A cold wind swept by and the surroundings were destroyed.

“Gong Yi Mo, do you think you can escape?” A man’s cold and harsh voice said slowly. The voice was calm and yet it sounded raspy akin to sandpaper. Listening to it made one feel particularly uncomfortable.

The cold wind struck again, and the wooden windows of the temple shattered. A figure with a touch of silver and black domineeringly stepped into the room. The corners of the room were coved with red tapestries and gold threading, which made the room seem vibrant and welcoming. By taking a glimpse of this corner and it’s beautiful tapestry, one could see its exquisiteness was out of tune with this crumbling temple.

After the figure entered the room, a group of well trained Moon Dragon Warriors wearing silver armor followed suit. They brought a chair to the temple and gave it to the man. When he sat down, they quickly blocked all the entrances around the ruins. The whole process was quick and silent, yet it gave people the chills, waving one nowhere to escape!

A competent elite team and a competent Regent!

There was a low cough, and a heavily injured woman looked up, smiling.

Her appearance was very tragic. It could be said that one who stood in her place would not have the heart to live on. She has finally resigned herself to the enemy, and was now sitting alone on the temple grounds, waiting for this man’s arrival.

Her ability to do martial arts was destroyed, and her hands and feet were broken. She had been tortured for a half a month on death row of the Regent. She has finally managed to escape with the use of her financial resources and wit, yet, in the end, she was discovered her in this temple. In this sad predicament, she laughed will the man sitting on the chair gave her an icy look.

“Gong Jue how dare you... you should address me as your elder sister!” Her voice was extremely hoarse. When she looked up, her messy hair the swept in her vision contrasted with his clean image.

Gong Jue smiled coldly as he raised his brow with a trace of sarcasm. He mockingly scrutinized her high and low and replied with indifference, “ My sister? As if it matters to me. I only know that if she wants you dead, then you must die.”

Don’t even mention if she was his sister. Even if it was the Emperor himself, Gong Jue wouldn’t care.

Gong Yi Mo wanted to laugh, but ended up gasping and coughing instead. There was a glint in her eye as she faced him. “So... even if she wants to sleep with other men... you would send her... to the other party’s bed?”

Her words caused Gong Jue to clench his fist, a real chill began to spread out and stifle the atmosphere, causing fear in those around him. Angrily, he waved his hand, which swept Gong Yi Mo to the side causing her to vomit blood!

“ I don’t know whether you will live or die.”

Today’s Gong Yi Mo was reduced to nothing; with a wave of Gong Jue’s hand, her existence could be wiped out.

Pain, intense pain! It was clear to Gong Yi Mo that even if Gong Jue didn’t come, she could not survive due to her serious injuries.

She wiped the blood from her mouth and said angrily, “What? Am I wrong? Sometimes... I really don’t know if you like her. But there is one thing I know. I like Gong Che, and, yes, he is absolutely not allowed to have other woman!”

After hearing her words, Gong Che responded but increasing the intensity of his ice attack, which almost killed her. It seemed that just the mere mention of that woman would cost Gong Yi Mo her life.

Suddenly she fell silent and smiled to herself. It stemmed particularly resolute in this stattered temple.

After a moment she murmured to herself, “Perhaps this is why I am so unafraid of this moment, why you have been chasing me down for the same reason... I heard people say in the past... that the highest form of love... is giving one’s all.”

But now love was the word that has ruined her, and she was becoming more and more frail!

In the past, her martial arts and immense strength guarenteed her a happy life, but for a man, she tried her best to change even her name to marry him! To help him, she did many things that went against her conscience. This also lead her to introducing many technologies that didn’t belong to this era, causing countless bloody tragedies.

She helped the other person kill. She risked her life and put everything she had at stake! But after she helped him reach his goal, he kicks her aside! He claims that she offered to murder out of her own initiative, and that he cannot love a wicked woman. He ended up falling in love with another woman he thought was pure.

Ridiculous, this was simply ridiculous! Did she want to become this way? She never wanted to kill anyone. She, too, used to be a pure and beautiful woman!

She even remembered when Gong Che held this woman in his arms and lovingly said to her, “Lan’er assists me with plenty of gentleness and kindness, and is my most beloved woman! Before, you would allow all kinds of woman to enter the harem, yet you wouldn’t let Lan’er join! Gong Yi Mo, I don’t have any affection for you. Since you have treated her this way, she will be taking your place.

A royal posituon! A status as an Empress and joining the ranks of nobles.

Unfortunately, Gong Che miscalculated the “gentle and kind” woman named Su Miaolan. When he gave Gong Yi a number of demotions and even gave up her position by his side, little did he know that Kan’er would take a step further and seek to kill Gong Yi. Such intention to murder had long been buried in her heart!

