A Story of Consort WateryJade Li 1: A Story of Consort WateryJade Li, #1

By Na Su

The last memory she had was that she inhaled toxic gas due to the betrayal of her companion in a covert assassination, WateryJade Li heard someone was yelling, partly opened her eyes, noticed everything was unfamiliar, before she could open her eyes fully, she felt something was forced into her brain and heavy about her head, then fell into sleep again. When she opened her eyes again, she noticed people around with shattered clothes of ancient time, why she was in the place of an ancient time, then she realized she had a time travel. A young maidservant called her Princess, as she did not know much information about the princess, then she pretended had a percussion, thus she could forget every related information. Before she could get her body recovered a bit, she heard galloping sounds of horses, people around began to scatter and run for lives, a batch of soldiers were chasing to kill with arrows. She bumped into her future bridegroom Prince Qi when she was straggling the head of the soldiers within a forest, then they together came across the bullying of people by the daughter of a castle owner, then a group of assassins with a blue fox head tattooed on their buttock, then an assassination by people and a pack of wolves in Royal Palace, then an illusory maze set up for her by someone, could Consort WateryJade Li survived the whole process in a time when people were treated as grass and butchered like pig and sheep with another person's body and mission?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Great Wall Publishing
• Release date: Jan 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224949205

Na Su

Na Su, with a pen name of A Girl At Riverside of Hangzhou, is a well-known writer in www. jjwxc.net, one of the largest literature website in China. She was a script writer for several movies such as Longing For Home, has published a dozen novels and plays. The film rights of A Story of Consort WateryJade Li has been sold to a company which is preparing to develop it into a TV series. The hard copy of A Story of Consort WateryJade Li has been printed for several times. Manufacturing Boats Along Canal was the best novel recommended by Beijing City in 2018 and got a special award by Hangzhou City in 2020. Her novels Consort with Ill Will As A Doctor: Prince With Pretentious Manner and Biography of Minister Lin Yue From A Famous Family are well received by listeners in www. ximalaya. com, one of largest audio book web site in China. Her novel Biography Of Most Handsome Man An Pan in West Jin Dynasty is being published in a series at the www. jjwxc.net and is well-received by readers etc.

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Chapter 1 A Suffering Princess

Princess, princess, wake up, wake up now...

Repeated calling sound was entering her ears, WateryJade Li suddenly opened her eyes, coldly looked to the direction of the calling. Nothing was familiar, only a little girl with ancient clothes was standing in front of her.

Dark night, fresh blood, severed limbs... one scene after another was flashing across her mind. Hadn’t she had already died? She remembered that in the covert assassination, she inhaled toxic gas due to betrayal of her companion. At the moment it seemed she had a time travel. 

A string of memories of different times was forced into her brain, she felt heavy in her brain, plopped down onto the ground again.

The little girl hurriedly came forward to support her, said in a crying sound:Princess, princess, how are you? Princess, princess, if you don’t wake up again...DuskMoon could not live by myself...Boohoo, boohoo.

Pressing her distending and painful head, WateryJade Li had already gotten to know her surrounding information. As one of top killers of the world, no matter under what a kind of environment, she could keep her calmness and adapt to her environment.

No more crying, I am still alive. While speaking the words, she felt extremely dry and coarse, supported her painful head, said:Dusk...Moon right, get some water now.

Yes, Princess, you just have a bit rest, I will go to find some water to you.

Find water? Finding?

Then she noticed the mess surrounding her. All were shattered people with broken clothes, it seemed that a disaster happened in the place. She intended to call DuskMoon back, at the moment it was much better for her to stay put, but DuskMoon had already vanished.

In the time after DuskMoon left, she had already sorted out her identity and her current situation.

She was an appeased princess of West Rain state, ran to the place due to being chased to kill.

She gasped for several times, quietly leaned on earthen wall with her closed eyes. At the moment her body was too weak, she needed to rest to recover strength of her body.

She just recovered in a short while, suddenly opened her eyes, heard galloping sounds of horses among the chatting sounds of those refugees.

