CH 5

Chapter 5.1 Past

The Ninth Princess stood behind Xiao Lin and looked cynically towards Susu. She loved to see Ye Xi Wu embarrass herself in front of her Sixth Imperial Brother.

Su Su felt gloomy. Didn’t the Ninth Princess say that she would bear the consequences of this match? People who go back on their words, such as Ninth Princess, would be killed and robbed thousands of times by the strong if they lived in the cultivation realm instead.

Chun Tao was distraught.

The Third Miss usually cares about the Sixth Prince’s opinion the most. She would be brimming with anger every time the Sixth Prince treated her coldly.

It wasn’t easy for the Third Miss to keep a kind and pleasant countenance right now. It was uncertain if she’d lose her temper again when she returned.

Chun Tao quietly raised her gaze and looked at the Third Miss, but she saw neither a sad nor pained expression on her face.

Su Su quickly adjusted her state of mind. Five hundred years ago, the Eldest Senior Brother still didn’t know who she was, so it was understandable for him to protect his sister. Crossing back five hundred years in time, Su Su felt that she should be happy to see someone who has died once again.

Her Eldest Senior Brother died protecting the sect. He was a hero.

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What else couldn’t Xiao Lin understand? He had a good and honest personality and was a real gentleman. Since his sister had created this havoc, he naturally wouldn’t blame Su Su. “This prince misunderstood. I hope the Third Miss will forgive me,” he said to Su Su.

Su Su didn’t expect that Xiao Lin would apologise, so she quickly shook her head.

To Su Su, Eldest Senior Brother is the second-best in the world, second only to Dad. She could never blame her Eldest Senior Brother.

In Su Su’s opinion, the original owner’s attitude wasn’t good, but she had excellent eyesight. Her Eldest Senior Brother was upright and benevolent. It was a pity that he died too early.

It was understandable why Xiao Lin hated the original owner so much in the past. First, the original owner always did inhuman things. Second, the original owner argued stubbornly. Even when she did terrible things, she was still confident that she was in the right.

Although Xiao Lin had apologised to Su Su, his impression of Su Su didn’t change.

After all, that day when his wife, Ye Bing Shang, fell into the water, it was really the Third Miss Ye’s doing. So he just gave a faint nod to Su Su, turned around, and left without looking back.

The Ninth Princess didn’t expect Ye Xi Wu, who used to only go crazy, be quiet, not make any trouble, and explain things to her Imperial Brother properly. But, seeing her Imperial Brother wouldn’t help her reprimand Su Su, she stomped her feet, turned around, and ran away.

“Imperial Brother, wait for me.”

After the Xiao siblings left, Su Su turned around and saw Chun Tao giggling.

“What are you laughing about?” Su Su couldn’t help but ask.

“This is the first time the Sixth Prince has gone soft on Miss,” Chun Tao couldn’t help but reply.

General Ye holds a large number of armies in his hands, so even the Emperor will not touch the Third Miss easily. However, the promising Sixth Prince has never hidden his hatred towards her. In the past, he had always kept a calm face and scolded the Third Miss coldly.

The most severe time was when the Eldest Miss was still unmarried. The Third Miss wanted to slap the Eldest Miss’s face, but the Sixth Prince immediately pushed the Third Miss away.

At that time, the Third Miss was so angry that she smashed everything she could destroy in her room.

Hearing what Chun Tao said, Su Su felt like laughing.

Chun Tao, this silly girl, is really broad-minded. Chun Tao must know that she would be disfigured if the Ninth Princess’s whip really hit her face.

But in the end, this little girl’s heart is still thinking about the love and hatred between her own Miss and the Sixth Prince. But, unfortunately, both of them have been married separately and any romance has long since become impossible.

Xiao Lin just calmly apologised once and Chun Tao was this happy. Just how much did the Sixth Prince hate the original owner?

Su Su thought of the Eldest Senior Brother’s gentle face that had tied her hair when she was a child. Her Eldest Senior Brother rarely loathed anyone, but he treated this body with great disdain.

Su Su felt hopeless of others’ impressions of her now.

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The Empress Dowager made Su Su stay for some time before she let her go.

As General Ye said, Empress Dowager had looked very kind and forgiving.

But Su Su didn’t think this was really so. Empress Dowager should’ve known from the beginning about the Ninth Princess finding Su Su to spar in martial arts, but she didn’t mention a word about it at all.

Su Su guessed that maybe it was the Empress Dowager that allowed the Ninth Princess to come.

After all, if the Ninth Princess had succeeded, Su Su would have been whipped into an embarrassing state by now. Then, the Empress Dowager would’ve comforted her with a few sentences and became a good person in this situation.

Su Su secretly said that it seemed the Ye Family was so famous that they easily attract criticism. Therefore, the royal family must have already been dissatisfied with the Ye Family.

Sometimes, when people forgive you, it doesn’t always mean that they are fond of you, but that they fear you.

In the past, there were often wars to fight, so the Imperial family of Xiao needed General Ye, the “God of War”. However, the country has been prosperous and peaceful in recent years, and the imperial family’s high positions were stable. Hence, it was inevitable that they would begin to feel dissatisfied with the subjects that could threaten their position.

