Daughter of a Wife Turned to the Royal Phoenix

23rd Year of Jian'an ( A. D.218 ), in the Crown Prince Mansion in the capital city.

Ye Muxi, with her beautiful eyes pinning away, slapped the door desperately while wearing a golden phoenix tail long dress and a veil. But that locked door didn't even budge an inch no matter how hard she was pounding.

"I want to meet Crown Prince, let me out! We Lingwu Marquis Mansion was wronged! My father was not complicit in the rebellion!"

Ye Muxi had been held for 3 days, and her voice was hoarse since she hadn't drunk a drop of water, but she struggled to live until the last minute, dying to see Huangpu Sheng even for one second.

"Pong~"

Finally, a crack from the door signified the red door was opened by someone, and a woman in luxurious outfits gathered by a horde of people walked in. She was wrapped in expensive silks and looked elegant and gorgeous. She was precisely the rival of Ye Muxi----Xu Qiongying, the imperial concubine of Crown Prince Huangpu Sheng.

"Crown Princess, that's all vain efforts. Crown Prince won't see you. He had the order that, you, disgraceful Lady Ye, colluded with Family Ye and offended the superior as a lower one. You are ordered to get killed with the intention of plotting rebellion." Xu Qiongying was looking at Ye Muxi with a smile on her face. Undisguisedly, she was smug, "Ye Muxi, you are doomed to die. Everyone in your Lingwu Marquis Mansion will be killed, and your Crown Princess's position is in my possession since now. I will be the Queen of the Da Qian Dynasty, and I will be the winner who laughs to the end."

Ye Muxi clenched her fists, staring at her coldly, "Xu Qiongying, my father didn't scheme any rebellions, and it was you who set us up! You framed me up only to usurp the Queen's position! Your Family Xu set us up only for power and a prestigious position!"

"What if we really set you up? What will you do? Your Family Ye deserves it!" Xu Qiongyao walked in a rolling gait to Ye Muxi, slapping her in her face, "You have descended to where you are now, and how dare you look at me with that attitude? You are not reconciled, right? You thought that your Lingwu Marquis Mansion could have another rescuer? Don't have any illusion. Check this out--what is this?"

Xu Qiongying took out a Plum Blossom Token from her sleeves.

In the meanwhile, a woman dressed in brocade clothes walked from the outside of the Palace. It was Ye Muxi's best friend who grew up together with her ----Ye Wanrou.

After Lingwu Marquis Mansion had been labeled with the rebellion crime, Ye Muxi handed her Plum Blossom Token to Ye Wanrou and told her to give this to father. This Plum Blossom Token had an extraordinary history, and it was the only thing that might save their family's life.

But at this moment, the Plum Blossom Token was taken by Xu Qiongying, while Ye Wanrou was standing by her side.

"Cousin, why? Why did you betray me! I treated you well, and even if Xu Qiongying bought you with a bulk of money, how could it compare with our relationships as siblings?" Ye Muxi's nails were now buried into her flesh, and she couldn't believe what she was staring at. She had never expected that the person she gave the most credit would surrender the Plum Blossom Token voluntarily to her enemy, for which could salvage her entire family's life.

Ye Wanrou looked sorry, "In fact, I wanted to be the sister of the Queen and could collect some benefits from you. But unfortunately, I feel on edge when you are alive. I am too scared that you may know about the things that happened before. But now, I could tell you honestly."

"Cousin, I am the culprit of the conflagration five years ago. Your mother died because I burned her to death, I also ruined your appearance, and I pushed your brother into the pool and drowned him to death. If you were always stupid like before, maybe I would let you go. But you are getting tougher in the wake of years of battles for power. The tougher you become, the closer I am approaching death. So, I have to let you die first." Ye Wanrou said these verbatims, so brutal and cruel.

Ye Muxi had never suspected Ye Wanrou, and the minute she knew the truth, she felt her heart was cut into pieces. She almost went mad.

"I will kill you! Ye Wanrou, I will kill you!" Ye Muxi was yelling at the top of her lungs which made her veil dropped, unveiling a face covered with multiple scars, which was so horrible.

Her mother and brother ended up with miserable tragedies, and she took her, the one who killed them, as a good sister for her whole life. So ridiculous! Hateful! Pathetic!

"Concubine Xu, why haven't you killed her?" At this moment, there was an impatient voice outside the door, and then a handsome man in bright yellow brocade walked in.

It was exactly the Crown Prince Huangpu Sheng.

