ch1 —The Bloody Merchant Empress and Cold Husband’s Forceful Doting

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[ From Mangadex ]
Nan Yun, a daughter of a merchant, fell in love with general Huo Mingcheng, ascending to the throne as Empress. However, she did not expect Huo Mingcheng to turn against her and kill her after finding a new love. The snows of June allowed Nan Yun, who had wrongfully died, to be reincarnated.

Her first thought after reincarnating is the revenge. She cannot let the tragedy of her past life happen again. Her cold exterior slowly falls apart at the hands of Yan Zechen. Unknowingly, she has fallen in love with Yan Zechen who has been quietly protecting her. But it seems they already met in her past life…

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the completed and edited ch1

TBMECHFD ch1 A Wrongful Death

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The night sky was like paint, and like Nan Yun’s pupils; black, empty, and lifeless. However, Nan Yun’s pupils contained infinite hopelessness and loss.

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It was already day fifty-one, an empress like her was actually shut into the empty Cold Palace for fifty-one days.

Nan Yun sat on the floor, and looking at the skinny Che Er who was sleeping on her legs, her eyes finally revealed a bit of anger. This was her last and most precious one . Her legs had long gone numb, however she didn’t dare to move one bit.

Suddenly, the door creaked open. The newcomer was Shao Er, who wore an urgent expression. Nan Yun looked at Shao Er and was about to sit up from surprise, yet once again pressed that bit of hope to the bottom of her heart.

Nan Yun, you’re hilarious, you actually still have hope for him? If that Huo Ming Chen really only loved you, would he listen to that demoness’ words and put you into this Cold Palace?

She was an empress, and had also given birth to the crown prince Che Er, so why would she still have to go and harm the fetus in Zhu Yao’s belly?

Huo Ming Cheng wouldn’t care even if he understood, he had long since stopped loving her, or perhaps he had never loved her before, and married her only because of the Nan Family’s wealth. Perhaps he didn’t love anyone, all he loved was his power、 his future.

Nan Yun’s heart had long been completely let down by Huo Ming Cheng long ago.

Looking at Che Er’s breath coming out noisily, Nan Yun calmed down. Every day she would save all the limited clean water that was left and give it to Che Er. A long period of only eaten dry food that had gone bad had made her severely malnourished and her body had lost weight.

Nan Yun opened her whitened bloodless lips and said, “What’s the matter Shao Er, why are you in such a flurry, are you trying to make my Cold Palace warmer?”

Nan Yun gave a mirthless smile and mocked herself as she loving caressed Che Er’s hair. She was afraid of Che Er waking up.

Shao Er breathlessly knelt in from of Nan Yun, unable to stop herself from crying, “Your majesty something bad has happened!”

Nan Yun was still calm as she put a finger on her lips, gesturing at Shao Er lower her voice so as to not wake Che Er up.

“We’ve already fallen to this position, what worse could possibly happen?”Nan Yun caught a tick in Che Er’s hair and carefully pinched it to death with her nails.

“Your majesty…” Shao Er started crying uncontrollably, continuing to say, “Consort Yao told the emperor that his highness isn’t his own son, and is instead the child of you and a guard. That guard has already admitted to it. The emperor is fuming and currently bringing a crowd of people to your position.”

“What?” Nan Yun finally couldn’t sit still and shouted in shock. It was as if her heart had been firmly pressed down and she couldn’t breath properly. Zhu Yao had still reached put her demon claw towards Che Er.

    She hadn’t thought that Zhu Yao would still be unwilling to let go of herself,.Huo Ming Cheng, everything she owned, and even her seat was about to be snatched away by Zhu Yao. However why was she still not willing to let her go?

Che Er was woken by the noise, and with drowsy eyes, he raised his hand to rub them, quietly asking, “Mother, what’s the matter? Are we leaving this place?”

Che Er had just turned five, and looking at his expectant face Nan Yun simply couldn’t bear it. Hugging her child tightly in her bosom, her tears dripped down uncontrollably.

“Che Er… my poor Che Er, its all mother’s fault… mother is not good enough…” Nan Yun soundlessly started to cry. She wanted to maintain a strong image in front of her child as best as she could, and wanted to be a good example to Che Er, however today after being repeatedly beaten down by Huo Ming Cheng and Zhu Yao, her tears came flooding out.

Che Er had rarely seen his mother like this. He adorably patted her back, just like the way Nan Yun had once done to him to get him to stop crying.

“Mother, don’t cry, Che Er won’t ask anymore. Che Er and mother can just stay here, please mother don’t cry.” With every comforting word Che Er said in his innocent young voice, Nan Yan blame herself even more, such a small child, yet beared many things he shouldn’t have had to bear.

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Standing beside them was Shao Er, who seeing Nan Yun and Che Er like this and couldn’t help getting touched, yet didn’t know what to do and could only hug the two to cry together.

