My father's concubine wants to sell me to a human trafficker, and my father wants to sell me as a concubine to Prince Dun.
They made me choose between the two.
So I chose to assassinate the emperor, because that would get my entire clan executed.
The emperor slaughtered my whole family, but spared me.
He carried me to the soft couch in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. His icy, flawless fingertips brushed my cheeks. "You used me and now you want to leave?"
