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Chapter 214 The Princess Who Was Killed as a Wife in a Peace Marriage (1)

As soon as Ding Shui entered the new body, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, and he immediately understood why! Wasn't this just like when he entered the fake witch's body last time, where he was burned alive?

Then concentrate and release some mental energy.

You can also hear dense and solemn shamanistic rituals and divination chants.

It sounded a bit like exorcising evil spirits, but Ding Shui didn't know much about the specifics. However, this time she wasn't in a hurry to absorb the essence of the sun and transform it into the five elements energy, because the five elements energy inside the five-colored stone could be directly absorbed, and she didn't have to worry about any abnormalities in her internal organs.

Reviving it now is much easier than before.

Therefore, Ding Shui didn't need to rush to do anything. Instead, he quickly began to sort through the original owner's memories, understand the situation, and then decide what he should do.

Should we kill the people who burned her to death next to her?

A few minutes later, Ding Shui successfully learned the original owner's memories. The original owner was a princess of the Tianhong Empire. Twenty-three years ago, on the 17th day of the fourth month of the 18th year of Shengxiang, at 3:00 PM, the original owner was born in the Tianhong Empire's palace.

His father was the Emperor Shengxiang at the time.

Her mother was Consort Su, one of the Eight Consorts.

Because at that time, she already had seven living brothers and nine living sisters. Regardless of whether they were royalty, it was impossible for her to receive much favor if she was ranked that far ahead, unless her mother truly loved her, but unfortunately, she wasn't.

Her mother was just an ordinary concubine.

But no matter what, as a princess, even if she wasn't particularly favored, her living conditions were still quite good.

And she doesn't have to worry about anyone harming her.

In the thirty-second year of the Holy Elephant Era, because the original owner of this body had reached a certain age, the Holy Elephant Emperor randomly chose a young man from a noble family with a decent status and position, Zheng Yuan, the second son of the Zheng family, and arranged for them to get engaged first, with a grand wedding two years later.

The imperial son-in-law of this dynasty faced numerous restrictions, so those with ambition were generally unwilling to become such a person. The Zheng family was a prominent family that had flourished for over eight hundred years, producing seven prime ministers. Their eldest son, whom they were grooming as heirs, certainly wouldn't marry a princess. To put it bluntly, even their second son was somewhat reluctant, only because of concerns about imperial power and the fact that the second son's abilities were indeed limited.

That's when they went along with it and agreed to it.

The next step was naturally to start preparing for the wedding, even though there were still two years until the official wedding.

But dowries and such need to be prepared well in advance.

At the same time, the date for the engagement also needs to be chosen.

However, on the fourth day after the engagement, an earthquake struck the capital. It was a minor earthquake, and few proper houses collapsed; most of the collapsed buildings were dangerous structures, and the number of casualties was quite limited.

However, Zheng Yuan was on the death list.

He went to a nearby mountain temple to pray for blessings and donate money. He was on his way down the mountain when the earthquake struck. A rock fell from somewhere and hit him on the head, killing him instantly.

The person is dead; we can't have the princess married in the afterlife.

The marriage was naturally called off.

Meanwhile, rumors began to circulate among the people that the princess was a jinx to her husbands. Emperor Shengxiang promptly refuted this, instructing his secret guards to spread the word that Zheng Yuan had gone up the mountain to pray for blessings and then encountered trouble on his way down. They suggested that he might have done something on the mountain that offended the gods or Buddhas and was thus punished by heaven. As a result, the rumors about the princess being a jinx to her husbands gradually subsided, and few people discussed it anymore.

More than a year passed after this incident.

Emperor Shengxiang then reconsidered the original owner's marriage. This time, he chose Qin Lang, the second son of the Duke of Qin, a general with good health. It was said that his birth chart was slightly strong and had already caused the deaths of two of his fiancées. However, Emperor Shengxiang specially asked the Imperial Observatory to take a look, and the Observatory Director said that their birth charts were very compatible.

So they arranged a marriage between them.

We're not getting engaged anymore; we'll get married in six months.

Before the wedding, nothing happened. Everything was fine from the wedding ceremony until the bride entered the bridal chamber. However, after entering the bridal chamber and waiting for her new husband, the original owner of the body never saw him.

All that followed were screams and chaos.

Qin Lang, who was drinking with guests, suddenly vomited blood and died.

When the imperial physician arrived, he was already dead.

In this situation, even if the imperial physician said that he died suddenly because his old injury relapsed due to excessive drinking, it would be a serious matter.

The world also believes that she was a jinx to her husband.

Although the Holy Elephant Emperor suppressed the related discussions again, this time it was slightly different from the last. No matter how much he suppressed it, everyone still implicitly agreed that the original owner was a jinx who brought misfortune to her husbands, and a particularly bad one at that, since the one who died this time was a jinx who had consecutively caused the deaths of two fiancées.

