A Distant Promise

I married the man I loved, Shen Xun, just as I had always wished. But when I woke after our wedding, the man before me was the Crown Prince. Shen Xun said I was lowborn and easy to fool, and that he had never cared for me. Yet it was he who had defied all opposition and petitioned His Majesty for permission to marry me. Then, on our wedding night, he let me disappear from the prince's residence without lifting a finger or asking a single question. Later, when the Crown Prince's residence was searched, Shen Xun stared at the already-visible swell beneath my robe, his eyes red as he demanded, "Why did you have to cruelly abandon me?"