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In this period, she started continuously having some weird dreams.

In the first dream, her daughter traveled through time and went back to ancient China. She became a Han dynasty princess who lived in the cold palace, and that princess was also named Liu Man.

In the beginning, Man Man’s days were hard; anyone was able to bully her.

Man Man’s arrogance of refusing to admit defeat came up. Whoever scolded her, she scolded them back, and whoever beat her, she beat them too. She caused trouble around the entire cold palace, disturbing everyone else and alarming the emperor at the same time.

The emperor sent a guard to grab her and pressed her down at the front of the royal palace. He didn’t even recognize his daughter, and he thought she was some low-level concubine who was beaten into the cold palace. He planned to deal with her as guilty and imprisoned her.

Man Man’s violent temper exploded in an instant. She pointed at the emperor and scolded him, saying that he killed Zhao, Little Zhao, Madam Xu, and Beauty Yu; she called him a trashy father. He didn’t care about his daughter, and in the end, he finally killed his daughter. She also called him a sucky king and that the Western Han Dynasty would end with him in control sooner or later.

She said this kind of rebellious remarks to the emperor, which was tantamount to plucking hair on the tiger’s head. It was not fine, and the emperor was very angry and immediately ordered his daughter to be executed. She got imprisoned in jail. She thought her death was approaching, but she got rescued the next day.

This person came from a noble family, had an elegant temperament, and also had a handsome appearance.

He told her that he was Wang Mang.

He said that they were all from the future.

In the second dream, the imperial court of the Western Han Dynasty was corrupt, the emperor was extravagant, the civil turmoil was getting worse, and the royal power was useless. Wang Mang was humble, elegant, romantic, courteous, and kind to the poor. His reputation and support among the people had grown stronger, and he was loved by everyone. Local officials continued to rely on him; unknowingly, his power was getting bigger and bigger.

And Man Man had been accompanying Wang Mang all the time. They were the first “similar kind” because they all traveled from the future. She then got attracted to his bright mind and charisma, and she fell in love with him.

The aloof child willingly assisted him. She began to study knowledge seriously, racking her brains to recall the history classes that she had forgotten. She told Wang Mang that he would soon become the emperor of the new dynasty in the future, but he was a short-lived one. The dynasty he established would soon get torn apart.

Wang Mang took her advice into his heart and no longer relied everything on how he had transmigrated. He changed his thinking, tightened his ambitions, made his ideas more in line with the ancient people’s ideas, more feudalized, and conformed to the inevitable trend of history.

Sure enough, his power began to rise at an incredible speed, and the royalty completely lost its prestige.

In the end, Wang Mang rebelled, occupied the royal city, and beheaded the emperor. Since then, the Western Han Dynasty perished, and he became king on his own, changing his dynasty’s name to “New”. And all this had a big deviation from the original history. Originally, Wang Mang did not mobilize his troops, and the emperor was not killed by him.

The new dynasty even appeared more than ten years earlier than it should have.

Wang Mang had never married a wife. In the second year after he became the founding emperor, he married the former princess Liu Man and canonized her as Queen Pingxiang. The wedding and the post-apocalyptic ceremony were held at the same time. The scene was magnificent.

From then on, Man Man became the supreme queen of the New dynasty.

Wang Mang loved Man Man very much. Man Man was the only one in his huge harem. He was a majestic emperor, but he was the most loyal man in the world.

In the third dream, Zhang Pei found that Man Man seemed to know that she was by her side.

Liu Man, who was taking care of her youngest daughter, suddenly raised her head and looked at the void air in surprise, “Mom, can you see me?”

At this time, Liu Man had been a queen for ten years. She was about the same age as Zhang Pei. There was no trace of the waywardness and arrogance she had as a young girl. She had become calm and dignified, and her eyes unconsciously took the upper-class majesty.

But the tone Liu Man used when she said “mom” seemed to bring her back to when she was young, acting like a baby to her mother and asking for allowance to buy AJ.

Zhang Pei tried to speak but found that Liu Man could not hear her at all. Liu Man’s eyes were already full of tears.

“Mom, I know you can hear me; listen to me. I received a call from you outside the piano practice room that day. You told me dad had killed someone and was locked up. I fainted. After waking up, I found that I had come to the Han Dynasty and had become a princess, who’s also named Liu Man. Everything was incredible.

I have lived here for 20 years. I gave birth to three sons and three daughters for my husband. I became the noblest and most powerful woman in this country. I am used to this place, and my thoughts and ways of thinking have also been imperceptibly influenced. Now, I think the feudal society is great. I enjoy the feeling of being respected by others and the feeling of mastering all life and killing power. My son is the future emperor, and my daughter will be married to the best man in the world. How can this be experienced in modern society?

So, I don’t want to go back to the modern era at all. The only ones I miss and feel sorry for are you and Dad. I think this princess Liu Man probably had exchanged bodies with me. I heard from the elders in the cold palace that she has a completely different personality from mine. Liu Man is a girl who endures humiliation but is still kind and respectful. She’s a real princess, and I believe she will take care of you and dad for me.

She is very pitiful. Whether in this world or the future world you are in, she is no different from orphans. I hope you can treat her as your daughter so that she can understand what paternal love and maternal love are. Think of this as a compensation to her for me taking her body.

Right then, Liu Man knelt facing the front and knocked her head on the ground three times, facing the void of air. The maids who were serving far away got taken aback. Their noble empress was on the same level as the emperor. She didn’t even need to kneel to the emperor. Who else could make her kneel?

“Mom, please tolerate my waywardness for the last time. Please believe that I will always be happy here. Please take care of your health. Please treat the Liu Man, who is living with you right now, well.”

Liu Man’s voice became mistier and mistier, and her figure gradually faded before finally disappearing.

This dream made Zhang Pei suddenly wake up. She reached out a hand to wipe her face and realized that at some point, she was already weeping horribly.

Zhang Pei raised Liu Man full-time for 20 years. How could she have not notice such a big change in her? When her daughter started speaking to her with respect? When her daughter became modest and cautious? When her daughter became so good?

TL’s Note: When I read this part for the first time, I think I almost cried… If you don’t feel touched at all right now, then my translations are too sucky. If that’s the case, I’m very sorry. 😦

Translated by: Sydney