Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2 - 17 Years Later
Chapter 3 - Distinguished Guest, Famous Dog
Chapter 4 - Unsheathing The Sword
Chapter 5 - Moon As Backdrop
Chapter 6 - What A Pity
Chapter 7 - I'M Freezing
Chapter 8 - I Submit
Chapter 9 - Sweet Revenge
Chapter 10 - Storm Rages On
Chapter 11 - That Magical Moment
Chapter 12 - I’Ll Fall Into Hell
Chapter 13 - Individual Motives
Chapter 14 - Scheming For The Destruction Of Mystic Essence
Chapter 15 - Clear Water And Flying Sleeves
Chapter 16 - Stripping Before The Enemies
Chapter 17 - A Stripping Strategy
Chapter 18 - King Hunter, Zhan Beiye
Chapter 19 - Three-Way Night Battle
Chapter 20 - Parting Ways
Chapter 21 - Dogful Marriage
Chapter 22 - Chasing A Man Down The Street
Chapter 23 - Thanks For Your Service
Chapter 24 - A Crafty Little Plan
Chapter 25 - Meeting On A Narrow Path
Chapter 26 - A Frame-Up
Chapter 27 - An Extortion
Chapter 28 - Eve Of Change I
Chapter 29 - Eve Of Change Ii
Chapter 30 - Turbulence
Chapter 31 - Yun Chi
Chapter 32 - The Perfect Moment
Chapter 33 - A Shocking Arrow
Chapter 34 - A Reunion
Chapter 35 - Arrival Of A Lightning Bolt
Chapter 36 - A Public Talk About Chest
Chapter 37 - Fleeing Once More
Chapter 38 - A Rise Is Coming
Chapter 39 - Robbing Wealth, Robbing Body
Chapter 40 - Who'S Teaching Whom?
Chapter 41 - Beauty In The Lake
Chapter 42 - The Smells Of Life
Chapter 43 - Drunk At A Brothel
Chapter 44 - Abandoned Garden
Chapter 45 - The World’S Hero
Chapter 46 - A Flower Under The Moonlight
Chapter 47 - Scapegoat
Chapter 48 - Heartbroken Servant
Chapter 49 - Whose First Kiss?
Chapter 50 - Charging Through It All Alone
Chapter 51 - Your Heart, My Heart I
Chapter 52 - Your Heart, My Heart Ii
Chapter 53 - What Must Be Done, Will Be Done I
Chapter 54 - What Must Be Done, Will Be Done Ii
Chapter 55 - Closing In, Step By Step I
Chapter 56 - Closing In, Step By Step Ii
Chapter 57 - The Heart Of Wuji I
Chapter 58 - The Heart Of Wuji Ii
Chapter 59 - A Night Of Complaint I
Chapter 60 - A Night Of Complaint Ii
Chapter 61 - Painful Choice I
Chapter 62 - Painful Choice Ii
Chapter 63 - One Night Spring I
Chapter 64 - One Night Spring Ii
Chapter 65 - Secretive Si Lei
Chapter 66 - Challenge Accepted
Chapter 67 - Battle Of Two Hearts
Chapter 68 - Battle Of Two Hearts Ii
Chapter 69 - Defrost
Chapter 70 - Defrost Ii
Chapter 71 - Devil’S Curse
Chapter 72 - Both Sides Of The Story
Chapter 73 - A Brilliant Idea
Chapter 74 - Name Extend Of
Chapter 75 - Lantern Festival
Chapter 76 - The Blue Danube
Chapter 77 - Incoming
Chapter 78 - Wave After Wave
Chapter 79 - Walk Of Shame
Chapter 80 - Surrender
Chapter 81 - Fake Surrender
Chapter 82 - Against All Odds
Chapter 83 - Don’T You Dare
Chapter 84 - Rising Dust
Chapter 85 - Secret Of Haoyang Valley
Chapter 86 - Return
Chapter 87 - Grieving Ghost
Chapter 88 - Sleep Tight, Zhan Beiye
Chapter 89 - His Return
Chapter 90 - Motive Revealed
Chapter 91 - Thunderstorm In February
Chapter 92 - The Wait
Chapter 93 - He’S No More
Chapter 94 - Reunion
Chapter 95 - Confrontation
Chapter 96 - Caught In The Middle
Chapter 97 - Revelation
Chapter 98 - A Guinea Pig’S Plan
Chapter 99 - Let’S Wait And See
Chapter 100 - Empress Yuan
Chapter 101 - The Cruelest Revenge
Chapter 102 - Love Triangle
Chapter 103 - Stripped
Chapter 104 - Missing Concubine
Chapter 105 - Chrysanthemum
Chapter 106 - Feng Mo
Chapter 107 - Sir Li
Chapter 108 - 13 Years
Chapter 109 - Gale
Chapter 110 - Chef Meng In Action
Chapter 111 - Untitled
Chapter 112 - Separate Ways
Chapter 113 - Wife-To-Be
Chapter 114 - An Ambush
Chapter 115 - Ambush Ii
Chapter 116 - Two Paths
Chapter 117 - Gu Lingfeng
Chapter 118 - An Engagement From The Past
Chapter 119 - Night In The Forest I
Chapter 120 - Night In The Forest Ii
Chapter 121 - The Great Sacrifice I
