Rebirth of the Black-bellied Princess Mo

Chapter 1 : Rebirth

“Young Master? Marquis! Young Marquis is awake!!” A crisp female voice came, and the person stumbled out of the door with a cry of joy.

Xia Chu was a little surprised. She woke up? Covering her moth in shock, she moved her gaze down, slightly towards her hands. What she saw was a pair of immature little hands. These were her hands but at the same time they also shouldn’t be her hands. The problem was that it was too small. She straightened up and hurried down to the bronze mirror at the southwest corner of the bedroom. Staring at the face in the bronze mirror, she wasn’t sure if she was mistaken and thus took a look a few more times. This was how she looked when she was… thirteen years old.

Memories flashed past her eyes like a nightmare. She remembered the last scene before closing her eyes. Xiao Zimu was pierced by thousands of arrows, as he walked towards her slowly but firmly. But he couldn’t even cross halfway and fell down. There was a thunderstorm in the sky, and the heavy rain poured down. She cried out heartbreakingly: “Zimu!!!”

At that time, she could hear a sneer from behind of Zimu. Xiao Yanjun paced up to her and looked down at her condescendingly. “It was our[1] fault. We didn’t expect that he would hand over the Xiao dynasty for a woman. Tsk, the layers of ambushes that we have specially prepared for him has gone wate. He came alone, with just his own life, and the edict, begging us to let you go. It’s ridiculous, the Xiao family’s blood is wasted on him. “

He leaned over, pinched her chin, and smiled at the intense hatred bursting from her eyes, “It is our style to cut weeds and eliminate the roots.” The Tianzi Sword[2] came out of its sheath and pierced into her heart. He came near her ear and said softly: “Xia Chu, in fact, you have never loved me.”

Xia Chu didn’t feel any pain, she only had strong regret and hatred, mixed with unwillingness and anger. She opened her mouth, “The sky has eyes, and I am born to humiliate you in the next life, and become your nightmare, like a shadow I’ll haunt you until death.”

Then she closed her eyes. Opening her eyes again she saw how she looked like in the mirror. She was reincarnated with the help of heaven. Looking at herself in the bronze mirror, she noticed that there was still a strangle mark on his neck.

In the last life, when she was thirteen years old, her master let her go down the mountain to celebrate her father’s birthday. As soon as she arrived at the Marquis Mansion, she ran into Xiao Yanjun, who was coming to attend her father’s birthday banquet. His unusually handsome face with sharp edges and corners caught her eyes. Thin lips, straight nose, sword-like eyebrows flew obliquely into the strands of black hair under the corners of the temples, and a pair of clear eyes like dew was leaning over to look at her. He was only sixteen years old, but he was tall and slender. He wore a moon-white brocade robe, and he was wearing a dragon-shaped jade that was not too expensive but was extremely delicate. At a glance, Xia Chu felt that a small bud had sprouted from the apex of her heart.

Ironic, isn’t it? In the future, this person will not only let her buds sprout on the apex of her heart, but also personally inserted a bloody wound on the apex of her heart. But how could she know this in her previous life? She even forgot that she was wearing a men’s robe at the time, and she happily hugged him. She was immediately torn off by Marquis Xia, and he dragged her behind his back and bowed to Xiao Yanjun. “This unruly son of mine was rude and disturbed Your Highness, the Fourth Prince.”

“This is the only son of Marquis, Xia Chu?” Xiao Yanjun asked after nodding.

“Precisely. Xia Chu, my son, was sent to Zilan Mountain to recuperate since he was young. He doesn’t understand the rules and made His Highness witness a joke.”

“It’s okay. Young Marquis is enthusiastic and cute, I like him.” Xiao Yanjun said. After that, he smiled warmly towards Xia Chu. It was like the early rising sun, Xia Chu felt that it was warm and beautiful.

She walked past Marquis Xia and stood in front of Xiao Yanjun. She pulled his sleeves, and said with a flushed face: “I also like you.”

Marquis Xia hurriedly pulled her to sit down next to him, and kept serving dishes, wishing that after getting stuffed she couldn’t make a sound.

After the banquet, Marquis Xia led her into the study. Xia Chu immediately took Marquis Xia’s arm and said coquettishly: “Daddy, I want to marry Xiao Yanjun.”

“No.”

“Why not? Although he is a prince, but Daddy, you are also the only Marquis of the Xiao Country, and I am the only child of the Marquis Mansion. How could I disgrace him?”

“Xia Chu! You are a man.”

“Then I’ll recover my female identity. Simple.”

“Nonsense! This is the crime of deceiving his majesty! “

” That year mother died in order to save his majesty. The emperor wouldn’t blame us for this trivial matter. Afterall, he still picked up a daughter-in-law for nothing. “

“You! Unfilial son, do you know why I and your mother decided to raise you as a boy? “

“I do not know nor do I want to know. What I know is that I’m going to marry Xiao Yanjun. “

Marquis Xia’s complexion was sullen when she said “I don’t want to”, and his whole body trembled with anger when she said “I want to marry”.

“Come here, lock this unfilial son of mine in the house. No one can let him out without my permission.”

“Father, father, if you don’t allow me, I— I will let you see as I die.” Xia Chu cried while struggling.

Marquis Xia waved his hand to pull her into the room without saying more.

Later, she was locked into the room, and within a month, she completely protested and caused trouble once in a while. Finally, Marquis Xia couldn’t bear to let her suffer anymore and let her do as she pleased. He took her into the palace and asked the emperor to give her a marriage after recovering her female identity.

After that, it went smoothly, and Xiao Yanjun wanted to marry her after learning that she was a girl. The emperor did not blame the Marquis Mansion, and appointed the Fourth Prince as the Crown Prince, gave him the Tianzi sword and decreed that the Marquis Manor’s Xia Chu would be appointed as the Crown Princess and granted them marriage.

She thought she had gotten what she wanted and thought that all of this was just the beginning of happiness. Unexpectedly, that was the official start of the nightmare.

Notes:

[1] 朕(zhèn) Imperial ‘we’. The Emperors of China refer themselves as ‘We’ or ‘Us’ in plural form rather than ‘I’ or ‘Me’

[2] 天子剑 (tiānzǐ jiàn) Tianzi sword means the Emperor’s Sword. That is the sword that symbolises the emperor or something like that. Assume that it is the sword that is used by the emperors for generations.