After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

"Lu Zhiyuan, how dare you, the Crown Princess of Beiliang, still covet my brother Ye Bai! Shameless!"

“Since you’ve guessed that I’m Lu Zhiyuan, you should understand that my relationship with Ye Bai isn’t what you think.” Lu Zhiyuan handed her a cup of tea. “I met him back in the Northern Liang palace, and we are very good friends. Of course, someone like you wouldn’t understand what friendship is.”

"Friends? You dare say you and my brother Ye Bai are just friends!" Yue Li shouted hoarsely, "What friend would do so much for someone other than their husband?"

"You really don't understand." Lu Zhiyuan put her teacup on the ground. "You think I'm doing this for Ye Bai? I'm doing it for the people of both countries. Northern Liang and Southern Chu have been at war for years, and the people have suffered greatly. Even you and your mother are among the victims. Ye Bai and his mother are too. If neither country makes money, your mother..."

Why should his mother need a marriage alliance? Why should she suffer in a foreign land?

"rhetoric!"

"Whatever the princess thinks, the princess will never live to see that day."

If it weren't for stalling for time and misleading the princess into thinking things were going smoothly, she wouldn't have bothered talking to her so much. The rain had lessened; she should leave now. As for Yue Li, she had killed so many people in the palace; they should pay for it with their lives.

By this time, pain had spread throughout Yue Li's entire body, and she struggled to turn around. A strange thing happened: those who had just died were now standing there alive again.

No, those weren't her people; they were just wearing the same clothes.

Then, something even more terrifying happened—she saw herself!

"Lu Zhiyuan! Lu Zhiyuan, what exactly do you want to do?" Yue Li climbed back from under the eaves into the rain: "You want to harm my mother? Stop right there, stop right there!"

Lu Zhiyuan, wearing a human skin mask, ignored him, took the straw raincoat handed to her by Lu Yun, and led her subordinates into the rain.

On the other side, thunder and rain swirled before his eyes, and the tall trees swayed from side to side in the wind. The dappled shadows of the trees resembled thousands of wandering ghosts. Xiao Yebai stood alone on the altar, the hem of his robes soaked by the rain, clinging tightly to his legs.

His thin lips were pressed tightly together, exuding a coolness.

Beneath the altar, the princess, who was confident of victory, suddenly had a very bad feeling.

"The princess hasn't returned yet?"

"Judging by the time, they should be on their way by now," the prince consort replied from the side. "Should I send someone to meet them?"

"Go quickly!" The eldest princess clutched her chest. "That girl is not simple. Yue Li is naive. We shouldn't have let her go alone."

"Don't worry, Yue Li knows what she's doing and won't fall for that girl's tricks." The prince consort took a deep breath and looked at Xiao Yebai on the altar: "The most important thing right now is to get rid of this Xiao Yebai! There are less than two hours until dawn. Only when he is dead can we be legitimate."

"You're right, only when he's dead can we be truly legitimate!" The princess raised her hand, then lowered it, her powerful voice cutting through the rain: "Chop this traitor into a pulp for me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the rebels, led by the soldiers of the Princess's residence, surged onto the altar in a pincer movement.

Xiao Yebai showed no fear. He first took a step back, then picked up the sword from the ground and continued to retreat. When he reached the indentation, his smile grew even wider.

His young lady was truly a genius; in just seven days, she managed to create a mechanism suitable for escape beneath this enormous altar. The princess, who prided herself on her intelligence, never imagined that this would be her final resting place.

With a forceful stomp of his toes, the stone slab behind him receded, revealing a rectangular opening just wide enough for one person to pass through. Without hesitation, Xiao Yebai jumped down.

The princess's men saw it, but they were too late; they couldn't even grab a sleeve. They tried to stop the stone slab with knives and swords, but their efforts only resulted in broken knives and swords.

Before they could find the entrance, they heard someone groan. Then, one by one, people inexplicably collapsed to the ground. The prince consort tried to go forward to check, but was struck on the shoulder, a sharp, burning pain shooting through him.

"A hidden weapon! Someone's using a hidden weapon!"

"Protect the Princess! Protect the Princess!"

It was useless, utterly useless. Wave after wave of people fell to the ground. Those attacked only had wounds, no hidden weapons, and no one knew where they came from. The princess was enraged and pushed aside the two people blocking her way.

A bullet whizzed through the air, striking the man beside her squarely between the eyebrows. The man opened his eyes in vain, trying to hold onto his life. The next moment, a dagger appeared and plunged viciously into his wound. With a final, forceful stab from the princess, the man breathed his last, his eyes wide open in death.

The princess didn't care about his life or death, nor about the lives of those around her. To her, they were all just bones that had helped her ascend to that position. With success seemingly within reach, she couldn't allow any mishaps to occur at this crucial moment.

She needed to know what kind of hidden weapon had attacked them.

An arrow? No, not an arrow, but a strange object. It seemed hollow and weighed almost nothing. The bloodstains on its surface were red, but untreated. She couldn't understand it.

How could such a strange thing take someone's life?

"Princess!" The prince consort shook her violently, "Quickly, our people can't hold out any longer."

The princess looked around in bewilderment and found that all those who had been alive just moments before were now lying on the ground. Some had been killed by that strange thing, some were seriously injured, and some were slightly injured but pretended to be seriously injured and mingled among the corpses.

"No, I can't lose." The princess's eyes reddened. "I've survived so many difficult times, I don't believe I'll lose here."

The prince consort grabbed her: "As long as we're alive, we can always rebuild. We're very close to the sacred mountain; we can retreat there first, recharge, and start over. Yue Li, we still have Yue Li! Doesn't the princess want Yue Li anymore?"

The eldest princess pushed the prince consort aside: "Starting over? No! I don't want to start over."

The prince consort roared, "Quickly, protect the princess and retreat!"

"Slap!" A slap landed on the prince consort's face, followed by another hand covering his cheek: "Does it hurt? If it hurts, then get out of here right now!"

“We are husband and wife, we will go together.” The prince consort seemed to have made up his mind: “If the princess doesn’t leave, I won’t leave either. I will stay with the princess, we will live together and we will die together.”

"We're a fake couple!" The princess laughed through her tears. "You've forgotten, I've never truly been your wife. I chose you as my consort because you were obedient enough, and I've never considered you my husband. Go now, return to your palace."

There's a divorce agreement under your pillow. You can take anything in the secret room; take it all. Go to the sacred mountain, go anywhere you want, find someone you truly love who loves you back, and spend the rest of your life with her.

The eldest princess turned her back and said, "If possible, please take care of Yue Li for me."

"Princess!"

"Those who want to live, take the prince consort with you!" the princess roared with her eyes closed. "The prince consort is a good man; you won't suffer if you follow him."

Several people stepped forward and pulled the prince consort back towards the inner city.

The princess suddenly turned around and asked, "What's your name? I don't think I've ever... asked your name before!"