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Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Fantasy, Josei, Ongoing, Romance, Wuxia Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Empress Fuyao, Phù diêu hoàng hậu, The Rising Empress, 扶摇皇后, ______
Total Chapters in book: 341
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
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Hanging upside down on the city gates, he waited for his target, making his move once the target presented his token and entered the gate. In the mere minutes when the guard checked the token to the target’s entrance into the city, he leaped down and assassinated him, skinning him and nailing the body at the same time. He completed these actions in one fell swoop, making the act almost seem like a form of art.
The most wondrous part was nailing the body, completely making use of one’s logical blind spot. Because there were no other possible places to hide a body, no one would expect to just look up and see a whole corpse nailed onto the city gates itself.
One could expect the shock when Xuanyuan discovered a body nailed onto the city gates the next day.
This beautiful assassin was not only highly skilled in assassination techniques, but also seemed to be very knowledgeable of Xuanyuan’s internal affairs. One could tell that he already knew that this “Holy Palace Special Envoy” would enter the city overnight, and thus specially waited to intercept his token. Needless to say, the token he stole was definitely something very valuable.
This guy definitely did not come with peaceful intentions. Looks like something was about to happen within the nation of Xuanyuan.
Meng Fuyao recalled the look he gave before leaving. That man, he probably noticed her. ‘What did he mean with that look? That I should learn from him?’
So she did.
She didn’t imitate him well though – his face-skinning technique was too exquisite, and she was unfamiliar with it, so she just drew a large cross instead.
Very soon, the intelligence reports from the various kingdoms made the following announcement— On X year X month X day, Xuanyuan had been infiltrated. The infiltrator was vicious and bold, hanging three corpses on the city gates, one of them was faceless, and the other two had crossed on their faces. Allegedly a demonstration of power from neighboring kingdoms, Xuanyuan was now going around searching for the perpetrator… the peace amongst the five kingdoms might possibly be disrupted and result in war again…
This intelligence report naturally caught the attention of the Dahan intelligence agency, but unfortunately, everyone was out busy trying to find undercover agents, and no one had time to return to the agency. Therefore, by the time the Dahan Emperor saw this extremely important report, he would have very, unfortunately, missed the initial critical moment…
The Kunjing Nation Protecting Temple of Xuanyuan had always been Kunjing’s most popular area, with a bridge that resembled that of today’s Old Beijing’s sky bridge and street vendors selling food or reselling cultural items all around the place. Of course, these were just low-quality products, like cooking dishes, brooms, and bamboo dustpans by the mountain walls, and these items could be thrown away after just three uses. The fragrant noodles would lose their fragrance by the time it reached home, the wooden combs would break after several uses, the pepper and salt were mixed with flour, and the textile store sold mainly coarse cloths in blue, moon white, grey, light blue colors, fabrics for the peasants that were usually stored for long periods of time in the storage rooms and rotted away after several washes.
In summary, it was a place where profiteers and cheats gathered. Yet also because it was so chaotic, there held a possibility of finding something new and unexpected.
