I was a celebrated general. I had known the Fifth Princess since we were young, and together we went to the frontier.
But while I fought desperately on the battlefield, she kept a foreign entertainer in the military camp.
Our childhood bond was nothing but a joke.
I had the entertainer’s eyes gouged out, his hands and feet cut off, and his corpse exposed in the camp.
After I returned to the capital in triumph, she slaughtered my entire Xiao family for the sake of that entertainer.
My tendons were torn from my hands and feet, and I was locked in an elaborate birdcage and tortured to death.
When I woke again, I had returned to the moment before I came back in triumph after defeating the enemy nation.
This time, I would no longer turn down the honors I had earned.
After my great victory, I asked His Majesty for the hand of the woman he liked least: the Seventh Princess, her younger sister.
