The Original Host went to the palace to find the Third Prince. On her way back, she was stopped by the Second Princess, who mocked her and dropped a shocking bombshell. The Original Host fainted on the spot and was taken back to the General’s Mansion by Jing Yi.
It turned out that the Great General Who Guards the Nation—the Original Host’s father—and the Young General, her older brother, had been accused of colluding with enemy spies and selling military strategy maps.
This led to a devastating defeat, the loss of five cities in succession, and the brutal slaughter of fifty thousand soldiers by the enemy forces.
After the truth came to light, the Commander-in-Chief ordered their arrest. However, during the arrest, as the two resisted, they were each shot through the heart with two arrows and fell into a raging river, their bodies never recovered.
Because the border was so far from the imperial capital, by the time the news arrived, three months had already passed.
This meant the Original Host’s father and brother had died three months prior.
Upon learning of this, the Emperor was furious. The Second Princess told the Original Host that confiscation of their family property was inevitable. As for the final outcome—whether it would be execution or exile—it would depend on her father the Emperor’s decision, which remained undetermined for now.
The Original Host collapsed and fainted from the shock.
As for why Jing Yi and Jing Er referred to him as the Dog Emperor, it was likely due to their suspicion that something was amiss with the General’s case.
After all, the Original Host’s father had guarded the border for many years and had killed countless enemies. How could he have been so foolish?
From what the Original Host knew:
Fifteen years ago, when the Emperor emerged victorious in the struggle for the throne, defeating the Crown Prince’s faction and ascending to power, the Original Host’s father was merely a minor general. Taking advantage of the chaos, three neighboring kingdoms attacked and invaded Daxing.
The Emperor immediately dispatched two hundred thousand troops to the Original Host’s father, ordering him to fight at the border.
At that time, the Original Host was only one year old. Her mother had died from complications during childbirth, leaving only her wet nurse and her eight-year-old brother by her side.
The Original Host’s father accepted the order and left the imperial capital. Not long after, he achieved victory. To prevent the three kingdoms from joining forces again, he remained stationed at the border, returning only once a year.
Five years ago, the three kingdoms allied once more and began invading Daxing again, this time with even greater force.
The three sides gathered two hundred and fifty thousand troops to attack. The Emperor then dispatched the Original Host’s eighteen-year-old brother with one hundred thousand troops to assist his father at the border.
At that time, the Original Host’s brother held a military position, so he had no choice but to accept the order.
From then on, the General’s Mansion held three hundred thousand troops in its hands.
Back then, the Original Host was the only one left in the General’s Mansion. The Xie uncles each held their own positions at court, but they were all troublesome characters. Their children often bullied the Original Host, who was left alone. Fortunately, two highly skilled Hidden Guards protected her, preventing the bullying from succeeding.
Thankfully, that war also ended in victory. The Original Host’s brother, with his profound strategies, caught the enemy off guard, forcing them to surrender with minimal casualties. He was the key to their victory and was conferred the title of Young General by the Emperor. However, he was ordered to remain stationed at the border with his father and was not permitted to return to the capital without a summons.
Then, just recently, another war broke out, and disaster struck.
There was only one suspect.
In the Original Host’s memory, there was a scene from when she was fifteen: her father wanted to take her to the border.
But for some reason, the Emperor strongly opposed the idea. Seeing that the Original Host was deeply infatuated with his most favored Third Prince, he immediately issued an edict betrothing her to the Third Prince, despite the prince’s strong objections.
He even allowed the Original Host free access to the palace. He was truly treating her like a fool!
Otherwise, if the Original Host had been even slightly smarter and not so love-struck, she might have had a chance to uncover some palace secrets.
Thus, for the sake of her beloved, the Original Host naturally had no desire to follow her father to the harsh, bitter cold of the border.Xie Zhizhi saw the complex expressions of the Original Host’s father, Xie Zongyi, and the Original Host’s brother, Xie Huaizhi, in her memories. They probably regretted focusing too much on military campaigns and raising the Original Host too naively.
They might have sensed something was wrong early on, but they couldn’t persuade the Original Host. Sure enough, two years later, disaster struck.
She guessed the Emperor wanted to keep a bargaining chip to threaten the Original Host’s father.
As for whether the General and the Young General were truly dead, the Original Host was heartbroken by the news, unwilling to believe it. Unable to make sense of it all, she still wanted to enter the palace to plead her case to the Emperor, hoping to clear her father and brother’s names.
Thus, she was drugged and taken away by the Hidden Guards Jing Yi and Jing Er, who were responsible for her safety. As for the group of black-clad men earlier, it was unclear whether they were sent by the Emperor.
Wait, why do these plot keywords sound familiar?
Daxing Dynasty?
A general shot by an arrow, jumping into a river, and dying at the border?
This seems a bit like a historical survival novel she once read, where the female lead’s official love interest was named Xie Huaizhi.
The same name as the Original Host’s brother.
If that’s the case, she had transmigrated into the male lead’s sister.
The Original Host’s brother and father weren’t dead. After jumping into the river, they were washed ashore near the female lead’s village and saved by her.
Meanwhile, the Original Host narrowly escaped death in today’s assassination. Accompanied by the two Hidden Guards, she left the imperial capital before the Emperor could confiscate the family’s property, heading to the border to search for her father, eventually reuniting the family.
Yes, the Xie family was ultimately stripped of their assets.
If this really was that book, according to its timeline…
The decree to confiscate the family’s property would be issued today. The Emperor would order the exile of the Xie family’s nine clans to the cold, remote border of Beixiang.
That was a small country bordering the Daxing Dynasty, plagued by constant unrest. This very nation frequently attacked the Daxing Dynasty, making it easy to imagine the torment they would endure there.
This news spread throughout the Daxing Dynasty, with some gloating and others sighing in pity.
Due to the fallen soldiers and lost territories, the common people scorned the Xie family, even hurling insults at them during their exile journey.
Of course, a few individuals refused to believe that the general who had protected them would betray them.
Although the imperial capital seemed peaceful, a large number of disaster-stricken refugees from the south had already begun fleeing northward. The south had been hit by numerous calamities—floods, snowstorms—claiming many lives.
At the same time, some people gained strange abilities, establishing themselves as rulers on the spot and enslaving the populace.
Little did they know, the imperial capital was also plagued by continuous disasters.