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Ye Liujin once believed she was the most fortunate noble lady in Shengjing. Her aunt was a mere step away from the Empress’s throne; her elder brother was the illustrious Duke of Shan, commanding an army of two hundred thousand; and her elder sister was a formidable general whose prowess was respected by the entire imperial court. She herself had been betrothed to the Third Prince—her aunt’s son—while still in her swaddling clothes.
It was not until the year her aunt met a violent end, her brother died a sudden death, and her elder sister perished along with her unborn child that she realized it was all a monstrous conspiracy.
The aunt who had doted on her had been manipulated by the Emperor into raising another woman’s son, while her own flesh and blood’s whereabouts remained unknown. Her noble, radiant brother had been betrayed and murdered through the collusion of the ungrateful Third Prince and the wicked second branch of the Duke’s household. Her heroic sister had been strangled by her own in-laws as a blood sacrifice to prove their loyalty to the new regime. And the Third Prince, her childhood sweetheart, had long been entangled in a clandestine affair with her former best friend.
After her family was destroyed and her home lost, she suffered every form of torment, only to be sold off to a middle-aged, drunken city guard known for his brawling.
Upon her rebirth—
The Third Prince says to her: “If you know what’s good for you, go to my mother and break the engagement yourself.”
Ye Liujin kicks the scumbag into the lake. “Who do you think you are? You aren’t fit to marry me.”
Enemies must be slain; the Duke’s household must be purged. And then there is that man… the one who, in her previous life, was willing to trade the entire realm for her life. This time, it is her turn to aid him.
Xiao Zhaoyan: “Jin’er, did we grow old together? Did we have many children and grandchildren?”
Ye Liujin: “We grew old together, surrounded by our children and grandchildren, staying by each other’s side for a lifetime.”
But in reality, they hadn’t.
She dared not tell him that in her previous life, he had died from the recurrence of old wounds barely a year after ascending the throne.
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