After I Abandoned My Husband and Child and Faked My Death

After my conquest of Yan Ming failed, I abandoned my husband and child, faked my death, and escaped the imperial palace. As I breathed my last, Yan Ming was hosting a birthday banquet for the heroine. His son, who arrived late, could barely hide his excitement.

"Since ancient times, when someone becomes Crown Prince, the mother is kept alive only until the child is grown. She died as she deserved."

Later, I married at the border, had a lovely daughter, and lived a happy, contented life. Then I heard that the emperor had lost his wife and gone gray overnight. The Crown Prince summoned spirits and practiced forbidden sorcery, searching everywhere for his mother, who had supposedly died long ago.

1. The year my conquest of Yan Ming failed, I fell gravely ill. Yet Yan Ming forbade any imperial physician from treating me. He spent every night feasting and drinking with Xu Yunyan, while I languished day after day in the cold palace...