Rebirth and Revenge
Akizuki Maria died, being killed so soon after giving birth to her daughter. She was killed first before Mamoru was shot.
Her baby...what will they do to her?
Then suddenly, she found herself with new memories.
Memories of a princess with her royal mother. A no-good family. The laughingstock of the country because she was weak and can't cultivate. Bullied even by servants!
Her only friend was her maid Dongling as they lived in hardship together.
She woke up very cold in the Ancestral Hall.
'So that's how it is.' she got up but cringed at how weak this body was from illness. '...you remind me of my soft flake of a husband. I'll avenge you, so rest in peace.' she sighed before assuming the lotus position to know what was wrong with her body...and saw that she was poisoned.
Poisoned? How?
Maria racked up her memories and remembered that she gets treats from Concubine Xue, her mother's former maid whom her adulterous father fancied. "BITCH!" she took her time to separate the poison from all her cells, and take it out by squeezing its way out of her body and exit through her skin's pores, gathering enough to form about five pills' worth. And her body can start healing on its own then.
'This much huh? Its a pretty strong poison if trace amounts are given every day.' Maria mused as she looked at the floating poison before her. She crystallized said poison pills and put them in her pocket before going out of the hall to hear,
'Hey, not here in the Ancestral Hall~' she heard a young woman say.
'What are you afraid of?' a young man scoffed. 'Like that sick ghost can do anything inside, she can't even compare to a slave!' he sneered.
Gee, Maria thought, what a low opinion about her body's identity. Huang Beiyue wasn't weak because she wanted to. The kid was poisoned since young that her potential was damaged before she could even grow!
But alas, malice is everywhere in a place like this, she thought.
She knows this voice through her memories though.
The female one was Pei Xiang, and the male one were sometimes the one giving her food which is mostly, expired rice in a crappy unwashed rice bowl. Sometimes there's even a live mouse inside! When poor kid rightfully complains about it she gets hurt in turn and mocked.
They should try dying once!
'Awww but I'm shy~'
'Come on, what are you shy about? Let's do it babe~'
The sound of clothes being taken off can be heard much to her disgust. She doesn't mind if its her and Saki getting it on, but these bastards having sex while their LADY is suffering in a sacred place?! Fuck that!
She stormed out and she floated her way behind them as the guy was thrusting like a dog in heat inside Pei Xiang whose legs were wrapped around his waist. But using psychokinesis, she forced them apart!
'Uwaa!'
'What the hell?!'
They were slammed into the walls in states of undress, that the child they mocked looked murderous, her arms raised and a force was keeping them pinned on the walls painfully.
'Stop this right now or we won't let you off!' the man demanded, terrified that the sick, cowardly waste finally grew a backbone! And gained a power!
Maria's response was she destroyed his vocal chords, causing him to puke up blood, and tore his penis off him, causing him to howl in pain but no sound came out. She even broke his arm slowly into three places.
Pei Xiang was terrified as Beiyue's last act was making him swallow his own penis.
Up in the trees, hidden, two watchers were just as horrified as its a universal fear of men the princess has done.
Lastly, the young man wilted and shriveled up quite literally...before Beiyue looked at Pei Xiang.
'N-No! Don't! I'm sorry! I won't do it again! A-aaaah!' she too, wilted, shriveled up and died.
Beiyue then walked away, a satisfied smirk on her face, as she used vitamins and minerals she took from them to heal her bones, nerves and muscles, as well as 'putting meat in her bones', that her body blossomed to how it should have looked without fat, has this body not been malnourished through nutritional abuse by food withholding. Too bad she can't repair her own marrows and blood yet as she knows what will happen if mismatched blood were mixed together, she's not that stupid. But she also ensured flesh will not return to her face and neck just yet to maintain the ruse while under her clothes, she's very healthy, full and firm, and her breasts developed as well as her hips to how it should at her age.
This girl is anemic from poison as well that she's constantly low-blooded and lacking oxygen that even a few minutes' worth of movement wipes her out!
Her next stop is the kitchen pantry to give her body vitamins and minerals it desperately needs. Rice and wheat, then dark leafy vegetables and other herbs for all else and she'll heal on her own in time after delegating what goes where to heal all her cells while stealing some food and tools to cook for breakfast tomorrow using Cantus. And then poison Xiao Yun, the second miss to exact revenge on Concubine Xue as she levitated her way into Blue River Courtyard.
This used to be Huang Beiyue's home...until she was placed in that shack when the royal doctor recommended she be isolated incase her unusual illness is contagious, and her family maliciously put her in a filthy derelict shack, the Flowing Cloud Courtyard.
In every noble's estate, there's the punishment places for unwanted wives and children, and punishment places for servants.
Flowing Cloud is the 'cold palace' of Princess Royal's Estate and she, the lady and owner of this estate was made to live here.
Xiao Yuancheng was indifferent and uncaring as the man treats his family based on how useful they are to him. His favorite child was Xiao Yun as she inherited her grandfather's Summoner's blood while his other children took after him, as Warriors. So favored was she out of all his children that not even the despotic Concubine Qin and the clan childe Xiao Zhongqi can act against her. But to balance that out, Concubine Qin was Yuancheng's favorite fuck-buddy. Maria's not gonna be polite!
