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The original host went to the palace to find the Third Prince, but on her way back, she was stopped by the Second Princess, who mocked her and dropped an earth-shattering revelation. Unable to handle the shock, the original host fainted and was carried back to the General’s Manor by Jing Yi.
It turned out that the National Stabilizing General, who was the original host’s father, and the Young General, her older brother, had been accused of colluding with enemy spies and selling military strategy maps.
This led to a disastrous defeat—five cities were lost, and fifty thousand soldiers were brutally slaughtered by the enemy.
When their treachery was exposed, the Supreme Commander of the troops was ordered to capture them. However, during the arrest, they allegedly resisted, taking two arrows to their hearts before falling into a raging river, their bodies lost forever.
Because the frontier was far from the capital, news of their deaths took three months to reach the imperial court.
This meant that the original host’s father and brother had already been dead for three months.
The Emperor flew into a rage upon hearing this, and as the Second Princess revealed to the original host, the confiscation of the General’s estate was inevitable. Whether the final sentence would be execution or exile depended on the Emperor’s decision, which had not yet been made.
The original host, unable to bear the blow, collapsed.
As for why Jing Yi and Jing Er called the Emperor a “mongrel,” it was because they suspected foul play in the General’s downfall.
After all, the original host’s father had guarded the borders for years, slaying countless enemies—how could he have been so reckless?
Based on what the original host knew, fifteen years ago, when the Emperor won the battle for the throne and eliminated the Crown Prince’s faction, her father was just a low-ranking general.
During the political turmoil, three neighboring nations seized the opportunity to invade Daxing.
The Emperor immediately dispatched an army of two hundred thousand and ordered her father to lead the defense.
At that time, the original host was only one year old, and her mother had died in childbirth. She was left in the care of her wet nurse, with only her eight-year-old brother as family.
Her father departed for war and, before long, emerged victorious. To prevent another alliance between the three enemy nations, he remained stationed at the frontier, only returning to the capital once a year.
Five years ago, the three nations formed another alliance and launched an even more ferocious attack.
This time, they mobilized an army of two hundred and fifty thousand.
The Emperor responded by sending the original host’s eighteen-year-old brother, along with another one hundred thousand soldiers, to support their father at the border.
Since her brother already held a military rank, he had no choice but to accept the mission.
From then on, the General’s family controlled three hundred thousand troops.
With only the original host left in the capital, she was frequently bullied by her greedy uncles and their children, who held various court positions.
However, thanks to the two highly skilled shadow guards protecting her, they never succeeded in harming her.
That war was ultimately won, largely due to her brother’s strategic brilliance.
Catching the enemy off guard, he secured victory with minimal casualties, forcing their surrender.
As a result, the Emperor conferred upon him the title of Young General. However, he was forbidden from returning to the capital unless summoned.
Then, in the most recent battle, tragedy struck.
There was only one possible suspect.
The original host’s memory held a scene from when she was fifteen:
Her father had wanted to take her to the frontier.
But, for some unknown reason, the Emperor strongly opposed the idea.
Seeing that the original host was infatuated with his most favored Third Prince, he immediately decreed an engagement between them—despite the Third Prince’s strong objections.
He even granted the original host unrestricted access to the palace, as if treating her like a fool.
Had the original host not been so naive and lovesick, she might have uncovered some court secrets.
Naturally, for the sake of her beloved, she refused to leave for the harsh frontier.
In her memories, her father and brother had looked deeply conflicted, perhaps regretting that they had raised her too sheltered.
Perhaps they had sensed something amiss but couldn’t go against her wishes.
And sure enough, two years later, disaster struck.
It was clear now—the Emperor wanted a hostage to control her father.
As for whether the General and Young General were truly dead, the original host had been heartbroken upon hearing the news.
She refused to believe it, unable to comprehend what was happening.
Still clinging to hope, she had wanted to enter the palace to plead for her father and brother’s innocence.
That was when her two shadow guards, responsible for her safety, drugged her and took her away.
As for the assassins they had just fought—there was no telling whether the Emperor had sent them.
Wait a minute… Why did all of this seem so familiar?
The Daxing Dynasty?
A general shot by arrows and lost to the frontier river?
This was starting to sound a lot like a historical disaster novel she had once read.
The male lead of that novel was named Xie Huaizhi—the same as the original host’s brother.
Which meant…
She had transmigrated into the male lead’s sister.
In the novel, the General and Young General weren’t actually dead.
After falling into the river, they were carried downstream to a village, where the female lead found and rescued them.
Meanwhile, the original host barely survived an assassination attempt today.
Before the Emperor could confiscate the estate, she escaped the capital with her two shadow guards and journeyed to the frontier in search of her family.
Eventually, they were reunited.
But the Xie family was ultimately confiscated.
If this really was the same book, then according to the timeline…
The decree for confiscation would be issued today.
The Emperor would sentence the Xie clan to exile, sending all nine branches of the family to the freezing, remote border of Beixiang.
That region bordered a small, perpetually war-torn country that frequently invaded Daxing.
The suffering they would endure there was unimaginable.
This news spread throughout the Daxing Dynasty.
Some gloated. Some sighed.
Because of the lost soldiers and cities, the common people cursed the Xie family, spitting on them and hurling insults if they encountered them on the road to exile.
But not everyone believed that their beloved General had betrayed them.
Despite the illusion of peace in the capital, the southern regions had already fallen into chaos.
Floods, blizzards, and disasters had displaced countless refugees, forcing them to flee north.
At the same time, some people had mysteriously gained strange abilities, establishing their own fiefdoms and enslaving the weak.
Little did they know, the capital was on the brink of catastrophe as well.