Keep quiet, hide now, she suspected the chasing army were coming, enjoined the refugees.

Girl, what’s wrong? someone asked.

She said with her focused eyes: Galloping sounds of horses.

Galloping sounds of horses?

But they did not hear anything.

While the refugees were bewildering, the sound came closer and closer, then everyone could hear the sound.

Their faces changed to a frightening expression, began to pack their things to run.

Wa, a crying sound of a child,Mum, mum...

No more fear, no more fear, I’m here. A beautiful lady ran forward, hugged her child, consoled in soft voice.

WateryJade Li said to herself my goodness.

As expected, while the lady was hugging the child, an arrow was shooting directly forward at the head of the child.

WateryJade Li pressed the head of the child to ground with one hand, pulled the lady to her side in another, shouted:Get down to ground now, everyone now!

The arrow shot into the ground, disturbed some dust into air.

Then more dust into air with countless arrows shooting at them. 

Running to forest, it is safer in there! suddenly, someone shouted.

She knitted her eyebrows tightly, wanted to remind people to stay put. Before she could, as someone led, everyone hugged his head, stood up, wanted to run into the forest for saving their lives.

But how could they outrun the rain of arrows behind their backs!

In a blink, more than half of the refugees fell down to the ground.

Wonderful, wonderful, it’s a great fun!

A sound of loud laughing was coming out, she clenched her hands within the sleeves.

Fun? Killing to have fun?

A man with colorful clothes rode forward with a crowd of men with black clothes.

She saw the man with colorful clothes holding his bow and arrow in his hands, looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, as if he bumped something of great fun, saying while smiling:What a fun, you see, they are lying on ground, they could never get up anymore.

Based on his tone, it seemed to him killing humans was just a simple thing as if he had his breakfast casually and naturally.

Origin Green...Yes, Origin Green, you are a murderer, you are worse than a dog or pig!The beautiful lady at her side said in a low voice, the voice was filled with immeasurable hatred.

Origin Green? WateryJade Li tried to search in her memory, but she did not know the person.

He is the son of the owner of Green Forest Castle. It is this animal has massacred our whole village, this beast...I don’t expect he would chase us to here to kill.

The beautiful lady hugged her son, covered his mouth tightly. While saying to here, suddenly her voice turned into a frightening one, said:Husband...Husband!

A man covered with blood crawled toward her, said something to her, it seemed that he wanted to her to run away now.

Husband! The lady could not care anything else, pushed the boy into the arms of WateryJade Li, then ran toward her husband.

You! Come back now... WateryJade Li was shouting to her back, but how could she care about that.

The wriggling man said:Run... run away now!

No...No, Husband! The lady was choked with her sobs, saw a man with black clothes coming toward her husband, became even more frightened, No!

As soon as the word ‘No’ had come out, the knife in the hand of the man slashed down!

The blood splashed onto her face. 

Ah, ah, ah, you beastsWhen she saw her husband was killed on the spot, she rushed toward the man like a crazy.

A lackey of Origin Green saw she ran toward him without caring about her own strength, sneered once, raised his knife again, said:"You are looking for your own death!’.

When WateryJade Li saw the knife might come down in a blink, she bit her tender lip broken, really wanted to crush these beasts worse than pig or dog to death, but at the moment she was too weak, her strength was so tiny.

She covered both the eyes and the ears of the boy, did not want him to watch the miserable death of his parents.

Stop, A buoyant voice said. The man did not slash his knife.

Origin Green came forward on his horse, raised the chin of the beautiful lady with his bow, said:How could I not notice, among these scraps, there is a beautiful woman like you.

She looked at him with a hateful expression, spat at him, said:Beast, you killed my husband, you will not have a good end!

Ha, ha, you are merely a bitch, how could you dare to call me a beast! He jumped down from his horse, took her arm, said to people around him:You just watch carefully now, I will fuck this bitch in front of you today!

While talking, he ripped the clothes of the lady, her snow white skin was exposed in air.

Release your hands, Beast, you release your hands now! Husband! Husband!