Although Su Su wasn’t born in the mortal world and was ignorant of its rules, she was still able to understand this kind of reasoning. It’s just that she doesn’t know what General Ye thinks.

On her way back to the palace, Su Su suddenly remembered something.

“Do you know where Tantai Jin used to stay in the past?” Su Su asked the little eunuch that was leading the road.

The little eunuch had known the temper of the Ye Family’s Third Miss beforehand, so he didn’t dare to lift his head while he led the way for her. When he suddenly heard Su Su’s question, he hurriedly replied, “The hostage prince used to live in the cold palace.”

“Oh, the cold palace. Can you bring me there?”

The little eunuch looked a little conflicted.

Su Su suddenly remembered what her father taught her- to understand the world’s wisdom when she arrives in the mortal world. Thus, she removed a hairpin on her head and gave it to the little eunuch. “Much obliged, gonggong1.”

“I can’t receive it, can’t receive it.” The little eunuch hurriedly said. It’s good enough if this Miss from the general family didn’t beat him.

“It’s alright, just take it,” Su Su said.

The little eunuch hesitated for a moment. In the end, he kept the hairpin properly and led the way for Su Su.

Not long after, a dilapidated palace came into Su Su’s view.

Chapter 5.2 Past

“This was the place where the hostage prince stayed in the past. Miss Ye, this servant needs to return to my job. The cold palace is desolate, Miss Ye shouldn’t stay here for too long.” he couldn’t help but remind her as he had received her reward.

“Thank you.” Su Su nodded her head.

The little eunuch then left.

It was also Chun Tao’s first time coming to the cold palace. She saw the weeds in the courtyard which were three feet high and thought of the rumours that the cold palace is constantly haunted. She couldn’t help but tremble. “Miss, what are we doing at the cold palace?”

Su Su walked in and felt a surge of yin energy. But now, she was just a mortal, so she couldn’t see anything.

“If you are scared, wait for me outside. I will come out soon.” Su Su said to Chun Tao.

Chun Tao hurriedly shook her head. “I will follow Miss.” The Third Miss’s status is very honourable. If anything were to happen to her or if she was injured, Chun Tao couldn’t live either.

Seeing Chun Tao’s persistence, Su Su didn’t say anything else. Instead, she held the end of her skirt and stepped into the cold palace.

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The immortal seniors took great pains to collect the “Past Mirror” fragments and finally repaired it. However, the broken mirror could only show one blurry final opportunity—— That the original body of the devil king five hundred years ago, named Tantai Jin, was once a weak mortal.

However, his weakness and the cause of his depravity couldn’t be reflected in the mirror. Moreover, the evil bone could not be destroyed even if you destroy the body and the soul. So Tantai Jin’s body died, and eighteen years later, his body reformed, and he only became more robust.

To put it simply, killing him will make him stronger.

The Immortal Seniors: ……

The Elders were worried sick. Seeing the cultivation realm was about to fall, they gritted their teeth and decided to sacrifice nearly ten thousand years of cultivation to turn things around. After divination, they chose to send Su Su back five hundred years in the hope that she could remove the evil bone from Tantai Jin’s body, and from there destroy him completely.

A devil king without an evil bone is so weak and vulnerable that they can’t absorb the world’s resentment and evil Qi to revive anymore.

This was the last method.

It was a nice thought.

Before Su Su departed, she asked her father seriously, “How should Su Su remove the evil bone and destroy it?”

The green-robed Sect Leader coughed. “Daughter, you must think of a method yourself. Understand his past, find out what he fears the most, and the jade bracelet your mother left you might be able to help.”

It was the same whether he had said it or not. So, what should she do?

The immortal sect was unreliable, so Su Su needed to figure out a way and explore it on her own.

Su Su uncertainly thought that learning about his past and going to the place he lived before should reveal quite a bit of information.

There was a well in the middle of the cold palace.

Su Su walked over and squatted down to have a look. She saw several skeletons of creepy white bones at the bottom of the well. It was a dry well, and she didn’t know how many years it had been like that.

So Tantai Jin used to live in a place where corpses piled up.

“Don’t come over.” Su Su hurriedly told Chun Tao, who was behind her. Chun Tao was puzzled but nodded obediently.

Su Su found a few stones and set up a rebirth array formation, hoping that she could help them to disperse their grievances and reincarnate sooner.

She doesn’t have spiritual energy, so she could only do that much.

Chun Tao felt eeriness everywhere. She couldn’t imagine how the hostage prince grew up in such a place. The more Chun Tao felt afraid, the more she wanted to look around. “Miss, there seemed to be a sound coming from that room?” Chun Tao said with a shaking voice.

Su Su turned around and walked towards the room.

“Miss……”

“It’s okay.”

Su Su pushed the door open, and the dust fell down. The room was full of cobwebs which made Su Su choke and cough.

An older woman was squatting in the corner of the room. Her eyes looked empty, and she had her arms wrapped around her body as she swayed.

