Upon hearing the palace maid's familiar voice, Liu Lingxi felt a momentary daze.
"Ye Zhi?"
"Yes, Your Highness, what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
A young maidservant, carrying a red candle, gently parted the curtain and inquired with concern.
Looking at the face that looked more than ten years younger, Liu Lingxi felt a wave of dizziness, vaguely feeling as if she were dreaming.
"Ye Zhi, have you come to take me away? Is there anyone in the underworld who can seek justice for us?"
"Master, Master, what are you saying? What underworld? This is terrifying."
Yeats was just a teenage girl at the time. She accompanied Yeats to marry the Crown Prince in Chonghua Palace. Naturally, she was innocent and carefree, and naturally, she was afraid.
However, even though she was so frightened that she could barely speak, she still stayed by Liu Lingxi's side.
"My lady, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I will stay here with you and keep watch over you. You should go to sleep."
Ye Zhi gently comforted Liu Lingxi, and seeing that she looked slightly stunned, he still spoke up to patiently reassure her.
"Ye Zhi, how many years has it been in Jingling now?"
"What Jingling? Master, it is now the twelfth year of Shenghe."
"The twelfth year of the Shenghe era, that was during the reign of Emperor Shengjin, at this time, at this time..."
My father is dead.
Liu Lingxi was lost in thought, unaware that tears had started flowing.
"Master, please don't cry. If you cry, you'll kill this servant. What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
Ye Zhi couldn't understand Liu Lingxi's words, nor did he know what was wrong with his Crown Princess.
But she still wanted to share her master's burdens and didn't want him to continue crying.
"Your Highness, is it because His Highness slept in the study today? This servant will go and invite His Highness the Crown Prince right away."
"No need, Yeats, just stay with me for a while."
More than a decade has passed, and Liu Lingxi has little memory of her husband who died young, so it's best if he doesn't come.
"Yes, Master, I will stay here with you. You can go to sleep now."
As Ye Zhi spoke, she slowly lowered the bed curtains, brought over the quilt that had been placed in the outer room, and put it in front of Liu Lingxi's bed.
Hearing her soft breathing, Ye Zhi slowly felt relieved.
It seems it was just a nightmare.
However, Liu Lingxi was not asleep as Ye Zhi had thought.
She closed her eyes, and all she could see was that grinning face and that terrifying feeling of suffocation.
This is too unreal. I died, but I was reborn back to the time when I first married into Chonghua Palace?
Thinking back to my previous life—
Being betrothed to the Crown Prince by the Emperor should have been an incredibly glorious thing, but instead it brought one disaster after another to her family.
First, her grandfather was assassinated while inspecting the crops on the estate. She observed three years of mourning, and her marriage was thus postponed.
After a long and difficult three-year period, my father was accidentally swept away by the flood while he was working on flood control, and his body was never found.
So she observed mourning for another three years, by which time she was seventeen years old.
After she married into the family, the Crown Prince only stayed with her for ten months before he caught a cold and died while on a business trip to Jiangnan.
She almost died too, but her personal maid Ye Zhi accidentally ate the poisoned pastry in her place, which saved her life.
So she diligently remained a widow for over a decade, becoming a woman who brought misfortune to her husband.
She had been secluded at home for more than a decade, but fortunately, she had the new Crown Princess and her old friend Jiang Wuyou often came to keep her company and relieve her boredom.
They suggested that she go and practice Buddhism while still keeping her hair, which would be better than wasting her years in the palace, and she agreed.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, she made her first request to become a nun on Mount Qingcheng, but was refused.
Later, when the new emperor frequently summoned her, she was troubled about how to avoid him when Jiang Wuyou personally sent her off with a three-foot-long white silk ribbon.
If Jiang Wuyou hadn't exposed himself, Liu Lingxi probably wouldn't have known the truth until her death!
"You don't know yet, do you? Your grandfather, your father, and your husband—were all killed by members of the Jiang family, and you—"
"My poor sister, you still think this was all an accident? If I hadn't wanted to see you in such a terrible state, do you think you would still be alive?"
"Why is it that we come from similar backgrounds, and my father was the Minister of Revenue while your father was only the Vice Minister of Rites, yet you were able to marry His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"All of this should be mine, mine! How hateful that you would take away such immense wealth!"
"You could have escaped with your life by becoming a nun, but alas, you seduced His Highness! You deserve to die!"
Ironically, it wasn't until her death that she realized the tragedy of her life was caused by the Jiang family, specifically Jiang Wuyou.
It's just because she became the Crown Princess and got in their way!
Can--
How cruel is fate! Why did she have to be reborn at this time, when her father had already been dead for three years!
For a moment, Liu Lingxi didn't know whether she should be sad or regretful.
No, I still need to take revenge. I already know about the Jiang family's scheme, and the only thing I can do is take revenge!
My grandfather and father cannot have died in vain, and they cannot have nowhere to seek justice in the underworld.
I will get my revenge!
Yes, she is now the Crown Princess. As long as the Crown Prince lives, the Prince Jing, supported by the Jiang family, will not be able to ascend the throne.
The Crown Prince cannot die!
According to my memory, it is now September of the twelfth year of Shengping.
Four months later, in January of the thirteenth year of the Shengping era, the Crown Prince was sent to Jiangnan on official business, where he contracted a cold and died.
Thinking about it now, the death of the crown prince in his previous life was indeed suspicious.
Although he was weak, the fact that he has grown up to this point means that he is now much better. How could a minor cold have killed him?
However, at that time, the emperor was far away and no one had time to investigate the truth.
To be honest, the Crown Prince wasn't the Emperor's biological son, otherwise, would the Emperor have allowed his own son to be murdered without taking any action?
That's right, the current emperor suffers from a strange illness; he develops red rashes whenever he comes into contact with a woman.
If it weren't for the current Empress keeping it a secret from the late Emperor, he would probably have been kicked out of the succession struggle long ago.
It's said to be a struggle for the throne, and the five princes fought fiercely back then, which was extremely brutal.
Now, after overcoming numerous obstacles and expending tremendous effort to seize the throne, all but two of the more closely related princes have been killed.
This is the power and vision of the current emperor!
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