The villain's daily corpse collection

"Your Majesty's decree, in compliance with the will of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims that the seventh daughter of the Emperor, Du Ximiao, is both virtuous and talented, and both wise and brave. She is specially named Princess Taiyao, and is rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold and one hundred pieces of silk. Yangyuesong County is given as Tangmu County to show her nobility. I decree this."

Tangmuyi? The Fifth Emperor's sister, Princess Wanyu, was given this title after her marriage, but I have it now.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace. Tai Yao will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations." Du Ximiao was extremely surprised and she accepted the order with neither arrogance nor humility.

"His Majesty also asked me to bring a message to His Highness. His Majesty said that Tai Yao is a man of great merit, and we hope that we can bring him more surprises in the future." After delivering the imperial edict, Eunuch Zheng and the Panlong Army left Prince Qian's Mansion in a mighty manner.

In just half a cup of tea, some rumors were dispelled, the situation changed, and everyone began to look at her with admiration.

"I said it was a misunderstanding. Princess Tai Yao is sincere to Master An. She cried so miserably just now. It hurt me to see her cry."

"Using the etiquette of a prince, this An Zhongyan is usually a playboy, but he is still treated like this. Your Highness is really lucky!"

"Who says it's not true? The talented lady Wan Yu, who is famous in the imperial capital, is from Tangmu County, which is far away under Fuyuan, while Taiyao is from Yangyue, which is next to the imperial capital!"

Prince Xian and Chief Steward An were dismayed, but it was of no use. Du Ximiao, who was just stuck in the mud, had successfully emerged from the mud without getting stained. A new emperor appoints new ministers, and the emperor has come out to prove it, so what is there for Prince Xian to do?

Song County, a medium-sized county under Yangyue City, may not be as rich as Du Ye, but it is the richest Yangyue City. Compared with Qingyu City in the east, which Du Ye was assigned, the difference is obvious. Du Ye didn't understand why the emperor suddenly stood on Du Ximiao's side. Could it be that she was behind this?

"Brother Di, you and I are siblings. If we do something extreme, it will not benefit anyone." Du Ximiao had approached Du Ye without him knowing when. He frowned and looked at her. Du Ximiao was covering her face and smiling in an empty space, which was very meaningful.

"You!" Du Ye raised his hand angrily, and Du Ximiao flew out like a kite with a broken string. Yuan Xiang caught her in time to prevent her from hitting the doorpost.

Du Ximiao vomited blood, and leaned softly in Yuan Xiang's arms, with a look of shock. Du Ye looked at his palm and the fragile Du Ximiao in surprise, and Du Ximiao stuck out his tongue and made faces in the corner.

It turned out that he hadn't hit her at all, she had just bit her tongue.

"You! What are you pretending for!"

The crowd did not dare to point fingers at the prince, but it was obvious that the atmosphere was not right. They expressed their dissatisfaction with contemptuous eyes and silence. Du Ye's captain of the guards stopped the prince who was about to explode, whispered a few words, and then Du Ye left everyone behind and walked away.

"Your Highness, are you okay?"

Everyone began to care about Du Ximiao. Du Ximiao thanked everyone sincerely. The dignitaries who came to attend the funeral expressed their congratulations and asked about the princess's residence and wanted to visit her. She said that she would hold a banquet later and invite everyone, and then left first.

It was a grand funeral for an aristocratic family. In the end, people forgot the real protagonist, but remembered Du Ximiao, the Princess of Emperor Tai Yao, who had regained the emperor's favor.

Although Si Yin paper would not melt like snow, it was eventually blown away by the wind.

Du Ximiao and the other two returned to their residence. They had moved out of the palace and rented a house of a medium size, where they were currently staying temporarily.

"Your Highness, what happened just now?" Ni Yun asked in confusion. She took out the engagement letter that she had picked up from the scene and dropped on the ground.

"Most of what Du Ye said is true. I was the one who altered the Geng Tie, and I wanted to join the An family. I have been laying the chess pieces for so long, taking risks, but now it has been saved." Du Ximiao looked at the imperial edict from left to right, very happy, "Now this result is beyond my expectation, I don't have to be Du Ye's chess piece anymore!"

"But you have become a pawn of His Majesty." Yuan Xiang said bluntly.

"Little Yuan Xiang, don't be such a bummer, you should congratulate me." Du Ximiao said cheerfully, very happy. Yuan Xiang didn't say anything, but he didn't seem to agree completely.

