Chapter 1: In this life, she was wrong after all

"If you are not a traitor, why are you reading these books?"

In the dungeon, Ji Zunxing threw a pile of books at Ji Chenxing's feet.

"The Art of War", "Strategies", "Spring and Autumn Annals", "Zuo Zhuan"...

These books seemed to have been read countless times, and some of the pages were almost torn apart. The densely packed annotations were written in clean and sharp handwriting, all of which showed how much the owners of the books loved them.

Ji Chenxing's hair was disheveled and her wedding dress was stained with mud. She squatted down, her eyes red, and held the book in her arms.

As the daughter of a general, she was born with a sense of nobility and she had never been so embarrassed before.

"Father, do you know how you won those battles?"

Her voice was hoarse but powerful, without a trace of crying.

"How did you fight? It was your father who personally led the charge and fought with his good men!"

Ji Zunxing's eyebrows raised in anger and his voice became hoarse.

Ji Chenxing stood up with the book in his arms and stared into Ji Zunxing's eyes.

"Okay, father led the charge, but who arranged the troops? He fought for so many years and made plans. Does father dare to say that his daughter didn't contribute at all?!"

"absurd!"

Ji Zunxing slapped the table, and the pens, ink, paper and inkstone all shook three times.

"If you weren't collaborating with the enemy and betraying your country, how could you have calculated the enemy's plan so accurately? You are just a girl, and you don't wait to get married. Do you really think that you can rise to heaven by reading two crappy books? Let me tell you, your father has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice!"

In the dungeon of the general's mansion, Ji Zunxing lost his temper, left a sentence "Why did I give birth to a daughter like you!" and left.

Ji Chenxing was locked in a dim prison. In just a few hours, her life changed drastically.

Today was supposed to be the day she married the prince and became his consort.

But who would have thought that when she was stepping over the fire pot, the prince suddenly accused her of treason and wanted to take her back to the general's mansion first, and then behead her after collecting all the evidence.

Hence the scene just now.

Spring had just arrived, the weather had not yet warmed up, and the dungeon was even cooler. Even though she was wearing a complicated wedding dress, Ji Chenxing still felt a little cold.

"Dong Dong Dong" footsteps came from not far away. Ji Chenxing raised his head from the darkness, "Mother, Xueyao, is that you?"

When Ji Chenxing was born, his biological mother had already died. Later, Ji Zunxing married Shen Ruyan as his second wife.

As if to prove the status of his deceased wife in his heart, Ji Zunxing gave Ji Chenxing to Shen Ruyan to raise, retaining Ji Chenxing's identity as her legitimate daughter.

And Ji Xueyao is Shen Ruyan’s biological daughter.

After a while, the prison door opened, and the woman and the girl walked side by side and came in front of Ji Chenxing.

Seeing them, Ji Chenxing couldn't help but show joy on his face, but it was quickly replaced by worry: "Mother, Xueyao, it's cold here, you shouldn't have come."

Although Shen Ruyan was his second wife, after so many years of living together day and night, Ji Chenxing had already regarded her as his biological mother and Ji Xueyao as his biological sister.

Ji Chenxing said, picking up a few books from the ground, "Xueyao, take these books, they will be good for you."

In the past, the three of them loved each other. But who knew that this time, Ji Xueyao suddenly pushed her hand away.

"Take your stinky hands away. Who wants your crappy book?"

When facing the unreasonable Ji Zunxing, Ji Chenxing did not cry, but she felt a sudden pain in her heart because her sister hated her. "Mother, Xueyao, please believe me, I really did not collaborate with the enemy..."

"Sister, you don't need to explain. Mother and I know you didn't do that." Ji Xueyao suddenly showed a bright smile, "But we won't speak for you, because... this crime is that we and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have teamed up to take your life!"

Ji Chenxing suddenly felt suffocated and forced a smile: "Xueyao, now is not the time to joke."

"Who's kidding you? Let me tell you, my mother and I have had enough of you."

Ji Xueyao smiled like a snake, sometimes beautiful, sometimes vicious, "Do you want to know why? Haha.

“Wen Ya has been dead for eighteen years, but her ghost still lingers in my father’s dreams every night, taking away my mother’s love.

"I am obviously my mother's biological daughter. How can you, whose mother has died, be qualified to be the eldest daughter?

"I am obviously the most talented woman in the capital, why does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only pay attention to you?
"I am the Phoenix, why are those untouchables talking about your name?"

All those years of jealousy burst out at this moment, and Ji Xueyao screamed hysterically.

Ji Chenxing's pale lips trembled slightly and tears dripped silently. The pain of being betrayed by her loved ones was like a knife cutting into her heart.

She had never thought about these things.

"Xueyao, I never care about what you said. I will give you everything I can, whatever you want. I just want our family to be well."

"Don't care? Sister is fearless, so of course she doesn't care, but those should have been mine!

"But it doesn't matter. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already promised us that when you die, he will marry me as his concubine. At that time, my father's soldiers will be the Crown Prince's soldiers, and when the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, I will be the Queen.

"Sister, no matter how powerful you are, you are still a woman after all."

After Ji Xueyao finished speaking, she rolled over the books on the ground with her feet. The mud on the soles of her shoes covered the dense annotations, and also crushed the pages and Ji Chenxing's heart into pieces.

Ji Chenxing once said, "The prince is not a good match," but he didn't say it in the end.

"Yao'er, why did you tell her so much?" Shen Ruyan stood in the shadows like a fox. She took out a dagger from her sleeve and said, "Kill her, and all her things will be yours."

Seeing the dagger, Ji Xueyao hesitated for a moment. Under the dim candlelight, Ji Chenxing clearly saw that she had a pair of clear eyes like a deer.

"Yao'er, don't be afraid. When mother was your age, both of her elder sisters died. Do you know why?"

"Yes...it's mother."

"That's right. To get what they want, women never rely on the Art of War or Strategy Theory, but on beauty, wisdom, and viciousness. Did Yao'er remember that?"

Ji Chenxing sneered. Shen Ruyan kept talking about "wisdom" but she was so short-sighted.

"Mother, I remember."

"Go, Yao'er, don't be afraid. You are the woman who will sit on the Phoenix throne. And to ascend the Phoenix throne, you will have to step over the corpses of countless people."

Seeing Ji Xueyao's figure gradually disappearing into the shadows, Ji Chenxing only regretted that he had not seen through his stepmother and sister's thoughts earlier.

"Sister, didn't you say that you would give me whatever I want as long as you can give it?

"Now, I want you dead."

Ji Xueyao said this, slowly took the dagger and stabbed it deeply into Ji Chenxing's heart.

In this life, she had made a mistake after all.

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