In her previous life, Jiang Shijing, daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, was granted in marriage by Emperor Qiyuan to Xiao Qining, Prince of Ning.
A year after their wedding, the Marquis of Dingyuan died in battle. The entire marquis’s estate was slaughtered overnight, and the person blamed for the massacre was none other than Xiao Qining.
From then on, the married couple became sworn enemies. No matter how Xiao Qining tried to explain, Jiang Shijing never believed him. She opposed him at every turn, vowing to kill him with her own hands and avenge her family’s terrible fate.
At last, through Jiang Shijing’s careful scheming, Xiao Qining died in battle just as the Marquis of Dingyuan had. Her revenge was complete.
But while paying her respects to the entire Jiang family, Jiang Shijing learned that someone else was the true culprit behind the massacre.
To avenge her family, Jiang Shijing donned her armor and fought her way to the palace hall. Just as she was on the verge of claiming her revenge, everyone from the prince’s estate was captured and brought before the hall.
Once, she had charged alone into enemy ranks for the people of Daxia and the Xiao family’s empire, without so much as taking a single step back. Now, to save the innocent people of the prince’s estate, she had no choice but to surrender.
“Dog emperor, I won’t take your miserable life today. Keep your word and let them go. Otherwise, even if I become a vengeful ghost, I will never let you escape me.”
With that, Jiang Shijing took her own life before the palace hall. In her final moments, she saw her parents, Bai Zhi and Fu Ling, and everyone from the marquis’s estate. But she never saw her elder brother, or the man whose life she had betrayed.
“I’m sorry...” Before she could finish, Jiang Shijing breathed her last.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before the marriage decree. There was still time to change everything. In this life, she would have her revenge, and she would win back her man too.