A kind and gentle woman?!

Gong Yi couldn’t help but glance at her own hand, her finger was torturously uprooted, and the soles of her sandals were drenched with the mangled soles of her feet. Even her toes were torn off.

On top of that, her whip marks added up to more than a hundred and eighty scars! She would have long died devoid of light in a distant place... yet she held her breath unwilling to die in the hands of Gong Jue.

She wanted to make it impossible for everyone to find her and to not let Su Miaolan sleep at ease. Unfortunately, how could she hope to rival the Regent Gong Jue?

“Have you said enough? Then shut up and die,” Gong Jue sneered with anger. The jade dangled behind his hand, and the sword behind him was released from its scabbard, easily determining her life and death.

It seemed that there was no way to escape; Gong Yi subconsciously looked at the lotus pattern on her arm and smiled.

She was resentful; the lotus contained an alternate space, yet that space could not hold any loving things within it. Otherwise, how would she have fallen into this predicament?

Once upon a time, she thought that being gifted with this lotus space and martial space meant she must have been a favored daughter of this time and space. She didn’t expect that in this space and time, the single and most powerful person turned out to be Su Miaolan.

It’s a pity that although she did so much, her ending left her with no choice. She still felt to a tragic death and could not be reconciled.

Until the sword pierced her throat, Gong Yi continued to smile.

In this way Lan’er should be happy.

Blood flowed like a river.

At the last moment, Gong Yi’s eyes reflected Buddha’s kind and sad smile.

If there was another life... she wouldn’t love again.

Pain... blood flowed from her neck; Gong Yi wished for this moment to quickly end! She didn't expect so much blood to continue gushing and was unsure how much longer she'll endure suffocation! Her pain seemed to last an eternity.

Gong Yi Mo suddenly jerked awake. Her hand clutched her neck as she breathed deeply. The feeling of suffocation has once again revisited her dreams. It seems to have engraved itself deep into her bone marrow becoming a lifelong nightmare!

Gong Yi Mo sunk into depression and burst into tears. Three days ago she had a rebirth. On her second chance at life, she still had the lotus mark on her finger, and appears to have returned to being seven years old. At this time, she has no escape from her wretched childhood.

The reason why she is in this room is a long story.

This country is in another time and space that was similar to the Tang Dynasty. The long history of the Han Dynasty ended and was succeeded by the current Great Tang Dynasty. The new dynasty had flourished for the past two generations and is currently its third.

After experiencing the first generation of uninterrupted development, along with the second generation of progress and expansion, today's Great Tang Dynasty is unprecedentedly prosperous. The country's emperor is in his prime with unlimited energy. He is ambitious and has achieved great success. Over the past few years, he had conquered several small countries surrounding his land, has expanded his national territory, preached Guo Wei, and has established immortal feats. There was much praise for the current Emperor.

The Emperor Gong also loved beauties. He, the man who sits on the top of the world, was infatuated with femal beauty. At one time, the emperor who was already blessed with a harem of 3,000 women had actually coveted a certain belle and kidnapped her. The woman, who was robbed of her freedom was the mother of Gong Yi Mo, Xue Rong.

Unlike the Emperor's previous trophies, Xue Rong was already pregnant.

Initially, everyone thought it was too late for the Emperor to bring her into the palace. Emperor Gong didn't care if the woman was robbed of her chastity, but the child was definitely a shameful entity. In response he ordered Xue Rong to abort the baby, but the mother threatened to commit suicide if her daughter was taken.

Surprisingly, the mighty emperor by title: he was a powerful man. With his status, he declares his love to the reluctant lowly woman. He, a generation of emperors who sits upon a harem of 3,000 beauties, was this enraptured by a single lady.

A splendid feast was dedicated to the daughter of Xue Rong who was named "Gong Yi Mo"! Unfortunately, Xue Rong was unaccustomed to being schemed against. Even under the Emperor's struct protection, she eventually failed to escape the plots of the harem. When Gong Yi turned three, her mother suffered from poisoning and died. She passed away before she could tell her daughter the truth of her origins.

Needless to say the emperor was heartbroken and furious. With the loss of her beloved mother, the small residence of Gong Yi Mo was extremely unprpared especially with the loss of their special status. The emperor refused to see Gong Yi while her other sisters used to envy her were elated. Since then the Princess had no favors nor friends. When she was beaten within the Cold Palace, she fell ill for a period of two months. All these events occurred when the original host was three years old but for the modern Gong Yi, she crossed over to this identity when the Princes turned four. When she woke up to this new identity in her second life, she was very fortunate to have met a master who came to visit Great Tang. She was taken to Yunding Mountain as an apprentice.

