Three years after my death, Shen Qing became the Empress.
To get revenge on me, the first thing she did after ascending the throne was send people everywhere to search for me, declaring that she wanted to see me alive or see my corpse.
But I never showed myself.
Desperate to force me out of hiding, Shen Qing ordered her men to strip my father naked and hang him beneath the city wall, then break both of my mother's legs. Finally, she ordered every woman in the Pei family sent to the military camp, even a baby girl only half a month old.
She said, "Pei An brought this on you by refusing to show himself. You have only yourselves to blame."
Only when the sorcerer from Nanzhao hurried over and revealed the truth did she learn: "Young Master Pei died long ago. On the journey to Youzhou, he chose to trade his life for another's. Your Majesty, did you really not know?"
