Rebirth: Marry a General instead of a Prince

The night gradually darkened. Although the New Year had passed, the nights were still exceptionally cold.

At this moment, in the gloomy prison, a man was huddled there. The wind blew in from the window, and he wrapped the dirty and torn quilt tightly around himself.

The jailer lit a fire in the prison, but even so, it was still cold and damp in this cold winter.

When Bai Zhiyuan arrived at the prison gate, the jailer was also startled when he saw her, and stepped forward and said, "Greetings to the Princess of Rong'an County."

Bai Zhiyuan nodded. Ling Xiao stepped forward and stuffed the sachet of silver into the jailer's hand, saying, "My county lady came here specially to see the former General Huaiyuan."

"This..." the jailer said in difficulty.

Seeing this, Bai Zhiyuan signaled Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao took out a golden ingot from his arms and stuffed it into the jailer's hand.

The jailer laughed and said, "Originally, a dying person cannot be visited, but since the county lady has spoken, please follow me." After that, he gave a few instructions to the guards outside, asked Ling Xiao to stay outside, and took Bai Zhiyuan in.

When a row of cells appeared in front of them, the jailer stopped and said, "Jiang Shuyan is imprisoned in the last cell. County Lord, please go down. I will guard outside. Just don't stay too long."

Bai Zhiyuan thanked him and waited until the jailer left before walking into the cell.

Bai Zhiyuan walked to the last cell and stopped. The cell was surrounded by iron bars and a circle of torches were lit on the stone wall. The cell looked even more eerie in this dark cell.

Bai Zhiyuan looked up and saw a hunched figure lying on the floor of the cell, emitting a foul odor and with long, messy hair. No one would have thought that this man was Jiang Shuyan, the Huaiyuan General who was still in high spirits in the court yesterday.

Bai Zhiyuan watched quietly for a while before walking over and knocking gently on the iron fence a few times.

The figure lying on the ground raised his head with great effort, revealing a confused look. When he saw that it was Bai Zhiyuan, he asked with a little anger: "What are you doing here?"

After saying that, he rushed over and tried to grab Bai Zhiyuan with his hands over the fence, but it was in vain.

Bai Zhiyuan looked at him with pity and said, "How could a great general like Huaiyuan end up like this?"

Jiang Shuyan said bitterly: "It was your Bai family who harmed me."

Bai Zhiyuan sneered: "My Bai family harmed you? It was you who wanted to harm my Bai family, and I just fought back a little. This is all your own fault. But it doesn't matter. After the general's death, he still has his family to accompany him, so he is not lonely."

Jiang Shuyan was stunned for a moment, then angrily said: "I was wondering how Bai Tingxuan could come up with such a vicious plan with his scheming mind. It turned out to be you."

Bai Zhiyuan smiled: "Yes, it's me. But don't worry, General, your daughter Jiang Muyun can still marry into the Prince of Yan's Mansion she has always dreamed of."

When Jiang Shuyan heard this, he was delighted. If his daughter could marry into Prince Yan's mansion, she might be able to rescue him.

Bai Zhiyuan seemed to see through his thoughts and smiled, "General, are you still pinning your hopes on your daughter? Unfortunately, because of your involvement, your daughter only entered the Prince of Yan's mansion as a concubine. How much can a concubine make?"

"But that's not necessarily true," Bai Zhiyuan shook his head gently, "The general's concubine Yan Hong has caused quite a stir, hasn't she?"

Bai Tingxuan raised his head suddenly, and in a flash, he understood what she meant, and shouted, "It's you, you arranged all this."

Bai Zhiyuan smiled and said, "It's me. I have been planning to get rid of you since the beginning, but you just jumped in. What can I do? I can only blame you for being stupid."

Bai Tingxuan said in disbelief: "His Royal Highness Prince Yan, he will definitely save me, he loves my daughter..."