"Your Majesty, my father didn't rebel, and we Lingwu Marquis Mansion didn't rebel, so my father is innocent that he was set up by Xu Qiongying and Family Xu. Please, your Majesty, examine this case clearly!" A trace of hope was glinting in Ye Muxi's eyes at the moment she saw Huangpu Sheng, and she was begging him sincerely while pulling his sleeves.

Huangpu Sheng swept over her ugly face with a disgusted look, and he kicked her aside and said coldly, "Ye Lingxiao takes control of the military, so even if he doesn't rebel now, how could we know he would remain in silence and not rebel after he heard your death? I don't want to take the risk. If he was not your dad, he could be a good gun taking the first shot in the battle. What a pity."

Ye Muxi, who was kicked to the ground, looked in shock, "What...what did you say? What do you mean?"

"Your Majesty will take the position of the Emperor tomorrow, and how would he like this kind of hog face to be the Queen? Of course, he will execute you. Don't blame our Majesty to be too cruel to you, and your people in Lingwu Marquis Mansion will all be dead because of you. It is your fault for being the only adored daughter of Ye Lingxiao. It will be big trouble for Majesty if he is not firstly killed." Xu Qiongying held Huangpu Sheng's arm and said in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

Ye Muxi was shaking her head violently as she couldn't believe it, "I don't buy it! Dearest Sheng, you are not that kind of person. You swore to me, and you said you would love me forever..."

"Shut up!" Her words were interrupted by Huangpu Sheng's rage, and he said loathly, "I had to marry you, the ugly woman, with a purpose to take the position of the Emperor. I feel you so gross that I almost vomit. I have tolerated you for years, and finally, I could take the power tomorrow. Now I can't bear for a single second, so I want you to die right now!"

Ye Muxi's beauty was ruined due to the conflagration, so she had always been self-abased and coward, and it was Huangpu Sheng who moved her with his love. Her love for Huangpu Sheng was immeasurable, and she married him in defiance of his father's opinion, and she put the entire Lingwu Marquis Mansion's stakes on him only to fight him for that Emperor's position.

However, out of everyone's expectation, the day he took power would be the last day of her family. In the past, he married her was only for military force. Now, he was controlling every inch of this country, so he didn't need this ugly Crown Princess or Lingwu Marquis Mansion any more.

When all hares were killed, the hounds would be stewed and eaten; when a man has crossed the river, the bridge would be dissembled.

Ridiculously, she has loved him with her life and ended up with this tragic consequence.

Ye Muxi felt her heart torn apart, and then she spat blood. She laughed out insanely to the sky, "I am ugly, so I deserve to die, and my family deserves to die. Our Lingwu Marquis Mansion sacrificed everything for you to fight in the battle, and I dedicated my life to you, but now you want me and my family to die only because you feel my appearance disgusting. Huangpu Sheng, you are so cruel a person! It was me, I was blind, I feel so sorry to my father and the whole Lingwu Marquis Mansion..."

Huangpu Sheng's look was frosty, and he said coldly, "Concubine Xu, use the most ruthless way to kill her. I don't want to see her anymore, and I don't want to end up her life instantly."

"Don't worry, I understand." Xu Qiongying bowed to him happily and turned to Ye Muxi, sneering, "Ye Muxi, you want to be Da Qian's Queen with this ugly face? How could our Majesty disgrace his family history? Someone, come, your Majesty doesn't want to see her, so first, peel off her face skin."

Several guards went forward and pressed Ye Muxi. She was a weak woman who had been starved for 3 days, so how could she struggle off? Then that sharp knife cut her skin on the skull, and her entire face skin was torn off fiercely. In a second, her face was covered in blood, and her facial features were vaguely bloody.

"Ah!" Ye Muxi screamed out inhumanly, and she almost blacked out.

Xu Qiongying then said coldly, "Pull out her tongue in case her scream contaminates Majesty's ears. Cut her piece by piece, and if she dies fast, I will punish you!"

"Don't worry, Princess. We will only make this ugly woman desperate to die!"

Ye Muxi had lost her tongue so that she couldn't talk. She stared at these three people standing in front of her furiously.

Her best sister killed her mother and brother, and the man she loved so much killed her family. She was so stupid to have her emotion towards her siblings and lover that this love clouded her judgments. She was fraught with hatred and being so regretful.

She thought, "Dad, mum, brother, I am so sorry. It's all my fault. I hate myself for not understanding these perpetrators' real looks until today."

"Huangpu Sheng, Ye Wanrou, Xu Qiongying. This debt, I would remember. Even if I died, I would transform into a ghost and take revenge!"

