Bai Xiaowen sat down directly, expressing through his actions, I don't mind. Go ahead and tell me.
The emotions of the two ghost palace maids went without saying. Empress Xiao, however, was visibly delighted as she recounted the entire sequence of events behind Jiangdu City's mutations.
In the thirteenth year of the Daye Era, Duke Tang Li Yuan entered the capital, enthroned Prince Dai Yang You as emperor, and changed the era name to Yining. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, who was in Jiangdu, inexplicably became the Retired Emperor.
Of course, Yang Guang had no intention of using his son's era name. He continued using the Daye Era and insisted on not returning to the capital—he had already decided to rule from a corner of the realm, preparing to make Jiangdu his new capital.
However, Yang Guang's subordinates rebelled.
In the third month of the fourteenth year of the Daye Era, Right Tunwei General Yuwen Huaji and his younger brother Yuwen Zhiji joined forces with Sima Deken, the leader of the Xiaoguo Army's Wuben Lang Generals, to stage a rebellion. The rebel army charged directly into the palace, while the brothers Li Xiaoben and Li Xiaozhi, the Imperial Guards responsible for protecting the emperor, defected and joined them.
Emperor Yang Guang of Sui was strangled to death by the rebel army.
Yuwen Huaji coveted Empress Xiao's beauty. When he failed to take her by force, Empress Xiao struck her head against a pillar and died.
Bai Xiaowen muttered to himself when he heard this. In official history, Empress Xiao had led a life of constant wandering until her death in the twenty-first year of the Zhenguan Era, when she was buried together with Emperor Yang of Sui. He had not expected the empress's fate to be slightly different in the