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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Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
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Chapter 339
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Chapter 341
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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Chapter 339: Untitled
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Lord Yuan Bao was going crazy…
Ηe shook his head and went over to grab Meng Fuyao’s dagger, attempting to chope this darn parrot into chunks. That parrot hopped around triumphantly. “Ah ho ho… Zhi Zhi! Zhi Zhi!”
“Jin Gang, you’re being mischievous again!”
A familiar female voice could be heard, and soon after, that parrot was caught. Meng Fuyao also grabbed the struggling Lord Yuan Bao and noticed it was that young lady Jin Huan, Fei Yan’s servant.
That young lady gave Meng Fuyao a smile as she walked away. She patted the parrot and said, “Let’s go. Why are you dawdling, didn’t you say that only food from our home is fit for your tastebuds? Let’s head back and get some thousand sacred pills for you to eat. Hm… We should go back to the clan and look for the treasure…”
She mumbled, walking further away.
Meng Fuyao stood in the crowd, watching her back view disappear thoughtfully. Suddenly, someone appeared beside her and asked, “Who did you see?”
Meng Fuyao turned around and smiled at Zhangsun Wuji. “A bird.”
“It didn’t lend you its wings?” Zhangsun Wuji looked towards that direction.
Meng Fuyao just took off, casually replying, “Who knows?”
Zhangsun Wuji did not follow her. Instead, he heaved a sigh.
Xuanji Duan Ming Era on the 18th of the fifth month. It was a stuffy, dry day.
Feng Xuan woke up early in the morning. The moment he got up, he felt a weight upon his chest, as if the dark clouds on a gloomy summer were looming over him. He stared blankly at the damp wall, recalling the fact that he hadn’t had any visitors in a long time.
Then, he remembered the diagnosis that the imperial doctor had given him—he couldn’t live past four months. Why was he still fine now? But honestly, the medicine recently had certainly been good. His energy levels were better than before, and especially his vision, which was originally blurry, was now getting clearer by the day.
He found this somewhat ironic. He had already stepped down from his throne, what would he need such a clear vision for? Would there be anything he would have to personally witness?
Just as he was deep in thought, he suddenly heard the noise from opposite his residence. He staggered over to the window to take a look and noticed that there were many craftsmen moving out things under the watch of a eunuch from the opposite palace, where all the ancestors’ tablets were placed.
Normally, he wouldn’t have been able to see clearly. But today, his clear vision captured everything—what they were moving were the ancestral tablets!
The ancestral tablets of the previous Xuanji Emperors!
Those illiterate, rough men casually carried out those sacred ancestral tablets, the ancestral tablets that even he himself would have to bow to, and randomly tossed them on a cart. Soon enough, the cart was filled up with the tablets that resembled a bunch of firewood.
Feng Xuan jumped up in anger. Huffing and puffing, he tried to call for his maids and eunuchs. However, the servants that were usually at his every beck and call were nowhere to be seen. He could only lean against the wall for support, hobbling over to stop those civilians worthy of death.
However, suddenly, someone asked, “Where are you going?”
Feng Xuan looked up and saw a platoon of guards swarming in as the imperial carriage slowly made its way in. Meng Fuyao got down from the carriage and glanced at him with her hands behind her back.
“Fuyao, just nice!” Feng Xuan was elated upon seeing her and eagerly went forward and tugged her sleeves. Pointing towards the opposite side, he said, “Look at those thieves… Look at those thieves… They actually dare… dare…” His face was red as he trembled with rage, unable to even speak clearly.
“Oh.” Meng Fuyao pushed his hand away, and nonchalantly glanced at him. “Ah, that…”
She walked towards the residence, and Feng Xuan followed her unsteadily and anxiously. “Stop them… stop them…”
“You saw everything?” Meng Fuyao turned to look at him.
“I saw! What’s going on?” Feng Xuan clutched his chest and coughed. “They…”
“They are moving the ancestral tablets of the Feng Imperial Family. Simple as that.”
“You—”
Meng Fuyao’s tone made Feng Xuan realize the answer. He looked up and stuttered, “You… You were the one that let them…”
“Naturally.” Meng Fuyao laughed, looking at him as if he had gotten dumber. “If I hadn’t given the orders, would anyone have dared to touch that place?”
“You’re crazy!” Feng Xuan stumbled backward and fell onto the ground. With his shaky legs, he tried to get up a couple of times but without much success.
“Whether I am crazy or not, I do not know.” Meng Fuyao glanced at him coldly, not bothering to help him up as she added, “But I think you might be going crazy soon.”
She strode over and sat on the couch. Her hands were on her knees as she looked down upon the struggling Feng Xuan. “I am here to inform you that I have just given out a new order. From today onwards, Xuanji will be renamed as Wan Changsheng. All of Xuanji’s Imperial Family will become normal citizens. From now on, there will be no more Xuanji!”
As she finished her last word, Feng Xuan’s eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he fainted.