"General, why don't you say anything? You probably don't believe it yourself. Hahaha..." Bai Zhiyuan laughed. "General, you know the King of Yan better than I do. Don't you know whether he will save you or not? Give up. You will be on your way tomorrow. I came here specially to see you off today."

Bai Tingxuan's eyes widened and he said sternly, "I have no grudge against you, why are you trying to hurt me?"

Bai Zhiyuan looked at him and said, "No grudges or hatreds? When you were plotting against my father, did you ever think about the fact that he had no grudges or hatreds with you?"

"You..." Bai Tingxuan said unwillingly, "Even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go..."

Amid his abuse, Bai Zhiyuan's expression remained unchanged. She thought to herself: In her previous life, Jiang Shuyan had caused her family to be destroyed, and today, they finally got a taste of what that felt like.

Bai Zhiyuan looked down at Jiang Shuyan from above with a sneer on her lips. She finally turned around, her dress fluttering in front of the fence. She no longer looked at Jiang Shuyan, and her figure gradually disappeared.

On the other side, in Prince Yan's Mansion, Prince Yan Qi Zeyi stood in front of the table with a solemn expression.

"Now is the critical moment. What important matter has brought you to me today?"

The woman standing opposite her was Jiang Muyun.

Jiang Muyun's eyes were red, "Your Highness has been refusing to see me because of my father's matter. Now that I have lost the protection of my mother's family, Your Highness is the only one left. Your Highness, can't you go to the Emperor to beg for mercy and ask the Emperor to show some leniency..."

Qi Zeyi's expression was clearly filled with impatience: "Things have come to this point. The Emperor's order will not be changed. Moreover, your father is a traitor to the country. If I go to plead for him, it will inevitably affect me. Do you want me to destroy myself because of this?"

Jiang Muyun stared at the man in front of him, as if he had not expected him to be so cold-blooded. "My father was devoted to planning for Your Highness. It was because of Your Highness that he dealt with Bai Tingxuan this time. How could Your Highness be so ruthless to him?"

Qi Zeyi rebuked loudly: "Shut up, don't say such things again in the future."

Jiang Muyun paused, and was about to say something, but Qi Zeyi ordered, "Come here, send Miss Jiang to live outside the mansion first."

Then he turned to Jiang Muyun and said coldly: "Let's not meet for the next few days. When the rumors die down in a few days, I will carry you into the mansion."

After saying this, he strode out of the hall without stopping, no longer paying attention to the calls from the people behind him.

The next day, noon.

The day when Jiang Shuyan was executed.

A large crowd gathered at the site before the execution, surrounding the scene so tightly that no one could get in or out. The dense crowd formed a big circle, and there were people all around, all of them were people watching the fun.

The crowd was discussing how General Huaiyuan had colluded with the enemy and committed treason, and would be executed today.

The prison van carrying Jiang Shuyan slowly drove over. The people were filled with indignation and cursed at the van.

Jiang Shuyan was pulled down and knelt under the knife. He raised his head in confusion and looked around. There were angry people all around him. Only one person was looking at him with tears in her eyes. That was his daughter Jiang Muyun.

Jiang Shuyan just stared at his daughter until the executioner raised his knife and his head fell to the ground.

A scream broke out from the crowd, drowning out the faint cry from Jiang Muyun.

Bai Zhiyuan didn't show much expression when she received the news, but she was extremely happy. Her father was also executed in the same way in her previous life. For her father, a military commander, it was a more humiliating thing than death. Fortunately, she finally reversed all this in this life.

Two days later, Bai Zhiyuan received news from Wang Qing that Jiang Muyun was carried in a sedan chair into the side door of Prince Yan's Mansion and became Concubine Jiang of Prince Yan's Mansion.

Bai Zhiyuan was not upset when she heard the news. In her previous life, she had her eyes gouged out and her legs broken by Jiang Muyun. In this life, Jiang Muyun's punishment had just begun. In this life, as long as Jiang Muyun wanted something, she would never get it.