Chapter 1: Thousands of Arrows Pierce the Heart, Killed by Close Relatives and Reborn
"Xie Yao, the daughter of the Bo family and the wife of the top scholar, should have spent two years recognizing people's true nature. It's a pity that she died here."
Xiao Yizi led his troops to suppress the rebellion. When he passed by this barren mountain, Xie Yao was only half breathing her last breath.
He pulled the reins, recognized her, and spoke with regret.
The woman on the ground was no longer able to speak. Her body was pierced by countless sharp arrows and her sick body was emaciated.
Her cheeks were sunken, and she had lost her bold and bright charm. Her gray-black eyes looked up at the sky, and tears like blood oozed from the corners of her eyes.
The two or three corpses of bandits and robbers around were probably the ones she fought for with her life.
Xiao Yizi stared at Xie Yao for a long time and saw a piece of rag with the words "divorce letter" written on it in red ink, and the content could be vaguely seen.
He picked up the divorce letter, put it in his arms, and called his subordinates to collect the body.
Xie Yao heard the word "what a pity" in a trance and recalled everything that happened before her death.
Her short life began with her choice to marry her childhood sweetheart Lu Shenyan. One wrong step led to another.
After being under house arrest in the manor for two years, she finally found an opportunity a few days ago. Despite her sick body, she went to court with Lu Shenyan.
In the court, Lu Shenyan, who had already reached the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was gentle, elegant, humble and polite.
He admitted his neglect of his wife, promised to divorce her when he returned home, and personally sent her back to the village.
However, when away from outsiders, Lu Shenyan revealed his true face.
He had his servants poison her and make her mute, then threw her into a dark room, tied her tightly to a wooden stake, and deprived her of food or water for three days.
Until yesterday, the door finally opened.
Against the light, Lu Shenyan was still wearing the scarlet fourth-grade robe. He was dignified and gentle, but his handsome face revealed a strange madness.
"Yao'er, you must be hungry. Your husband has brought some food."
He spoke in a submissive tone and brought a bowl of rotten rice.
Xie Yao couldn't respond to him, her eyes were cold and indifferent.
Lu Shenyan was angered by Xie Yao's indifferent attitude, and immediately tore off the disguised gentleness, smashed the bowl to pieces, and dropped the whip in his hand!
"You want a divorce? You want to get back your dowry? Xie Yao, you don't deserve it!"
Lu Shenyan lifted her chin, saw the unwillingness and confusion in her eyes, and roared crazily:
"If it weren't for you, how could a man of seven feet tall like me become a dog of Anping Hou? If it weren't for you, how could I take the arrow for Anping Hou? Do you know that arrow...it was you who caused my Lu family to be extinct! Now you want to abandon me? Dream on! Even if you die, you will be my wife, Lu Shenyan, and be buried in my Lu family's ancestral tomb!"
Lu Shenyan's face flushed red, and he looked as ferocious as a devil from hell. He looked nothing like the gentle and elegant scholar who rode a horse and wore a flower in his hair as a top scholar in the past.
Xie Yao understood, so that's how it was.
More than two years ago, just when she was engaged to Lu Shenyan, she learned that he had fallen off his horse while blocking an arrow for Anping Hou and his life or death was unknown.
She resolutely married him and took care of him for five days and five nights without taking off her clothes, until he finally woke up.
Later, Lu Shenyan studied hard and never touched her. He also won the top spot in the imperial examination that spring.
It turned out that Lu Shenyan was injured at that time and has been unable to move since then.
"By the way, Yao'er, don't you hate your mother?"
Lu Shenyan's voice suddenly became low, and he pressed his fingers on the bleeding wound on Xie Yao's arm. He admired Xie Yao's painful frown with an intimate gesture.
Xie Yao's pupils suddenly contracted.
Could it be that Lu Shenyan was responsible for my mother's death?
"For your sake, I write her a letter every month, scolding her for treating you so badly and cursing her for wanting to die. The Xie family accepts every letter. Yao'er, do you remember...you taught me how to write!"
Lu Shenyan's words fell clearly into Xie Yao's ears.
Her stomach churned like a spasm, her teeth were broken, blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, and a broken whimper came from her throat.
Xie Yao tried to struggle away from the wooden stake. Her fingertips pierced her flesh and blood dripped through her fingers, but she seemed not to feel the pain. From her heart and lungs to her pupils, hatred burned like a raging fire!
She hated him so much that she wanted to eat him alive, pull out his tendons and skin him.
After a long time, Lu Shenyan was tired of beating her. He put down the whip and stroked Xie Yao's face: "My dear Yao'er, I will come to see you again tomorrow. Please don't die."
He locked the door and left.
Late at night, Xie Yao woke up, picked her five fingernails until they were broken, and used broken porcelain pieces to grind off the thumb-thick hemp rope on her body.