He began to laugh loudly, pressed her down to ground, said:Shouting, shouting as you like. The more the shouting of a woman, the more I get excited!

What a sin...

That beast...

The remaining refugees shut their eyes as they could not watch the painful scene.

You kill me, you just kill me now! The lady was pulling her shorts up with all her forces, thus he could not break through the last defense line,Beast, you just kill me! Even I die, I will not let you have me!

She wanted to die rather than be defiled.

He laughed loudly:Ha, ha, you think you have a right to choose. You needn’t be in haste, let me rape you first, then kill you, thus you could meet your husband again. 

Chapter 2 Seeing You Off To Death

Stop, now!

There was a charming shout, which let Origin Green stop his action.

WateryJade Li could not hold off anymore, pointed at the sleeping acupoint of the boy, let him fall into sleep, then came forward.

When he saw her, his eyes transfixed at her, could not leave her body anymore.

At the moment, though she wore tattered clothes, her tender and white skin were exposed at her neckline, her waist could be held in one arm, her wrists were slender, her fingers were as white as the stalk of green scallion, particularly her eyes, they just looked like drops of clear water, her appearance made him feel dry in mouth and throat at once.

She went to his front, her beautiful eyes were shiny and graceful, said with a tender smile:Mister, you just have a look, shouldn’t I look more beautiful than she?

She pointed at the beautiful lady.

He smiled filthily, said:Beautiful, very beautiful! I have had a lot of women, you are the most beautiful one, you are more beautiful than this bitch! 

While talking, he released the lady, ordered his lackeys:Pull her away, cut her into pieces to feed dogs.

The lady wore a relieved expression.

Just a minute! WateryJade Li came close to Origin Green, slowly took out an arrow from his bag, waved in front of the lady, said:Nevertheless, she is beautiful too, therefore I could not tolerate that.

The arrow was inserted into her chest with a "Pu’ sound, fresh blood gushed out at once.

The lady twisted her mouth, tilted her head to one side with a content expression.

As she could not be saved, at least her chastity should be saved as she wanted. Of course WateryJade Li could not watch her being chopped into pieces. She heard ‘thanks’ of her last word.

Ha, ha, pretty hot, pretty cruel, I like it! Origin Green said with smile.

Her eyes became shiny once, ran several steps away, said:Origin Green, don’t you want to have me, then come forward to me. Let’s go to the forest, I will let you taste the extreme happy moment of human being.

He could not control his excitement at the moment, licked his lips, said:Wonderful, let your elder brother take a good care of you.

While seeing her running into the forest, he hurriedly ran after her.

After he ran into the forest, he just couldn’t find her figure. While he was bewildering, a soft hand had already crawled onto his neck, at the same time, a crystal clear voice was echoing at his ears:How could you touch me by such an ability of yours.

The hand suddenly exerted its force. His neck was strangled by the hand, he nearly lost his breath.

As her strength had not recovered yet, he got off her strangling with his struggling.

How could she give him a chance to escape, if he called his guards forward, there was no chance for her.

She flipped her hand, an arrow shot into his lower leg, thus he could not run away anymore.

Ah! A miserable sound came out of his mouth, he knelt down on the ground with one leg.

He did not expect such a kind of tender beauty to know martial arts.

She pulled a coiling branch down from a tree, wrapped the branch around his neck.

Please don’t kill me! he sensed the tightening of the branch, said frighteningly:Don’t kill me, my father is the owner of Green Forest Castle. So long as you let me go, I will give you whatever you want. 

Let you go? She said with a sneering smile. Why you didn’t listen to the refugees when they begged you? I am afraid if I let you go, I will be tortured to death by you.

You, you, you! You cannot act in such a way. If you kill me, my father won’t let you go! As the son of the owner of the castle, how could he have such a kind of experience. As it was useless to beg her, he could only threat her with harsh words.

You even don’t repent before you die! She exerted more force in her hands.

Ah! Please don’t kill me.

I see now you are a dog which only knows to beg.

She pull the branch with all her forces, in a short while, he did not move anymore.