"Your Highness, you said that His Majesty is a Taoist. It is said that Taoists are pure-hearted and do not care about worldly troubles. Why did His Majesty take action?" Ni Yun asked curiously.

"Niyun, you are stupid. If he is really like what you said, he would have ascended to heaven long ago. Why is he still wandering in this world? He is just a mortal. At most, he is protected by the legendary true dragon spirit. Other than that, he is no different from you and me."

Ni Yun was surprised at Du Ximiao's outspokenness, while Yuan Xiang seemed to have long been accustomed to the princess's style of doing things.

"I bribed a sorcerer to help me stir up trouble. You know, I didn't have much chance to meet the rich and powerful as the princess before. Although this incident has caused a lot of uproar, from now on, everyone knows me as Princess Tai Yao!"

"Then how did you convince His Majesty? I heard that your relationship was not good before..."

Du Ximiao took the engagement letter and threw it into the stove as firewood. She recalled the scene of herself riding a horse back to the capital overnight some time ago.

She was born in the cold palace and was inferior to others since she was young, so she had a natural fear of the palace. Such a big place would sooner or later swallow up and crush a weed like her. Because she could always find the bodies of palace servants in some hidden corners, in dry wells, in the weeds at the side door...

She had seen so much that her heart had turned cold. She had accepted the cruelest law of survival in the world, watered with the blood of others and nourished with the flesh and blood of others. In order to survive and become strong, she would do anything.

"I told my father, the emperor, whom I hadn't seen for many years, that Du Ye, in order to please the An family, wantonly tampered with my birth certificate and sent me into the An family, just because An Zhongyan, the future heir of the An family, liked me. In order to avoid suspicion, he spread rumors and put everything on me. Now, An Zhongyan is dead, and Prince Xian even intends to let me, the emperor's daughter, be buried with the An family. Although I am a daughter born into the imperial family in name only."

That day, she looked up at that very unfamiliar face and performed a tragic drama with tears streaming down her face.

"How ridiculous! He is simply treating the royal family as a joke. He has undermined the dignity of the royal family!" Emperor Du scolded Du Ye.

Ni Yun: "Your Highness is so smart that he actually figured out that he wanted you to be buried with him."

"No need to calculate. I have been with him for five years, so I naturally understand his methods, which are radical and stupid. All his methods that do not leave room for criticism are supported by me. Without me, what is he?" Du Ximiao smiled, and then a trace of indifference appeared on her face. "There is nothing worse than causing someone to die than to rebel against him. What's more, Du Ye's rebellion is too obvious, so there is no need for me to do anything more. He is naturally high and mighty, and he looks down on his father's style of doing things. He often contacts his maternal relatives. As for the An family, they are the emperor's concern. Now I will be the first one to stand out. Either die or fly to the branch."

She shrugged and clasped her hands together, "It's helpless to offend the An family. I just hope his ancestors won't interfere in human affairs."

"I thought you were very confident in doing all this." Yuan Xiang said, not sure if it was ironic or what he meant.

"Of course I am confident," Du Ximiao smiled, "It is in line with the emperor's choice to accuse him of a crime. He has long suspected his disobedient son. No matter how big the An family is, can it be bigger than the emperor? At the beginning, Du Ye relied on the An family, and I relied on him. I didn't think that I had a father who loved cultivating immortals. No matter how bad the father was, he was still the supreme, and the supreme hated others stepping on him the most. As for the immortals, I haven't figured out how to deal with them yet, so let's take it one step at a time."

"Then our plan to escape from Yangdu, um, has failed." Yuan Xiang said with understanding.

"Brother Yuan Xiang, I originally just wanted His Majesty to stand up for me and let me completely break away from Du Ye, but I never thought he would promise me so much. I am... riding a tiger and it is difficult to back down." Du Ximiao grabbed Yuan Xiang's hand and shook it, saying in a gentle voice.

Yuan Xiang was not surprised: "Some people are born to like riding tigers. It's not that they can't get off, but they choose to get on voluntarily."

Niyun chimed in, "Your Highness is finally going to live a good life, so of course he can't just leave casually. Your Highness said before that he wanted to hold a banquet, so is he going to buy a more impressive house?"

Du Ximiao held Niyun's hand again: "Niyun, you are so thoughtful. This is what I mean. We will be able to move to a new house soon and then hire some people. Life has finally come to an end after all the hardships. It would be a pity to leave now. Brother Yuanxiang, we..."

