Fast Travel: The Hundred-Life Couple

This is a story about an obscure second prince who endured humiliation, won the throne, and finally married his personal maid.

The mother of the hero Yuwen Jian was a maidservant of the empress dowager. Because the emperor favored the concubine, the empress dowager was dissatisfied.

The Empress Dowager drugged the Emperor in the Cining Palace, causing him to favor Yuwen Jian's mother, Zhang. When the Emperor woke up, he hated Zhang extremely.

After the Queen Mother passed away, he had Zhang buried with her and deliberately ignored the existence of the male protagonist, causing him to grow up under the bullying of the palace people.

The heroine, Liu Qingshuang, was a palace maid assigned to the hero since childhood. Her mother was the second prince's wet nurse. Later, she died of poisoning while tasting food for the hero.

The hero and heroine grew up together and depended on each other, and inevitably developed a touching love story.

If they had not stepped on the corpses of others, and had wanted to obtain the throne while also desiring to preserve their love, their love would have been a beautiful story.

Unfortunately, nourishing blooming flowers with blood will attract wild beasts.

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The original owner was the daughter of Concubine Xiao's younger sister. The emperor loved her mother and named her Princess Mingzhu. Since Ye Xiaoli was born, she has been named Princess Jiaoyang.

Because the imperial concubine had no children, she treated the original owner as her own daughter. The emperor liked what the imperial concubine liked, and he also loved the original owner very much.

As a result, the original owner developed an arrogant, cruel and aggressive personality.

But this character may be the result of deliberate guidance from the original owner's father.

The original owner's father was from a famous family in the capital. He once had a fiancée, but later his fiancée's family was convicted, so he hid his fiancée in a house.

Later, his fiancée disappeared while pregnant.

Not long after, Ye's father was forced by his family to get married. It happened that the Ye family was jealous of the emperor's favor towards the imperial concubine's sisters, so they asked Ye's father to marry Princess Mingzhu Xiao. It also happened that Xiao also liked Ye's father's good looks, so the emperor granted the two of them a marriage.

Father Ye had been unable to find his fiancée and had already accepted his fate.

But who would have thought that on the second day after his wedding, when he brought Xiao to the palace to express his gratitude, he accidentally saw his fiancée who was a palace maid.

The two reconnected and learned that his fiancée had accidentally entered the palace and became the second prince's wet nurse. She had an extraordinary relationship with the second prince, so he decided to support the second prince to ascend the throne so that he could renew his relationship with his fiancée in the future.

As a result, his fiancée died for the second prince. He witnessed with his own eyes the scene of his biological daughter and the second prince being bullied by servants in the palace. When comparing her with the original owner who was spoiled and lawless at home, he suddenly felt extremely sorry for Liu Qingshuang.

He vowed to compensate his daughter and make her a queen in the future.

Thus, a situation that lasted for more than ten years was formed.

Father Ye deliberately raised the original owner to appear arrogant and domineering, but in fact he was brainless and stupid, and was easily led by the nose.

But her reputation for cruelty made the well-known men and women of the same age in the capital afraid to contact her, and naturally no one knew her true character.

When the original owner reached marriageable age, despite her distinguished family background, no one was interested in her.

The original owner wasted time until she was sixteen, when the second prince came to propose marriage with full sincerity.

Although the imperial concubines and their sisters suspected that the second prince had ulterior motives, the original owner could no longer care about that. Moreover, the second prince was quite good at disguising himself and looked like a decent human being.

In addition, Ye's father often whispered in Xiao's ear.

Xiao was inevitably moved and persuaded her sister, the imperial concubine.

Just like that, the original owner and the second prince got engaged and got married quickly.

After the wedding, the original owner completely fell into the trap of the second prince. His image as a punching bag among the princes made the original owner feel distressed, and made the original owner willingly "take the initiative" to stand up for him.

After all, those brothers wanted to prevent him from taking over the throne...

"They injured me there... Xiaoli, I know it was wrong for me to trick you into marrying me, but I really love you, and I couldn't bear to see you constantly criticized, so I proposed to you. If you blame me, just kill me."

On the wedding night, Yuwen Jian made up such a lie in order to keep Liu Qingshuang virgin, and cried bitterly in front of the original owner with superb acting skills.

A man sheds three tears and his performance will break your heart.

The original owner was heartbroken and deeply resented the other princes who "persecuted" him. Therefore, the original owner was arrogant and insisted on sending Yuwen Jian to the throne.

So, she deliberately and tyrannically designed the daughters of the second prince's political enemies to be his concubines, holding their life and death in her hands. Or she sent people to assassinate the parents of the political enemies, forcing them to mourn.