When she noticed he stayed motionless, she released her hand. As she was very weak, with such a kind of efforts, she could only gasp for air while leaning on a tree at the moment. 

Who are you? Before she could recover, suddenly she opened her eyes, looked at a place in the forest with her cold shiny eyes."

A breeze was blowing over, the leaves were rustling. In a moment, a man came out from the back of a tree while applauding.

Pa, pa, pa—

She became vigilant at once, did not know how long the man had hid in the place, was sure that the man did not show up in the place at the moment, how could she not notice a living man hiding over there.

It seemed that man was much superior to her in martial arts.

If the man took his action a moment ago, she must be dead already.

While thinking in such fashion, she could not help but feel tense.

She was sure the man was not with the same group of Origin Green, otherwise, he would not wait to show up at the moment.

Well, well, how could I expect Princess HarmoniousFagrance killed the eldest son of the owner of Green Forest Castle in so easy and courageous a way.

The man turned his body, she saw him clearly.

He wore a black gown, his face looked like a jade, his eyes were dark and profound with an ice-cold and noble manner, which made people dare not to come to him easily.

She squinted lightly, it was easy for her to have that kind of feeling as a former special agent in her previous life, the man was not a kind person with such a kind of domineering manner, his hands must be stained with blood, not a bit less than hers.

Who are you? she asked vigilantly.

The man looked at her up and down for several times with an interest, said: It really does not matter who am I? I only heard Princess HarmoniousFragrance of West Rain is kind and gentle, she dares not to stamp an ant to death. Today I am completely surprised by watching your performance.

Though he was smiling, he did not give a bit of genial feeling. In contrary, his words made her become even more vigilant.

It seemed that the man knew her very well, but she knew nothing about him. If that were a fight in former life, she might die without knowing anything about her killer.

She looked at the man in front of her coldly.

While they were staring at each other, there were footsteps closing in, based on the sound, the number of coming people were not a few.

Couldn’t they be the guards of Origin Green? She thought in such fashion. If they are, based on her strength at the moment, it is very hard for me to get away without any harm.

Furthermore, at the moment there is a mysterious man who she is not sure whether he could be taken as an enemy or a friend.

In a blink, she noticed a white flash, a piece of leaf was slashing through the air and directly shooting to her back.

Then she heard the plopping sound of a corpse to ground.

Lightning speed!

Even if she were at her peak, she could not reach that kind of speed.

It seems that your people will come to you a bit later. In the meantime, let me solve the people trying to harm you.

While the man was talking, several more leaves were slashing through air, several more corpses fell down to ground.

As it was said by the man, after all the men were solved, her people came forward.

Princess, princess!

She recognized the voice of DuskMoon.

She saw DuskMoon rushing to her front, knelt down to ground, said in a crying voice:Princess, DuskMoon is late to guard you, please forgive me.

She noticed several batches of people coming forward, saw a man with armor coming to the front of the man, kneeling down, he said:HighHill Jiang, kowtow to Prince Qi.

Prince Qi?

WateryJade Li was taken back a bit, felt faintly uneasy.

HighHill Jiang is late to guard you, I ask your forgiveness, Princess, HighHill Jiang turned to her and said.

WateryJade Li gave a light glance at Prince Qi, asked DuskMoon in a low voice:The man is Prince Qi?

She sniffed once, said:Yes, Princess, he is His Highness Prince Qi, your ... husband.

Chapter 3 An Unkind Man

This man was my future husband? Wasn’t she betrothed to the man?

She frowned, did not want to have any relationship with the man. 

Based on her instinct, the man was an unkind man. Furthermore, she had a strong belief in her own instinct.

When the original host was in danger, he did not offer a hand, just watched the show as if the death of the host had nothing to do with him.

Therefore, when looked at Prince Qi, BrightCloud Mu, she did not try to hide her hostility.

He smiled, came forward to her with a paper fan, said: Woman, you should perform your role honestly, that is nice to you.

She moved a bit away from him silently.

Was he threatening her? Nevertheless, she did not grow up by threats. 

The original host was chased and killed, she substituted the host and survived the kill, thus those people would come back and try again to take her life.