She had served in the border army for nine years. Even though her martial arts skills were gone and she was dying, the door lock could not trap her.
Xie Yao dipped her own blood on the ground and wrote a divorce letter in Lu Shenyan's handwriting on a rag. After putting it away, she stole an old horse that was used to pull goods.
Riding on the horse, the cold wind blew on her face, but she felt free, as if she had returned to the days on the battlefield.
She wants to go home.
Xie Yao knew that the capital was not peaceful during this period, so she took a little-known path.
In the dim morning light, a vague team suddenly appeared in the distance.
Xie Yao was afraid that they were bandits, so she dismounted and waited for a while, only to see that the old man leading the group was actually the manager of Xie's mansion!
She thought she was dizzy and rubbed her eyes hard.
He is really the old steward around my father!
In an instant, Xie Yao fell down exhausted. After her tense body relaxed, she felt a sharp pain.
The steward also saw Xie Yao, and hurriedly quickened his pace, calling people to come to her side.
"Is it the Second Miss?"
“It’s her!”
Xie Yao's eyes were moist, she nodded with sobs, and let go of the whistle stick she was using for self-defense.
Even if she married the wrong person, even if her mother passed away, even if she might not survive this winter, at least she still had her father and the Xie family.
Her family came to take her home...
The next moment, a sharp short blade pierced through Xie Yao's chest!
"puff--"
The steward stirred the short blade a few times, and when he pulled it out, it brought up a cluster of blood.
"Second Miss, the masters want you dead, and I am just following their orders. Please accept your fate."
The steward stood up, and the other men dressed as bandits surrounded her and drew their longbows.
Blood splattered on Xie Yao's pale and confused cheeks, and slid down mixed with hot tears.
She didn't shed a single tear when being tortured by Lu Shenyan.
But now, it was her family who came to kill her.
Xie Yao refused to accept her fate.
But she still died, pierced by thousands of arrows, at the hands of her loved ones.
The person who finally collected her body was actually Xiao Yizi, the King of Jingbei, whom she had rejected in public...
With a heart full of hatred, unwillingness and anger, Xie Yao died with his eyes open.
After an unknown amount of time, she slowly opened her eyes.
My body feels light and everything in the past seems like a dream.
"Major General, you are finally awake!" A familiar female voice came from my ears.
Xie Yao looked up and was shocked.
It turned out to be his maid in the army, Honeysuckle, who was looking at him with a worried look on her face.
But she clearly died two years ago!
Ren Dong searched for medicine in her bag, angrily saying, "If I were to ask you, Young Master Lu is just a pale-faced scholar. Even if you haven't seen him for years, you wouldn't be so excited that your wounds burst and you fainted."
Xie Yao let her nag and looked around.
Honeysuckle is an excellent doctor. Could it be that if he didn't die, she wouldn't die either? Did she save him?
"Why do you call me Major General—" Xie Yao's voice was so clear and pure that she was stunned.
Not long after she married Lu Shenyan, her old injuries relapsed and she was poisoned, causing her to lose all her internal strength and her voice to become hoarse like an old woman. In the end, she was poisoned by Lu Shenyan and became mute. Now she has recovered?
Honeysuckle said, "You are originally a young general. Oh, you are afraid that this title is too eye-catching. Then I will call you the Second Young Lady in the capital."
Xie Yao was in a daze. It had been so long since she heard someone call her Major General that she had almost forgotten.
She, Xie Yao, was originally the Major General of the Great Yan Border Army!
Looking at the situation inside the car, Xie Yao finally reacted.
She went back three years!
This was the fifth year of Pingning, and I received a letter from my mother asking her to return to Beijing to get married!
Xie Yao clenched her fists, feeling the blood surging throughout her body.
She wanted to find out the truth, she wanted blood debt to be paid with blood, she would never live such a sloppy and miserable life again!
"If the two ladies have rested well, I will continue driving. We will reach the Earl's Mansion in three more blocks." The driver's voice came from outside the carriage.
Xie Yao took the pill given by Ren Dong and swallowed it raw, saying, "Let's not go back to the Bo Mansion yet. Let's go straight ahead to Weiyang Villa."
Honeysuckle looked at the major general in confusion, feeling that the major general's eyes had changed.
Moreover, the major general used to hate taking medicine. Every time he was injured, he would take medicine with a lot of candies and preserves. But today, he swallowed the pills without even frowning.
"Second Miss, where is Weiyang Villa?" Rendong took out a candied fruit and gave it to Xie Yao. "You can only take one, otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the medicine."
"It's the Princess's villa in the capital."
Xie Yao chewed the candied fruit carefully and touched the brocade box hidden in her arms.
"There's an old item, Master... The General asked me to give it to the Princess."
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