Meng Fuyao watched him calmly with her dark, unfathomable eyes. ‘Xuanji, Xuanji, from now onwards, there will be no more of that darn Xuanji Imperial Family. Xuwan, Xuwan, from now onwards, there will only be your tablet!’
Feng Xuan only regained consciousness after a very long time.
When he woke up, his entire vision was black. Initially, he thought that he had gone blind, but then, he noticed something glistening in the dark. Then he realized it was nighttime.
And that glistening thing, was the eyes of a human, the eyes of Meng Fuyao who had not left.
Feng Xuan lay on the floor in the exact same position he had fainted in. He lay there, cold and frozen like the dead. Only then did he realized how deep Meng Fuyao’s hatred towards him was. He initially thought that such things were a common occurrence amongst the Imperial Family. He thought that Meng Fuyao did not have her memories before she was five. He believed that an honorable throne was enough to soothe her rage and hatred. However, he thought it too simply.
He simplified humanity, grudges, hatred, pain, and darkness.
To him, power and authority reigned above all. Unfortunately, he did not know that to others, the most important thing could be their own heart.
Those past experiences that contained joy and tears. Those memories that needed redemption.
“… Aren’t you… afraid of being… cursed…” To witness the Feng Empire, he had protected all his life be destroyed in his own hands. To witness his sacred ancestral tablets being tossed into a dirty cart like trash. To witness himself being the traitor of the Feng family, unable to face his ancestors in death. Feng Xuan struggled with his very last bit of strength, attempting to control the child he thought he could with his vicious words.
“I’ve been waiting for you just to tell you this.” Meng Fuyao squatted down and leaned in. “… That oath had nothing to do with me.”
She smiled and gently whispered beside Feng Xuan’s ear, “The child you had with Xuwan, Feng Fuyao, was stillborn. And I… am just Meng Fuyao.”
Feng Xuan trembled.
“Feng Fuyao was loyal to the Feng family. She did not destroy Xuanji’s Imperial Family. Feng Fuyao would never go against her oath because she was only alive for one hour.” Meng Fuyao smiled calmly. “Feng Xuan, do you remember the oath? It was Feng Fuyao who said that, not me.”
Feng Xuan suddenly started to convulse. His eyes were fixated on Meng Fuyao’s eyes. Those eyes of hers were emotionless, staring straight at him, locking him in an eternal abyss.
In the dark night, he shook uncontrollably under the icy cold gaze of Meng Fuyao. He could hear the sound of his muscles tearing apart, his bones shattering, and his heart pierced. Somewhere in his body, something seemed to have snapped, inflicting upon him unbearable pain. A tiny crack appeared as a wisp of smoke escaped.
That was… his soul?
It turned out the death of an emperor… was so simple.
An entire lifetime of scheming, manipulating, but ended up… to be controlled.
This was karma, karma… it was.
Xuanji, Duan Ming Era, on the 18th of the fifth month. Xuanji was now known as Wan Changsheng. It was only then that everyone understood the previous name was, but short-lived [1. Changsheng refers to longevity in Chinese, thus a pun].
With the exception of the Ninth Princess, who was already married, the rest had now become commoners.
Changsheng, on the 19th of the fifth month. Feng Xuan had passed on, buried in the mausoleum. There was no one else in the mausoleum, only him. Apparently, before he had passed on, he had requested to be buried with a yellow napkin over his face as he had no face to meet his ancestors. The Empress had allowed his request.
Feng Xuan had become the last emperor to be buried in the mausoleum.
However, there was a lucky one amongst the Xuanji Imperial Family—Feng Wu. He was the prince that wasn’t abolished and, instead, was tasked to become the next Prime Minister, overseeing the political scene.
This move by the Empress left many confused. “I gave everyone a chance, but he was the only one that passed,” was the only sentence the Empress had left.
That day, where they all had been under house arrest, it had actually been to test them.
1. Political commentary-wise, there were 7 excellent people, including Feng Wu that had caught her eye.
2. Starving them for three days before giving them buns. The moment the buns had been sent in, only those that had been willing to share had passed the test. Feng Wu, who had too been starving for three days, had chosen to give up his bun to his nephew. At that point, there had only been three people left that had passed both the first test and the second test.
3. Ji Yu informing them that the Empress had the intention to choose officials from the princes and princesses. He had also told them the list of people that the Empress had plans for. Amongst the trio, two had been elated and begun to verbally attack each other. Only Feng Wu had remained calm.
Hence, Feng Wu had passed.
A good political commentary showed his talent. Giving his bun up showed his kindness. To not be swayed by temptation showed his prudence.
Meng Fuyao used such methods to choose her officials.
Initially, she could have slowly picked them from the nation, but since she was running out of time, she could only search for talents in the Xuanji Imperial Family that was experienced with the workings of politics.
She also thought that if she were to leave in the future, she would hand the throne to Feng Wu. The nation would be incorporated into either Wuji or Dahan, and with Zhangsun Wuji or Zhan Beiye around, even if Feng Wu were to inherit the throne, he could forget about changing the nation’s name back to Xuanji.
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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