Even for her own safety, she had to find out the bottom of the thing.

DuskMoon looked at WaterJade Li for a while, then looked at BrightCloud Mu for another while, thought the atmosphere between them was weird.

Your Highness Prince Qi, Princess, there is a courier station not faraway, you both suffer a lot on your way, please follow your humble servant to have a rest over there, HighHill Jiang said.

BrightCloud Mu refused to budge to WateryJade Li for a while, tidied his gown a bit, then said loudly: Not a long while ago I heard Princess HarmoniousFragrance had bumped into gangsters, thus I came forward in day and night to search the whereabouts of Princess, today I get to know Princess is safe, thus I could relax considerably, then you just follow me to the station to have rest.

Upon hearing the words, DuskMoon raised her head to look at the ragged clothes of WateryJade Li, felt sad in her heart. How much had Princess suffered along the way.

WateryJade Li noticed she was about to sob, stretched her hand forward, said:Stand up now, no more crying. 

She was afraid of seeing other crying people. So long as she heard the crying sound, she became extremely uncomfortable.

Yes. Upon hearing the sharp voice, DuskMoon suddenly trembled once.

She thought Princess had already changed, it seemed that she became fierce...

But Princess still looked like before, maybe she just suffered such a kind of sudden disaster, she had not calmed down yet...

DuskMoon came with the original host from a royal family, served the host when she was a child, naturally had a closer relationship than other people.

WateryJade thought probably DuskMoon was just one of a few people who had close relationship with the host.

....

When they reached the station, DuskMoon prepared a hot bath tub.

WateryJade Li got off her dirty clothes, got into the tub, sighed comfortably in her heart.

Her tense nerve which had been keeping taut all the time could relax for a moment.

Princess, I put some mind-soothing herbs in the water, you have a good bath, then a good sleep, she said while adding more hot water to the tub.

She washed several times, then got herself cleaned completely, exposed her white and tender skin like an infant.

The misty air was rising from the hot water, she closed her eyes lightly, was feeling the temperature of the misty air rising toward her face.

On the way to the station, she got to know through DuskMoon that in first place she was just an unloved princess, as the king of West Rain state did not want his favorite daughter to marry to such a faraway place, thus he found her as an unloved princess, awarded her a title Princess HarmoniousFragrance, sent her to East Hill state to get married.

As to the past experience of the host, DuskMoon dodged and prevaricated, did not want to speak anything about that.

It seemed this unloved princess still had something even she did not know. For example, after she had had time travel before she woke up, some information was forced into the brain of WateryJade Li, most of the information was about the information of this period. For example, in this piece of square continent, there were three states East Hill, West Rain and North Rise, and a place called Wasteless City belonged none of them.

But the information about the original host could not be less.

Okay, so long as she wanted to know, sooner or later, she would get to know the information.

At the moment, what she wanted to know most was who wanted to kill her.

You may leave now. WateryJade Li waved her hand to DuskMoon, at the moment she just wanted to stay for a while by herself.

When DuskMoon left and closed the door behind her, the ears of WateryJade Li moved a bit, she took a jade hairpin from the table, threw to the window!

For unknown time, BrightCloud Mu with black clothes showed up at the side of window while holding the hairpin of WateryJade Li in his hand.

I really do not know from when Your Highness Prince Qi has a special hobby to peep? She used the time when he was catching the hairpin taking down the change clothes hanging on the rack.

When she turned back, she had already put on the clothes on body only with her wet hairs, which increased her charm a bit.

Princess, how could you talk in that way, I was looking in an open and aboveboard way, while playing with the hairpin, he said with a smile.

She spat in her heart, are you always coming into a room through window?

She sneered coldly several times in her heart with an calm expression, turned to pour a cup of tea, said:As you have already jumped into the room, Prince Qi, please have a cup of tea. Otherwise, if other people get to know the thing, they might blame WateryJade for slighting your highness.

As he came into her room late in night, he must have something, thus it would not do any harm to listen his words."

Do you really lose your memory? he took the cup in his hand, but did not drink.

