Night falls.
Withered yellow and black branches and leaves were piled on the damp and muddy forest road, and a cool breeze blew away the bloody smell in the corridor with red walls.
"Princess...Princess."
A call that seemed far away seemed to come to my ears.
Xiao Yuehuai tensed her nerves and pinched the soil with her fingers. She was startled by the wet touch and opened her eyes suddenly, only to see darkness in front of her.
"Princess...where are you?"
She pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and she couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body.
Alu? Why is there her voice?
Xiao Yuehuai slowed down, her eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and she could see the surrounding environment clearly.
This seems to be the cypress forest outside the palace prison.
Why is it so peaceful and peaceful?
The Zhou Palace was destroyed, and the people of Chongqing were unable to resist and were killed by Lu Pingsheng's troops. She saw with her own eyes that the imperial city was littered with corpses.
But the scene in front of me... the world was immersed in silence, as if nothing had happened, there were no rotting and smelly corpses, and there was no blood floating in the sky.
Is it a dream?
No, that's not right. She had already died in Qiande Hall, so where could she find a safe place to dream?
A figure came out of the grass.
Xiao Yuehuai immediately became alert, got up from the ground and hid in a corner to observe carefully.
"Princess? Are you there? This slave is Alu!"
Not far away, a little girl leaned forward little by little toward the depths of the forest. Through the moonlight, Xiao Yuehuai could clearly see her appearance. That face was familiar and friendly, making her heart flutter.
It’s really Alu!
Xiao Yuehuai's eyes were red, and tears were rolling down her face. The moment she looked at A Lu, they fell down.
Alu breathed a heavy sigh and ran to her: "Princess! I finally found you!"
Xiao Yuehuai stared at the girl in front of him, with an unbearable sourness in his nose. He hugged her into his arms and murmured with choked sobs: "It's so good... It's so good. God has favored me, and I can still see you."
At this moment, Xiao Yuehuai had already realized that she was reborn.
Alu was hugged very tightly by the princess and could not move. She was a little uncomfortable and asked worriedly: "Princess...what happened? Why are you so sad?"
Xiao Yuehuai smiled and said happily: "It's okay...it's okay."
She was already crazy with joy. She never thought that one day she would be able to go back to the past.
Thinking of the ending of her previous life, Xiao Yuehuai couldn't help but close her eyes, her hands in her sleeves clenched tightly into fists, and her breath surged for a moment.
What came to her mind at this moment was Lu Pingsheng's cold eyes before she died, and the smile that made her shudder.
Lu Pingsheng...her good husband.
She was originally the most beloved little princess in Dazhou, and her name was Huaicheng. In my previous life, I was forced to marry into the Lu family due to my father's insistence. I thought that even if we couldn't have a mutual love and vowed love, we could still live a lifetime of respecting each other as guests and not interfering with each other.
But what she didn't expect was that it was the beginning of a nightmare.
Lu Pingsheng, who loved her so much that he could not marry her, teamed up with his father to imprison her in the Lu Mansion, cutting off all contact with the outside world. He pretended to be devoted to her on the outside, but turned out to be a concubine on the inside. The group plays and sings every night.
However, in her previous life, she had a non-competitive temperament, disliked power, and had no power to save herself. Marrying into a top family like the Lu family would completely cut off her escape route. Her parents were far away in the palace, and they only thought that Lu Pingsheng was in love with her and would obey her every word, so they doted on Mr. Lu in every possible way, thinking that this would give her a better life.
Little did he know that she was suffering alone, living a hard life in a quiet house.
Just when she thought that the rest of her life would go on in such a boring way, her father died suddenly and without warning in the second year of Jiaping, and the inner palace of the imperial city fell into prison overnight.
Dayu took the opportunity to raise his troops and invaded the territory of the Zhou Dynasty. As if crossing an uninhabited territory, he fought all the way from Beishui to Yejing, broke through mountains and rivers, killed hundreds of people, and forced the Zhou palace to conquer.
Her queen mother, sister and eldest brothers all became the victims of Emperor Yu's sword. She was imprisoned in Lu's house. Although she survived by chance, she lost all her loved ones, which made her miserable.
Dayu dominated the world and she became homeless. Later, when Lu was dormant, he turned around and dedicated her to Emperor Yu.
She was thrown into the military camp and became a lowly prostitute who slept with thousands of people watching. Alu died of rape and humiliation by the Chongqing army in order to save her.
She had nothing, life was worse than death, and she failed to commit suicide. She was ravaged by Emperor Yu as a plaything, imprisoned in a dark dungeon, and was whipped and scolded.
On the eve of Lu Pingsheng's rebellion against Chongqing, she learned from Emperor Yu that when the Chongqing army invaded the territory of the Zhou Dynasty, it was the Lu family who acted as internal collaborators. The reason why the Zhou Dynasty was destroyed was because of Lu's ambition.
Knowing the truth, she wished she could tear the Lu family alive and throw the two animals to the wolves.
On the day when millions of troops came to the city, Lu Pingsheng broke into the dungeon and rescued her.
With red eyes, she desperately pulled out a broken sword from the pile of corpses. Even though she knew it was impossible, she still stabbed him surrounded by thousands of people. Her power is like a feather, not worth mentioning. Lu Pingsheng was one step ahead of her and killed her with the short blade that her father gave her for self-defense.
The moment she fell, her hatred was already in her bones, and she was unwilling to die in such a miserable way.
Perhaps it was because of such a strong desire that God gave her a chance to save everything.
Xiao Yuehui came back to her senses, let go of A Lu, and stared at her deeply, her eyes hot and gentle.
This little girl had never been looked at so affectionately by the princess. She couldn't help shaking her shoulders and asked tremblingly: "Princess, what's wrong with you? Didn't you rescue Madam Qin?"
Madam Qin? Qin E?
Xiao Yuehuai wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. The wound on her forehead suddenly started to hurt at this moment, and she couldn't help but hissed. She touched it and saw a layer of blood red between her fingers.
Alu was shocked: "Ah! Princess! Why are you injured?"
Xiao Yuehuai frowned and recalled it carefully——
Could it be that today is the second day of September in the fifth year of Chongyuan?
No wonder she woke up in a cypress forest. The injury on her forehead should have been caused by Qin E.
At this time in the previous life, a major event occurred in the government and the public that was lamentable to the whole country: the Qin family, full of hairpins and incorruptible for generations, was imprisoned for corruption.
At that time, the capital city was in an uproar because of this case, and teahouses and restaurants were all talking about it. The Qin family's reputation for being respectful to the people was completely overturned.
But the truth is not like this, and everyone is kept in the dark.
The man behind the case was Lu Pingsheng. The Qin family was humiliated and scolded because of him, and everyone in the family was wronged... As a result, her best friend died tragically in the palace and was buried in a mass grave.
Xiao Yuehuai's eyes darkened. God really chose a good time for her. At this moment, the Qin family still had a glimmer of hope to turn things around... In this life, she must let the Lu family and his son experience the pain of living in hell. Taste, repay the sufferings suffered in the previous life one by one!