Or he deliberately gave other princes sterilization drugs to make them lose the qualification to compete for the throne.

In order to deal with the Third Prince, who had the best potential to be crowned heir, the original owner even forced the Third Prince's consort, who was six months pregnant, to miscarry...

The original owner's numerous evil deeds had directly aroused public outrage. No matter how much the emperor loved the imperial concubine, he couldn't continue to clean up the original owner's mess. Especially since the imperial concubine and her sister were both bedridden due to the original owner's sins, the emperor began to vent his anger on the original owner.

Finally, the original owner was convicted of hundreds of crimes, big and small, and was executed in the autumn.

When the original owner was beheaded, Yuwen Jian saw her off at the execution ground, crying so hard that he almost fainted, which broke the original owner's heart. Finally, before the execution, Yuwen Jian whispered in the original owner's ear: "Go to hell, bitch!"

That was the task assigned to him by Liu Qingshuang, because Liu Qingshuang didn't want the original owner to think that Yuwen Jian loved her when she was dying.

She wanted the original owner to leave this world in an extremely tragic and desperate situation.

After saying this, Yuwen Jian fainted from "excessive grief."

Everyone carried him away, and the original owner was beheaded in a daze.

After the original owner died, Yuwen Jian acted as if he was deeply in love with her and kept using her as an excuse for not wanting to marry another wife, which deeply touched the imperial concubine.

Finally, with the support of the Ye family, the imperial concubine, and the fathers, brothers, and relatives of the concubines who were forcibly taken into the Second Prince's Mansion by the original owner, Yuwen Jian became the crown prince as he wished.

Xiao, the imperial concubine and the emperor died of illness one after another, and Yuwen Jian successfully ascended the throne.

After ascending the throne, the first thing he did was to confer the title of Imperial Consort on Liu Qingshuang. The rest of the concubines and side wives were all inferior to Liu Qingshuang.

Yuwen Jian only favored Liu Qingshuang, and from then on, the two of them were happily... fortunately, they fell into endless troubles.

It turned out that the original owner was at the execution ground and was not actually beheaded.

Under the earnest pleas of the seriously ill imperial concubine, the emperor finally relented. There was a mechanism in the center of the high platform at the execution ground.

When Yuwen Jian pretended to faint, the scene was in a man-made chaos. The people under the platform quickly took advantage of the situation and replaced the original owner with a death row prisoner who looked similar to the original owner.

They sent the devastated original owner to General Wei, the sworn brother of the concubine at the border, overnight.

The original owner's hatred for Yuwen Jian almost drove her crazy. She irrationally asked General Wei to send people to assassinate Yuwen Jian countless times, but was ruthlessly rejected by General Wei.

Finally, General Wei's son Wei Dongxu began to approach the original owner. Although he was a military general, he had a gentle appearance and personality. He tolerated all her bad tempers like the sea, and let her beat and scold him, but never gave up.

The original owner's heart, which was crushed by Yuwen Jian, was patiently reshaped bit by bit by Wei Dongxu. She truly felt the feeling of being surrounded by love, and with the blessings of the people around her, she got together with Wei Dongxu.

But she always had a knot in her heart, that is, if she could not take revenge on Yuwen Jian, she would never be able to truly move forward.

Perhaps God was not on Dayong's side. Since Yuwen Jian ascended the throne, natural disasters have occurred frequently, with floods in the south and droughts in the north. A major earthquake also occurred in the Central Plains. The barbarians on the border continued to harass the people of Dayong and encroach on Dayong's territory.

Internal and external troubles led to uprisings among people in various places, and the country was in chaos.

General Wei was among this group of rebels.

It turns out that General Wei and Concubine Xiao were originally a couple, and they were deeply in love. However, the late emperor, who was General Wei's good brother at the time, went to visit General Wei's house and fell in love with Concubine Xiao, who was then the minister's wife, at first sight.

He ignored the fact that Concubine Xiao was pregnant and threatened the lives of General Wei's entire family, forcing Concubine Xiao to abort the child and enter the palace.

Concubine Xiao and General Wei parted ways with humiliation and hatred.

In order to prevent the late emperor from going back on his word and taking action against General Wei's family, Concubine Xiao forced the late emperor to order General Wei to be sent to the border for garrison and not to return to the capital without being summoned.

Thus, Concubine Xiao and General Wei, the once loving couple, never saw each other again until their death.

Therefore, General Wei actually hated the late emperor and everyone in the Yuwen family, and he was eager to be buried with Concubine Xiao.

Therefore, if he had the chance, even if he wanted to rebel, he would dig up the imperial tomb of the Yuwen family and let his wife Xiao escape from the place she disliked and be free.