Pursuing Jade, Following Yuan Qing's Thirteenth Lady [Qing Returns to Thirteen]

Sui Yuanqing was reborn.

In his previous life, he was murdered by the sworn younger brother he had called “big brother” for twenty years. With his dying breath, he managed only to give Niangshi half a tiger tally and tell her, “Run.”

She held his head and died for love.

In this life, he escaped the executioner’s blade and deliberately ran into Niangshi’s blade.

“Let’s make a deal. I’ll help you kill Qi Min, and you keep me alive.”

She was the female bandit chief of Qingfeng Stronghold, a woman who killed and plundered, and never believed in fate.

He was a vengeful ghost crawling back from hell, a man who schemed against the whole world. The only thing he failed to account for was his own heart.

They were supposed to use each other, but she gripped a blade with her bare hands for him, stormed the enemy camp alone, and risked her life to save his.

He said, “Don’t waste your time on a wretch like me.”

She tied a red cord around his wrist and knotted it tight.

“Don’t even think about it. In this life and the next, you’ll repay what you owe me, little by little.”

Later, he razed the enemy camp, drenched the imperial court in blood, and trampled the throne beneath his feet.

She said, “At last, this world feels like a place fit for people.”

The New History, Annals records: Emperor Shizu, personal name Yuanqing. He ruled for thirty years, bringing peace throughout the realm. He never took a concubine, and every day after court, he rode out with the Empress. They were known as the “Twin Sages.”

His epitaph bore only eight words: “With this broken body, together to the underworld.”