30: Chapter 30 Beautiful women have always had tragic fates (Part 1)

"Beep, beep, beep... Completed Wisher Xu Zhao's wish: To become an outstanding physicist, contribute to the development of the motherland, and be remembered by future generations."

"Clearing emotions... Clearing complete!"

When Zhao Yan opened her eyes again, she was already sitting back in front of the rustic desk. Her heart felt empty, as if something important had been forgotten. She knew that was the emotion from the previous Wisher's world. As a Soul-Mending Master, to avoid being entangled by the emotions of the three thousand small worlds, the system would default to forcibly clearing emotions after each mission was completed.

In front of the desk, the girl who had been clutching her chest had her resentment dispelled, and her soul power grew fainter. A look of relief escaped from the corners of her lips, and she murmured, "So it could be done like this. Thank you, I am very happy."

She stood up and left with the guide; it was time for her to be reincarnated without regrets.

A moment later, a great wave of golden light struck, and system 1105 collected the merit in full.

"Next—"

The rustic door was pushed open again. A woman in a gorgeous, pleated red dress, draped in smoke-like gauze as thin as wings, appeared. Her face was like a hibiscus, her eyebrows like willow leaves, and her eyes, more charming than peach blossoms, rippled with a captivating allure. Her skin was as white as snow, with a hint of pink, as if it could drip water. Her lips were like cherries, evoking infinite reverie.

Even the well-informed system 1105 couldn't help but drool at the beauty before it. Goodness... which fairy had descended? It had seen the fairies of the Nine Heavens, but this one surpassed them all. Her appearance was simply too dazzling.

Unfortunately, she was beautiful, but the moment the beauty opened her mouth, sobbing and whimpering, timid and cowering, that temperament vanished for the most part.

"I am Princess Anle Li Yuan of the Liang State. My mother is the Empress of the Liang State, and my maternal grandfather is the Great General who guards the country, controlling three hundred thousand troops of the Liang State. My father and mother are very loving; my father's harem is practically non-existent. In the Great Liang royal family, there are only the Crown Prince brother and me, both born to my mother. I have been pampered since childhood and lived without worries. If only it could be like this for a lifetime..."

"In the beginning, the Liang State was in its golden age, with strong soldiers and many famous generals. Outside the Central Plains, all the barbarian small countries bowed down and paid tribute. But by the time of my father, there were severe disasters and warlords seizing power. In particular, the five regions of East Lake, Jiangnan, Chuxi, Beichuan, and Wuzhong became powerful, each declaring themselves kings, and they united with the reclusive Bai Clan, eyeing our Liang State covetously... It was clearly their wolfish ambition to take the Great Liang empire, yet they claimed everything they did was for me..."

"In the first life, I had no choice and was used and trampled upon by them at will. I naively believed their lies and wanted to take revenge and rebuild the Liang State. Therefore, when I saw that there was no hope for restoring the country, I chose to commit suicide."

"In the second life... I hadn't done anything yet, and I don't know who pierced me with a sword..."

Seeming to recall the past, Li Yuan burst into tears again, collapsing on the ground, boneless and weak, heartbroken, unable to form complete sentences.

This was clearly a pampered flower protected too well, yet born into a declining royal family. With such beauty, what kind of good ending could she have?

Zhao Yan heard it somewhat vaguely, but the person in front of her only cared about crying and couldn't explain clearly, so she could only reach out and hold her fair wrist.

A great wave of memories flooded into her mind.

Reading the memories, Zhao Yan had to admit that this little princess was indeed weak and pitiful, but this was her mission, and she had to face it.

After comforting the little princess and letting her go to the compartment to rest, Zhao Yan frowned.

1105 asked, "What is it? Is it difficult to complete? What is the little princess's resentment?"

"She does not want to bear the infamy of bringing disaster to the country and its people. She wants to restore the country, protect the people of the Liang State, and not let the commoners suffer from displacement again. If possible, she would rather protect her father and mother."

"She wants everyone who used her and deceived her feelings to pay a heavy price."

"She wants to know who killed her in the second life, why they killed her, and she wants revenge."

1105 was surprised, "How could she experience two lives? Who is she, to be able to reverse time and space and start over again?"

Zhao Yan waved her long sleeves, and a mirror of retrospection appeared in her hand.

In the mirror, time and space reversed, the stars shifted.

"She was once a person from the Immortal Realm. This descent to the lower realm is to undergo a tribulation and return to her position. She was born at the end of the Liang State. Although Emperor Liang is a good emperor, the previous two emperors had already destroyed the national destiny of the Liang State. By the time of the current Emperor Liang, corruption was rampant in the Liang State, and warlords were entrenched. The Liang dynasty had long existed in name only. Her original tribulation task was to spend twenty years after the fall of the Liang dynasty to end the chaotic times and return peace and happiness to the people."

[She really is a fairy from the Nine Heavens! Why did she come to us?] 1105 widened its eyes.

"Yes."

[Doesn't she remember?]

