So she desperately sought out a secret method. She heard that if one tied a red string to the remains of the deceased and offered sacrifices day and night for tens of thousands of days, one could bring their beloved back to their side in the next life. She did it.
It is said that saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, and that one who accumulates merit can be protected by heaven. So she created Chenggui Pavilion, which took in hundreds of people, including Ziyan and Qingyan, who were in distress, and gave them a new life.
I've heard that the cycle of heaven and earth exists, and that we are all forgotten after death.
Fearing she would forget Zhou Cheng's name in her next life, she stubbornly and relentlessly sought a way to preserve her memory, determined to remember him. And she remembered him for countless times and for many years.
But unfortunately,
She did so much, but Zhou Cheng still didn't come back.
In her time, Zhou Cheng no longer existed.
Fortunately...
Cheng Xianyi gathered her thoughts.
Fortunately, it's all in the past. No matter what, Zhou Cheng has returned to her side: "That day I stood on the city wall of Jiangling City, watching him walk further and further away, just like the scene many years ago when the ground was covered with frost and wind, and he never returned."
"It doesn't matter."
"This time, I will stop at nothing to make him come back for me."
“Knock knock knock—”
"master."
"Young Master Zhou has returned to Wangcheng and is now searching everywhere for the whereabouts of Marquis Pingyang," Ziyan's voice came from outside the dark room.
Cheng Xianyi ran her fingertips over the face in the portrait, gave a curt reply, and turned to leave: "I understand."
"Sect Master Cheng!!"
"You can't hand me over to Zhou Cheng! I beg you, I'll give you anything you want—gold, silver, treasures, anything else—I'll give you anything, but Zhou Cheng will kill me..."
"With your immense power, instead of helping Zhou Cheng ascend the throne, why not take a gamble yourself! I swear on my position as Marquis of Pingyang, men are all unreliable, truly!!"
"If Zhou Cheng becomes the emperor of Yan, he will definitely have a large number of wives and concubines. Sooner or later, he will turn his back on you and become ruthless. He might even become the second me who abandoned my wife and children! Men will do anything for power, believe me!"
"Can't you feel how heartless and ungrateful Zhou Cheng was to you in the capital?"
"Let me go, I can help you, please don't go, please don't go!"
Cries and pleas for mercy came from behind.
Cheng Xianyi paused in her tracks.
She glanced back at the Marquis of Pingyang, whose legs were trembling with sobs, his face filled with fear and his eyes pleading.
She shook her head, feeling utterly disillusioned: "He's not you."
"He will never abandon me again."
"The position you crave was once within my grasp, but I no longer desire it. This time, I only want it."
The sound of doors opening and closing rang out.
The last glimmer of hope in the eyes of the Marquis of Pingyang was extinguished.
It’s over!
He could already picture the miserable fate that awaited him in Zhou Cheng's hands!
Despair enveloped him, and Marquis Pingyang wanted to scream hysterically, but suddenly, he saw the words "Year 33" and Cheng Xianyi's last words.
More than four hundred years ago.
The Yuan Dynasty fell, and the Ning Dynasty took its place.
Legend has it that the Ning Dynasty produced a princess of extraordinary talent and wisdom. Her existence nearly led to the unification of the Central Plains by the Ning Dynasty, and she was even exceptionally appointed as the only female heir in history.
She was the female crown prince closest to the throne. If it weren't for the unexpected twists and turns that led to her suicide for unknown reasons, the Yan Kingdom would probably never have existed.
"Thump thump thump..."
"Ning Dynasty... Ning Dynasty, more than four hundred years ago, what was the surname of the royal family?"
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