Accidentally dressed as an empress

Time goes back to the night before the execution. In the imperial prison, Yun Ji, wearing heavy handcuffs and shackles, sat on a pile of straw, lost in thought.

For so many days, no one has come to visit her. From the moment Lin Hong captured the Rong tribe leader and Gu Zezhi entered the Yunji Palace, she already knew her fate.

She also accepted her fate: the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy.

The winch crossbow missed its target, and the situation was extremely unfavorable. Facing the indiscriminate attacks of the Rong people, she had no choice but to rescue the woman in order to protect herself and leave a way out.

Unfortunately, she risked her life to shield that woman from the arrows, thinking it would dispel suspicion, but it couldn't shake her hardened heart in the slightest. In front of that woman, she had no chance of survival.

That woman was not her mother. A mother would never be so careless about the love she has for her children.

That woman was just the cold-blooded and ruthless king sitting in the Yunji Palace.

She convicted herself of treason, and her only concern was that her supreme power would be challenged.

I only hate myself for not recognizing her true nature sooner; I only hate myself for not killing her on the battlefield.

Even a tiger will not eat its own cubs, but humans are more poisonous than tigers.

I have ended up in this situation because I am not cruel enough.

The only person she couldn't let go of was Ajue, and he must be very sad now.

If only Ajue could come to the Imperial Prison. She wanted to hug him and comfort him. He was so innocent and kind, he must have cried his eyes out.

Yun Ji was lost in thought when she saw a tall, slender woman stop at the door of her cell. She wore a pair of slightly too-small black boots, a tight-fitting prison guard uniform, and a pair of gray eyes beneath her ochre hat.

Reuni? Why him?

Liu Ni found out that two female soldiers of the garrison who had been sponsored by Yun Ji were transferred to guard the imperial prison, so he contacted them.

He himself was rescued from the West Market Kiln by Yun Ji. He found the two jailers separately and said to them separately, "The Third Prince was wrongly accused. She saved us out of kindness, but there are those among us who harbor evil intentions and repay kindness with hatred."

"But you are also from the Rong tribe. What if this is a trap..."

"There are good and bad people among you Yun people. We also have good and bad people. I am here to repay the Third Prince's kindness. You know the Third Prince well. Please save her!"

He finally persuaded the two jailers to take turns on duty, and the three of them set out to act.

The two jailers had put knockout drugs in their colleagues' wine in advance, and they all passed out after drinking.

Late at night, after the jailers fainted, Reunion, dressed in a jailer's uniform, walked into the imperial prison with a woman, also dressed in a jailer's uniform, in his arms.

He brought a woman of similar height to Yun Ji from the dilapidated temple, put a human skin mask on her, and let her be beheaded in place of Yun Ji.

The scapegoat was also drugged. Reunite opened the cell door, threw the unconscious woman to the ground, and began to strip off her jailer uniform.

Yun Ji looked at Reuni, who was dressed as a jailer, and understood his intention. Yun Ji scolded him, "You two drunkards, what do you want to do?"

"Of course, just for fun. We're going to die tomorrow anyway, so we might as well give it to me for free." Reunite said loudly.

"I am the princess!"

Reunite cursed, "Bullshit! You're about to die, who cares who you are! Shut up!"

Yun Ji also started to perform, "Woo..."

Yun Ji quickly changed out of his prison uniform and put on a jailer's uniform, and Liu Ni gave the prison uniform to the unconscious woman.

Liu Ni slapped the unconscious woman's thighs, making a rhythmic slapping sound. After half a quarter of an hour, Liu Ni supported Yun Ji and led her out of the prison very smoothly.

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Ruined Temple in the North of the City, Early Morning

"Master, you have suffered." Reuni knelt on one knee and said.

Yun Ji asked him, "Why did you save me?"

Liu Ni replied, "The old patriarch has been very kind to my family. If it weren't for the old patriarch, my mother wouldn't have been able to give birth to me safely."

"Anyway, thank you. You're the only one willing to save me." Yun Ji said, "Give me the dagger."

Reunite took off the dagger hanging from his waist and handed it over.

Yun Ji took the dagger and slashed her face, one cut after another. With her face covered in blood, she said, "There is no Yun Ji in this world anymore."

From now on, she has nothing to do with the Yun family.

Yun Ji pondered his next plan and said to Liu Ni, "That substitute will be killed in the downtown area at noon, and Yun Ji will be dead. And the Third Princess's fiefdom will also be gone. We can't return to the North."

Liu Ni said, "Wherever the young master goes, I will go."

"From now on, we can only take it one step at a time. Let's rest for a day, gather information, and recuperate."

Yun Ji said, "Tomorrow, we'll find another way to leave the city. Your hair and eyes are too easy to see through, so remember to wear a veil."

Reuni complied.

Yun Ji waited quietly for noon to pass, and she was finally a brand new person.

In the afternoon, Yun Ji went out to gather information with bloodstains all over his face.

She even wandered around the gate of the Gu Mansion, where she was mistaken for a beggar and given a bowl of porridge. Yun Ji thought that if Yun Jue married into a family like this, she would have a good home.

Yun Ji returned to the ruined temple, but Liu Ni didn't hear any new information.

Early the next morning, Yun Ji's facial wound had been treated with medicine, and Liu Ni had also prepared a disguise, so the two decided to leave the city.

Passing by the north city gate, Yun Ji saw two corpses hanging high up: a headless female corpse and a green-clothed male corpse. A passerby pointed at the height and said, "The Third Princess and the Fifth Prince are plotting treason. See, evil will be punished."

Yun Ji raised his head and took a closer look. The one in green clothes did look like Yun Jue.

She snatched the bow and arrow from the hunter beside her, bent the bow and shot the arrow at the rope of the mast high up, and Yun Jue fell down.

Yun Ji picked up Yun Jue and ran away. The people behind him chased after him and cursed, "Corpse stealer!"

The guards at the north gate wanted to chase after him, but Zhong Luan stopped them, saying, "Forget it. The body was stolen by corpse snatchers and made into a corpse puppet, which will never be reincarnated. This fate is actually worse than being eaten by crows."

Yun Ji ran all the way holding Yun Jue's body and hid in a dilapidated hut in the northern suburbs outside the city.

She looked at him with his eyes closed, still unable to believe that they had been separated by the Yin and Yang after not seeing each other for three days.

It was cold, cold everywhere, and the grayness of death climbed up his stiff face. Yun Ji lowered her head and kissed his lips, tears already streaming down her face.

Her Ajue, her poor lover, throughout his life, he was just her younger brother, "Ajue... I'm sorry... I will definitely avenge you."

On his scarred face, his eyes seemed to be igniting the fire of the underworld. "I must kill that woman."

That woman was cruel, foolish, and suspicious. She even killed Ajue, who was simple, kind, and peaceful.

She must have killed that woman with her own hands.