The Roses Bloom Again: A Life Picked Up

"You lot, that wretch in the water prison has been given to you as a reward. Remember, don't play with her until she dies," Zhu Ronghua said, covering her nose and mouth with a handkerchief.

"Yes, yes, yes. Since the young lady has rewarded us, we'll make sure that little woman has a very comfortable time."

"Hurry up and go. Stop running your mouths here."

After speaking, Zhu Ronghua rolled her eyes in disgust.

In her previous life, Zhu Yingyue was framed by Zhu Ronghua and the Crown Prince and locked in the Eastern Palace's water prison.

She was trapped there for three whole years, living a life worse than any human being should endure. Day after day, she was submerged in filthy water until the wounds on her body festered and even filled with maggots. That wasn't all: every so often, Zhu Ronghua would bring beggars to violate her. To make sure no one noticed if Zhu Yingyue became pregnant, they even forced her to drink a whole pot of medicine that would render her infertile... Yet despite enduring such inhuman abuse, Zhu Yingyue didn't dare take her own life, because Zhu Ronghua had warned that if she did, her father and her maternal grandfather's entire family would be buried with her.

Zhu Yingyue was the legitimate daughter of the Zhu family. Timid all her life, hated by the people and rebuked by the emperor, she still let herself sink into degradation.

Then Zhu Ronghua's vile plot finally succeeded. She went to the water prison and told Zhu Yingyue that her father was about to be beheaded, her maternal grandfather's family had been persecuted by a scoundrel and a wicked woman, and even her own mother had been abducted through that woman's schemes... Zhu Yingyue begged and pleaded, but Zhu Ronghua told her that she wasn't her father's biological daughter and that she had no intention of saving him. Heartbroken, remorseful, and consumed by hatred, Zhu Yingyue swore a bitter oath, then drowned herself in the water prison... And even then, Zhu Ronghua wouldn't spare her corpse, ordering it to remain under guard in the water prison.

But who could have imagined that Zhu Yingyue would be reborn because of it...