Tearing Up the Pig-Torture Script: Consort Qi Dominates Her Fiefdom CHAPTER 1: Awakening in the Weiyang Palace—The Fear of the Human Pig The twelfth year of Emperor Gaozu of Han, winter. The night wind of Chang'an City, mixed with unmelted residual snow, poured into the Weiyang Palace through the half-ajar lattice window. Inside the inner hall, the flames of the nine-branched bronze sparrow lamp flickered, stretching the heavy curtains into ferocious shadows resembling evil ghosts. Yu Xiaoqing jolted awake amidst a wave of suffocating, blinding panic. This pain is way too realistic... Wait, this isn't a dream?! "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please wake up. The Emperor is watching you." A low, trembling whisper from a palace maid drifted into her ears. Yu Xiaoqing opened her eyes wide, gasping heavily for air, her hands instinctively clutching at her own neck. Her skin was warm and completely intact, yet the phantom agony of a blade slicing across her throat an...