After My Words Became Law, My Whole Family Went Crazy

I was born with the power to make my words come true.

On the day I was born, a wandering Daoist priest barged into the marquis's residence, pointed at me in my swaddling clothes, and said:

"This girl speaks with the authority of Heaven. One word can determine life or death. But she may speak only three times in her life. After that, Heaven and Earth will fall silent."

No one believed him. Until I was five, when my father set off on an expedition to Xiangbei and the entire court said his army was sure to lose.

But I wrapped my arms around his neck and said, "Father will win the battle."

Half a month later, news of victory reached the capital. With only three thousand battered soldiers, my father had routed twenty thousand enemy troops and taken eight thousand heads. The whole court was shaken.

One winter day when I was seven, my stepmother refused to give me a padded coat. Shivering with cold, I said:

"For the cold I suffer today, Mother will surely endure a hundred times more pain."

The next day, her hands were covered in chilblains. They rotted down to the bone, and it took three months for them to heal.

She never dared touch me again.

When I was nine, my stepsister Shen Qinghe snatched my bracelet. I couldn't be bothered to fight over it.

"That bracelet looks so beautiful on you, Sister. From now on, you can keep those hands as ornaments."

The next day, while pruning plum blossoms, Shen Qinghe accidentally severed the tendons in her hand. She would never play again...