That's practically double the jinx!

Even the most malevolent spirits cannot stop it.

After this incident, Emperor Shengxiang actually still considered finding another husband for the original owner of this body, but this time no one was willing; they would kneel down and kowtow at the mere mention of the name. At the same time, Emperor Shengxiang thought that if another one died, it would perfectly confirm that his daughter was a jinx to her husbands.

That wouldn't be good for the royal family's reputation either.

So, they had no choice but to find the original owner of this body and let her stay in the princess's mansion to live as a widow. At the same time, they also allowed the original owner to keep male lovers in private, as long as they didn't make a big fuss and let everyone know.

However, the original owner of this body was too shy to admit it.

She remained in the princess's residence as a widow.

This can be considered as giving the Duke of Qin's mansion an explanation.

If nothing unexpected happened, the original owner would most likely have remained a widow until her death, but an unexpected event occurred.

On November 12th of the 38th year of the Holy Elephant Era, the original owner's father, the Holy Elephant Emperor, passed away. His half-brother, the Crown Prince, ascended the throne. At the beginning of the following year, which can also be called the first year of the Xianghe Era, on the 9th day of the third month, the Western Rong Empire launched a fierce invasion.

The border troops were defeated, and the Duke of Qin was killed in battle.

After sending envoys to negotiate, the Western Rong Empire requested a marriage alliance.

Throughout history, the so-called "marriage alliances" were not really about sending a princess to marry into the country; the real purpose was to obtain a dowry. In essence, these alliances were a form of extortion. Whether the princess was real or not was irrelevant; what mattered was that the dowry had to satisfy them.

If the dowry does not satisfy them, they may torture and kill the princess at any time, and then casually report her as dying of illness, since it is not uncommon for people to die from acclimatization problems.

They will invade again until they are satisfied.

The Tianhong Empire was well aware of this.

It's just that a marriage alliance sounds better than paying reparations, so demanding reparations through a marriage alliance can be considered a tacit understanding between the two parties.

The reparations were quickly settled, as the Western Rong Empire, having already plundered the borders, didn't demand an exorbitant amount. However, the selection of a relative became problematic. Wanting to humiliate the Tianhong Empire, the envoy specifically requested that the princess be a genuine one, not a collateral descendant.

The Crown Prince, the current Emperor Xianghe has few children.

He only has two daughters, one is ten years old, and the other is old enough to be married off, but he can't bear to part with her.

The process involved many morning meetings and discussions.

Later, it was the Empress Dowager who reminded him that the late emperor's daughter was also a princess, a princess of the highest order, and specifically recommended the original owner of this body. The reason was quite simple and direct: if the original owner was truly a jinx to her husband, wouldn't it be a good thing to send her to marry a foreign ruler and cause the other Khan to die? Even if she didn't die, it didn't matter.

The widow remarried the Khan.

It wouldn't be so shameful for royalty to spread the word; it would sound better than marrying off a virgin.

The only potential problem is that the original owner's father-in-law, the Duke of Qin, had just died on the battlefield at the hands of the Western Rong Empire's army, and they were sending the princess, who was nominally married to the Duke of Qin's second son, to marry him.

No matter how you look at it, it seems a bit inappropriate.

It's also a bit disheartening!
Finally, the Empress Dowager personally summoned the Duchess of Qin and explained the theory of her husband's demise to her, saying that it might help her avenge her husband.

Then the Duchess of Qin was also tempted.

Furthermore, she knew very well that the fact that the Empress Dowager had specifically told her about this matter likely meant that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor already had this idea, or even had made a decision. If she objected at this point, wouldn't that be deliberately making things difficult for herself? So, she naturally said that there was no problem.

Everything is subject to the Empress Dowager's will.

So the next step was to take the matter to the imperial court for a brief discussion, and it was passed very smoothly.

The original owner of this body was the last to find out, since she was widowed alone in the princess's residence and neither attended court nor went to the palace. By the time her mother, Consort Su, finally informed her of the news, the imperial edict had already been issued.

The original owner had no way to refuse.

You have to agree, whether you like it or not.

Emperor Xianghe was quite satisfied with her for being so sensible and obedient, so he reciprocated by promoting her mother's rank before the original owner was about to be married off.

She was promoted to the rank of Noble Consort Dowager.

Immediately following this, the original owner was bestowed the title of Princess Anguo, and she was given a dowry far exceeding the normal dowry standards for a princess, and then she went to the Western Rong Empire with the delegation.

She married the fifty-something-year-old Khan of the Western Rong.

At the same time, the wife of Keli Dahan from Xirong died two years ago, and the original owner of this body was indeed very beautiful, a real beauty. So after seeing the original owner's appearance, Keli Dahan gave up his original idea of ​​making the original owner an ordinary concubine and made the original owner his second wife.

