty-one years old.

The emperor loved the prince so he accepted the advice of Empress Zhou and quickly arranged a wedding for the prince to avoid this fatal disaster.

Unexpectedly, the bride already had someone she loved and was unwilling to marry a sick and dying prince, so she chose to end her life in the sedan chair.

As fate would have it, Tao Ti, who had died of food poisoning, came through.

After sorting out the situation, Taoti just wanted to rant at her bad friend, the poor dog whose IQ had degenerated to that of a husky.

The guy came back from a trip to Yunnan and brought her a bunch of mushrooms. After she ate them happily, she found out that the mushrooms were called ICU mushrooms, also known as rice mushrooms.

Think about her, Tao Ti, the 99th generation cub of the Taotie tribe, who had a big mouth and wanted to eat everything, but she actually fell over a plate of mushrooms!

The most ridiculous thing is that their Taotie clan is immune to all poisons, but the underworld system malfunctioned and lured her in as well. Before she could complain to King Yan, she was bumped into the reincarnation platform by an evil ghost.

In the next blink, she became the happy Crown Princess.

Tao Ti comforted herself by saying, "It's fate to be born into a body with the same name and surname. Since it has come, I'll just make the best of it." She propped herself up and sat up. Perhaps because the poison had not been completely eliminated, her chest still ached slightly and her throat was very dry.

The wedding room was empty, no one was there, and the door was closed.

Tao Ti walked to the table and wanted to pour a glass of water, but the teapot was empty. She licked her lips and called out, "Is anyone there?"

No one answered her.

Tao Ti pursed her lips and just as she walked to the door, she heard a conversation outside:

"If she didn't want to get married, she should have said so earlier. Who was she trying to spite by committing suicide in the sedan chair? Now she hasn't gotten any happiness, but she has gotten a lot of bad luck."

"Alas, our prince is too kindhearted. He even asked Doctor Yu to detoxify her. In my opinion, a woman like this should just die. She caused such a scene right after she entered the palace. Wouldn't our Eastern Palace be in chaos and restless in the future because of her?"

"Who says it's not true? The prince is so unlucky. On his wedding day, he ended up with such a joke. Now he is still forcing himself to attend social events outside... Hey, do you think the prince will come over tonight?"

"I don't think he will come. Who would want to spend the wedding night with a woman like this? Besides, she deserves to be alone after doing such a thing!"

Listening to the words of the palace maids, Tao Ti felt mixed emotions. She couldn't be angry, after all, what the original owner did was really bad. She couldn't be angry, because she took over such a lousy stall when she came here, and she felt wronged!

Sighing, she quickly adjusted her mentality and said hoarsely to the person outside the door, "Can you pour me a glass of water? There's no water in the kettle in the room."

As soon as she finished speaking, the noise outside stopped abruptly.

After waiting for a while, there was no response or further conversation from outside.

Were they planning to leave her alone like this? Or were they saying that although she had been rescued, she was no longer the Crown Princess? Or even that she had been reduced to... a prisoner?

Just when Tao Ti was unsure of the situation, there was finally a noise at the door.

Tao Ti subconsciously took a few steps back to keep a safe distance.

The door opened, and a palace maid with triangular eyes and a blue dress came in with a teapot of water. She put the teapot heavily on the table, with a cold face and a tone that was not polite at all, "Drink it."

This attitude...

Tao Ti frowned slightly, feeling indignant, but then she thought about her uncertain future and finally held back.

She murmured "thank you" and poured herself a glass of water. But as soon as she took a sip of the tea, a stale and sour taste filled her tongue.

This water is not drinkable at all. Not only is it cold, but it's also not clean.

Seeing the undisguised disgust in the maid's eyes, Tao Ti pursed her lips and said in a deep voice, "Please change the pot of water for me."

She added emphatically, "Clean, drinkable water."

The maid glanced at her impatiently and muttered, "It's good enough to have water to drink, but you're still nitpicking. You don't want to be the Crown Princess, so why are you pretending to be one now..."

Tao Ti's expression froze. Just as she was about to say something, she heard another palace maid's urging voice from outside, "Gui Rong, what are you hesitating about in there?"

The palace maid named Gui Rong responded with a shrill voice, "Hey, it's because of our Crown Princess, who is so precious. She looks down on our East Palace and complains about this and that. Now she complains that the water in our East Palace is not clean... If you ask me, even the ladies in the palace are not as frivolous as her."

How could Tao Ti not see that it was such an obvious insinuation? If she continued to endure this, she would be a glutton and could just be a turtle.

"You said I dislike the water in the East Palace? Well..." Tao Ti frowned, poured another glass of water, took a big step forward, and held the cup directly in front of the palace maid, "If you don't dislike it, drink this glass of water!"

Seeing the cup about to touch her lips, the palace lady's expression changed, and she subconsciously reached out to stop it, "What are you doing?"

"Why don't you drink? Do you also dislike Donggong?" Tao Ti sneered, her red lips slightly raised, making her charming face even more brighter.

The maid's cheeks turned red and white. She wanted to refute, but she didn't know what to say for a moment.

It turns out that they all bully the weak and fear the strong.

Tao Ti thought so, and put the cup heavily on the table. She looked at the maid calmly with her beautiful eyes, "I am the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace. Even if I have made mistakes, it is the Emperor, Empress and Crown Prince who will deal with them. When is it your turn as a little palace maid to mock and criticize me?"

The door was open, and her voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for all the palace people inside and outside the house to hear clearly.

Tao Ti didn't know what expression the palace maid outside had, but the palace maid in front of her had obviously lost her temper. She lowered her head, not daring to look into Tao Ti's eyes, but said in a low voice, "Yes, I have overstepped the bounds, I hope the Crown Princess will forgive me."

Although he said this, his tone was still somewhat unconvinced.

Tao Ti didn't expect that just two sentences would change the palace servants' view of her. She didn't want to lose her temper or use her status to bully others. At first she just wanted to drink a glass of water.

She calmed down and said calmly, "Go get me a jug of clean water, and I won't bother with you."

The maid lowered her head and said, "Yes, I will go right away."

Having said that, he quickly turned around and left with the kettle.

Tao Ti's ears moved, and after confirming that the person had left the house, her imposing manner was broken in a second. She raised her little hand and patted her chest, and whispered with emotion, "Huh, it's really not easy to put on airs..."

Just now she was imagining the tone of the vicious female supporting role in the TV series. Should she be acting okay?

As she thought this, she looked around the bridal chamber and pondered a serious question - would her husband, the prince, come over tonight?

Even a clay figure would get angry. So even if the prince who was rumored to be dying had a good temper, he would be very angry if his bride took poison on their wedding day, right?

Alas, if I were the groom, I would definitely not care about the bride anymore after she made such a scene. In modern times, I would just go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce certificate.

Although there was such a thing as divorce in ancient times, but... has there ever been a divorce between a prince and a princess in history? Speaking of conspiracy, would the royal family just find an opportunity to "force death" in order to save face?

Red crane crown, white silk, dagger, promotion, thousands of cuts, five horses torn into pieces...

Tao Ti was recalling the various ways of dying in ancient times when a long, thin "squeak" sound suddenly came from behind her.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep, but there was a bright red glow everywhere. The sound effects were like those in a horror movie and it frightened her to the point of shivering.

Maybe the maid who fetched water has returned? She consoled herself in this way, but her hands were nervously pinching her bright red wedding dress.

When she turned around and saw the person standing at the door, Taoti froze as if she had been cast into a spell.

Mom, I saw a fairy!!!