1 Chapter 1: Rebirth

Jiang Ying Yue woke up confused. By all rights she should be dead, but it appeared that she survived. She remembered being on a mission, one that should have been fairly easy to complete. The man they were after, Ling Chou, was only number 16 on the most wanted list, and his bounty was only so-so. She recalled that Xian Chi, her partner and lover, had been driving behind Ling Chou in a high speed chase, with Xian Chi at the wheel, and her with her head out the window, firing a gun at Ling Chou's vehicle. They had followed him at high speeds all the way to a ravine, where at Ling Chou jumped out of his car and down into. Jiang Ying Yue, upon seeing him jump, quickly climbed out of her seat to go peer over the edge to see if he somehow survived. Then what happened? Ah, yes. That's right. She was betrayed. When she was looking over into the ravine, she saw Ling Chou dangling down below, holding tightly to a rope, smiling at her. Then, at that moment, she felt a shove from behind, turning around to see that Xian Chi had pushed her. His smiling face was the last thing that she saw before she closed her eyes and fell to her death.

Wait, so if she fell to her death, how was she alive now. The immense pain she was feeling made sense, since she fell from a cliff, but the soft cushion under her was confusing. Shouldn't she be laying on the cold and hard rocks at the bottom of the ravine? While thinking about this, memories that were not her own rushed into her head.

She was currently in the body of the third eldest miss of the general's estate of the Ethesian Kingdom. The body's original owner was also named Jiang Ying Yue, and she was known to be the biggest disappointment in all of the kingdom. When she was born, there was a cloud inn the shape of a phoenix hanging over the general's residence. It was considered a very auspicious sign, and so the general had high hopes for his new born daughter. Because she was expected to be so outstanding, the Emperor released an imperial edict, promising her to the crown prince of the kingdom. The edict said that when she turned 15 years old they would wed and she would become crown princess of the nation.

Unfortunately, upon her fifth birthday, she was tested to see if she had any spiritual powers. Children were tested by having the hands placed upon a crystal ball, and the crystal ball would glow different colors at different intensities, showing what attributes they matched with and how strongly. Red would be for fire, blue for water, green for earth, and so on. When Jiang Ying Yue placed her hand upon the ball, it didn't glow at all. Not a single color.

Since then, she had been regarded as the biggest disappointment in the entire kingdom, greatly frustrating the general. As a result, general Jiang Won had Jiang Ying Yue moved into the smallest courtyard at the back of the estate, completely ignoring her, as he would fly into a rage anytime he saw her. Not too long after this happened, Jiang Ying Yue's mother passed away while trying to give birth to a baby boy, not even managing to leave the boy behind in the land of the living.

Since then, Jiang Won had his mistress, Song Quan Lei, promoted to the status of the first wife. After this happened, Song Quan Lei used her new authority to make Ying Yue's life miserable. She allowed the servants to bully Ying Yue, as well as her own children. Unfortunately, the previous Jiang Ying Yue was very kind-hearted and just a little stupid, so she simply took all the bullying with a downward face, never once complaining.

Even though everyone bullied her, Jiang Ying Yue still went about her life as if nothing was happening. As such, she managed to fall in love with the crown prince. It should be known, that Ying Yue was devastatingly beautiful. With ivory skin, wide dark eyes, full lips, and silky black hair, she truly could be referred to as a beauty capable of bringing down nations. Because of this, the crown prince, will being disgusted with her lack of talent, also pitied her. After all, how could someone so beautiful be so worthless? As such, he would show her the occasional act of kindness, maybe giving her a copper coin or a cheap hair pin. Since this was the only kindness that Ying Yue got to experience, she absolutely fell head over heals for him.

Alas, as fate would have it, the crown prince desired her young sister, Jiang Yao Xiuying, who was often regarded as a genius. When she was tested, she was found to have the attribute for fire, as well as the very rare lightning attribute. Not only this, but she had a remarkably fast cultivation rate, already being a low-level martial king at the age of 13.

The levels for martial cultivators go, martial practitioner, martial king, martial lord, martial emperor,martial saint, and martial god. These levels were further broken up into low, medium, and high. Any level higher than martial god had yet to be discovered in the mainland, as no one had achieved it yet.

Since Jiang Yao Xiuying wanted to marry the crown prince, and the crown prince didn't find Ying Yue worthy of being his crown princess, they plotted together a way to kill her. Seeing as how the previous Ying Yue was too naïve and trusting, she fell right into their trap. The crown prince offered to take her out to the outer edges of the forbidden forest, to pick rare flowers. Ying Yue was ecstatic, and naturally went along without asking any questions. Once they arrived, the crown prince made up some excuse to walk away from Ying Yue, simply leaving her in the forbidden forest, where she was later killed by a weak magical beast called a blood rabbit.

Ying Yue's personal maid, Zhu Xinya, however, found the whole situation fishy, so when Ying Yue didn't come back after awhile, she headed out into the forbidden forest herself, where she found Ying Yue beaten badly and half dead. However, the Ying Yue that Zhu Xinya brought back home was no longer the one she knew, as that Ying Yue had already died at the paws of the blood rabbit, and the person currently residing in Ying Yue's body was the modern Ying Yue.

Jiang Ying Yue took awhile to digest all the new information she now had in her head. She slowly opened her eyes and very painfully sat up, looking around the room. At this moment, a girl carrying some medicinal pastes and bandages walked into the room.

She had long black hair tied up in a messy bun, large doe eyes, and freckles covering all over her skin. She looked to be maybe 12 or 13 years old, and Jiang Ying Yue considered her to be rather adorable. Ying Yue recognized this girl from the previous owner's memories as her personal maid and best friend, Zhu Xinya.

"Third eldest miss, you're awake!" Zhu Xinya cried, while she sped up to go stand beside Ying Yue. "Do you feel much pain? Where does it hurt the most? I brought some salve to apply to your wounds."

Ying Yue stared at the fidgeting girl, who was quickly attempting to change the bandaging on her wounds.

"I'm fine," she replied, in a childish hoarse voice that she did not recognize as her own, "it's only some pain, nothing I'm not used to."

Hearing this, Zhu Xinya began to cry. "Miss, that prince is simply too cruel! He knew how much you love him, and yet he would do something like this to you! If I could have my way, I'd go and give him a big slap, right across his stupid handsome face!"

"What is this I hear about someone wanting to slap the crown prince?" a voice said from the doorway.