The Celadon Decree

Only when she was led to the execution platform did Shen Qingci realize that those words had ruined ten years of her life.

For ten years, she had done everything she could to please everyone, enduring and giving way like a puppet on strings. In the end, she was condemned for adultery and murdering a servant, and sentenced to death by a thousand cuts.

Yet Aunt Lin and her half-sister, the very people she had treated as family, sat beside the execution stand, smiling smugly as if watching livestock.

The hooked blade came down, slicing through her skin and flesh again and again.

Was she finally going to die?

So be it.

Let this wretched, absurd life of hers finally come to an end.

But just before her consciousness faded, one last thought blazed up from the ashes like a poisoned flame.

If I have another life...

If I have another life!!

I will drink your blood and devour your flesh. I will repay you a thousandfold, ten thousandfold, for every pain you inflicted on me! I will make you beg to live and beg to die, and cast you into eternal torment!