All of a sudden the door was flung open, and Nan Yun looked towards the door in horror. Indeed, it was Huo Ming Cheng standing at the doorway with a face full of fury, and behind him was a crowd of maidservants and eunuchs. And of course, following beside him was Zhu Yao.

Nan Yun stared at Huo Ming Cheng as the hand hugging Che Er tightened. She would never let anybody touch a single hair of his. Huo Ming Cheng was dressed in the dragon robe, and with that aura born of a general, he looked extremely tall and strong, making one unable to not help being shaken by his kingly aura.

“Go and catch that little bastard!” Huo Ming Cheng commanded, and the few eunuchs that heard his order obediently walked out, ready to forcefully take Che Er out of Nan Yun’s embrace.

Nan Yun’s originally malnourished body already had no energy, and after resisting for a while Che Er was snatched away. Che Er wore a frightened face as he looked at Nan Yun, then at Huo Ming Cheng, getting so terrified that he started crying.

Nan Yun saw Che Er cry extremely grievedly. The child’s small white arms had been pulled so hard by the eunuchs just now that it turned red. Taking a deep breath she was unable to take it anymore and scolded Huo Ming Chen, “Huo Ming Chen! For you to get to your position today, how much have you relied on our Nan Family’s wealth?! How much blood has that golden robe on your body seen?! You ingrate, Che Er is only five, moreover, don’t forget that he is surnamed Huo, he is not a bastard!”

Huo Ming Chen hadn’t even spoken when beside him Zhu Yao cried, “So what if he’s five? The child in my belly wasn’t even born before he was killed by you.”

Zhu Yao breathed heavily as she spoke, and by the end of that sentence was in tears. Together with her originally pitiful image, it made Huo Ming Chen’s heart drop.

Nan Yun sneered as her eyes filled with tears, yet still glared resolutely at Zhu Yao, “Heh, I don’t think you were even been pregnant in the first place. That’s just a show you put on to harm me!”

Huo Ming Chen heard Zhu Yao crying extremely aggrievedly, and together with Che Er’s wails, it made him even more annoyed. Looking at the woman that had once shared the same bed as him on the floor, and thinking of the moment when he admitted of his adultery to her, he instantly felt disgusted.

Waving his sleeves, he refocussed and angrily declared, “Behead the empress at noon…”

—tofu— he actually said “废后，将皇后午时问斩吧…” but 废后 I think means something like ‘deposed empress’, which confused me bc afterwards he said behead the eMpResS.

His words became more and more uncertain towards the end. He didn’t know if it was him being uncertain of his decision, or whether it was because he felt slight unwillingness.

At that, Nan Yun laughed towards the skies. Her tears subconsciously started gushing out like water from a spring.

He wanted her dead…

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Before the execution, in the prison…

Nan Yun sat on the cold stone floor that was filled with dry grass, completely disheartened as she stared dazedly at the floor.

Zhu Yao brought a few eunuchs with her as she slowly walked into the prison, and standing before Nan Yun’s prison door, she couldn’t help the delight sprouting from the bottom of her heart, and an elated smile vividly bloomed on her face.

 

“Are you here to send me off?” Nan Yun laughed and turned her head away after a glance at Zhu Yao. Looking at this kind of disgusting woman was a mistreatment to her eye.

Zhu Yao turned to gesture to an eunuch behind her, and the eunuch held a medium sized box as a guard opened the door. He carefully placed the box down and hurried out immediately after.

Zhu Yao then opened her mouth, ”It could be counted as that. Here, I even prepared a gift for you.”

Finishing, she happily spinned around and walked out of the prison. Nan Yun looked at the box on the floor, and not knowing why, she felt an extremely bad premonition. Trembling, she carefully open the box.

Inside the box was Che Er’s bloody head!

Her eyes that were already drained of tears felt extremely uncomfortable, and what came out next were a stream of blood tears. She could only open and shut her dry mouth, yet could not make a single sound.

At the execution grounds outside of the palace walls, the common people all had a look of contempt in their eyes as they looked at Nan Yun, who was kneeling on the platform, and as the large knife rose and fell, along with it went Nan Yun’s head. Yet all of a sudden, small snowflakes suddenly started falling from the sky.

“Ai? Why is it snowing?” The group of people suddenly started actively exchanging. It was now heatstroke season, why would it start snowing out of nowhere.

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In the palace, Huo Ming Chen had also seen the snowflakes falling from the sky, landing on his sleeves, and in no time turning into beads of water. His brows faintly creased. Nobody knew what he was thinking about.

 

 

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1899 words^^

PFFT this is too easy, this was 3h 46mins of easy peasy, my precious SL is 8 hours of tough grinding lmao 😢

also would like to say something but might be a bit spoilerish

 

so 🏃‍♀️run🏃‍♂️ while u can :3

 

 

 

the empress isn’t that bloody and the husband isn’t that cold 🤷‍♀️