The Original Beginning

As soon as Zhang Ziyi met his eyes, she was reminded of the memory of their first meeting.

FLASHBACK

Ruan family's ancestral hall.

The sky was dark outside with the moon hidden behind the clouds. There was a strong stance of blood in the somber hall illuminated with candles while the curtains flowed high in the air due to the powerful wind outside.

A woman was lying in blood on the floor. She was trembling while looking at the dead bodies of her servants not far from her while her hands were red with her blood flowing from the stabbed stomach. It was difficult for her to breathe.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhang Ziyi looked up with pain to the familiar man walking in her direction.

Her heart wildly trembled because the man standing in front of her was none other than her husband – Ruan Xian, the second prince of the Ruan state under the empire.

"How does it feel to be reduced to nothing?" He asked mockingly.

Zhang Ziyi looked at him with terror, "It was you!"

A ridiculing voice came from her left side, "Aiya! Aren't you too slow up in your head?"

Zhang Ziyi turned to look at the cold voice, it was her step-sister – Zhang Chunhua, the culprit who created the blood bath in the hall – the one she doted on the most.

She continued, "Seems like the poisonous herbal soup that mother has been brewing for you for the past sixteen years has the side-effect to turn someone into an idiot."

Zhang Ziyi froze, then laughed as she understood that she had been a fool from childhood. Her very life was a joke. They had been out to get her right from childhood!

Zhang Chunhua: "Older sister, now that the things have come to this, do you still think that you're still the mighty first legitimate daughter of the Zhang family of the empire?"

She continued while Zhang Ziyi couldn't answer her, "Huh, such an idiot you are to blindly trust mother and me. If you ever had an ounce of brain in that head of yours you would have not ended up here. Now I pity you. Huh! What a legitimate first daughter you are to be played right in my mother's hands. Reduced to a useless person even while having an exceptional body constitution for spiritual cultivation."

Zhang Ziyi was shocked by this information, "What do you mean by that? I am a spirit cultivator?"

Zhang Chunhua looked at her mockingly and decided to enlignthen her, "Yes, from your childhood mother knew that you took after your mother and had inherited an exceptional body for spiritual cultivation. How could she let you, her enemy's daughter, shine brightly while her daughter has to stay in your shadow? Unlike you, she was not dumb. Before anyone can discover your talent, mother started feeding you poison."

At this point, Zhang Chunhua was looking at Zhang Ziyi in her eyes while tightly holding her chin with one hand, "You just believed mother when she said that you can't cultivate or practice martial arts. We did so many cruel things, but you still forgave us like a fool. Tell me Zhang Ziyi, aren't you a complete fool for coming to us even after we kicked you again and again."

Zhang Ziyi looked at her sister's face that was usually gentle and timid was now obnoxious and vicious.

After completing her share, Zhang Chunhua moved to let her lover look at his wife.

"It was my bad fortune to blame, that I had to marry you as my wife. If not for Chunhua, I would have gone crazy. You are just someone whom I was forced to marry by my grandfather. Only because that old man promised your mother to marry us. Because of you, I couldn't marry my love, Chunhua."

Both lovers were looking at each other as if someone was not dying next to them. Heartless creatures.

Ruan Xian took the knife thrown by Zhang Chunhua and stabbed Zhang Ziyi to deliver the final blow.

"Now die!!!!"

Zhang Ziyi was assaulted with severe pain, she clutched onto her stomach and whispered, "If I get a second chance at life… I'll have my revenge!"

......…..

Zhang Ziyi felt hot and weak when she opened her eyes. She realized that she was lying on her bed in the Zhang estate.

All her dead servants were in the room to take care of her cold.

She soon came to terms with the reality of her rebirth and everything that happened with her in the past life. She vowed to destroy her culprits.

After waking up, she sorted out her memories and the events of her past life. She decided to remove the poison from her body, and for that, she knew who could do that.