Chapter 236: Chapter 1: The Beautiful General’s Wife (Part 1)

Once the matter was settled, Li Shuning went directly to train, then faked her death, pretended to fall, and returned straight to the Fox Clan.

The Fox Clan leader was already old; Li Shuning directly became the clan leader.

Li Shuning did have some contact with the Carp Spirit, who regretted not personally seeking revenge against Cui Wenyu and Tao Hui.

Li Shuning led her clansmen back to their ancestral land.

Naturally, this attracted the covetous eyes of other demon clans. However, Li Shuning was powerful, and with a carp that had transformed into a dragon, several attempts to cause trouble were thwarted, making other demon clans dare not make a move against the Fox Clan.

Afterwards, Li Shuning continuously focused on cultivation, and a thousand years later, she left this world.

This time departing, Li Shuning took away a large high-grade Spirit Stone.

The Spirit Stone was two meters long, one meter wide, and about fifty centimeters thick.

When the Fox Clan first unearthed such a large Spirit Stone, they were ecstatic, and Li Shuning had set her sights on it at that time.

She went to the outside world and obtained some high-grade Spirit Stones to replace the huge stone block and then hid it away.

When leaving that world, she took the Spirit Stone with her.

Back in the real world, Li Shuning found herself still in the car, while Yun Zimo, with eyes closed, seemed to have gone to the Task World.

The driver of the Yun Family was driving ahead and hadn’t noticed anything unusual about the two masters in the back.

Li Shuning breathed a sigh of relief. After so many years in the Cultivation World, her spiritual power had grown again.

Li Shuning sent her spiritual power into the Qiankun Ring and found that inside the ring, the huge Spirit Stone lay there.

Li Shuning pondered, turned her spiritual power into a blade, and split the Spirit Stone.

The Spirit Stone was divided into two halves; one half remained while the other was split into pieces the size of the middle finger.

In this way, even in the real world, cultivation could still be attempted.

Suddenly, a voice from 006 echoed in her ear, and she was about to enter the Task World again.

When Li Shuning opened her eyes, she saw an elegantly antique room, and she was lying on a soft couch.

“006, receive the plot.”

When Li Shuning opened her eyes again, she immediately took a mirror from the Qiankun Ring.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Li Shuning sighed.

This body was beautiful, stunningly so, with a good figure and skin without a trace of pore visible.

Yet she was merely a weak woman; no wonder she met such an end.

This world was one where imperial power reigned supreme, and female status was low.

Li Shuning was born into an official family; her father was the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and she was the family’s only daughter. She had always been pampered and raised in seclusion, hidden away due to her beauty from a young age.

The current Great General was highly trusted by the Emperor but was often away leading battles and had never married.

The Emperor, upon hearing by chance of the extraordinary beauty of the Minister’s daughter, immediately betrothed her.

Li Shuning married into the General Mansion.

However, on their wedding day, after the ceremony, the Great General hurriedly left due to urgent news from the front lines.

Li Shuning, without consummating the marriage, found herself alone in the empty mansion.

The General Mansion housed only an old lady, the General’s mother, whose husband had long since died in battle. The old lady was reasonable and treated Li Shuning well.

It was perhaps a sense of guilt, knowing that marrying a wife only to depart immediately to the border was rather unfair to the young bride.

Li Shuning had a kind disposition and was genuinely filial, treating the old lady as if she were her own mother.

Two years into the marriage, the Great General remained at the border and never returned.

The old lady, however, caught a cold after a winter rain and had been bedridden ever since.

Li Shuning had to support the General Mansion; although an Imperial Physician was permanently stationed, the old lady’s illness only worsened.

With no option left, Li Shuning sought skilled doctors among the civilians to find a way to cure the old lady.

Somehow, rumors circulated that Li Shuning, with her stunning beauty, was alone in her room, an unfortunate situation indeed.

There was a night banquet where the Emperor gathered ministers, along with their wives and young ladies.

Usually, the old lady would accompany Li Shuning, but this time, with her bedridden, Li Shuning attended alone with a maid.

That banquet led to Li Shuning’s descent into hell.

The Emperor’s youngest brother, Prince Gong, upon seeing Li Shuning, was astonished by her beauty, and after she left the palace, he followed her, abducted her to his mansion, and took her.

In his mind, with such rumors circulating, he assumed Li Shuning wasn’t a chaste woman.

Prince Gong hadn’t expected Li Shuning to be a virgin and panicked when the wine wore off, realizing then that the Great General had never consummated the marriage before leaving for the border.

But he liked this delicate girl so much, how could he let her go?

Li Shuning, merely a weak woman, attempted suicide, but Prince Gong, drunk, tied her hands and feet, and when she tried to bite her tongue, he stuffed a cloth in her mouth.

Now, having lost her chastity, Li Shuning cried uncontrollably, and after Prince Gong untied her, she tried to crash into a wall.

Prince Gong was frightened to death but managed to restrain Li Shuning.

He then tried to persuade Li Shuning.

At that time, word in the Capital City was that Li Shuning was filial and served by the old lady’s side.

Prince Gong used the old lady as a threat, telling Li Shuning that if she took her own life, the old lady would not survive either. When the Great General returned, he would hold the Li Mansion accountable.

Li Shuning thought of the bedridden old lady and cried bitterly.

She returned home in a daze and endured humiliation for the sake of the old lady, rarely going out.

A year later, the Great General returned, and during a celebration banquet, Prince Gong saw Li Shuning again and lost control, taking her right there in the Imperial Palace.

This time, however, they were discovered.

Everyone criticized Li Shuning for being unchaste. The Great General was defending the border for the nation, while she was being intimate with someone else in the Capital City, an act deemed utterly shameless.

Even the old lady refused to see Li Shuning.

Li Shuning was utterly desolate; were it not for the old lady, she would have ended her life long ago.

Finally, she became the object of public scorn and ridicule as if she had wronged everyone.

But it wasn’t over; a Divorce Letter came, and Li Shuning became a discarded wife, and the Great General immediately remarried his cousin, the niece of the old lady from her maternal family.

Li Shuning was dumbfounded when she heard this news.

Prince Gong then approached her, willing to marry Li Shuning with great pomp and ceremony.

After being discarded, Mr. Li and his wife often sighed in lament; they couldn’t believe their cherished daughter was such a person.

Now that Prince Gong was willing to marry Li Shuning, it offered a way for her to survive.

Otherwise, Li Shuning could not even step out of the house without being pointed at and criticized.

But Li Shuning chose a path of no return; on her wedding day, she sat in the bridal sedan and ended her life with a bottle of poison.

She didn’t know that everything was orchestrated by the Great General’s cousin.

That cousin was born into a prestigious family and had admired the Great General since childhood, though he married someone else.

At the night banquet, seeing Li Shuning, she grew envious, thinking Li Shuning was so beautiful the Great General would undoubtedly favor her.

The only solution was to ruin her.

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