When Gu Qingcheng was five years old, there was a voice in her head:
Three years later, thirteen members of the Zhenguo Duke's mansion were beheaded at the Meridian Gate for "rebellion".
Want to live? Then transform the whole family into villains!
"Grandpa, every word in the note you wrote to the emperor is a reminder."
Gu Zhenbei's hand dipped in ink paused: "What nonsense are Qingcheng talking about?"
The five-year-old girl raised her face, her eyes colder than the wind in the twelfth lunar month:
"I said, you are so loyal that when the emperor wanted to kill you, there was no one to speak for you."
From that day on, she taught her grandfather, who had been honest all her life, to start hiding money, taught her upright uncle how to hide a knife under his smile, taught her reckless second uncle how to understand "the dead will not complain", and taught her gentle third uncle to hold a dagger.
Three years later, the Zhenguo Palace went from being full of loyal people to a behemoth that kept the emperor awake every night.
Hunjun asked in a trembling voice: "Gu Zhenbei, what are you going to do?"
Gu Qingcheng sat on her grandfather's lap, tilted her head and smiled: "Your Majesty, my grandfather wants to be a villain. Are you afraid?"
