Yixiu Reborn: The Empress Rules the World

01. Reborn in Blood

The floor tiles of Jingren Palace seemed imbued with memories by the passage of time, every crack seeped with the bloodstains of years gone by. Those stains were like crimes deposited in the river of time, sinister and cold. I curled up on the moldy straw mat in the Cold Palace. The stench of rot all around me made me sick, and flakes of wall plaster were packed beneath my fingernails. My throat felt as though it were being scorched by a raging fire. The burning pain of the poisoned wine spread through my body, and my consciousness gradually blurred. In a daze, I seemed to see red spider lilies swaying on the far shore of the afterlife, their lurid crimson gleaming in the darkness as if guiding me toward another world