She looked at Yuan Xiang with expectant eyes. Yuan Xiang secretly looked at the jade pendant in his hand, put it away, and said in a deep voice: "I am a guard. I should listen to your highness. I have overstepped my authority."

"You are not just a guard, you are my brother who grew up with me. It's just that you take my mother's surname, and I take His Majesty's surname. We have been a family for a long time." Du Ximiao talked about their past relationship.

Du Ximiao held up three fingers and swore, "I, Du Ximiao, promise you that I will not take risky actions again. If I make any mistakes in the future, I hope you can correct me. I really need you."

As she spoke, she hugged the man and woman in front of her, and the three of them embraced each other, supporting each other.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door, and it was Jiang Fan!

It turned out that he was the sorcerer whom Du Ximiao bribed early on. It was his second visit to Du Ye that created the current situation, allowing Du Ximiao, who seemed to have lost, to win a great victory.

"Master Jiang," Du Ximiao took out a heavy package, "This is the final payment for your cooperation. I guess we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

Jiang Fan weighed it for a few times, and suddenly a new expression appeared on his upright face. He smiled and flattered Du Ximiao: "Your Highness is very kind. If there is such work in the future, I will be there whenever you call."

"Master Jiang is so powerful, can you see the peculiarity of my fate?"

"Ah? What do you mean, Your Highness?" Jiang Fan just turned around to leave, then turned back to ask.

"When I was a child, the palace invited a Taoist priest to tell fortunes for the emperor's son and daughter. The Taoist priest said that I was not destined to be an emperor. Master, can you help me see if this is true?"

"This..." Jiang Fan agreed to tell a fortune out of gratitude.

"Although your Highness does not have Huagai in your horoscope, he is a fire element, which means that he has a positive personality and likes adventure and new things. This is a good thing." Jiang Fan avoided the main point and his eyes were a little evasive.

Du Ximiao said bluntly: "Whatever Master Jiang said later, just tell me. I won't blame you."

"I have seen a pattern. The six Dings on the sky plate are added to the six Guis on the ground plate. This is called the Vermillion Bird Throwing Himself into the River. This is the conflict between water and fire. Yin water overcomes Yin fire, which is a bad omen. Therefore, if you act at this time, Your Highness may be implicated in documents and drowned in news. You may even get involved in lawsuits, treacherous plots, and all things will go wrong."

"Your Highness is of noble status, representing the Vermilion Bird, which symbolizes the divine bird. It is a bad omen for a vermilion bird to jump into a river. Your Highness should be more careful in what he does, and try not to cause gossip. The hexagram that I showed to King Xian before was Ying Ru Taibai, which shows weak fire and strong metal. You are a fire element, so a head-on confrontation may be a temporary victory, but I'm afraid the road ahead will be more difficult." Jiang Fan advised carefully.

"Master Jiang, do you know how to change your destiny?" Du Ximiao felt more and more depressed the more she listened, but she still couldn't help asking.

"The world is so big, there must be a way to change one's fate. But I am just an ordinary sorcerer, and I don't know how to help Your Highness change the emperor's fate." Jiang Fan told the truth sincerely.

"Can the gods in heaven do this?"

"This... I have no idea. Since the An family's ancestor ascended to heaven in Yangyue City, I have never heard of anyone becoming a god, let alone seen a god."

The secret of God lies in the An family. She stepped on the An family to get to the top. She must find a chance to ease the relationship. Du Ximiao secretly calculated and smiled as she sent Jiang Fan away from the residence.

"Five hundred gold!" Niyun gestured with her hand in surprise, "Your Highness is so generous!" Yuan Xiang told her that Du Ximiao gave Jiang Fan five hundred gold for fortune-telling, which really shocked her.

"I heard a Taoist tell a tale once when I was a kid, but I can't remember it. What if the Vermillion Bird jumped into the river and turned into lava?" Du Ximiao lifted her hair, "That means rebirth from the ashes, right?... I'll give the other 500 gold coins to Miss Shuguan, and ask her to help me find a deity who can change people's fate."

"Your Highness, you just received a reward and you're already spending it all. Don't spend it all before the next reward." Yuan Xiang couldn't help but say.

Du Ximiao smiled brightly, pretended not to hear anything, and turned to go into the inner room.