"Chen Ya Qin is guilty of treason; she has tried to kill the emperor and the empress during the coronation ceremony. She is sentenced to death.
A beautiful woman kneeling on the execution platform. Her phoenix eyes did not contain any sadness. It surveyed the people under the platform that threw rocks, eggs and rotten vegetables at her.
"Die you evil woman!" "Traitor!" "Vixen!" "Slut!" "Black-hearted woman!"
The emperor and the empress sit comfortably in the carriage. They look at Chen Ya Qin with hate and gloat. Finally, this troublesome woman is going to die.
Chen Ya Qin lifts her head and looks straight at the carriage. Her countenance looks peaceful but those who are gifted are able to see a mountain of black aura engulfing her. Those black auras keep pouring from her body. Even though the sun is above their head, the surroundings start to turn colder. Some of the onlookers feel goose-bumps and suddenly the sun is blocked by the black clouds and rain starts pouring.
At that time Chen Ya Qin's head fell from her shoulder. She sees her body still kneeling and slowly closes her eyes. Thunder roars in the sky and lightning strikes the ground. The onlookers run to save their lives from the lightning and take shelter from the rain. Nobody seems to care about the body on the platform that is missing.
"Chen Ya Qin, did you resent those people?" Chen Ya Qin is floating while holding her head, she is trying to find the owner of the voice.
"Who are you? Demon?"
"Did you resent those people?"
Chen Ya Qin's pale lips smile.
The voice did not seem to care about Chen Ya Qin, it still asked "Did you resent those people?"
"RESENT! I resent all of them and hope they will suffer for eternity."
The black auras around Chen Ya Qin continue to build around her but it did not disperse.
"You have the opportunity to destroy the kingdom but why did you not do it? Why risk yourself to kill the emperor and the empress? Why did you not kill your father? Your family member?"
"Why? Ha…ha…ha…ha…ha…ha. How could I become the empress if the kingdom is destroyed? How could I show to my father and my family that I am high above them?"
"You are not honest, Chen Ya Qin." That voice is warm and gentle. Telling that it already knew the real reason.
Chen Ya Qin's shocked expression is very silly and cute. Benefited her status as the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. Any faces that she makes will be wonderful.
That voice continued, "Let's make a deal."
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Far in the north continent in a village a scream can be heard from the room. A man is pacing left and right.
"Brother Qi, you should calm a bit. It is not the first time your wife gave birth."
Four children sitting on the corner with the eldest is only ten years old calming his siblings. All of them is crying but try hard to not cry out loud. Like their father, they also worried about their mother.
"I don't know why I feel restless."
"It is okay Brother Qi let's pray that everything is alright."
"Argghh!" a strong scream can be heard and a few second later a healthy cry of a baby can be heard.
"The baby is born; it is a girl."
"Yeah!" everyone is happy. The children are jumping happily. Li Qi hurriedly enters the room. Seeing his wife smile happily while holding the baby, he sighs with relief.
"You should let the midwife clean the baby first."
"Husband, I don't know why but I feel like I'm not going to make it. I just want to hold her."
"Hush! Don't talk nonsense. Give me the baby."
Holding the bleeding baby Li Qi did not feel disgusted. He kisses the baby lightly before giving her to the midwife.
Ten years past by swiftly. A ten years old Li Zian who is being pulled at her ear stubbornly did not scream or crying. She stares straight at her first brother.
"I want to enter the forest."
"The forest is dangerous. Kid should not go in."
"Why can fourth brother and third brother can follow you? They also a kid!?"
"Tsk! You only ten years old and I already fourteen and third brother already sixteen."
'Crap! I forgot again that I only ten years old.'
Eldest brother releases her ear and push her." Go home now. Mother will worry if she did not see you."
Li Zian sulkily walking home, every three steps she will turn around and her brothers will ask her to go home.
"Zhong, it seems that I'm not sneaky enough."
Zhong appear beside Li Zian while saying, "Yes, training in the pagoda is different from real situation. For now, let's improve on how to escape to the forest unnoticed."
Zhong with serious face analyze the situation.
"Pfff! Don't be so serious. Today, I will train in the pagoda again."
Zhong nodded and disappear from her sight. He has entered the pagoda in her conscious.
"Zian er come and eat lunch, after this we send the food to your father."
Seeing the thin porridge and a bowl of wild vegetable, Li Zian feels sad. She did not afraid of living hard. She even eats rotten food and gnaw on wood in her past life but seeing her skinny mother and father she could not take it.
This year, his third brother will take imperial exam so everyone in the family is spending less for him. That is also why her brothers are going to forest. They want to hunt some games to be sell.
"Mom, I will hunt chicken for you."
"Ha...ha...ha. Okay, now eat your lunch. Then, we will go to the farm." Mother Qing said with a smile.
The next day, after breakfast Li Zian quietly goes into the forest. This is not the first time she enters the forest; her father often brings her here to collect some wild fruit but they never go deeper.
Her objective entering the forest is to train her martial arts and find chicken. Birds are too small and one is not enough. If it is chicken the whole family can be satisfied and can nourish her parent.
It just that man propose but God dispose. A few minutes after Li Zian entering the forest, she heard a rustle behind her with a shout, "LI ZIAN you better stand where you are!"
Entering panic mode Li Zian with a scream run into the forest, "I want to catch chicken. I'll be back before lunch!"
Li Zian clearly underestimates her father, a seasoned hunter. With a big jump her father caught her shoulder. At that time Li Zian curses her short leg for not running any faster.
"Luckily that Uncle Huang next door saw you entering the forest. If not, I don't even know how you died."
"Ouch! Father you are going to broke my leg."
"Let your leg broken. Dare to enter the forest alone." Father Qi hitting Li Zian leg using rattan.
"Husband, enough! She already knows her mistake." Mother Qing wink her eyes towards Li Zian.
Understanding her mother intention, Li Zian kneel, "Father, I know my mistake. Forgive me." with a sad face.
Father Qi that softens his heart seeing his daughter and want to stop scolding her but interrupted by his sons.
"Dad did you forget that she almost drowns to catch fish?"
"Or when she climbs tree to pick some fruits? She'll never learn."
"Grr! Third brother and fourth brother you just want me to suffer, right!"
A series of bickers can be heard. Mother Qing and Father Qi just shook their head helplessly. These children when they start bickering it will last a while. It enough if they did not get physical.
Later, Li Zian did not go to the forest anymore. She is well behaved that make her brothers feels like something is wrong somewhere.
"Ha...Ha...Ha." A soft laughter carried by the wind. If anyone heard it, they will get goosebump and quickly walk home because it is midnight now. In the darkness could there be any villagers that still not asleep in their bed? Unless it is...
A small figure run above the rooftop with agility surpass her age.
"Shh! Control your voice."
"I know. It looks like our idea to train at night is success."
"Indeed, but it also increases the danger. If you are born in a big family, you can train properly than sneaking like this. What can you find in this village?"
Li Zian just shakes her head and proceed towards the forest. Yes, she chooses to reincarnate in a small farmer family because she just hopes to live peacefully and quietly even though she knows that her life will drought in danger as a Jiangong.
The deal that she made with the voice is that she will be given a second chance to live but will serve as a Jiangong in this country. She is specially been selected to be reincarnate in this country because none of the existing Jiangong want to step in this country known as the grave of Jiangong.
In the past three centuries all Jiangong that step into this land is killed. Any Jiangong that born will be killed during infancy. As why she could born safely it is related to her black aura that is her resentment. It is so strong that it hides her noble birth as a Jiangong.