I am a rain prayer priest. The year drought ravaged the land, I prayed to Heaven for rain.
My master at the Astronomical Bureau told me I could have one wish granted.
Without hesitation, I asked to become the empress and marry the reigning emperor.
Everyone at the Astronomical Bureau was stunned.
They all knew I had given up the glory of being descended from rain prayer priests for the sake of marrying my senior fellow disciple, Shen Que.
I had traveled thousands of miles from the Southern Regions to the northern frontier to study under him, enduring hardship after hardship.
And now I was going to marry the reigning emperor.
In my previous life, I got my wish and married Shen Que.
But that was the start of my nightmare. He never let me near him, and said I had taken the place of our junior sister.
He blamed me for driving her far from home, and vowed to make me pay.
He drained the bloodline of a rain prayer priest from my body and gave it to our junior sister.
Then he threw me into a military brothel on the northern frontier, where the soldiers ravaged me. After they had ruined my body, they hung me naked above the city gate for passersby to see.
I died as they jeered at me, calling me a harlot again and again.
When I opened my eyes, I was back on the day I prayed for rain.