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Now however, she was reborn again, this time at the age of seven and has long missed the opportunity to meet her master. According to the memory of the host she inherited, the princess has been sick due to the cold weather for the past four years; one can imagine how weak she is now.

After pondering for a long time, her stomach began to grumble. This was a child's body so how can she not be hungry.

She had bony arms, an extremely sallow face due to malnutrition, not to mention her lack of muscles and her stick skinny body!

Looking at the leftovers scattered on the table from yesterday, Gong Yi Mo sighed. She sat up, lifted her quilt, jumped out of bed to find a pair of poorly fitted shoes, and walked out carefully. The place where she lives is beautifully decorated, but the residence is still a Cold Palace,from the beautiful roof tiles and the few lowly servants there is nothing of worth.

The palace was later divided by a walkway. The palace buildings to the right side of the alley were given to Gong Yi while the palace buildings to the left side were illicity taken and occupied. This happened due to her misfortune of being unfavored, but lukily in her second life she never lived in the palace for a lifetime. Gong Yi was taken away by her master so she never discovered who her neighbor was.

Gong YI wandered around til she found a way to the residence of the harem manager where she stole some food and water.

She munched on a snack and walked back while thinking about life...

Budda doesn't treat her too badly and had brought her to this world after her first death. She then lived her second life here for twenty years. Although her second life ended tragically and she died young, for this third life she plans to take advantage of the present time and place and live the years she couldn't fulfill.

How will she go about in the future?

Seek revenge?

Speaking of which, it's true that she feel immense hatred and cannot be reconciled. She wanted to seek revenge, buyt knowing the sacrifice and hardship she had to go through to win her third life, she can't bring herself to waste her life in vengeance. In the future there may be a chance to take revenge, but now she knows she will never seek it.

Escape the place?

In her current crossover, she did not meet her master, and the imperial palace was heavily guarded. She was weak and there was no outside help. It was impossible to escape alone. It was justifiable to say that ancient human trafficking was legal and she believed it was a bad idea to wander round with no protection.

Well...there's only one option left...

Gong Yi MO turned to look at the bustling Imperial Palace in the distance, and secretly pondered in her heart...

Anyways, the first thing to do is to master martial arts.

As she was engrossed in her thoughts, a sudden roar pierced the air and Gong Yi hid to a corner, listening carefully. It appeared that nobody was targeting her.

She strenuously climbed a tree and peered into the palace wall. She slightly raised her eyebrows.

I didn't expect the Cold Palace to have other siblings. Gong Yi was curious of who could have been so unlucky to end up here besides her.

"Do you still think you're a favored prince? Hey! This branch family brother advises you to remember the name, Gong Fa! Come here, you had better drink this!"

A sharp voice scolded and Gong Yi Mo saw an lower class eunuch forcefully grasping the collar of a young boy. The boy was fierce, but it was not difficult to see the fear in his expression as the bowl was forcefully placed at his mouth. He tightened his lips and causes quite a lot of medicine to spill.

The beautiful boy who was dressed in a small Jinpao, was thrown heavily to the ground. Hi eyes were full of stubbornness yet, because of his malnutritioned body and place, thin face, even if he was tenacious he appeared to have no lethality.

"You baster!" The voice of the child was hoarse and immature, and his words cause anger.

"What did you call me?" the old eunuch glared. Would he let anyone call him a castrated dog? The boy and the eunuch glared at each other viciously. Suddenly the eunuch smirked and seemed to whisper something in the boy's ear.

When the eunuch's whisper came to an end Gong Yi couldn't notice any change in the boy's expression, but the eunuch maliciously retorted, "Don't dream about climbing up another branch; remember your place! You think Xiao Die is sincere in helping you? If you think about it, as a prince with her support you should have been able to make a comeback now. But it's been two years and the emperor still hasn't seen any value in you. Do you still think you have a chance?"

When the eunuch finished his words, the boy finally showed anger! He glared fiercely at the eunuch and said with a hoarse, immature voice.

"Xiao Die will not! She promised she will never leave me!"

Xiao Die was his aunt, so how could she easily abandon him?!

"Haha, good birds seek for greener pastures, and what's wrong with that? If you don't follow along you'll die. Quickly drink the medicine, and perhaps the branch family would be pleased with you and decide to spare your little life."

From his words, the boys' eyes expressed sadness and cold hatred.

He recalled the old lady who once appeared amiable. He hates her! He hates everyone!

When his mother died, his residence was turned upside down overnight and he was banished to the Cold Palace.

The harem manager, Xiao De's brother in law, was supposed to serve the boy, but ended up bullying him instead. When the manager would get injured, the prince would be taken as a scapegoat. The boy thought that if he proved himself he would be valued, but he did not expect to be backstabbed instead. In one month's time, the young prince was abandoned by Xiao Die and her brother in law.

