After I gave up the position of Imperial Astrologer, everyone in the palace was overjoyed.
They shouted that an unworthy Imperial Astrologer like me should get out of the capital.
Only my half-sister, who was hailed as a divine maiden, knelt before everyone and begged me not to leave.
I sneered and pushed her hand away without hesitation.
In my previous life, I was the Imperial Astrologer chosen by fate. I divined the fortunes of the Li Dynasty and helped it avoid disaster. But after my half-sister came of age, she always managed to make her prophecies before I did.
Then war broke out between two nations. I spent three days calculating that we were destined to lose, then sacrificed my eyes to find a slim chance of survival. But before I could tell the emperor, my half-sister had already presented him with a plan to deal with the crisis.
The emperor followed her plan and crushed the enemy nation. He not only appointed her Imperial Astrologer, but also offered her half his empire as a bride price and made her empress.
The emperor branded me a fraud who spread heresy and had me burned alive before everyone for three days. Even my ashes were eaten by wild dogs.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the moment just before I was about to divine the outcome of the war.
