Ashes Cover Mountains and Rivers

Name: Ashes Cover Mountains and Rivers
Author: Xingyao

by Xingyao

ongoing Ancient Romance Ancient Love Female Lead

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75Kwords56chapters

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Ch. 56 — Incense and Weeping Dew

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About This Novel

In the 16th year of Yongzhen's reign, the spring snow had not yet subsided, and an imperial edict nailed Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of the censor, to the execution pillar. When the salt-soaked whip tore the brocade clothes, the imprisoned third prince Xiao Jingming tightened his palms - the faded red string was the proof of the medicine given on the snowy night five years ago. From then on, the bloody marriage began. The emperor personally shackled the avenger and gave the sharp blade to the caged bird. At night when the red candle flickered in the palace, the secret scroll of the Ministry of War that concealed the injustice of the previous dynasty was burned in the heavy rain, and the flying ashes contained the girl's determination to grab the fire with her bare hands. When Xiao Jingming's sword edge was pressed against Shen Zhiyi's throat, fate had already tied their flesh and blood into a knot: she was the sharpest abandoned piece on the chessboard, and the only brave person who dared to cut her hair for him in the dark night. On that day when snow fell on the Zhuque Gate Tower, a woman in plain clothes tore into pieces the remaining pages of the late emperor's secret edict, and the splash of dark red stained the armor of a hundred thousand soldiers. The new emperor's crown finally fell in front of the ice coffin. No one in the history books knows that the last half of the unfinished burial book was written with his heart's blood.