In the ninth year of Wude, it was the eve of the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
When Shen Qingci climbed out of the mass grave, the left side of his face was destroyed and his family was wiped out. Everyone knows that the eldest daughter of the Shen family has passed away, but they don't know that the scarred, shrinking and humble maid "Anu" is stepping into the most dangerous chess game in Chang'an step by step with a heart full of venomous hatred.
When the King of Qin was suspicious, she pretended to be stupid; when the King of Qin was cold, she showed her loyalty. When the prince's beauty was eye-catching, she quietly mixed up the incense that can cure all poisons; when the noble ladies of the aristocratic families competed for beauty, she quietly laid out a decisive strategy.
Everyone laughed at her for being ugly and vulgar, but she was just a whim of the King of Qin.
But she gradually realized that this game of chess had gone wrong——
His hands that taught her how to read and write also wiped away the stains on her cheeks; his suspicious and scrutinizing eyes would flash a ripple when she coughed late at night. What's even more frightening is that the depths of his eyes that occasionally stared at her disfigured left face actually hid a heart-stopping... Pity?
"Your Highness," she asked tremblingly in his arms, "What if this slave had ulterior motives from the beginning?"
He kissed her scar and smiled softly like a sigh: "Then I will work hard to the end and forget about Gu Gu's life."
On the fourth day of June in the ninth year of Wude, the Xuanwu Gate was filled with blood.
When Shen Qingci, dressed in blood-stained attire, walked towards the new emperor who was about to ascend the throne in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, and personally presented the tiger talisman that could mobilize the soldiers and horses of the world——
Li Tiance finally saw clearly the fire of revenge that had not been extinguished in her eyes for sixteen years.
"It turns out," he sighed with a smile, touching her cheek with his blood-stained fingertips, "what is held in the palm of your hand is never wrapped around your fingers."
"But the sword of regicide."
Reader comments
The first chapter of "Regicide Heart" fills the audience with a cold and murderous atmosphere. "The spring of the ninth year of martial arts came very late." There is no direct shouting of fighting, but the coldness of the lingering snow in late spring sets the sad and tense tone of the whole story. In Chang'an City, where the snow has not yet melted, the remaining snow at the West Market execution ground was dyed "dark red like splashed ink" with blood. With just a few strokes, the bloody tragedy is brought to the readers' eyes, which has a strong visual impact.
The protagonist Shen Qingci kneels on the cold bluestone. The pain and coldness of her body are restrained and left blank. She does not directly explain her life background, but relies on the scene to set off the tension of the "desperate situation" early on. People can't help but wonder about her experience and the direction of her fate. The heavy sense of historical machinations + the tension of survival and revenge are full of tension. The writing is clean and restrained but attractive everywhere.
The first chapter of "Regicide Heart" fills the audience with a cold and murderous atmosphere. "The spring of the ninth year of martial arts came very late." There is no direct shouting of fighting, but the coldness of the lingering snow in late spring sets the sad and tense tone of the whole story. In Chang'an City, where the snow has not yet melted, the remaining snow at the West Market execution ground was dyed "dark red like splashed ink" with blood. With just a few strokes, the bloody tragedy is brought to the readers' eyes, which has a strong visual impact. The protagonist Shen Qingci kneels on the cold bluestone. The pain and coldness of her body are restrained and left blank. She does not directly explain her life background, but relies on the scene to set off the tension of the "desperate situation" early on. People can't help but wonder about her experience and the direction of her fate. The heavy sense of historical machinations + the tension of survival and revenge are full of tension. The writing is clean and restrained but attractive everywhere.