"That's right. I am from the State of Chu. Because I am the Queen, many nobles from Chu also hold high positions in Qin. At first, our interests aligned with Ying Zheng's. We helped him govern the country and even quelled the rebellions of Lao Ai and Cheng Jiao."
"Unfortunately, later on, when the Qin state wanted to unify the world and even destroy the Chu state, the conflict between us became irreconcilable. My uncle, Lord Changping Xiong Qi, had been in the Qin state for many years and even became the prime minister. However, he was, after all, a prince of the Chu royal family and his heart was with his homeland. So when the Qin state launched its first major attack on the Chu state, he raised an army in rebellion, causing the Qin army to suffer the greatest defeat since the destruction of the six states."
"Ying Zheng was furious about this. On the one hand, he mobilized the entire nation to gather 600,000 troops to let Wang Jian destroy Chu, and on the other hand, he thoroughly purged the power of Chu's foreign relatives. As a princess of Chu, I was naturally the first to be targeted."
"Soon I was deposed, all the relatives of the Chu state were executed, and even my son Fusu, because he had Chu blood in his veins, completely lost his right to the throne and was exiled to the border to build the Great Wall..."
Zu An was taken aback: "Fusu is your son?"
"What, is that not allowed?" The woman named Mi Li's voice turned cold.
"Of course..." Zuan smiled awkwardly, thinking that the glamorous and mature woman he had imagined before had now become a motherly aunt, which was a bit disillusioning.
He suddenly realized that there was much controversy in history about the mystery of Qin Shi Huang's succession. Many people believed that Fusu was the eldest son and should have inherited the throne. However, Huhai, Li Si, and Zhao Gao conspired in Shaqiu to usurp the throne and then ordered Fusu to be killed.
What puzzled many was why Qin Shi Huang sent his eldest son, Fusu, to the border far from the center of power. Some said it was to train Fusu, build a good relationship with the Meng family, and familiarize him with the military system in preparation for his future succession. Others said it was actually an exile for Fusu. Both explanations had their own logic, and no one could convince anyone else.
Only now do we realize that Fusu lost his right to the throne because of his maternal clan, the Chu state!
Mi Li coldly said, "Ying Zheng harbors a deep-seated hatred for women because of his mother's affair with Lao Ai. Coupled with the disastrous defeat of Chu, he hates me to the core. Even after deposing me as empress, he was still not satisfied. He sent Zhang Han to specially build this mausoleum to seal and suppress me, so that I would not return to seek revenge one day. So if you are really Ying Zheng, how could you possibly worry about those rioters disturbing me?"
Zuan finally realized where the problem lay, and couldn't help but curse inwardly, "How was I, an outsider, supposed to know that your circle was so chaotic!"
"Excuse me, ma'am, wait a minute, I have a question..."
"What did you call me!" Mi Li's voice held a hint of anger.
Zu An thought to himself, "You already have a child, so what am I supposed to call you, 'sister' or 'little sister'?" Of course, he was quick to change his tune, immediately altering his address: "Empress, as far as I know, in history, whether it was Qin Shi Huang or Zhang Han, they were ultimately just ordinary people, without any magical powers. But now Zhang Han seems to be an immortal zombie, possessing extraordinary abilities; you, sister, also seem to have lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years, I wonder if you are a ghost or some other being..."
"I want to know what exactly happened to you, why you came from Earth to this world of cultivation, and where you learned your skills?"
Mi Li's tone carried a hint of surprise: "Earth? I don't understand what you're talking about. We've always been in this world. Our skills are naturally something we've developed ourselves. If Zhang Han didn't have these skills, how could he have become one of the Nine Ministers, the Shao Fu?
"As for Zhang Han's current inhuman appearance, it's because he cultivated some kind of dark technique and sacrificed his own body to gain a certain degree of immortality."
Zuan was stunned: "You've been in this world all along?"
After receiving confirmation, he was completely bewildered. It turned out that this world also had those familiar dynasties from his previous life, and the course of history was not much different. The only difference was that the personal power of these dynasties was almost godlike.
Is it a mythological version in a parallel world?
Based on the information he learned after traveling to this world and what Mi Li said, he roughly deduced that a major event occurred in this world after the Qing Dynasty, which caused a break in civilization until a very long time later when civilization re-emerged on the planet.
The new civilization included not only humans, but also various other races. To compete for resources, different races quickly engaged in a chaotic war.
After thousands of years of internecine warfare, the human race was finally defeated by the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who drove the other races to the harsh and desolate borderlands.
As for those dynasties before the civilizational break, people in this world today collectively refer to them as the ancient times.
At this moment, Mi Li's voice interrupted his thoughts: "You have too many questions. You need to make a decision quickly. Once Zhang Han finishes suppressing those escaped undead legions, it will be the day of your death and the death of these two women."
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