On the day I married the Crown Prince, my mother chose me to go to the Kingdom of Jiang in my younger sister’s place as a political bride.
I climbed into the carriage bound for Jiang in my wedding dress, without looking back.
In my previous life, my family decided to send my younger sister instead, since I was marrying the Crown Prince.
But the Emperor of Jiang was depraved. He deliberately gave my sister to his personal eunuch as a wife.
My sister was tortured to death by the eunuch, and even as she died, she kept calling for our mother.
When my mother learned what had happened, her hair turned white overnight. She said she should have sent me to Jiang instead.
After my father and brother failed in their campaign against Jiang, they proposed trading me for my sister’s remains.
The Crown Prince said my sister was the one he truly loved and forced me to go to Jiang in exchange for her.
Eight months pregnant, I was sent to the border. The bumpy journey brought on labor early, and I begged them to find a doctor to deliver my baby.
But they said I was just jealous of my sister and told them to leave me alone.
In the end, I gave birth with great difficulty and died on the road to Jiang.
When I woke again, I was back on the day I married the Crown Prince.
And my mother handed me an imperial edict ordering me to go as a political bride.