And in Kaerta Continent, Summoners are the cream of the crop in terms of power.
She crushed her crystallized pills into fine powder and formed a string with it, and then through Xiao Yun's nostrils. Come morning as her body metabolizes four years' worth of poison in her belly, she will wake up not feeling good instantly and no doctor can save her now!
Tit for tat, Concubine Xue, Maria thought viciously as she searched for Concubine Xue's Lam Card and took all that was in it and put the empty card back as she went to where Butler Zhou lives next.
He was trusted by Princess Royal to manage Qinghe and Miyang should anything happen to her and what did this bastard do, huh?!
She snuck around to check the account books and found falsified information...and a stash of money that was hers. So she took the money chest, and buried it under her bed through cantus alongside her retrieved money back. Next was Concubine Qin who took control of Qinghe. Too easy.
Now that she has no more poison in her body, she can finally cultivate perhaps?
Maria gathered massive amounts of power and absorbed it into her dantian. It's working. But something is siphoning it off?
You finally figured it out? a man's voice spoke within her subconscious.
'What the hell?! What's going on? Who are you and you seem to know something!' Maria demanded, alarmed that she's not alone. 'No wonder this identity, this child is mocked and mistreated before she died! She died not long ago and I woke up in her body!'
...what the hell? came the pole-axed reply. ...who are you, if not the princess?
'Answer the lady first, buster!' Maria harrumphed with an armfold while still cultivating.
Fufufu...interesting. One, I am in your body against my will. The copper prison seal takes your cultivation to power up this prison of mine. I'd tell you to ask Princess Royal, your mother but she died four years ago as you know.
'Well, fuck.' Maria twitched at that. 'What if I cultivate more than the prison absorbs?'
You'll have to keep it up. You're stuck this way for life, unless you somehow get me out of here so you can cultivate like a normal person again.
'Aaand what if letting you out means I die?' Maria shuddered. 'Maybe when I'm dying one day I'll let you out. I was murdered in my past life with my husband after I gave birth, betrayed by the very beings who sheltered us.' she scowled before sighing. 'My baby...she was just born...what'd they do to her...' she choked out, dismayed. 'I hope I'll have it better here. You're gonna be my teacher as nobody will obviously care for the body I'm using now. Nobody likes this poor child for shallow reasons, and victim-blaming her for what wasn't her fault!' she fumed.
Then, a trade of information then. Tell me about your world and why you went on the run with your husband, and I'll be your tutor. You can call me Yan for now.
'I'm Maria. Akizuki Maria.'
That's pretty long.
'It's not!' Maria pouted. 'Can you see what I see?' she asked as she manipulated the matter in the wall to show her name.
Yeah, I can. So you read letters differently where you're from. Intriguing. So Maria, about your story...
xxx
Maria fell asleep, tired from story-telling.
Yan was registering what he just learned from Maria.
She lived in a crappy world, where she wished she and her friends never found out the truth, as one by one, they were hunted down and killed to shut them up.
While they could not overcome the power that modified their memories, they gained awareness that two of their friends are gone. Mamoru was next to die and he fled. Maria chose to join him as she couldn't leave him alone because there's power in numbers, and she too, was scheduled to be killed via Impure Cats. She just wished they never trusted Squealer...she wished they didn't do something so stupid. Maybe then she, Mamoru and their daughter could have lived. She also mourned lots of things as she still loved Saki.
But the horror the truth they learned shook her. They were humans, not monkeys dammit.
Apparently, children are only given human rights when they live up to age seventeen, Until then, one thing wrong about them that may possibly lead to the birth of a Karma Demon or Ogre, they are killed as only children become those two things. They are also forbidden from heterosexual relationships, and they all know what WILL get them killed, thanks to the False Minoshiro that told them what they wanted to know.
Thus until age seventeen, children are...made to be homosexuals through careful education and conditioning, and stress relief is through sex like how Bonobo Monkeys do it. Good grief her society is messed up, but that was the best society can come up with or else, face extinction.
Genetics in this world is different that Maria in Huang Beiyue's body is in no danger from becoming a Karmic Demon or an Ogre, something she was thankful for but she hopes her surviving friend and lover are OK. Two friends she can't remember are killed. She and Mamoru are on death row. Saki and Satoru are all that's left of their group. Or maybe they too, were killed just for knowing too much. They should have all run. They could have started anew elsewhere where no damn adult will kill them.
And now, there's damn adults in this world too. Her father is a piece of shit here, his other wives are bitches who stole everything from Huang Beiyue and made her live in a dump. So she attacked Xiao Yuancheng and Concubine Xue through Xiao Yun that come morning...that girl will know how its like to be poisoned!
Vicious woman, he thought. But truly befitting.
Maria will avenge her current identity and Dongling, the princess' maid. She also has a question to herself.
'And then what after that? What do Dongling and I have? Nothing. No friends, no one to turn to, we're all on our own...just like...how Mamoru and I used to be. I can't count on the Royal Family either. They abandoned Huang Beiyue too as soon as her mother died despite what these girls believe!'