She frowned several times.

Yes, for the thing she did not know such as the personal experience of the host, she told other people with an excuse that she had her brain damaged as she fell down to ground, thus she lost her memory. 

What do you mean Your Highness Prince Qi? She thought was she exposed somehow?

But for coming into someone’s dead body with one’s soul, unless one experienced by oneself, who could believe in that.

Based on my knowledge, Princess HarmoniousFragrance does not know any martial marts?

So you don’t believe that, right? she said. Did he come late in night for asking and checking her loss of memory.

He looked her up and down without leaving a trace, said:I believe or not.

She frowned, as she did not know his meaning.

Princess, DuskMoon come to add hot water to your tub, DuskMoon said from outside.

She opened the door for her, DuskMoon was dumbfounded, said:Princess, you, how could you come out your bath tub?

She turned and noticed BrightCloud Mu had already vanished.

Princess, it seemed that I heard you were talking with someone? while tidying the house, she asked.

She blurted out:BrightCloud Mu was in my room a moment ago.

His Highness Prince Qi? she said surprisingly. My goodness, Princess, before you have your marriage ceremony, you both should not see each other. People say it is inauspicious for the couple to be married to see each other before that. 

She asked in a mild voice:DuskMoon, do you still know me?

DuskMoon said surprisingly:Of course, DuskMoon know you, how could Princess ask such a kind of question?

Though the temperament was somewhat different, she looked just like Princess, she was really the princess.

Just a simple girl, she wondered.

On her way to the station, what she heard most were the heroic deeds of that His Highness Prince Qi.

BrightCloud Mu became famous when he was an adolescent with shining military exploits, was a pillar leaning on by the king of East Hill, plus he was handsome, he was a dream lover of girls appropriate for marriage in East Hill, the girls wanted to marry with him could line up in several streets.

But to WateryJade Li, the man was with knife in his smile and was unfathomable. Even if one had already fallen into his scheme, one might not be able to know that. Were the girls blind?

She definitely did not want to get married with that kind of dangerous man. 

DuskMoon, do I have any birthmark on my body? she asked.

DuskMoon thought Princess must have been wounded badly, she could not even remember her own birthmark, said: Yes, you have one at the inner side of your arm.

She took off her clothes, as expected, she had a small birthmark about a size of bronze coin like a butterfly.

In the first place what BrightCloud Mu said believe or not meant that.

He had already found that she was different with the original princess, but he noticed the birthmark on her body, saw there was no difference in look with Princess HarmoniousFragrance, thus he could not decide by himself.

He was really unfathomable.

Which made her even more want to escape.

Chapter 4 Snake and rat in same den

Several days later.

DuskMoon pulled the curtain of the carriage a bit aside, looked at the bustling street, could not help but speak:Princess, you just have a look. It is already so bustling even before we reach GreenForest Castle.

WateryJade Li was pretending to be in sleep while she closed her eyes lightly. In fact she was meditating her breath and adjusting her air circulation in her body to recuperate herself and build her energy up. In last several days after adjustment of her breathing and internal air, at last her body recovered.

Only the body of her host was ready to fall down to ground by just a wind blow. It seemed it was very difficult for her to reach her peak status of her previous life.

While she was thinking in such fashion, she heard a noisy sound, then the carriage shook a bit.

Ah! DuskMoon fell down to the knees of WateryJade Li due to the shaking, but she remained motionless.

What’s wrong for the noise? she opened her eyes and asked.

HighHill Jiang said at the outside:A child just bumped into the carriage, I ask forgiveness of Princess.

At the moment her peaceful mind had already been disturbed, she did not have any mood to sit in the carriage, wanted to breathe some fresh air to let out the dirty air of her body, thus said loudly:I want to get off the carriage now.

Princess? HighHill Jiang drew the door curtain open, raised his arm, tried to support her to get off the carriage.

At the moment the carriage shook for a while again, he offered his support to her by taking her wrist into his hand.

Unexpectedly, she remained motionless, did not move a bit.

He opened his eyes slightly, began to have another thinking.

He probed a flow of internal energy