"To undergo the tribulation, the Immortal Path wiped her memory. Now that she is dead, her memory has not been restored. It should be that the resentment of the first two lives is too heavy, lingering for a long time, making it difficult to reincarnate. She only has three opportunities for tribulation, and now she has used two. If she fails again, she will die and enter the Return to Ruins."

"In the first life, she was fought over by those men, who raised troops to attack in the name of 'a hero's anger for a beauty.' Years of war caused the people to live in misery, and she was insulted by the whole world as a femme fatale, a demoness who brought disaster to the country! In the end, the Liang State was still broken. Those feelings and love were all deceptions to the world; they were just a group of ambitious thieves who lacked a reason to wage war on the Liang State. Seeing that the restoration of the country was hopeless and being used by the person she loved deeply, she finally chose to commit suicide. Afterwards, the various parties would not give in to each other, and the war was constant. The chaotic times lasted for more than 70 years before ending."

"In the second life..." Zhao Yan's face was cold, "The ending shouldn't have been like this. Unfortunately, I don't know where a wandering ghost came from, pretending to be a prophet, turning that small world upside down." It is estimated that this fairy who underwent the tribulation was killed inexplicably, and nine times out of ten, it was related to this wandering ghost from another world.

1105 saw that Zhao Yan's face was particularly bad, and dared not guess what she had seen.

What Zhao Yan saw was that the so-called prophet goddess, in order to help the man she liked win the world, was so brain-dead that she opened the city gates to help the nomadic tribes of the barbarians invade the Central Plains. Afterwards, the barbarians wantonly burned, killed, and looted, raped women, and burned palaces. If they encountered resistance, they would slaughter the whole city after capturing it. Countless civilians died under the sword, and blood stained the land of the Central Plains.

Because of her selfish desire, the barbarians invaded the Central Plains, breaking the original situation of the five small countries. The chaotic times lasted for a full hundred years before ending, thirty years later than the first life. The population of the Central Plains also decreased from the original twenty million to only about ten million, which was even more miserable than the seventy years of chaotic times in Li Yuan's previous life. The entire Central Plains was devastated, and the people were in dire straits. The wandering ghost saw that there was no way to turn things around, so she just shook her butt, left a mess, took the man to live in seclusion in the Peach Blossom Spring, and actually lived a long and healthy life!

The Wisher's hatred was still too little. If she knew that the aftermath of her second life was like this, and that the people of the Central Plains were wantonly slaughtered and raped, she would probably turn into a fierce ghost on the spot and stop thinking about ranking in the Immortal Class.

Fortunately, as soon as she died in her second life, she was teleported here, without staying in the mortal world, and did not see the devastation of the later decades.

1105 was very curious, [What kind of merit is this for her?]

"If she really succeeds in the tribulation, ends the chaotic times fifty years early, saves the common people, doesn't that count as a great merit?"

[That's true. However, which fairy is she exactly? Her combat power is too weak. If this were the Goddess of the Nine Heavens, she could directly pierce the sky.]

A phantom of that vigorous and resolute woman appeared in Zhao Yan's mind. Speaking of which, that woman hadn't come to her for a long time recently. There must be a demon if something is abnormal... Her gaze fell on the side door of the room. Could this tearful fairy have been sent by her?!

"Launch—"

...

"Princess, Princess, please don't go to the front hall... This servant begs you... Please run!"

Zhao Yan's figure paused, and she almost fell. Looking down, a maid in a turquoise dress was hugging her legs tightly.

"Princess, the city gate has been broken, the Great General who guards the country has died in battle, and the young generals of the Situ family are either dead or captured. Those people are forcing the Emperor to hand you over in the front hall... If you go over now, wouldn't you be a sheep entering a tiger's mouth! Ming Xia begs you, please listen to the Emperor, hurry and leave." Ming Xia persuaded while crying.

"Princess, Princess..." A little eunuch ran in stumbling at the door. Before he could get to her, because he was too panicked, he fell directly in front of Zhao Yan. Raising his head, his tears and snot were flowing, and his face was gray and white, "The Emperor, the Emperor has passed away, and the Empress is gone too..."

"Little Seven, what nonsense are you talking about? The Emperor is in his prime, how could he..." Ming Xia was stunned in place.

"How could this servant talk nonsense about this..." The eunuch named Little Seven wiped his tears, resentment flowing in his eyes, "It's all them! The five vassal kings of East Lake, Jiangnan, Chuxi, Beichuan, and Wuzhong broke into the city gate, all saying that the Princess is beautiful, fighting to marry the Princess, and insisting that the Emperor grant the marriage! The Emperor is wise, how could he not see their wolfish ambition! The Princess is physically weak, raised in the deep boudoir since childhood, and has never met outsiders. They don't admire the Princess; they are just finding an excuse to force the Emperor."

"The Emperor could not bear for the Princess to bear the infamy of being a femme fatale, so he argued with them, rebuking them as rebellious ministers and thieves. It would be one thing if they wanted to rebel, but they had to find a fig leaf to insult the Princess."

