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"Princess Rinkai?"

Beside the display platform, Zhang Ying repeated the name Zhu Qizhen had mentioned, and scattered memories began to surface in her mind.

A moment later.

The young woman looked back at Zhu Qizhen and asked uncertainly:

"Mister Zhu, was the Princess Rinkai you mentioned the one who was once enslaved?"

As mentioned earlier.

Zhang Ying's university major had nothing to do with history, and she wasn't a history enthusiast.

But in this internet age, with all the bombardment of educational videos—some true, some false—even ordinary people like Zhang Ying could encounter historical knowledge, whether they sought it out or not.

Among all this historical knowledge, one topic had long enjoyed considerable popularity and attracted a large readership.

That topic was what happened to the once exalted members of the royal family and nobility after their country fell.

The group mentioned most often in discussions of this kind was usually the women of the royal family. After all, compared with men, women suffered far worse torment in such circumstances.

Zhang Ying had often seen similar posts while scrolling through short-video platforms. Driven by curiosity, she had watched a few educational videos on the subject.

The most tragic princesses in Chinese history were mostly from the Northern Song. In the fifth year of Tianhui, when the Jurchen people withdrew from the Northern Song, they took with them not only Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong, but also more than three thousand men and women of the imperial family and over four thousand members of the clan.

Aside from the lucky ones who died on the road, killed themselves, or escaped, nearly all of those who were captured were made to perform the Sheep-leading ceremony at the ancestral temple of the Jin dynasty.

What was the Sheep-leading ceremony?

In this ceremony, some