The West wall of the Nation Protecting Temple was usually the area for street performers and martial artists, and it operated on a first come, first serve basis.
Early that morning, the sound of the gong thundered through the air.
“Uncles and aunties, brothers and sisters, fellow countrymen… clang, clang, clang, clang…” The Gong striker used rope and white cloth to encircle the area as pockets of passersby started to gather curiously.
“Those walking by, don’t miss this… clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang…” The performer stuck a dog-skin plaster onto their forehead, walking about arranging several stools. The crowd was beginning to grow.
“We brothers have come to your land… clang, clang, clang…” Having said that, the performer climbed atop a stool as the crowd yawned.
“Failing to find our relatives and having no money on us, Big Brother lies in bed ill with no money for treatment…” The performer wiped a tear as the crowd continued to yawn.
“The landlord threw us out…” Another tear wiped, the crowd indifferent.
“Fell into a drain as we came out of the front door…” Tears were wiped again while the crowd remained indifferent.
“Smashed into a bone inside the drain, and two dogs fighting over it thought that I was also here for it and leaped at me and bit me…” The performer held tears in their eyes as they made a show of removing their pants to reveal the wound as the crowd shushed in response.
“As we clambered out of the drain, a horse carriage ran over Big Brother’s hand…” The performer cried out, displaying “Big Brother”‘s heavily bandaged hand. The crowd was finally moved – these two damn kids were way too unlucky.
“Big Brother tried to claim medical fees from the carriage owner and was kicked in the groin instead by the Mistress…” Tears were now streaming down, and Big Brother silently trembled with clenched teeth as the crowd sympathized with the indignant-looking boy.
“We went to the medical hall for treatment, but because we didn’t have money for good medicine, the black-hearted physician gave us some unknown damaged products which stank, if you don’t believe me just smell this…” The performer made a show of undoing Big Brother’s pants while the crowd stuck out their necks excitedly to watch when “Big Brother” grasped onto his pants and said through gnashed teeth, “Master, can you have some limits?”
“… And then we ran into Kunjing’s street bullies…”
“Alright, here’s some money,” An aunty with tears in her eyes undid her clothing, then undid the three buttons within, took out a small bag, opening up thirteen layers of handkerchief wrapped on it, revealing a double wrapped wallet, and from within she fished out with trembling hands… a single copper coin.
A single copper coin!
Everyone turned to look admirably at the lad hitting the gong – Heavens, such a silver tongue! This “Iron Hen” who hadn’t been charitable in thirty years actually did charity for the first time today!
Xuanyuan’s Kunjing Iron Corner Street Persimmon Alley’s Aunty Li, also known as Kunjing’s number one Iron Hen; it was said that it was harder to get her to give an extra copper coin than for Xuanyuan’s manor’s little master at hiding a man in her bedroom.
What happened next was even more jaw-dropping.
The gong striker didn’t seem to understand what record-breaking and historical symbolism this copper coin held as he moved to reject the coin, solemnly saying, “One does not get rewarded without reason, even though us brothers are poor, we aren’t here to receive empty-handed. Today we are here to show our skills, using our skills to earn money, honorably, or else we would really just be mere beggars.”
“This child has backbone!” The lady looked benevolently at the Gong player…’What a good looking lad, he would probably fetch at least an ounce of silver at the men’s brothel…’
“Stop shooting your mouth off!” Someone said impatiently, “Can you play with knives? Crescent spades? Or will you walk on a tightrope? Or can you wave banners…”
The gong performer smiled, held up a finger, and shook his head.
“How is any of that considered refreshing? Since it’s my first time here, naturally I’ll have to show you something interesting such that we will live up to the name of this brilliant capital. And of course, to let you folks see what’s out there, look at my… clang, clang, clang!” Striking the gong hard, the performer announced, “Unrivalled, magnificent, beautiful, universe-startling, heaven-moving, unique from the skies to the underworld—the one and only, Magical Rabbit!”
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
The “Magic Rabbit” made its appearance.
Covered from head to toe in black fur—a disguise, wearing a red robe—from her own bag, four short legs—they were Lord Yuan Bao’s.
