Chapter 1 — To Dao Dao

The night she became friends with the Crown Prince, the capital suddenly broke out in a mutiny. I put on my eldest sister's clothes, and Ta Yen pretended to be the Crown Prince. The rebels forced Ta Yen to fight with us right in front of everyone. After that, King Ky led his troops into the city and quelled the rebellion. Ky Vuong is my fiance. He carried me in my disheveled clothes, stepping over the corpses of the traitors, still wanting to continue to keep this engagement. But the Crown Prince gave me a kiss to Ta Yen. Even the eldest sister advised: "You're lost, Ky Vuong can't keep this matter in mind for the rest of your life. Listen to me, Ta Yen is the best choice for you." But after we got married, Ta Yen never touched me. He strangled my neck and questioned in a harsh voice: "Every time I see this face of yours, I remember how humiliating that night of the mutiny was. Why didn't you commit suicide? If you used a white silk strip to end your life to preserve your reputation as a martyr, I will definitely remember you for the rest of my life." I asked in return: "Then why didn't you commit suicide? If you died, I would also remember you for the rest of my life." Ta Yen immediately asked in return: "Then why didn't you commit suicide? strangled me to death. "Surely you are a prostitute!" When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the night my eldest sister and the Crown Prince got married. The rebel army forced Ta Yen to have sex with me in front of everyone. I pulled out the sword from a rebel's waist and without hesitation stabbed Ta Yen's lower body. The night Ta Yen strangled me to death, the two of us had a fierce argument. He said that for the rest of his life, he could not forget the humiliation of being forced by the rebels to share a room with me. His eyes were bloodshot, he screamed: "I would rather have bowed myself that year than touched you." So when I opened my eyes again, I returned to the night of bowing and disappearing. The rebels mistakenly thought Ta Yen was the Crown Prince, and I was the Crown Prince. They dragged the two of us to the front of Huyen Duong main hall, raised a knife and threatened Ta Yen to take off my clothes and have sex with me right in front of everyone. I don't cry and beg like in my previous life. Instead, he stood up, pulled out the sword from a rebel's waist, and slashed it straight down at Ta Yen's lower body. The blade is extremely sharp, I strike quickly and dangerously, without even the slightest hesitation. Fresh blood splattered all over my face. Ta Yen's pitiful cry like a pig being punctured echoed throughout the main hall. He widened his eyes, eyes full of disbelief, just like my expression before I died, unable to believe that just because he could not forget the humiliation of that night, he would strangle me to death. After my death, my soul still lingered in Ta palace for a long time. I saw Ta Yen hugging my body, crying so pitifully that it was extremely fake. This story quickly spread out. Father, brother and sister all came to mourn. Ta Yen put on a white mourning outfit, knelt in front of the shrine and said: "Dao Dao still cannot forget the humiliation of the night of the palace's disappearance." "A year after getting married, she never let me touch her." "I thought that if I just gave her more time, the wound in my heart would heal." "I didn't expect that she would think so hard and commit suicide." "If I had known that she would never be able to overcome the obsession in her heart..." Ta Yen cried so much that she couldn't make a sound. Everyone feels sorry for him. Everyone advised: "The dead cannot be resurrected, the living must continue their lives." "Dao Dao is a virgin who kept her virginity, I will definitely ask the court to give her a virginity plaque." Ta Yen herself went to the palace to beg. He also personally wrote a praising poem engraved on the plaque, with beautiful words and outstanding literary talent. When Ky Vuong received the news, he rushed back from the northern border

Come back, we have passed the five-sat ceremony. King Ky did not believe that I would use a white silk strip to end my life, so he secretly had someone dig the grave. Because after we got married, he secretly sent me a few letters. He told me to try to live on. He said: "Being alive is more important than anything, even if I have to endure it." I once promised him: "I will definitely grit my teeth and continue to live." Ky Vuong ordered the coffin to be opened for an autopsy. Ngoc Tac concluded that he died from strangulation. That night, King Ky rushed straight into Ta palace. He chopped Ta Yen into thousands of pieces. He questioned in a harsh voice: "Why did you strangle Dao Dao? The girl I prayed for was not even possible, why don't you know how to cherish it?" Ta Yen knelt at Ky Vuong's feet like a dog, constantly kowtowing and begging him to spare her life. He lied to Ky Vuong: "In Dao Dao's heart, there is only you. She regrets marrying me, and for a year after getting married, she refused to let me touch her." "I am also a normal man, how can I endure the fact that my wife was married properly without me in her heart?" "I was just angry at the moment, I was too harsh." "I really didn't mean to strangle her, it was just an accident." "In the end, it's all because of you. That year, why didn't you resolutely stop the marriage between me and Dao Dao?" "It's obvious that she was your fiancee, why did you let her marry me?" "All the tragedies today are caused by you, King Ky." At that time, my soul was floating in the room, wishing I could kill Ta Yen with a knife. Obviously, it was because he couldn't forget the humiliation of the night of the palace's disappearance that he tried to strangle me.