After such an experience, even if his mentality is tough, the boy would inevitably feel resentment and fear of the world; he was embarrassed from being deceived and became estranged. Today the little boy was simply fighting back because he couldn't suppress the unrest in his heart. But he never could have imagined that these people would brazenly force him to take poison!

On another corner, Gong Yi Mo who was spying on the prince's plight, felt cold sweat down her back. After seeing who the little boy was, she couldn't control herself. She was filled with a raging fire! It turned out to be him! Gong Jue! Except this time she saw a younger version of the man!

At this time, the boy's appearance foreshadowed his beautiful and unadorned style in the future. His eyes were full of tenacity and anger, but his hands that were gripping his sleeves revealed his fear and anxiety. Even if he was outstanding, he's currently only six years old, and that thin body can't do anything.

Although he appeared poor and lowly, Gong Yi couldn't forget how cruel this body will be in the future. She recalled the scenes of her torture vividly! It was a shadow she had forgotten in this life.

Gong Jue was truly a demon! She was wondering if she should kill this kid before he kills her.

Seeing that the Imperial Palace has not yet interfered, the old eunuch began to hasten. This matter is a secret and cannot be delayed. So he hurried forward and buckled the boy's hands and feet.The prince didn't expect the eunuch to know martial arts. Although Gong Jue practiced some punches, in the end, he was young, malnutritioned, and had no strength. The enemy forced the medicine down his mouth.

In spite of this, half the drug was spilt. The old eunuch was furious and a flash of haze covered his eyes. "You leave me no choice."

The eunuch gave Little Gong Jue fierce kicks. The pain was immense and he couldn't defend himself from the beating. The six-year old resorted to gnashing his teeth!

When the eunuch used up his strength, he grabbed the boy's chin, and sloppily poured the medicine.

No, don't!

The child's eyes, like a pair of jade, were full of unwillingness and fear! Although he does not know what's in the drug, it is definitely not a good thing! But he can't struggle. He can only swallow it with difficulty! He hates himself for being too weak, just too weak!

Why?! He has lost everything! Why is it that those people aren't satisfied with harming his mother, they also want to harm him?!

Hiding in the shadows, Gong Yi witnessed little Jue being beaten until he couldn't move. For some reason her back was drenched with sweat and her heart had a rather bad taste. Gong Jue, oh Gong Jue, I never imagined you'd also have such a miserable time....

She was tortured by this man before she died. The more she screamed, the more elated the man was, and she believed he was a psychopath. Presumably his abnormality was due to his tortured childhood, which drove him mad.

But... but now he is just a child.... a harmless one

Gong Yi Mo struggled inside, wondering if she should get rid of her future murderer, but in the end she felt he was still too young. He was now so miserable and what he hasn't done yet she shouldn't be blamed on him.

Seeing that the rest of the medicine was swallowed, the old eunuch was relieved. He watched the boy clutch his neck in pain and curled up on the ground like a pathetic dog. What did it matter if he is the emperor's son? He was easily bullied by even the lowest of servants.

"I advise you to be sensible! You need to learn to eat bitterness! Rest assured, the drug won't kill you. It will only make you become dumb, to be useless for life! Even if you dare to say that Xian Fei empress framed you, the medicine will ensure that you can't utter a word!"

Then the eunuch kicked the child, spat upon him, and quickly escaped.

His words caused Gong Jue to tremble, and hatred filled his gaze!...based on those words Gong Jue had a hunch- that Xiao Die put on a facade in front of him so she can rely on his recommendations, which in turn helped her climb higher branch. And that branch was Xian fei. These wretched people... this harem! Sure enough, only the strongest can live.

Seeing the eunuch ran away, Gong Yi Mo jumped out of hiding. Thinking back, rumor was that the devilish Gong Jue began to be bloodthirsty around four years of age when he was consigned to limbo and posined dumb. He was very miserable until he met a God Doctor later in his life who helped cure his throat.

However Gong Jue never fully recovered. Although his throat got better, speaking to him felt painful as a knife! Later Su Miaolan knew about this matter, she often gave him stew which attracted his goodwill.

To save or not to save?

Saving him means she'll never be reconciled; not saving.... it seems her heart will remain uneasy.

According to the development in her last life, Gong Jue will continue to suffer torture in the palace for many years. He left at thirteen years old, so even if she did not save him, he  couldn't die...

But looking at the child holding his neck, and seeing his body shrink to a ball, Gong Yi wrinkled her brow. The boy's throat was uncomfortable and he whined like a weak cat. Gong Yi Mo walked out of the darkness and stopped at his foot.

Gong Jue felt that someone neared him and his first reaction was vigilance!

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