Blood-Red Pattern

The two factions at court secretly undermine one another. A treacherous minister slaughters loyal officials, steals the rightful prince's woman for himself, usurps the throne, and becomes the emperor. It was the height of a blazing-hot summer in May, yet the sky filled with snow when he was born. Everyone in the palace witnessed this ominous sight. Amid these ill omens, Consort Xiao gave birth to a boy with a blood-red birthmark resembling a plum blossom behind his ear and on his neck.

This extraordinary event caused a stir. The child was innocent, yet because of this ill omen he was branded a curse, said to bring disaster to his mother and father. A strange illness afflicted the boy from birth, leaving him weak all over. He was as delicate as a girl from an early age.

People throughout the palace spread rumors that anyone who came into contact with Jin Cixun would fall ill, because he was supposedly a curse upon the country and his parents. No one dared to go near the child. When Jin Cixun was young, his mother tried to cure him every day by...

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