He died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a year later.

But you can't blame the original owner of this body. He drank alcohol and ate meat every day, consuming dairy products like water and rice, and weighed nearly 300 pounds. It's obvious he had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. He wasn't young either, over fifty. A stroke or other cardiovascular disease could have killed him sooner or later. Fortunately, the people in the Western Rong Empire weren't very familiar with the original owner's reputation, so they didn't take it seriously.

After the funeral, Qali Khan's eldest son, Tol, succeeded him as Khan, and also inherited the title of stepmother.

All the concubines of Qaghan who had no children.

They all entered his harem.

Most importantly, because the original body belonged to the principal wife of Qaghan and had no children, it was inherited by Tolek Khan and became his Khatun.

His original wife was demoted in rank.

It became Kehedun.

According to the Central Plains Dynasty's understanding, the original owner was the Empress, and her stepson's original wife became the Imperial Noble Consort. Anyway, the original owner herself was also confused at the time.

They were unwilling and wanted to resist, but they were helpless.

Then, less than six months later, Ptole died.

He was killed by two giant eagles.

Because the eagle was the totem of the Western Rong Empire, being killed by a giant eagle was seen by the nobility of the Western Rong Empire, including the shamanic class, as no different from divine retribution. It was essentially equivalent to the emperor of the Central Plains dynasty being struck by lightning, and was of the same shock level.

Therefore, the entire Xirong leadership was thrown into chaos instantly.

The surviving brothers of Tol Khan immediately used this incident as an excuse to try to implement the system of succession by brothers.

This greatly worried Güyük, the eldest son of Ptolemy.

Meanwhile, what was happening in the Tianhong Empire? The capital of the Tianhong Empire was celebrating the deaths of two Khans of the Xirong Empire in less than a year. At the same time, almost everyone believed that Princess Anguo was an extremely unlucky woman, bringing death to whoever married her—even the Khan, comparable to an emperor, couldn't withstand her!
Some people say that the princess made the right choice in marriage, and that such a cursed star should have been married off to an enemy country.

If only there were more princesses like this, traveling around to marry foreign rulers.

Why worry about the world not being at peace?

In short, they had absolutely no sense of secrecy, which made it common knowledge throughout the capital, and even reached businessmen in other parts of the capital and foreign countries, who then spread the news.

Some loyal merchants of the Western Rong Empire immediately felt that this matter was very important, and were also worried that the new Khan would continue to make Princess Anguo the Khan's Khatun.

Therefore, they specially sent the letter back by fast horse.

They arrived just before the internal strife broke out among the high-ranking officials of the Western Rong.

Although there are cultural differences between the two sides, with proper explanation, there is no problem in understanding. The rumors in the capital of the Tianhong Empire were heard by the high-ranking officials of the Western Rong as Princess Anguo being a demon, a terrifying demon who would curse and kill her own husband.

She also killed two husbands in the Tianhong Empire.

Therefore, Princess Anguo was a demon deliberately sent by the Tianhong Empire to kill their Khan.

With this explanation, the crux of the conflict is clearly not that the First Khan was killed by the giant eagle and suffered divine retribution. Rather, it's about how to deal with this female demon sent by the Tianhong Empire, who killed two Khans, and how to prevent her from killing more Khans or leaving behind any curses or the like.
The Western Rong Empire was actually quite superstitious.

Especially regarding their own beliefs.

In their view, a female demon who could curse and kill a Khan protected by the gods, and who had killed two Khans in a row, was undoubtedly terrifying. If she could not be completely suppressed, she would surely still have great power even after death.

So their internal strife was quickly and temporarily relieved.

They then began discussing with the priestly class how to eliminate the original body, the key being to ensure its complete demise.

There was no chance to cause trouble or curse.

Immediately afterwards, the original owner, in a state of complete ignorance, suffered all kinds of ancient and vicious tortures from the entire high-ranking priesthood of the Western Rong Empire. She was tortured to the point of being almost unrecognizable as human, and was finally dragged to the stake to have her demonic soul burned with the fire of purification.

The original owner only learned the whole story from a slave of the Tianhong Empire who couldn't bear to see her die under such circumstances, the day before she was burned to death.

Then she came to hate Emperor Xianghe's entire family.

Because of what they did, and why they discussed this matter so extensively, they didn't care about her life or safety at all, and may not have even considered her at all.

They haven't suffered any retribution yet, but she's about to be burned to death, enduring so much torture before she dies.

If they can keep it a secret and not talk nonsense.

How could she do this?

Before she was burned to death the next day, the person she hated most was not the people who burned her to death, but her half-brother, Emperor Xianghe, who pushed her into this fire pit, and her stepmother who gave her advice. She was most worried about her mother.