The story of Wa Zhi Ruo

As I pulled away from my mother's embrace, she sat me down next to her and looked me. "I'm happy your safe and alive" she responded softly, holding my hand in hers. I nodded as I whipped my tears.

"Ncoo, don't cry my moon cake" she said with a grin. My father used to call me moon cake as a child. He said it reminded him of what my mother loved eating when she was pregnant with me. He would say she would steal atleast ten mooncakes and eat them by the garden close to my room

"I am really trying to process everything right now. You being here and able to touch me and just talking to me and heavens, I'm rambling" I said, sniffling a little as my mother chuckles. "Do not worry my dear child, it is natural for one to be the way you are in this situation" she said.

We talked about every thing that has happened with me. She explained to me that she wishes so could be there when I get married, as she would make Weishang have a hard time getting to me. I laughed, knowing that it would be funny to see.

"Mother, what happened the night of my birth?" I asked, curiously. She sighed and looked at me with sorrow. "The night of your birth was... One could expect their birth to be a success. Someone had poisoned me since we found out I was pregnant. It was a poison to terminate a child" she said looking cold.

"I was surprised when I heard about this. I didn't even known who to blame since the poison came from the Qan province and the only person I knew from there was a friend of mine, Fa Ting" She said as she looked at me.

"You mean to say that the woman who is married to my father as we speak is the woman who killed my mother??" I said, standing up, gasping. She nodded, looking at her hand.

She pulled out something from her hanfu. It was a small paper with writing on it. "This is all the evidence you need to be able to make her pay. I know you are a woman with dignity and fair justice and since you will be the Empress, I want you to do you mother this one justice so that I can rest in peace" she replied.

I took the small paper and put it into my hanfu. I sat down next to my mother again and wondered. "Why did Fa Ting kill you?" I asked. "When we were teenagers, Fa Ting had a crush on your father. She used to tell me that she would he married to the scholar of the west. I never really thought of love as a young woman. I always put my parents before me.

Than one day, the emperor had a ball. Fa Ting was so excited, since the scholar was rumoured to be single and looking. She swore that she was going to catch his eye. Since I was her friend, I giggle at her detemination.

When we got to the party, it was already known that the beauties of Qan and Lim provinces were coming. All the men were waiting eagerly to meet us. We met so many people that night, I got overwhelmed. I went out the palace to a small garden. There I met your father.

He was handsome, charming, everything Ling said. I could understand why she was intrigued by him. He looked at me go a moment and everything disappeared. It was like breathing for the first time.

Since then, I have been in love. He loved me as well and decided to marry me. Fa Ting didn't take it lightly. She stopped being my friend and called me a traitor. She couldn't even stand me, even when I asked for forgiveness many times, she still would glance at me coldly and walk away.

I have not talked to her since my wedding when I was still alive. She did come to the house when she hear I was pregnant. She came with joy, tell in me she forgives me. She even gifted me with mooncakes, as a gift of friendship.

Into the preganancy, my last month we painful. I would get pains and cramps, which is normal, yet these did not feel normal. When the time came for me to birth you,they were complications. You almost did not survive and that's the night I saw Lianhua Zhanfang.

She told me 'child, be my discipline and let your daughter live, for she is destined for greatness. Do not worry, your betrayal will be avenged.' Since than, I have watched you grow from this temple, waiting for you to come and avenge me."

I sighed, understanding what had happened towards my mother. Her suffering, just for me. I thought about everything she put me through as a child. The isolation, the ignorance, the verbal abuse and the the countless times of poisoning me.

"Mother, I will do everything in my power to avenge you. With this evidence, I will do everything within my power. That I promise you" I said as I hugged her.

I started feeling tired, getting a bit tipsy. "Come, time for you to go back. Come sleep on mommy's lap, nobody will harm you" she whispered. I closed my eyes, embracing the warmth of my mother's love, going back to the mortal world.