On the winter night of the third year of Chengqi's reign, Shen Zhuo, the first female counselor of the Yan Dynasty, was chained to the roof of the Star-Zhaing Tower.
Her cousin, the prince, whom she had devoted ten years of her efforts to assist, was gently pouring fuel on her: "Cousin, you are so smart, so smart that you can't sleep alone at night."
She handed the fiancé of King Zhenbei to her back and lit the torch with her own hands: "Zhuo'er, do you know how dazzling the light in your eyes is every time you offer advice?"
When the flames engulfed her, she saw her sister-in-law smiling sweetly in the prince's arms.
When she opened her eyes again, she became the humblest concubine in the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion of the enemy country - "Jiang Wanyue" whose biological mother was a military prostitute and who was abandoned to fend for herself in a village in the countryside.
Today was the day when the Hou Mansion sent someone to take her "back to the house".
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The writing is pretty good. It's my favorite style. It's beautiful.
The writing is pretty good. It's my favorite style. It's beautiful.