Her father was Liu Tuan, the great general of Qingwu Kingdom. Her mother was originally just a maid of the main wife, Li, but later became Liu Tuan's concubine. After giving birth to a son and a daughter, she was promoted to a concubine.
The female protagonist of this book is named Liu Ying. She is the third child in the Liu family. She is the one who is whimpering by Chu Nian's bedside. She really lives up to her name.
No one knew who her mother was except Liu Tuan. When Liu Tuan returned from a three-year campaign, he brought her back with him and entrusted her to his mistress, Lady Li, to raise.
In addition, her father, Liu Tuan, showed her much favoritism, so even though she didn't know who her mother was, her status in the household was second only to her eldest legitimate sister, Liu Ting, born to the mistress.
From a young age, Liu Ying was very eloquent and knew how to please people. She was also extremely beautiful, so she was exceptionally popular. No one in the manor disliked her. Even the original owner's twin brother, Liu Rong, treated Liu Ying much better than the original owner.
Liu Rong always said that Liu Ying lost her mother at a young age, which was why he was so good to her, but in fact, he was extremely biased towards Liu Ying. Originally, Liu Nian, as an illegitimate daughter, received far less monthly allowance and living supplies than Liu Ying, but Liu Rong often took her things and gave them to Liu Ying.
Because of this, Liu Nian argued with her brother several times, and even went to Liu Ying's place to take back the things that Liu Rong had sent.
As time went on, everyone felt that Liu Nian, the fifth young lady, was too petty. Liu Ying had lost her mother at a young age, so what was wrong with her giving up a little something? Besides, Liu Rong was her own brother, yet he didn't like her, which clearly showed that there was something wrong with her.
The more everyone acted this way, the more Liu Nian hated Liu Ying. She wanted to compete with her in everything, but she could never win. After repeated failures, Liu Nian could only follow her mother Liu's advice and try to avoid provoking her as much as possible in the future.
Unexpectedly, this willow oriole was actually born to Bai Jiuxiao, the Queen of Qingqiu Kingdom.
Bai Jiuxiao was grateful to Liu Tuan for protecting the secrets of Qingqiu Kingdom from the world's knowledge and for having people guard the mountains near Qingqiu Kingdom. In addition, as the empress, she also needed an heir, so she specially gave birth to a daughter for him.
This daughter, Liu Ying, was a demigod, able to speak, run, and jump shortly after birth. However, due to her mischievousness, she secretly ran away from Qingqiu at the age of one, where she was discovered by the Golden-Winged Roc, who intended to snatch her away and eat her to enhance its own cultivation. Fortunately, the Empress found and rescued her in time, but unfortunately, her ninth tail was pecked off and lost by the Roc.
Later, the Empress used her divine calculations to discover that after the ninth tail was pecked off, it had developed its own consciousness, becoming a new soul and reincarnating as the fifth young lady of the Liu family. Only then did Liu Tuan take Liu Ying away and bring her into the Liu family to live.
Liu Ying came to reconnect Liu Nian, the ninth tail, to her body. It's important to understand that the Qingqiu fox clan's most powerful energy is hidden within this ninth tail. Losing the ninth tail means losing most of her innate energy.
If she can't find the Nine-Tailed Fox, it means that her innate immortal energy will be less than half of what other foxes possess; in the future, the immortal energy she can store in her body will also be less than half, which will have a significant impact on her future cultivation and prospects.
Liu Nian was unaware of the truth and believed that her father's constant estrangement from her was due to her mother's lowly status. From childhood, she had tried her best to please her father and the rest of the family. Although she initially wanted to compete with Liu Ying, she gave up and only wanted to find a good family to marry into like her other sisters and leave this family as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, she caught a cold, and her father, fearing she would catch the illness, ordered her to be sent to the estate. From then on, he ignored her completely, not even bothering to call a doctor for her. Liu Ying came to the estate under the pretext of visiting her, and she thought she was saved. However, her illness worsened, and she eventually died under Liu Ying's "care."
Her soul was eventually taken away by the willow warbler and transformed back into the willow warbler's nine tails.
The original owner's cold was caused by Liu Tuan forcing her to kneel in the rain all night. Now, Chu Nian thinks it was probably Liu Tuan who did it on purpose!
Liu Nian couldn't understand her fate. Even without the ninth tail, Liu Ying could still live a good life; why force her to die to fulfill her destiny?
Yes, after finding the nine-tailed fox, Liu Ying's magical power greatly increased, making her capable of summoning wind and rain. She not only had a passionate romance with Emperor Yin Shanjun of the Immortal Capital, but also inherited her mother Bai Jiuxiao's mantle, becoming the new empress of the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
But Liu Nian asked herself, she hadn't harmed anyone, so why should she be sacrificed to fulfill Liu Ying's wishes? She didn't want to be sacrificed like this. She wanted to have her own life.
If she and Liu Ying were originally in the same body and were destined to be glued together again, then why not sacrifice Liu Ying to fulfill her destiny?
Before her death, Liu Nian still held a sliver of hope for Liu Tuan, hoping that her father would consider their blood relation and allow the mistress to find her a good husband. She would repay the Liu family like her other sisters.
But even after her death, Liu Nian probably understood that Liu Tuan made her kneel in the rain all night because he wanted her to die and to fulfill Liu Ying's wishes; so she was utterly disappointed in this father.
If possible, she hopes to have no further involvement with Liu Tuan.
Looking back on Liu Nian's short fifteen-year life, Liu Tuan probably wanted her dead more than once. And so, the time Chu Nian transmigrated to was when the original owner was thirteen years old, and she had her last argument with Liu Ying, resulting in her father accusing her of disrespecting elders and giving her fifty strokes of the cane.
A young girl was severely beaten fifty times with a board by two strong men. She was badly injured, if not killed. Although she survived and never slept with Liu Ying again, her health remained weak.
This led to her being forced to kneel in the rain all night for some random reason by Liu Tuan two years later, which ultimately resulted in her death.
After the original owner died, her birth mother, Liu, also hanged herself.
Throughout her life, the only person who truly cared about her was her birth mother; not even the maids and servants who had served her since childhood were genuinely kind to her. Therefore, she hoped that Liu Shi would have a good ending.
Chu Nian summarized the original owner's wishes as follows: First, to live her own life well, and if Liu Ying still refused to let her go, then she would change the situation so that she could help Liu Ying and Liu Ying could help her; second, to give her birth mother, Liu Shi, a good ending; and third, to sever ties with her father, Liu Tuan, and never have anything to do with him again.
The original owner had just been beaten, and Liu Ying was still pretending to come and see her. Chu Nian heard her sobbing beside her and impatiently scolded, "I'm not dead yet, what are you crying for?!"
A sharp rebuke abruptly silenced Liu Ying's sobs, leaving a choked sob in her throat. She looked at Chu Nian with some surprise, her voice unusually sweet as she asked, "Nian Nian, are you awake?"
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