Chapter 4 — To Dao Dao

"Ta Yen is worthy of this year's exam, completely deserving." Ky Vuong pushed the breakfast plate in front of me and asked if I was satisfied. While eating the cinnamon flower cake, I replied: "Satisfied, extremely satisfied." "Ta Yen values reputation and dignity, so he can only grit his teeth and swallow this anger." "I want to see if he will choose reputation and dignity, or admit that he is a useless person whose destiny I almost cut off." Doesn't Ta Yen want to maintain his reputation? So I will lift him up, put him straight on the fire and roast him. When the courtiers in the main hall were arguing to the point that no one would give in to the question of whether I should take responsibility or not, Ta Yen pulled her crippled body and hurriedly ran over. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but was still forced to stand in front of the civil and military officials and admit: "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with To Dao Dao." "The palace night changed, it was the palace itself." Father Ta angrily shouted: "Yen Nhi, what nonsense are you talking about? It's obvious..." Ta Yen immediately interrupted his father: "Father, the traitors forced me to humiliate To Dao Dao right in front of them, how could I do such a beast thing?" like that?" "In times of emergency, I can only protect Dao Dao's innocence. Isn't this what people have taught me since childhood? It is better to leave a clean reputation in the world." Your Majesty laughed loudly: "Good, very good!" "As expected of a son taught by Ta Thai himself. The Ta family's honor is truly commendable." "From now on, the Ta family will be the first noble family of the city Kien An. I will personally give the letter to the Ta family." The news reached the tea house at the same time I was listening to him tell endless stories about how after Ta Yen bowed himself, I was not afraid of death and took out my knife to risk my life against the rebels. He told it as if he saw it with his own eyes. The surrounding guests were stunned. "Is it true or not? Did the young lady of the To family single-handedly kill more than twenty traitors?" "What a noble woman of the time, worthy of being the wife of Ky Vuong who has not yet passed through the door." "Truly a match made in heaven." I raised my eyebrows: "In the version of the story I gave, there was no such part." Ky Vuong smiled: "I added it." "Dao Dao, the two of us were a natural match. Before I just thought she was a young lady who knew how to recite poetry and paint pictures. It wasn't until that night that I truly understood her." "The sight of her swinging her sword down and risking her life against the rebels made me so fascinated that my soul went crazy." He didn't know that my soul had been by his side for many years. The courage I learned every time I swung my sword down was something I learned from him. Ky Vuong said: "But Ta Yen has to swallow such a big lump of anger, in the dark he will definitely not let it go." "Dao Dao, we should get married soon." I replied: "Okay." But I didn't expect that the first person who came to settle accounts with me would be Ta Yen's soul in her previous life. He clings to me, just like I used to follow Ky Vuong in my previous life. Moreover, his morality is a bit higher than mine. From beginning to end, Ky Vuong could not see my soul, only vaguely felt my existence. But Ta Yen's soul can appear under the moonlight. In his previous life, he was chopped into hundreds of pieces by King Ky. His face looked like it was patched together from countless scraps of flesh that had just been reluctantly assembled into a head. That night, my father called me to his study and said that Ky Vuong wanted to push the wedding forward sooner, and he agreed. Father said that right now is a time of many changes, the sooner you get married, the sooner you can rest assured. Leaving my father's study, I took the lamp and walked into the night. While passing by the garden, a wind suddenly passed by my face. The cold air squeezed my throat. Ta Yen gritted her teeth

Loi glared at me: "Dao Dao, my wife, who do you want to marry?" He thought I would scream in fear, but I just curled my eyes and smiled. Maybe he wanted to strangle me, but his hand went straight through my neck, unable to grasp anything, leaving only a cold feeling on my neck. Ta Yen was so angry that she was crazy: "Aren't you afraid of me?" "What am I afraid of you? Just a wild ghost." I myself have been a wild ghost for more than ten years, what's so scary? I deliberately smiled and mocked: "Do you want to strangle me?" "Come here, just like in your previous life, break my throat." "It's just a pity..." "You can't even touch my neck." "What a useless thing." The wind became more and more intense, rolling the dry leaves on the ground and scattering, emitting a sound like a ghost crying wolf. But unfortunately, that's all. He couldn't have caused a bigger storm. Ta Yen's body is no longer there. When I poked him in a painful spot, his eyes wished he could kill me immediately: "To Dao Dao, you dare to cut off my life with a sword." "Who gave you that courage?" I laughed: "The night you strangled me, didn't you say with your own mouth that you would rather be self-sufficient than touch me?" "Now that I have fulfilled you, why don't you laugh?" anymore?" At this time I was even more curious: "So you saw with your own eyes a sword that cut off your life base?" "At that time you really wanted to stop it, right?" "But just like now you want to strangle me but can't touch me, at that time your whole body was also covered with a feeling of helplessness, right?" Ta Yen's eyes looked at me with even more hatred. Sure enough, I guessed correctly. I laughed softly: "It's so fun!" "If you like to disperse the ghost so much, I welcome you to witness with your own eyes the grand wedding of me and Ky Vuong." "Remember to come and drink wine to celebrate."... In my previous life, Ky Vuong and I actually had a wedding. That was the seventh year after my death. King Ky recovered five citadels on the northern border, returned victorious, and led his army back to the court.