The “Magic Rabbit” gracefully leaped onto a large red painted crate on the stage, flashing an appropriate smile that revealed its four shiny front teeth and well-manneredly waving its paws at the audience.
If the original owner of this “rabbit” were here, he would probably end up spitting out blood—a precious mythological pet, a rare, treasured rodent with intelligence on par with humans, after landing in Meng Fuyao’s hands has fallen so far that it would have to make a living by selling skills in a third rate marketplace.
The “mythological pet” itself did not have much awareness of its lineage, instead enjoying the feeling of being the center of attention, taking its time to turn around to smile, showing off its teeth charmingly…
“Ah! Small black rabbit!”
“Rat!”
“Raccoon!”
“Weasel!”
Lord Yuan Bao’s face darkened as it glared at Meng Fuyao hatefully. ‘Who let you dye my fur black? It’s ruining my dashing image!’
“Fellow countrymen, come and look!” Meng Fuyao hit on the gong hard and continued, “A magical rabbit that can recognize words…”
“Able to recognize words?”
“That’s not possible, stop boasting.”
“This lad is spouting nonsense! Careful not to get tricked!”
Meng Fuyao waved her hand and laughed. “True gold fears no fire. Whether it’s a donkey or a horse, a rabbit or a weasel, you will know once we take it out for a spin!”
She continued to strike the gong, successfully attracting the attention of the crowd around. She watched as a few plainly dressed, but calm-looking men made their way over, her eyes gleaming as she smiled and said, “Speaking of this magical rabbit of mine, there’s nothing particularly special, just that it is able to recognize couplets.”
There was a wild outburst in the crowd – the ability to recognize words was rare enough, much less the ability match couplets! Immediately someone yelled out excitedly, “And what if it can’t?”
“I will send my Big Brother to be your slave!” The black-hearted Meng Fuyao pointed at her poor “Big Brother” Tie Cheng and said, “After treating his illness, he’s still a considerably well-built man who can do hard work!”
“Fine, I’ll come up with one first, Red Flower!”
Lord Yuan Bao glared at the man with despise, ignoring him—this man was clearly belittling its intelligence.
“Come on, can we have something with more than five words?” Meng Fuyao sighed. “Don’t insult my Lord Magical Rabbit’s intelligence.”
The crowd started to think hard for a couplet, a truly difficult task for the less educated lower class. One of the men scratched the back of his ear as he pondered, catching a flea and then biting on it in his mouth. The flea was bigger than usual, and it caught on his teeth. While regretting the early aging of his teeth, a sudden inspiration struck him, and he yelled out, “This rabbit’s front teeth are very big!”
Lord Yuan Bao was immediately enraged and spat out a sequence of phrases.
“Your mother has fat thighs!”
“Your father strikes luck when he leaves the house.”
“Your mother deserted you at birth.”
“This place is outstanding with beautiful mountains and waters,” said a poor man excitedly, rocking his head back and forth.
“Your mother’s steps create valleys and sand flies everywhere; she creates miracles of nature.”
“Utter rubbish! How can a rodent’s intelligence compare with a human’s!” exclaimed the poor man angrily.
“Utter rubbish! Your mother’s dumber than a mouse!”
Aunty Li dimly asked Meng Fuyao, “Why is it scolding your mother in every sentence?”
Meng Fuyao replied with deep sentiment, “Because it lacks motherly affection…”
Aunty Li continued dimly, “It… it… it really is a rabbit?”
“Actually…” Meng Fuyao dragged her sentence meaningfully as Aunty Li and the surrounding crowd strained their ears to listen.
“It’s just a rabbit.”
“Amazing!”
Instantly there was an outburst of exclamations and everyone wandering about the Nation Protecting Temple made their way over and copper coins showered through the air—magical rabbit, truly a magical rabbit!
Lord Yuan Bao puffed out its chest proudly and smiled, fully immersing into its character while biting a copper coin it personally picked out and throwing it into the bamboo basket—it was truly an honorable feeling to earn money with its own labor, even though these copper coins wouldn’t even be able to pay for a single button on its robes…
Total Chapters in book: 341
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
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