Su Su was stunned. She didn’t expect that there were still people here.

She walked over, but the older woman was totally unaware of her presence. Su Su smelled a sour odour coming from the older woman’s body.

“Grandma2, why are you here?”

The older woman didn’t respond at all; she wasn’t listening.

When Chun Tao saw that it was a living person, she let out a sigh of relief. Then, with uncertainty, she said, “Miss, I heard that when the hostage prince was sent by the Zhou Kingdom as a hostage, he was just six years old, and there was a nanny who took care of him that followed him.”

But a little prince’s nanny must have been in her twenties when she came here. Now, it has only been fourteen years. How could she have become so worn, like an old lady in her sixties, and even turned crazy.

Su Su was stunned. This person turned out to be Tantai Jin’s nanny?

Five hundred years later, she had also met such pitiful older people in the turbulent world. But there’s no devil king in this world. So how can someone become like this?

This made her feel as if she was still in her previous chaotic world.

Su Su didn’t say anything and swept off the cobwebs on the older woman’s head.

Chun Tao said uneasily, “Miss……”

“Let’s go out.”

According to reason, the one who understands Tantai Jin the most should be this older woman, but she had already lost her mind.

Su Su sat on the sedan chair and wasn’t in a hurry to go back. Instead, she called a palace maid, “Can you help me to find the momo which is in charge of the cold palace?”

When the sun rose high, a purple clothing momo3 stepped on the thick snow, walked over to Su Su, and bowed. “Why did Tantai Jin’s nanny become crazy?” Su Su asked.

She did the same as what she had done before and gave the momo a golden hairpin.

That kind of evil thing surely won’t even let his nanny go.

The momo happily accepted the golden hairpin as she couldn’t gain any benefits at the cold palace. Su Su was very generous. Hence the momo felt like spilling everything out since Tantai Jin’s matters were not a secret. “Thank you, Miss Ye, for your reward. Regarding this matter, this old servant indeed knows something about it. The hostage prince and Liu shi 4came to the cold palace fourteen years ago.”

“The hostage prince at that time looked very tender. A cold palace is a filthy place. Many of the guards and eunuchs in this palace have that same kind of hobby……”

Chun Tao’s face turned red then pale.

“Liu shi managed to protect the hostage prince, but she suffered instead. They don’t have much status in the imperial palace. This old servant heard that when they didn’t have food to eat and didn’t have clothes to wear in the winter, Liu shi would……”

“That’s enough.” Chun Tao couldn’t help but interrupt. She was already palpating with anxiety and fear when she heard it, so how could she let the Miss continue to listen.

“Let her speak, talk about Tantai Jin.”

“Aiyo Miss Ye, regarding the hostage prince, this old servant doesn’t really know much. The princes loved to play when they were young. So they liked to call the hostage prince to be their playmate. So this old servant occasionally saw the hostage prince, and there wasn’t a place on his body that wasn’t beaten.”

She spoke vaguely. Many times, the momo saw them treating the hostage prince like an animal and humiliating him.

The momo stopped talking at this point. She abruptly remembered what relationship the person in front of her had with the person from the cold palace in the past. The momo felt awkward inside. She didn’t know what Miss Ye’s attitude towards the hostage prince was. However, she spoke lightly about the details of the truth, so there shouldn’t be any impact.

Su Su pursed her lips, and her heart felt heavy. She didn’t expect that Tantai Jin didn’t cause Liu shi’s current state.

The young man’s delicate and pretty face suddenly emerged in front of her eyes, as well as the cold and gloomy look in his eyes. No wonder he was silent no matter how he was beaten or punished to kneel, like a wooden person. All these might be common occurrences for him.

“After Tantai Jin left the palace, who is taking care of Liu shi?”

The momo is used to observing a person’s mood. So, after considering for a while, she spoke of the truth after seeing that the Third Miss Ye seems harmless.

“It was said that before the hostage prince left the palace, he gave Zhao Momo from the Clothing Bureau some silver and asked her to send some food to Liu shi.”

However, with just that little money, Zhao Momo would at most give Liu shi mantou when she remembers to as if she was feeding a dog.

“Chun Tao.” Su Su called.

She took the embroidered pouch from Chun Tao’s hand, took out a few ingots, and gave them to the momo. “Whenever momo is free, please look after Liu shi. Change her clothes and bathe her. Let her eat better. If the next time I enter the palace and see Liu shi in a better condition, I will surely express my thanks to momo. Don’t tell anyone about this.”

The momo in purple smiled so wide that her teeth were revealed and her eyes couldn’t be seen. She accepted the heavy gold. “Miss Ye, don’t mention it. This maidservant will remember your orders.”

After the momo walked far away, Chun Tao’s eyes brightened and she quietly said, “Miss, are you sympathising with the hostage prince?”

Su Su said with a stiff face, “Nonsense. Do I look like I am sympathising with Tantai Jin? I’m just thinking of the bravery of Liu shi protecting her owner, and she shouldn’t end up like this.” Even if she sympathised with a small ant, she mustn’t sympathise with Tantai Jin.

Chun Tao stifled her laughter.

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