The immense hatred flew into the sky. The snow was flying in June, and both the heaven and the land shared her tremendous sorrow.

"The Third Lady, Old Lady is there anticipating you. If you couldn't wake up the Fourth Miss, none of you could afford her blame when she blames you." An unruly voice was talking.

"You are unreasonable! Muxi fell into the pond, and she was now in a coma, how could she be able to visit Old Lady?" A soft voice was now talking, but she sounded determined.

Another voice was persuading, "Madam, please pour a basin of water on her head. Otherwise, all the people in Xiaoxiang Yard would be punished."

"How dare you to pour anything! Muxi is the Fourth Miss in Ye Mansion anyway. Don't you dare to rebel?" The soft voice was defending her.

The unruly voice said with disdain, "Someone, come! Pull the Third Lady aside, and for the rest, wake up the Fourth Miss. God knows if she is really in a coma."

...

Ye Muxi only felt her skull was torn into two parts due to the severe headache, and the chaos around her sounded familiar and strange. She lifted her eyelids, which seemed to have almost thousands of kilograms' weight, and then she saw a basin of water was going to pour on her face.

Ye Muxi stretched out her hand and blocked it, and then that basin of water was turned over, and the water was poured on to the handmaiden. The handmaiden screamed out, and all the rest stepped forward.

"See? I have said the Fourth Miss was faking her illness. Get up and hurry up, you can't have the Old Lady wait for you." Aunt Gui sneered, and she didn't show any respect to her.

Lin Mingyu broke into a smile and hugged her daughter sitting on the bed, "Muxi, you finally wake up. You scared me."

"The Fourth Miss was not in a coma at all, and she poured water on me deliberately. That was too much even for you, Fourth Miss." The handmaiden, Baoqin, who was in wet complained.

Ye Muxi checked their faces one by one, and she saw her mother Lin Mingyu, handmaiden Baoqin, and steward Aunt Gui?

She thought, "Where am I? Why could I see them? Wasn't my mother died years ago? Is this a hallucination?"

No, this was not a hallucination. It was very real, and the ongoing event was so familiar to her.

After a while, Ye Muxi finally realized what was going on. She was not dead, and she had a rebirth to 5 years ago. A long time had passed, and time took away the people she knew, but the building and dead things remained the same. Ye Muxi took 15 minutes to figure out what was really happening.

Five years ago, she just turned 15 years old, and she was not the daughter of the wife in Lingwu Marquis Mansion but only a daughter of a wife, ranking at the fourth eldest in Family Ye in Jiang State. Her father was the future Lingwu Marquis, and he ranked at the third place in the last generation of Family Ye. He had joined the army at a young age, but he was said to be dead in the war. However, Ye Muxi knew, in a year, her father would come back, and he would be rewarded with the title of Marquis due to the military exploit he would achieve in the war and thus upgrading her as a daughter of the wife in Marquis Mansion.

Her father pretended to be dead for protecting classified military missions, so everyone thought he had deceased already. At this moment, in the entire Da Qian Dynasty, besides the Emperor, only Ye Muxi, the reborn, knew Ye Lingxiao was still alive.

Her mother Lin Mingyu, turned out to be the daughter of a criminal. Her dad was 'dead', and her mother was the daughter of a criminal governor, so they were reduced to a low rank in the Ye Family. She, the Fourth Miss, and the daughter whose mother was the wife, enjoyed a worse situation than a daughter of a concubine.

Ye Muxi had a brother who shared the same mother with her, but he almost died since he was not healthy or strong after birth. To continue his life, Lin Mingyu took her young son to Zhongnan Mountain to recuperate, leaving the young Ye Muxi to get raised by the First Lady of Family Ye.

Ye Muxi was abetted by the First Lady, so she had a better relationship with the First Lady and disliked Lin Mingyu. She thought Lin Mingyu preferred her younger brother rather than her, the daughter.

Lin Minyu felt guilty about abandoning her young girl in the family, but the rules were strictly set in this big family, and she was unable to take Ye Muxi to the Zhongnan Moutain together.

Lin Mingyu was trying hard to compensate her daughter, but Ye Muxi didn't buy it. It was not until the Xiaoxiang Yard was on fire, and Lin Mingyu died for rescuing Ye Muxi that Ye Muxi finally knew how much her mother loved her, but it was too late.

Ye Muxi's appearance was destroyed by that conflagration, and yes, that fire was set by Ye Wanrou!

Ye Wanrou! A cold light was glinting in Ye Muxi's eyes.