An iron hook pierced her collarbone, and thirteen crossbow bolts pinned her to the city wall.
The child in her womb had not yet taken shape, but died with her all the same.
All 137 members of the Lin family and all three thousand Black Feather Guards of the Yan Kingdom perished beneath the blades.
Bleeding from head to toe, she looked down at the man below the walls, the one she had loved with all her heart, and swore hoarsely:
"Yuwen Jing! You slaughtered my entire family and killed my child. In my next life, I, Lin Chuyue, will tear the flesh from your bones and grind them to dust. I will make sure you know no peace, life after life!"
The man sneered, blade in hand. In one swift stroke, he personally cut off her head.
"The dead have no right to speak of another life."
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When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn in Huaguo as the legitimate daughter of a fallen prime minister's family, orphaned by her father's death and abandoned by her fiance, with everyone looking down on her.
In her previous life, she gave her heart to the wrong man and paid for it with her family's ruin and her own decapitation.
In this life, she takes charge of a failing household, masters the art of business, and outmaneuvers her enemies, concealing a blood feud as she carefully plans each step.
Everyone says the prime minister's daughter is timid and easy to bully. They do not know that inside her frail body dwells a vengeful ghost who crawled back from a mountain of corpses.
Yuwen Jing, I have returned from the dead to collect the blood debt you owe me with my own hands!
The day I return to Yan will be the day your empire falls and you pay for every drop of blood!
Nice! Very exciting!
After rebirth, I still can't tell that the heroine is ruthless enough