Wen Lingya was the first female celestial official in the two hundred years since the founding of the Ji Kingdom. Born with silver hair, she could divine good and bad fortune at the age of three, unravel the secrets of heaven at six, and took over as Imperial Preceptor at sixteen.
She foresaw that someone from the Yinli tribe would usurp the throne, and ordered the entire Yinli tribe slaughtered as a sacrifice.
A slave escaped from the imperial palace.
An invincible cavalry force rose from Yanshan. It was rumored that its commander had once been the lowliest slave of the Yinli tribe.
Wen Lingya and Yin Liwang fought for ten years as she exhausted herself trying to change the course of fate.
With the cavalry at the gates, the new emperor sought heaven's aid by placing her head on the altar. The nobles divided up her limbs and sucked the marrow from her bones.
Reborn, Wen Lingya suddenly saw through it all. Whoever wanted to protect this kingdom could do it. She was done protecting it.
Just as she was about to run, she fell flat on her face.
A hand grabbed her by the scruff and lifted her up. Well, look who it was: the enemy she'd fought for ten years.
Yin Liwang fixed his narrow eyes on her and spoke in a cool, low voice. "Stupid fox, you keep pissing on me. Aren't you ashamed?"
Wen Lingya: "?"
A fox was kept in the stern cavalry camp. When supplies ran out, the whole army went hungry but still caught mice for her, and she was picky about eating them.
Their general doted on her regardless. The fox would curl up in his arms and let out a few sweet cries, and he'd let the animal run wild in camp.
A fox is still a fox. She can seduce men before she's even become a spirit!
Wen Lingya felt wronged. She was clearly biding her time, just to survive in her enemy's camp.
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Yin Liwang captured the royal city and burned down the imperial palace, sparing only the Star-Viewing Hall. He took away the Imperial Preceptor, who had been asleep for years for reasons unknown.
An altar was set up in the camp, and knives were sharpened in preparation for the blood sacrifice the next day.
Wen Lingya felt sorry for the body she'd had in her previous life, then crawled back into the commander's tent and dozed beneath the desk.
Half-asleep, Wen Lingya felt cold, so she leapt into the man's arms and licked his chin. But she didn't open her eyes. It seemed she'd licked the wrong place and kissed his mouth.
Yin Liwang stared at the woman sprawled on top of him, his pupils widening. "What are you doing?!"
Wen Lingya frowned, annoyed at his overreaction. It wasn't as if they hadn't kissed before.
She slowly opened her eyes, only to see her own bare limbs.
?
Heaven, are you messing with me???
Theme: Even amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, you still have me.