In my previous life, the Imperial Consort made me kneel in the snow just because the Emperor had looked at me twice.
The Emperor couldn't bear to see me suffer and pleaded on my behalf. In a fit of madness, she pierced all ten of my fingers with silver needles, then assigned me to a eunuch as his companion.
To please the Imperial Consort, that eunuch stripped me and made me crawl across a bed of nails until I died.
To protect the Imperial Consort's reputation for virtue, the Emperor framed me for a crime and had my mother and younger sister, who lived far away in Yangzhou, executed.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day the Imperial Consort assigned me to a eunuch as his companion.
I knelt beside the Emperor. "Your Majesty, this servant wishes to stay by your side."
