Immortal medicine
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In 14th century BC, Emperor Jiajing of Ming dynasty was cheated by a priest, who claimed that immortal medicine can be extracted from virgin's period blood.
In order to get enough blood, the emperor forced maids of honor to take medicine to speed their period, which leaded many maids to die of loss of blood.
In case this cruel behavior would be leaked out, he even killed every maid in the loop .
Desperately, the maids decided to trigger a coup before death.
Unfortunately, they failed and all there girls who were evolved in the coup were all tortured to death.
As a matter of fact, this is just one of the storied about Chinese emperors who fall for immortal.
In a way, in my opinion, their behavior just reflected how spiritually weak they are after holding the power.
In order to get enough blood, the emperor forced maids of honor to take medicine to speed their period, which leaded many maids to die of loss of blood.
In case this cruel behavior would be leaked out, he even killed every maid in the loop .
Desperately, the maids decided to trigger a coup before death.
Unfortunately, they failed and all there girls who were evolved in the coup were all tortured to death.
As a matter of fact, this is just one of the storied about Chinese emperors who fall for immortal.
In a way, in my opinion, their behavior just reflected how spiritually weak they are after holding the power.
Medicine for Immortality
In 14th century BC, Emperor Jiajing of Ming dynasty was cheated by a priest, who claimed that a medicine to make one immortal could be extracted from a virgin's period blood.
In order to get enough blood, the emperor forced maids of honor to take medicine to speed up their periods, which caused many of them to die of blood loss.
To prevent news of this cruel behavior from leaking out, he even killed every maid involved in his scheme.
Desperately, the maids decided to trigger a coup before their deaths.
Unfortunately, they failed, and all the girls who were involved in the coup were all tortured to death.
As a matter of fact, this is just one of the stories about Chinese emperors who fall for the story of immortality.
In a way, in my opinion, their behavior just reflected how spiritually weak they were after being in power.
In 14th century BC, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming dynasty was cheated by a priest, who claimed that an immortality drug can be extracted from virgin's period blood.
We don't use articles with proper nouns (i.e., nouns that are always capitalized), but in this case the noun is "dynasty", a common noun. Ming is a proper adjective, modifying dynasty, telling which dynasty it is. Since "dynasty" is a common noun, it can take articles, and because Ming identifies specifically which dynasty it is, we use the definite article, "the".
"Immortal medicine" would be medicine that lives forever.
In order to get enough blood, the emperor forced maids of honor to take medicine to speed their period, which led many maids to die of loss of blood.
From your sentence, it is not clear whom the Emperor forced to take the medicine. "Maids of honor" and "maids" are two very different groups of people. "Maids" are domestic servants who perform household duties (like laundry and cleaning) for wealthy people, so they don't have to do their own. "Maids of honor" are friends of the bride who stand with her during a wedding ceremony. (Both terms are derived from "maiden", an archaic word for an unmarried young woman.)
The verb "lead" is a strong verb, i.e., one that forms its past and perfect tenses via ablaut (vowel change). Its principle parts are lead/led/led: Today I lead; yesterday I led; I have led every day for the last week.
The most common misspelling for "led" is "lead", by analogy with "read" (which in the past is still spelled "read" but rhymes with "led" and "head" and "dread" and the metal "lead"). However, the correct spelling in the past tense is definitely "led".
"Leaded" is a word, but it refers to having lead (the chemical element) added (e.g., cars used to run on leaded gas, but in the mid eighties the car companies began to introduce vehicles that run on unleaded fuel).
English has relatively few strong verbs, but they tend to be more frequently used, on average, than regular (weak) verbs. Almost all strong verbs come to English from Middle English, which got them from Old English, which got them from Old Germanic around the middle of the first millennium.
To stop word of this cruel behavior from getting out, he then killed every maid involved.
"In case" implies that killing them all would have some benefit if word _did_ get out. If we do A in case B, it means that A isn't necessary if B doesn't happen, but if B does happen, then A helps to mitigate the consequences.
In other words, something that you do "in case" is not prevention; it's a (usually preemptive) remedy. The bad thing might not happen, but just in case it does, we'll take this action to protect ourselves from some of the results.
In desperation, the maids decided to trigger a coup before they could be put to death.
Unfortunately, they failed, and the girls who were involved in the coup were all tortured to death.
The word "evolved" theoretically just means "changed", but in practice it is used almost exclusively in reference to Evolutionism (the philosophy that claims life on Earth developed purely by chance).
As a matter of fact, this is just one of the stories about Chinese emperors who fall for immortality.
In a way, in my opinion, their behavior just reflects how spiritually weak they became after gaining power.
Sorry, The maid I mentioned should be the female servant at the imperial palace.
But I just can not find a proper noun because maid sounds like a modern word.
I'm not sure if in old days they call them maid at palace.
THX for telling me what "maid of honor" is ^^
It's the word "maiden", meaning an unmarried girl, that isn't used any more. (The word "maid" was originally a shortened version of "maiden" and also meant "unmarried girl", but that meaning has been lost in modern English.)