[Historical Rebirth] [Revenge] [Cathartic Read]
Hate! A hatred that cuts to the bone!
In her previous life, Shen Ninghua trusted her venomous elder half-sister, Shen Ruoxue, only to see her entire family sentenced to execution and her loved ones die unjustly! The man she loved, Prince Jingyang Ye Junli, was also manipulated by Shen Ruoxue, who used Shen Ninghua to poison him to death little by little! As for Shen Ninghua herself, she was locked in a freezing woodshed. The child in her womb was reduced to blood, and at last, as Shen Ruoxue sneered triumphantly, a length of white silk strangled every last hope from her!
With her dying breath, she swore: Shen Ruoxue! If I am ever reborn, I will make you wish you were dead, unable to live or die, with not even your bones left behind, and never again able to enter the cycle of rebirth!
The heavens had eyes. Perhaps her hatred was simply too great, but she returned to the eve of her arranged marriage! The poison plot was about to unfold again, her loved ones were still alive, and there was still time to change everything!
Shen Ninghua stroked her still-flat belly and smiled. Her smile was steeped in the icy cold of the deepest hell, bloodthirsty and alluring.
“Shen Ruoxue, my dear elder sister, are you ready? In my previous life, you drenched my family in blood and tears. In this life, I will make you pay double, and let you taste despair, and what it means to wish for death!”
Later, when the lofty, poisonous empress Shen Ruoxue found herself abandoned by all and with nowhere to flee, caught in the inescapable web woven by her younger half-sister Shen Ninghua, she finally understood that the blood oath sworn in the woodshed had never been an empty threat.
Shen Ninghua looked down coldly at her despair, each word as sharp as the keenest blade:
“I once prayed to the gods of the highest heavens: if I could be reborn, I would ask neither for love in my next life nor for wealth and glory. I would only ask to become an asura from hell, so I could personally crush you and every one of your accomplices, one by one, and use your blood to honor all my loved ones and departed souls!”
I found it a bit confusing. One minute Shen Ruoxue is getting married to a prince tomorrow, the next she's the empress in the palace. Maybe my comprehension is just bad. [What?]
The writing skills are good, and the narration is fluent, but some events in the story are not explained clearly, several events are not connected, and the jumps in the narrative are too strong.