"When the Empress heard about this, she originally wanted to rush to Fenghua Palace to meet you, Princess, but she didn't expect to meet the rebels rushing into the palace on the way. This group of thieves intended to insult... The Empress could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide on the spot." Little Seven was already sobbing, "When the Emperor heard that the Empress was gone, he almost fainted on the spot. On one hand, the Emperor held them off, letting them discuss a plan, saying the Princess could only marry one of them, and on the other hand, ordered this servant to rush to Fenghua Palace to find the Princess, telling you to escape through the secret passage immediately. These people are not good men; they are clearly man-eating tigers and wolves!"

"Not long after this servant ran out of the front hall, I heard the head eunuch beside the Emperor, Eunuch Su Yu, chanting. He chanted—the Emperor has passed away..."

"So, this palace is now an orphan."

The voice was cold and biting, unlike the coquettishness of the past. The delicate and flawless face was full of frost. Ming Xia looked at that divine face, familiar yet strange, as if something had changed.

"And, and the Crown Prince... He..."

"Let's go, enter the secret passage." Zhao Yan turned and walked into Fenghua Palace, urging Little Seven and Ming Xia.

In the dim tunnel, long and endless, the air inside was filled with dampness and moldy smell.

The three of them held their breath, hearing only slight footsteps.

Ming Xia and Little Seven never knew that there was a mechanism under Princess's bed. Opening the mechanism led to the secret passage, but they didn't know where it led.

system 1105 was dancing wildly in her mind: [This launch time is not very good. The parents died at the start, the biggest backer, the Great General who guards the country, is gone, and the Situ family is dead or injured. What to do, what to do?]

Zhao Yan had no time to chat with it at the moment. This long dress was really too cumbersome and did no good for her escape. She would change it after going out.

This secret passage existed in the previous two lives.

In the first life, Li Yuan disguised herself and escaped through the secret passage with the help of Little Seven and Ming Xia. Unfortunately, as soon as she stepped out of the secret passage, she was caught by the rebel army of East Lake and taken to Wei Qingli, the son of the Prince of Donghu. Wei Qingli did not molest her, but instead showed love at first sight, was obedient to her, hid her identity, and protected her safety. He promised her that the behavior of East Lake was his father's arbitrary decision, he did not want to rebel, and he was also forced to do so. Now, the other four vassal kings were on the same line. If he resisted, he would surely be sniped by them. To avenge the late Emperor and the late Empress, he could only destroy the alliance of these four countries first.

Wei Qingli induced her step by step, confused her, used her eagerness for revenge, and used her gradually falling heart for him to dress her up as a dancing girl and send her into the palace of the Prince of Beichuan, who had the strongest military power and the most violent personality among the five vassal kings...

In the second life, before Li Yuan had time to change her dress, she was surrounded by a group of people. Before she understood whose people they were, she was pierced through the heart by someone with a sword, resulting in a cold death.

This was also the reason why Zhao Yan decided to turn around and enter the secret passage just now. If she was late, changing clothes or something, she might have to go down the same old path of the second life—being beheaded.

Zhao Yan flipped through the memories, her footsteps did not stop. She didn't know how long she had been walking in the tunnel, but a wall finally appeared in front of her.

Little Seven was about to go up and explore the mechanism, but was stopped by Zhao Yan.

From the memory of the first life, she knew that going out at this moment would happen to run into Wei Qingli, the son of the Prince of Donghu. It was not the time to meet him yet, so she chose to avoid his edge first.

The three of them huddled at the exit of the mechanism, waiting quietly for the movement outside to stop.

Several times, they could clearly hear the voices of soldiers outside the wall. Zhao Yan was ready to go, guarding the exit. If the people outside discovered the mechanism, she planned to deviate directly from the Wisher's original character and kill this group of people. The consequence of this would be that it would be difficult to justify herself in front of Little Seven and Ming Xia. After all, the original body was a sick beauty who panted after walking a few steps, so when did she learn martial arts?

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the movement outside to disappear. After another half an hour, confirming that there was no one outside, Zhao Yan stepped forward to press on the wall, and finally felt a small protrusion in the corner. She pressed hard, and the wall opened with a bang.

This was a study, decorated exquisitely and elegantly, but at this moment it was messy. The drawers had been rummaged through at will, letters were flying on the floor, and a set of iron-black armor was tilted in the corner, with bloodstains on the armor, enough to show that the owner of the armor had fought many battles.

Zhao Yan lifted her skirt, stepped into the study, stepped on the messy floor, and walked to the desk. A piece of rice paper was pressed on the inkstone, with a few large characters written in a dragon-flying and phoenix-dancing style—If the battle is won, return in triumph; if the battle is not won, return wrapped in a corpse. The force was enough to penetrate the paper, showing the agitated mood of the person who wrote it at the time.

Looking at the situation in the study, it was obviously ransacked. Valuable things and letters should have been taken away, leaving only some waste paper.

This was the study of the mansion of the Great General who guards the country.

It was also the last retreat left by Emperor Liang for this body. He originally thought that the mansion of the Great General who guards the country and the Situ family, the Empress's maternal clan, would be the little princess's biggest backer, but he didn't expect that the capital would be broken, and how could the loyal Situ family still be there.